Topic: 1- Education Beyond the Major<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team: Emily Strassner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working Thesis: Education beyond a student\u2019s chosen major is critical to their personal development. Enrolling in courses unrelated to one\u2019s major results in the bettering of a student as an individual and a problem solver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe highest role of the educator is the maieutic role of Socrates: to help the student come to himself not as a consumer of experience but as a sovereign individual,\u201d (Percy 6). Percy supports the idea that teachers are meant to not only teach students academic information, but also to teach them to become independent. Teachers are not meant to distribute information, they are rather meant to assist students in discovering the material for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI propose that English poetry and biology should be taught as usual, but that at irregular intervals, poetry students should find dogfishes on their desks and biology students should find Shakespeare sonnets on their dissection boards,\u201d (Percy 6). Percy agrees with the focus of students\u2019 on their intended major, but believes that much can be learned from thinking outside of the box. By providing students\u2019 with knowledge unrelated to their major, problem solving and critical thinking is enforced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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