Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study because acquiring knowledge of various academic disciplines is the best way to become truly educated.
Higher education aims to nurture students growing as future leaders in society. Since modern society requires interdisciplinary studies, many institute demand students to acquire credits from various fields. If well-designed, such system would produce alumni equipped with ability to combine knowledges from multiple areas into new values, while this might not be the case all the time. This means there are some preconditions to be satisfied to make such policy be fruitful.
The speaker assumes that every students would benefit from studying various subjects; unfortunately the successes of such education has somewhat limited. Yes, Steve Jobs acquired his insights on electronic device design and functions from a calligraphy class. This is famously cited story for those who agree with the speaker, but we should remember such cases are rare. Most students lack talents and intuitions to combine such seemingly unrelated subjects. This is understandable since if such thing had been easy, modern society would have not look like the current state. If it will be mandatory for students to take classes from alienated areas, they will be simply frustrated from low grades and feelings of retarded. Once I took a introductory law class due to the recommendation from my parents---they are lawyers---and I barely understood a single sentence during the first class since I matriculated the college as a physics department student. That is the last moment I want to cherish in the entire college life. This is a personal narrative, but I believe the policy would trigger lots of similar situations.
Further, there are fields where students need to focus on the subject to master the undergraduate level expertise. Learning mathematics, for example, is scarcely related to learning other subjects such as literature or business administration. This is because it is innately complete field; all you should do to good at the math is drilling the logic of mathematical language, not taking a variety of other courses expecting some intuitions or hints to solve the problems. Suppose a students who wants to be a great applied mathematician. To achieve his dream, it is indispensable to master the major subjects at least undergraduate level. For him, the policy would hinder his plan, which will be worse outcome than under the system without mandatory interdisciplinary curriculum.
Requiring every students will be, therefore, disappoint students who have dreamed education that makes them skillful grown-ups. However, it should be noted that such potential disadvantage does not dismiss the need for mixed curriculum. With considerate preparations, the policy would generate graduates who will innovate and contribute to society. The first and most important condition to be satisfied for successful interdisciplinary education is forecasting the future demand of society and students. If the university administration can draw a clear picture on evolution of technology, science and economy, it will be able to induce students to take diverse courses.
New knowledge arise from combination of various facts and insight from experience. Nevertheless, demanding every student to follow such radical policy might generate unforeseen troubles that will undermine the motivation for the policy argued at the outset. Therefore, university would rather show, not force, students that they will get better by extending their experience horizons.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 549, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'looked'.
Suggestion: looked
...een easy, modern society would have not look like the current state. If it will be m...
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Line 3, column 738, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...s and feelings of retarded. Once I took a introductory law class due to the recom...
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Line 5, column 483, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a student' or simply 'students'?
Suggestion: a student; students
...or hints to solve the problems. Suppose a students who wants to be a great applied mathema...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, look, nevertheless, so, therefore, well, while, at least, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2926.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 528.0 442.535393258 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.54166666667 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79356345386 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06803216994 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 300.0 215.323595506 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568181818182 0.4932671777 115% => OK
syllable_count: 923.4 704.065955056 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.8042994356 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.37037037 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5555555556 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.81481481481 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.189860082858 0.243740707755 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0523692124174 0.0831039109588 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0508162387472 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114154877164 0.150359130593 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00773414732391 0.0667264976115 12% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.1392134831 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 12.1639044944 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.51 8.38706741573 113% => OK
difficult_words: 165.0 100.480337079 164% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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