SHOULD BE CLASS ASSISTANCE OBLIGATORY?

Most people think that university students must assist to the classes but, is this statement really necessary? To educate people is important but giving them freedom for their choices is important to. Do you think that making students go to class would make them learn? Or do you think that they would improve better? I think that not, is someone wants to learn it is their choice, so students should assist to classes when they like to or when they really think is necessary to assist.

Some people may say that making the assistance to class obligatory would create a good habit in the students life, but think… we are talking about university students! We are not talking about school children who need a role model or an example to follow who would teach them some behavior rules.

In the case of university students, they are all adults or they are almost adults, they should have their own capacity of deciding what is the best for them or what should they do or not.

If they do not go to classes they know that they will not learn and probably they would lose the subject or maybe the whole semester, that is their choice! But there are other cases; some students say that they learn in a better way by themselves than in a classroom with a teacher explanation or maybe the teacher is explaining something that a student already knows. So, what are those students doing in a classroom? Do not you think that this is no more than a really waste of time for them? I think that it really is.

As a consequence of making the assistance to classes compulsory, some students would be bored in class because maybe they already know something the teacher is explaining or maybe other students will not learn because they are not in the class because they want or they like to, they are going to be there because it is obligatory.

In conclusion, I think that is not necessary to make the assistance to class obligatory. Even if the most of the students in a classroom do not go, it is their problem if they do not want to learn, because it is all in their free will. So, it should be your decision if you want to go to class or you do not want to, it is up to you if you want to learn and become a professional or if you want to be a vague the rest of your life.