Tuesday, September 1, 2009

What Should Colleges Teach?

After reading this article I was surprised to find out that composition was not part of their focus. When writing composition is big part in being a successful writer. I beleive that colleges should teach courses that will benefit the students the best. For example, English is essential in everyday life so all aspects of English should be taught. Mathematics is also something we use in our everyday life, therefore Math should be taught. But then you have classes that are taught at colleges that have really no purpose. At HACC they offer Yoga as a course. How can you learn anything from yoga? If you want to do yoga do it on your own time. Get rid of these courses that have no meaning to them and get more courses that will actually help students learn and be more successful. Stanley Fish makes alot of good points in his article from when he talks about how people cannot for a good sentence and when he discuses the ACTA website. Hopefully colleges will change and start teaching the students the correct things they need and not avoid teaching it because there is an easier way.
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  1. Stephanie FreySeptember 1, 2009 at 5:20 PM

    You brought up a valuable point about the yoga class. I think it's nonsense that they would require any type of physical education class for half the majors that they do. I have a gym membership, why should I have to pay for mine plus an over priced one?

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  2. LilySeptember 1, 2009 at 6:24 PM

    I don't think they should stop offering gym classes or these courses that you say have "no meaning". If anything a yoga class might be more helpful then some math classes in real life. Can you honestly tell me I'm going to need to know how to graph a parabola in everyday life? (Unless I go into a math related job of course) If you took a yoga class in college and decided it was a good way to stay in shape, it was probably more helpful then a math problem you'll never use.

    Not that they should stop offering math or any other core curriculum course, but I think that other courses are just as important

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