What Emerson says in “The American Culture” still holds true today, and in fact is more common.
Emerson’s idea is more common, because jobs these days are more specific. An example of this is in teaching. Teachers used to teach kids of all ages, multiple subjects at the same time, all in one classroom. Now each teacher teaches sometimes only one age, and just one specific subject. the thing is that not many teachers can teach different subjects.
What Emerson said is still true, because every day people are turned down from jobs, because they can't do other things. Many people are forced to pay money to go back to college to get a degree in another field. Not only are they paying more money, but they re making very little if any money while going to school.
You brought up a very good point with the teacher's teaching only one subject instead of all of them but in elementary school, teachers still teach all subjects so I think you need to be more specific.
ReplyDeleteI like the point about the people having to go back to college because they don't have enough experience. I agree with Jason as well.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea, but I think you might need to workshop thew transition between paragraphs.
ReplyDeleteI like your ideas about being turned down from a job because of not knowing how to do multiple tasks.
ReplyDeleteI like your point about teachers only teaching one thing, versus how they used to teach.
ReplyDeleteI love the examples with the teaching and not getting the job.
ReplyDeleteYour right about how emerson is right but i think you need to mention "Man Thinkin".
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