<div class="quote_poster">Voodoo Child Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I never quite pictured you as an honor student...
Mandarin Chinese a 4? Wow, who knew... seems complicated as hell.
In HS I took three years of Spanish, just because most of the colleges I was applying to required three years of a foreign language, but I hated every minute of it and have since forgotten all of what I 'learned.'</div>
I never agreed with this either, because a person should not be forced to learn a language just to meet the curiculum. You really have to want to learn the language in order to appreciate it and make use of it.
I remember in a Poli-Sci class I took, the professor basically broke it down that well-rounded students is a catchy phrase, but a crock. Every department fights for money and doesn't have the students best interests in mind. Department funding is all based on quotas, so each department fights to have their subjects as pre-requisites.
I think language should be expanded to music and even programming. Learning to read and write music is no different than trying to learn a new language, same goes for programming.