Nowadays, people have been debating aggressively about whether universities should provide skills for working in our latter lives or simply knowledge from academic area. There is not yet a consensus towards this topic. While there are certainly valid arguments to the contrary, I personally believe that universities should follow the traditional ways of teaching students, which is feeding graduates with knowledge in academic areas only.
First of all, in my opinion, erudition could somehow give a number of techniques in the workplace. Studying History, for instance, could possibly upgrade our modes of thoughts because we would have to analytical controversial issues by judging them by ourselves. To do this, we may have to ask for help from professors or teachers and look for a lot of reference books. After achieving all of this, how come we cannot learn some useful abilities?
Though courses regarding working techniques can benefit youngsters in work, from my point of view, aiming at giving knowledge and skills needed in work would degrade universities into typical vocational training schools – what makes the above schools different is that colleges produce independent thinkers, while most of the training schools make skillful workers. These two types of people are equally important in our society and neither of them can disappear in this age. Universities, thereby, should keep their traditional ways of teaching in order to produce more thinkers.
By way of conclusion, I once again reaffirm my position that colleges should deliver academic knowledge rather than technical skills because of its strengths of helping us to think smarter.