There is a need for the core curriculum In high school, most students have attended four years in which they have acquired a general knowledge of most of the core subjects . You were forced to take three to four years of math, science, English and some history courses. Additionally, most students were required to take two years of foreign language and physical education. All these things are mandatory for most high school students, just to pass high school. Many students don't want to stop there. They want to continue their higher education. Most students want to go to college. All those years of math, science, history, English, foreign language, and physical education are all necessary to get into college. So most students think that when they get to college, they will choose a major and learn in depth about that major. The student believes he or she has finished learning general knowledge in all subjects. They believe they will enter college and jump right into their major. But the way most colleges are set up, you don't get into your major until the second semester of your sophomore year or the first semester of your freshman year. When you first get to college, you take many of the same classes you took in high school. This is a truly useless policy. In your first two years of college, you are completing your core curriculum. These are mostly the same classes you took throughout high school. These are the same classes you took to get into college. Yet you have to spend two years and thousands of dollars repeating the same courses. No matter what major and career field you want to go into, you need to retake math, science, history, English, foreign language, and physical education. Not only do you have to spend your precious time attending these classes again, but you also have to spend your money. Depending on your major and field of work, many of the things you learn in these classes you will never use again. In college, you should learn what you want to do for a living. Your degree should symbolize your learning and mastery of the skills required by your line of work. Instead, it says you know a little about each topic and know a little more about your major than someone without a degree in that field.