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Wasteful Repetition
12 years of our lives are spent learning the basics, 12
years. Yet, after those twelve years of near continuos
education, colleges require us to relearn what we already
know, knowledge that may be irrelevant to our chosen major.
Core Curriulumn is a waste of time and money.

Each year for twelve years we wake up on a day around
August in order to attend required schooling. We learn
english, mathematics, sciences, health, and history. School
becomes our lives, almost a career that lasts approximately
120 months. For those 120 months we are taught the same
subjects, not a year goes by that we were not required to
take an English, Math, Science, and History courses. After
successfully completing our "lower learning" studies and
receiving
our much awaited diplomas almost two thirds of us
go on to college.1 Upon arrival at these institutions of
higher learning we come to realize that our "Basic" learning
is not over and we must extend our knowledge of said
material before we can move on to things that more directly
concern our majors. Colleges are asking us, rather, telling
us to relearn the knowledge we, for the most part, already
pocess. There are several things we lose when we agree to,
or rather are required to retake the basics in college. Most
likely foremost of what we lose,in students minds
,espeacially in today's
society, is money.
We spend outrageous sums of money to attend college for
4 years, individually the cost of tuition possibly ranges
between 50,000 to 100,000.As a whole the nation spends in
excess of $175 billion each year.2 Money wasted on learning
the same material we were educated in for 12 years of our
lives. Money that many of us do not have and if we are not
fortunate enough to receive
a scholarship or any type, we
must look towards students loans. By definition a loan is
something that is lent on condition of being returned.3
Zachary Karabell,author of the book What's College...