Many kids in my graduating class are going to four-year universities just to get the degree, not get a career. These people have no idea what they want to do after they graduate. And most college graduates don't even use their degree within five years of obtaining it because they've realized that they don't like what they're doing, or there aren't any jobs available in the area they were trained in.
I am planning to become a high school agriculture educator, and for the past four years or so, The National FFA Organization has been telling its members, "Teach Ag! Teach Ag!", because of the shortage and need for ag teachers in California, and the rest of the nation. But it has already been four years, and it will be at least another four until I have the credentials to teach. Will there still be a shortage once I have graduated college?
I think too many adults are expecting high school graduates to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives immediately after finishing high school. Unfortunately for those adults, that is often not the case, and that's why there is the "undeclared major". For the lucky individuals who know what they want to do, why take multiple general education courses that have no relationship to their major? This reason is why I think the college education system should be geared towards getting students out into the work force; that is if they understand what area that would be. The students that are undeclared should take the general education courses and the fun elective classes that will expose them to what they want to study, thus preparing them to further investigate the subject.
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