All Students Should be Required to Study a Foreign Language

Educators historically have argued over the propriety of offering various academic courses. One recent yet continuing argument on American college campuses tends to put school against school, professor against professor, student against student, school against professor, professor against student and student against school. The issue is whether or not courses in a foreign language should be required to attain a Bachelor's degree. Some believe the idea is absurd, while others believe it is a progressive …

…there is nothing wrong with knowledge. Of course, not every class you take will have practical applications in your everyday life, but every now and then you will find some little tidbit of information you learned in the 8th or 9th grade will somehow show itself and have the relevance you asked for way back then. So, take a foreign language class and put effort into it--you never know when it might come in handy.