Distributional Requirements in College

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will lead to the students performing at their optimal levels in college and in life afterwards. Universities mandate their students to take many liberal-minded classes such as logic, ethics, religion and philosophy. Yale college displays text openly on their website, which states, "By themselves, the distributional requirements constitute a minimal education, not a complete one, and represent the least that an educated person should seek to know. They are to be embraced as starting points, not goals"("Distributional Requirements."). Arguing against this, one may say that if these requirements constitute the least education an educated person should know, then they should be taught in high school. Not all who attend high school enter college, so Yale's logic would go to say that those who attend high school and not college still do not have enough education to be considered educated. This is an extremely inaccurate proposal as many who have dropped out of high school, or who ...

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that they offer. An argument against altering the curriculum would go to say that the classes mandated are essential to a student's life as they provide a healthy foundation of knowledge, which the students need in order to prosper in life. However, this counter argument can be gone against as well by offering that schools extend the amount of days which they are open for. By extending the amount of days in a high school year students would be able to take additional courses that would pertain to these various fields, which students often pursue in college. There are schools in New Jersey that are currently trying to implement more days in their students' school year. "The bill ...

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