Rising University fees and scarce employment prospects for graduates have led some people to say that universities should not teach arts subjects like philosophy and history, and only offer practical degree courses that maximize chances of employment. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience

Some people are of the opinion that because of the ever increasing cost of education at the University level and the inability of most graduates to find jobs some courses like

philosophy

and

history

that do not appear to have practical use in the workplace should not be taught.

This

essay disagrees with

this

way of thinking as we need to know our

history

as a people to move forward in life aside from needing instructors in both

history

and

philosophy

.

In addition

, most of the learning at the undergraduate level need not be

practical but

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practical, but

should equip us to be critical thinkers. The

first

argument in

favor

promote over another

favour

of teaching

history

and

philosophy

is that teaching

history

and

philosophy

will help train more educators in these courses because of how vital these subjects are.

This

is because learning our

history

teaches us how far we have come as a people. Learning from any mistakes made in the past will help us prevent making them in

future

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the future

.

Philosophy

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Philosophy, on

on the other hand

, teaches and helps students to be critical and logical thinkers. Another point in

favor

promote over another

favour

of the continuous learning of these courses is that the aim of the undergraduate education is not solely to teach highly specialized courses, but to help us to engage in independent thinking and research. In light of

this

, most grandaunts do not even work in the fields they studied at the university. In most jobs, employees learn on the job. There are cases of students who studied food science,

philosophy

,

history

working in banks while a graduate student in nutritional science is working is sales. To sum up, the arts subjects are very relevant as

history

helps us to learn from our past,

philosophy

helps us in our critical and logical thinking.

Furthermore

, apart from medicine, accounting, nursing and a few more, people seldom need highly specialized

courses especially

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courses, especially

at the undergraduate level as most skills needed

at

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in

the

work place

a place where work is done

workplace

can be learnt on the job.