Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? University students should be required to take history courses no matter what field they study.
In a modern society, it is widely-accepted that university students should be more versatile. To adapt the increasing complex society, university students have to get the knowledge outside their profession. Under this circumstance, some people come out with the idea that university students no matter what field they study, are required to take history courses. However, many other people think that is totally unnecessary for their own reason. Before rendering my opinion, I think it is necessary to take a glance at the arguments of both sides.
There is a profound proverb which goes that: Today is yesterday’s pupil. This proverb surely awakes many people to the importance of history lessons. I have to say that, history courses are truly important. But is it important enough to be the required lessons for all the university students? My answer is “no”.
To begin with, there is only a small portion which is useful for university students in their career among the mass of history courses. We can take students who study economics as an illustration. To be a successful businessman in the future, they ought to study a number of cases, successful and failure, in the business circle as mirrors. But do you think it is essential for them to know how general relativity was put forward? Do you think it is essential for them to know the exact number of emperors in China? We can not claim this is a waste of time to study those histories but it can only be an interest not a task.
In a modern society, it is widely-accepted that university students should be more versatile. To adapt the increasing complex society, university students have to get the knowledge outside their profession. Under this circumstance, some people come out with the idea that university students no matter what field they study, are required to take history courses. However, many other people think that is totally unnecessary for their own reason. Before rendering my opinion, I think it is necessary to take a glance at the arguments of both sides.
There is a profound proverb which goes that: Today is yesterday’s pupil. This proverb surely awakes many people to the importance of history lessons. I have to say that, history courses are truly important. But is it important enough to be the required lessons for all the university students? My answer is “no”.
To begin with, there is only a small portion which is useful for university students in their career among the mass of history courses. We can take students who study economics as an illustration. To be a successful businessman in the future, they ought to study a number of cases, successful and failure, in the business circle as mirrors. But do you think it is essential for them to know how general relativity was put forward? Do you think it is essential for them to know the exact number of emperors in China? We can not claim this is a waste of time to study those histories but it can only be an interest not a task.