Student's Interests and Balanced Career Development
Educational institutions should actively encourage their students to choose fields of study that will prepare them for lucrative careers.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
When choosing the fields of study, students would be influenced by mainly three kinds of factors—their own interest, parents’ preference, and school’s encouragement. In many cases, the last two factors always win, and both of them are related to lucrative careers such as laws and medical science. In my opinion, educational institutions should not interfere with students’ decision by encouraging them to choose areas that will prepare them for lucrative careers, but should respect students’ own interests.
Personally, majors should be based on one’s own interests rather than whether those fields could create students’ large profits. Career is a part of life, and the quality of one’s career would decide the quality of one’s life. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of need, the top two levels are self-realization and self-esteem. Although many people still gain success in their unliked field and gain those two levels, large percent of people would not be motivated when doing the job that they do not like. For those people, lucrative careers could only meet their most fundamental need, that is, the need for food. Even if educational institutions do not actively encourage students to choose the majors related to lucrative careers, many students would also choose such majors because of being driven by money, let alone purposely lead students to choose such majors. Taking students’ real needs for self-realization and self-esteem, school institutions should not try to manipulate students’ own choice of fields by purposely encouragement. To sum it up, although the
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
When choosing the fields of study, students would be influenced by mainly three kinds of factors—their own interest, parents’ preference, and school’s encouragement. In many cases, the last two factors always win, and both of them are related to lucrative careers such as laws and medical science. In my opinion, educational institutions should not interfere with students’ decision by encouraging them to choose areas that will prepare them for lucrative careers, but should respect students’ own interests.
Personally, majors should be based on one’s own interests rather than whether those fields could create students’ large profits. Career is a part of life, and the quality of one’s career would decide the quality of one’s life. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of need, the top two levels are self-realization and self-esteem. Although many people still gain success in their unliked field and gain those two levels, large percent of people would not be motivated when doing the job that they do not like. For those people, lucrative careers could only meet their most fundamental need, that is, the need for food. Even if educational institutions do not actively encourage students to choose the majors related to lucrative careers, many students would also choose such majors because of being driven by money, let alone purposely lead students to choose such majors. Taking students’ real needs for self-realization and self-esteem, school institutions should not try to manipulate students’ own choice of fields by purposely encouragement. To sum it up, although the