Claim Colleges and universities should specify all required courses and eliminate elective courses in order to provide clear guidance for students Reason College students like people prefer to follow directions rather than make their own decisions

Author claims that colleges and universities should have all required courses for the students instead of having elective courses .He supports this claim with the reason that students are like people, they will prefer to follow all the directions instead of making their own. I don’t agree with the author's claim because elective courses will give more specific knowledge to a particular student for the respective interest.

For a student in school all courses are given to have introductory study of all courses. Further if student will have interest in some of the courses then for this purpose college education is having definite streams as science, arts, commerce, etc. Then for the graduation again student will have choices for their specific graduation course. Therefore student will make his career in a specific field so that he can do his profession with a skill. So having this education system student will gain knowledge as well as skill for his life. This process will make students good in particular field so society will have good professionals which is helpful for the nation’s growth.

On the other hand if student is having all courses throughout his career then he cannot perform well in all courses .As all are not of his interest then he will do well in some courses only. Also it is not possible to construct syllabi for all students considering all streams. However when students are divided according to the interest then according syllabi can be developed. And it is also convenient to evaluate students during their academic year when they are having specific course.

Author mentions that colleges and universities should have general courses because of students tendency. According to him they have general tendency of following all directions. However I will say that students are having specific intelligence in particular field. By making use of this intelligence student will make projects during post graduation and also in graduation period. So this reason is not having base in order to have general courses for students.

This is true that people will follow general path in a society. For example for filling of petrol on petrol pump there will be queue so whenever someone will come generally one will follow the existing queue instead of making another if it is allowed. However there are certain reasons for that. In regular life people will have many issues with routine life. So having that fixed routine it becomes stressful for one that find out for new solution. But this cannot apply to everyone. There are some people which live their life differently. Hence it is totally different thing that people will follow directions instead of making their won.

In all I am not agree with author for both the claim and support that colleges and universities should have all courses as well as students will follow all directions as people .Because having this type of courses students will not be good at their career ultimately which will not be helpful for the society .Also students are having specific interest so they will not follow all directions.