Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.
Education is the process of imparting knowledge pertaining to various academic, social and moral fields. It provides a person specific talents and skills to sustain herself in the world. True education not only focuses on knowledge pertaining to the growth of a career but also focuses on sensitising people on social and moral needs of the society. As martin Luther King Jr. said, “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively, and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Thus, I agree with the authors’ point of view that students should be required to take multifarious courses outside the student’s field of study.
We live in a complex world. All the element are interrelated to each other in a complex intricate pattern. No element can ever sustain on its own. Thus specializing in one field doesn’t make much sense as instead of excelling in it, it restricts one’s complete understanding of it. Studying a variety of course enable a student to analyse a situation critically from various angles. This also aids in understanding the complexity of the problem.
As an illustration, consider the career of an architect. An architect is also called jack of all trades, master of none. She is required to understand the various aspects related to a building from conceptualizing and designing it to understanding the various services , structural aspects and taking care of the construction as well. To attain knowledge and skill to do so, she is required to go through extensive learning of various subjects outside her career scope. This not only enables an architect to manage the different consultants working on the project but also enables her to be aware about the various aspects of the project. Moreover it helps her to make informed decision and changes if required.
Furthermore, knowledge attained in multifarious subjects aids in building up the personality and overall developments of the students. It helps to form various views outside their field of study. She is more aware and informed of the current events. Not to mention, she is more sensitised morally and socially.
In addition, many a times the students are not completely sure of their field of study. By making it mandatory to study subjects outside their career paths gives them a chance to try other career options. And by doing so they may realize their interests in other fields and their true calling. This can enable them to make changes in their career path.
However, mandatory study of various courses should not be restricted only at the university level. It should be provided at all the levels of schooling to provide a chance to students to realize their true passion.
To summarize, attaining a knowledge in a myriad of subjects outside one’s field of study enables one to be up-to-date and understand multiple issues and make better and conscious decisions. Moreover taking such varied courses should be mandatory across all levels of schooling to provide a chance for students to realize their true passion and aid in their personality development.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'so', 'thus', 'well', 'in addition', 'of course']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.235800344234 0.240241500013 98% => OK
Verbs: 0.153184165232 0.157235817809 97% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0895008605852 0.0880659088768 102% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0499139414802 0.0497285424764 100% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0550774526678 0.0444667217837 124% => OK
Prepositions: 0.115318416523 0.12292977631 94% => OK
Participles: 0.0533562822719 0.0406280797675 131% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.97286004791 2.79330140395 106% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0516351118761 0.030933414821 167% => OK
Particles: 0.00172117039587 0.0016655270985 103% => OK
Determiners: 0.0860585197935 0.0997080785238 86% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0120481927711 0.0249443105267 48% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00172117039587 0.0148568991511 12% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3169.0 2732.02544248 116% => OK
No of words: 514.0 452.878318584 113% => OK
Chars per words: 6.16536964981 6.0361032391 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76146701107 4.58838876751 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.416342412451 0.366273622748 114% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.326848249027 0.280924506359 116% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.217898832685 0.200843997647 108% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.143968871595 0.132149295362 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97286004791 2.79330140395 106% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 219.290929204 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464980544747 0.48968727796 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 53.9454993959 55.4138127331 97% => OK
How many sentences: 29.0 20.6194690265 141% => OK
Sentence length: 17.724137931 23.380412469 76% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.270628021 59.4972553346 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.275862069 141.124799967 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.724137931 23.380412469 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.413793103448 0.674092028746 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.94800884956 141% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.21349557522 115% => OK
Readability: 50.4089628338 51.4728631049 98% => OK
Elegance: 1.56666666667 1.64882698954 95% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.404024788888 0.391690518653 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.100867771631 0.123202303941 82% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0857655833923 0.077325440228 111% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.517691321237 0.547984918172 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.147564693043 0.149214159877 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136113334234 0.161403998019 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0958515482315 0.0892212321368 107% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.33638214723 0.385218514788 87% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0649147271124 0.0692045440612 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.244145965252 0.275328986314 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0672421428999 0.0653680567796 103% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.4325221239 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.30420353982 57% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.88274336283 246% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 8.0 2.70907079646 295% => OK
Total topic words: 23.0 13.5995575221 169% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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