School curriculums may vary from school to school but their primary objective is same everywhere - to educate and enlighten students. However, some people claim that school should focus more on job-oriented subjects rather than teaching traditional ones like arts and history. I personally disagree with this view and believe that traditional subjects are just as important as skill-oriented subjects are.
To begin with, ‘job-oriented subject’ is itself an inexplicit term. Some would say that subjects that enhance practical skills like computing or gardening are job-oriented subjects but who can assure that all students in a class would become computer engineers and specialists in planting and gardening? No one can and that is why forcing pupils to study subjects that they do not feel interested in would bring catastrophic results.
Furthermore, schools are meant to nurture young students’ creativity, foster their talent and open many windows of wisdom to let them explore their true interests. From this perspective, imposing job-related subjects is like killing the inner sole of the future generation. Finally, if schools can bring diversity among students and inform them about different perspectives of life, the students would themselves choose their career and outshine in future, there is no need to create a robotic generation with a particular skill only.
Arts and history are as much important as any science and technical subjects are. The study of history empowers us to be prepared for the future and learn from our past mistakes. Similarly, arts and other traditional subjects allow us to learn to appreciate the life. We revere Van Gauge and Leonardo da Vinci as much as we admire Sir Isaac Newton and Einstein. The world needs great artists and historian no less than it needs scientists and technicians.
To conclude, schools should equally focus on traditional subjects and skill oriented subjects and nurture students’ hidden potential to prepare the future generation to become leaders, not corporate slaves.
School
curriculums may vary from
school
to
school
but
their primary objective is same everywhere
-
to educate and enlighten
students
.
However
,
some
people
claim that
school
should focus more on job-oriented
subjects
rather
than teaching
traditional
ones like arts and history. I
personally
disagree with this view and believe that
traditional
subjects
are
just
as
important
as
skill
-oriented
subjects
are.
To
begin
with, ‘job-oriented
subject’
is itself an
inexplicit
term.
Some
would say that
subjects
that enhance practical
skills
like computing or gardening are job-oriented
subjects
but
who can assure that all
students
in a
class
would become computer engineers and specialists in planting and gardening? No one can and
that is
why forcing pupils to study
subjects
that they do not feel interested in would bring catastrophic results.
Furthermore
,
schools
are meant
to nurture young
students’
creativity, foster their talent and open
many
windows of wisdom to
let
them explore their true interests. From this perspective, imposing job-related
subjects
is like killing the inner sole of the
future
generation.
Finally
, if
schools
can bring diversity among
students
and inform them about
different
perspectives of life, the
students
would themselves choose their career and outshine in
future
, there is no need to create a robotic generation with a particular
skill
only
.
Arts and history are as much
important
as any science and technical
subjects
are. The study of history empowers us to
be prepared
for the
future
and learn from our past mistakes.
Similarly
, arts and other
traditional
subjects
allow
us to learn to appreciate the life. We revere Van Gauge and Leonardo da Vinci as much as we admire Sir Isaac Newton and Einstein. The world needs great artists and historian no less than it needs scientists and technicians.
To conclude
,
schools
should
equally
focus on
traditional
subjects
and
skill
oriented
subjects
and nurture
students’
hidden potential to prepare the
future
generation to become leaders, not corporate slaves.