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CMV: College Needs to be Abbreviated

I say this as a masters student with plenty of college load debt already.

* I do not care if my physician knows doesn’t know what was the cause of Barbary Wars.

* I do not care if the architect that designed the bridge I drive across every day  doesn’t know what the diatomic elements are.

* I do not care that the chemical engineer developing a new drugs does not know what tempo Mozart’s fourth symphony is in.

* I do not care that the aerospace mechanics/engineers who put potentially dangerous aircraft above us do not know the chemical bases of DNA.

* Does it matter if a marine biologist can identify art from the Baroque period? Does it matter if a neurosurgeon can speak broken phrases and French? 

Colleges and Universities have got to stop with the stupid prerequisites. Stop trying to make Renaissance men of us all.

This would reduce the cost of graduating because you can take out 2 years worth of moronic courses that will have no profit in your career afterwards. 

All classes should be oriented at one specific subject matter. No undeclared majors... hop right into it and get out quicker.
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University is not a jobs training program. If you want that, go to a vocational college. Jobs not available from a vocational training program are kept that way because there are more important things in those workplaces than simply production or providing a service.

The top universities are not known as such because they best prepare the students for their job. They are known as such because they best prepare the students to learn from, think about, and critically analyze whatever they may encounter in their daily life. Students gain this skill from having a good fundamental base of knowledge from a wide variety of subjects, the core curriculum: mathematics, language, natural sciences, and liberal arts. Teaching students subjects they didn't choose and aren't as comfortable with forces them to activate parts of their brain they may not be used to using intensively.

Whenever you learn something and reproduce that knowledge in a novel way, you have become smarter. Even if that connection will never be used in your life, it taught your brain how to process information better. Employers of college graduates aren't looking for robots to do a task they were already taught; They are looking for dynamic thinkers able to adapt to unpredictable changes and circumstances, thus they want university graduates. I'd argue most jobs that don't want dynamic thinkers already mostly hire vocational/trade school students anyways.