Meiland Essay Paragraph 1

Kota Funakawa
Professor Owen JAMES
ARW Section AI
29 May 2007

Meiland Essay Paragraph 1

　　The first reason why I disagree with the ides is that the true purpose of college is to learn how to think, intellectual skills and attitudes. This point is suggested by Meiland “the content is not the main point. Much of the content that you are taught in college will be outmoded or discarded anyway in ten or twenty years. Learning intellectual skills and attitudes is far more important.” (Meiland 5).This Meiland’s argument is complete answer for this essay’s topic “a college education seems to be fairly useless” because the main affirmative claim for the topic is the information which we are studying now will be out-of-date but Meiland says the content of study is less important. And there is an example. In ICU, the professors always say “Think critical. Don’t believe the information without considering by yourself. Have your own opinion.” so ICU students must learn how to think critical. When you are learning it, you use particular topic. But after acquired, the way of thinking are employed not only when think about particular topic but also anytime. The importance of intellectual skills and attitudes will not change. And here is another example, think about legal science. The number of laws is increasing day by day. The reason why they are increasing is that new problems are happening in our society so new law is being made. But appearing of laws is not automatically means the old laws became useless. At first it looks like that the old laws became out-of-date, but it isn’t because the new law is made to cover just new extent and existing laws keep their effect for their own fields, they didn’t become useless. The example tells us if the new information appeared, it is not always means the old one is out-of-date.