Colleges are focusing their attention more and more on specialized educational programs. This increased specialization in higher education is damaging to individual college students. In fact, too much specialization stifles an individual’s intellectual growth.
Counter-Argument:
A counter-argument would be that specialization is benfitical to college students. In his essay, Democratic Education Versus Smithian Efficiency: Prospects For A Deweyan Ideal In The 'Neoliberal Age, David Meens argues that specialization is beneficital to college students in todays economy.
“The principle that economic efficiency depends upon ever-increasing specialization means that any country pursuing democratic equality goals of universal general education and the equal treatment of students in a shared environment will thereby become less efficient and therefore less competitive” - David Meens
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