Holding On To What Makes Us Human Summary

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History should not be a class all college students have to take. As L.D Burnett wrote in his article, “Holding on to What Makes Us Human” he mentions people whom also agree that history should not be necessary. L.D Burnett wrote, “Policy makers and the public of view the purpose of college as purely vocational, and see humanistic inquiry—the study of literature, the arts, history, philosophy—a waste of time and money” (Holding on to What Makes Us Human). College is extremely expensive, students should use money wisely by spending money on classes related to their major. In contrast, there are college students who like to learn and have no problem with history being a mandatory class. Dan Berrett writes, "The purpose is broad knowledge that …show more content…

Taking classes that are not related to students future career are a waste of time. People should focus on courses that will be useful in their profession. History should be a class taken for students who are looking to be; history teachers, academic librarian, archivist, and an editorial assistant. As a college student going in for a nursing degree, History is not necessary. Patients will most likely never ask a nurse about a historical event. Nurses should be focused on taking science and speech courses. On the other hand, people also believe that history is a useful class for everyone whether or not it will be used in students choice of career. It allows students to discover what events lead us to where we are today. L.D Burnett writes in his article, “But the value of what we study, of what we teach and what we learn, is that such learning can help keep the human spirit alive--alive and alert to possibilities that lie beyond our present horizons.” Burnett expresses to his reader, learning is good. Furthermore, students who want to learn about historical events and how we got to this day should take history. Not all students are interested their time in taking a course unrelated to their

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