Why Are We Here

The purpose of a college education seems to be to ensure the survival of a generation. It has been drilled into grammar school children's heads until they were in their senior year of high school. Without a college education they will not be able to succeed and will not be able to make a life for themselves. This college education will ensure their survival in a growing country where academics will determine the type of person you will be.

The goals of a university should be to make sure that their students graduate with well rounded courses under their belt. If a dance major was only permitted, and allowed to take only dance courses in college, their education would be a waste, and they would never be able to expand to a different career choice. God forbid, they want to become an English major in their Senior year of college; they would have no English background, not even a general education requirement of English 101, nor a History class that may have possibly taught them how to write a research paper. They would need to spend another $40,000 on a college education that they believed would prepare them for their future.

A student should want to be well rounded in their education despite their personal goals in a career. There is no doubt that a dance major has no desire to engage in a math course when it is their worse subject, and they feel it is not needed in their future. They plan on being dancers, so why do dancers need math? A student should want to prepare themselves to experience all walks of life whether it is with education, or the people they encounter in the classes they are required to take by the university. It is better to surround themselves with people they grow fond of, can barely tolerate, or have no desire to be around. They will be able to take these experiences, and hopefully learn from them to use these skills in the workplace. A well rounded student will learn that not everything will be their "major."