As a student who has been in the education system for a long time there is plenty of holes in the system. A college education should come with the necessary skills not to only prosper into what you want to pursue but to also have the skills to be able to go into other disciplines and careers. The first thing to realize about school is that no matter what majora student decides he or she is going to choose as their discipline it won’t be what decide what job or career they are going into. But do schools provide the necessary education that all students need to flourish not only in academics but socially and cooperatively? Are there classes in the STEM program that helps a student to think imaginatively and creatively to come up
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Nevertheless for the student who are more creative they are not given a chance to exercise their creativity to the fullest and when this happens the students’ empathetic capacity is lowered significantly. Having a system which helps a student develop their creative skills and imagination would produce a generation of workers whom can produce an array of ideas and inventions, they could further incorporate other disciplines into whatever they go into as their major. Such a Yo-Yo ma was saying in his article “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education” “The values behind arts integration — collaboration, flexible thinking and disciplined imagination — lead to the capacity to innovate” (258) He is saying how adding in arts classes to the stem program can be highly beneficial to student going through the program of stem. His points in the article are explaining on how the arts explain more than what the normal classes currently can and shows the link between all different disciplines. He explains his idea of incorporating the arts smoothly of how they give the students exactly what is lacking from their education. …show more content…
As important as that is, it is short-sighted…” (258) STEM courses do help students develop specifically in those four things but what if they wanted to go into other subjects that require a more creative mindset than to think completely in what has already been discovered then they would not be very useful to them. Adding this would completely change the idea of higher education and raise the bar significantly, a higher education would result in a multitude of workers already having the skills that they would develop working. Minerva’s idea of a college system is also short sighted due to in the article “Is College Doomed” written by Graeme Wood he states that “Students begin their Minerva education by taking the same four “Cornerstone Courses….” (509) these courses are extremely limited and would not help students grow empathetically and or imaginatively. The end goal shouldn’t be to just stuff the students mind with information it should be to show students where and when they could apply the information, but this can’t be done if the students are never allowed any creative freedom to further expand their imaginative consciousness. The
Nevertheless for the student who are more creative they are not given a chance to exercise their creativity to the fullest and when this happens the students’ empathetic capacity is lowered significantly. Having a system which helps a student develop their creative skills and imagination would produce a generation of workers whom can produce an array of ideas and inventions, they could further incorporate other disciplines into whatever they go into as their major. Such a Yo-Yo ma was saying in his article “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education” “The values behind arts integration — collaboration, flexible thinking and disciplined imagination — lead to the capacity to innovate” (258) He is saying how adding in arts classes to the stem program can be highly beneficial to student going through the program of stem. His points in the article are explaining on how the arts explain more than what the normal classes currently can and shows the link between all different disciplines. He explains his idea of incorporating the arts smoothly of how they give the students exactly what is lacking from their education. …show more content…
As important as that is, it is short-sighted…” (258) STEM courses do help students develop specifically in those four things but what if they wanted to go into other subjects that require a more creative mindset than to think completely in what has already been discovered then they would not be very useful to them. Adding this would completely change the idea of higher education and raise the bar significantly, a higher education would result in a multitude of workers already having the skills that they would develop working. Minerva’s idea of a college system is also short sighted due to in the article “Is College Doomed” written by Graeme Wood he states that “Students begin their Minerva education by taking the same four “Cornerstone Courses….” (509) these courses are extremely limited and would not help students grow empathetically and or imaginatively. The end goal shouldn’t be to just stuff the students mind with information it should be to show students where and when they could apply the information, but this can’t be done if the students are never allowed any creative freedom to further expand their imaginative consciousness. The