Isabel Lovesee

I already posted a comment on your other post about foreign language so i won’t address that but as to the rest. I am pretty sure that some things will just be out of some people’s reach. I doubt many students would be able to memorize that many minerals. So in this case i would say that mineralogy is just not accessible to people without an intense interest in it. After all if a person isn’t able to identify minerals they probably should not be a mineralogist. And of course i doubt that’s a required course unless you are getting a degree in that field. Should we have our own learning plan. Maybe, but then again i have never super struggled with university at least not because of that. My learning disability in math has affected me more than dealing with this. I think in many ways this comment is just a long way to say that some people should not go to college. Not everyone is good at it, not everyone is able to do it or even should do it.

Well, as someone whose degree is in a foreign language I am going to disagree. It's not impossible to learn a language, it just takes a different approach. I also disagree with the requirement being useless unless you are intending to use a foreign language. Even though in my opinion college language classes will never get any individual to fluency what learning a foreign language to any degree does is teach someone about other cultures and opens someone to those opportunities. And i think that is an important part of college education is opening your mind to another culture outside your own.