▶ Your Answer : There are some people who believe that it
is better for youngsters in secondary and tertiary schools to learn about
specific fields and jobs than to study general subjects. However, I personally
believe that learning broadly is much better for students for two subsequent
reasons. First, learning about particular filed narrows down one's area.
Second, nowadays, becoming important is combining with related areas. To begin with, young generation possess
potentials. To be specific, an education system that specifies students' field
would not truly excavate one's potential. Since young students do not know what
they are good at and are interested in, it is better for them to experience and
study general subjects. For instance, those subjects are not only science and
math but also music, history, etc. For example, when I was in the undergraduate
course, I took diverse subjects so that I could successfully find my interest
in Finance. Now I am in the Ph.D. course and concentrating my field. I could
have never found my future career if I narrowed my area in the earlier stage.
In my opinion, specializing one's area must be done in graduate study levels,
not an earlier level. On top of that, people are cooperating
nowadays. Paradoxically, students should learn broadly to be specialize. This
is because many specialists work together to solve complex problems and they
have to understand coworkers' area at least in fundamental levels. According to
research done by national bureau of statistics, among professors in Korea,
researching and publishing journals with specialists who majored other area has
increased in the past decade because research topics and fields are becoming so
sophisticated that they do not have enough time to study nearby area. This
result clearly show that cooperating is important.
To sum up, students can find their
potential when they study broadly and co-working is important in complex modern
society. In this regard, students should study general subjects. |