At 8/6/08 08:58 PM, Yamor wrote:
I am going to college when I get older but it is kinda dumb in a way.
Lets say I want to be a dentist... why in the blue fuck should I take any other classes than the ones that will be useful while I am being a dentist.
What kind of dentist needs advance calculus? It's a waste of time.
If I took only dentist related classes all day I could probably need only a year or two of college. But hell no they want it to last 6 years.
Pardon my language.
Wow, you have no real concept of how a broad education works, do you? First and foremost, it is through exposure that we define self interests, so taking a "liberal arts" education not only helps prepare you for intelligent human interaction but also allows you to test other potential interests without fully committing to them.
Second, as someone interested in going into the medical profession (more specifically Psychiatry), taking only science-based classes would make you a more efficient dentist, but a less interesting person. The duties of a doctor, whether M.D. or D.D.S., when patients are involved are to provide care and comfort for that patient. Knowing more about the liberal arts can only enhance your ability as a doctor to relate with your patients and help ease them through the sometimes stressful process.
My primary academic love may be chemistry, but if it was all I studied in high school and, in a few weeks, college, I wouldn't have known that I also am interested in classical poetry like Ovid's Metamorphoses or in modern world history. It is these classes that help round out a student as both an academic and a person.
