Phyllis Stein Preset Profession Summary

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Phyllis Stein’s argument is about having a preset profession. She basically is saying that in Sweden, they have preset professions where they make it to where according to your major the number of students needed to fulfil this profession will be the one in the class learning about it. I would agree with stein’s argument only if there were preset professions in the United States. Therefore I would have to disagree with stein because in America, were always going to need doctors, were always going to need nurses and lawyers and so on. So if we were a country where we only needed like 12 doctors for
Instant then stein would be right, only put 12 students in the classroom to learn about becoming a doctor. Since America

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