Independent Writing on High School's Required Course

Among cooking, personal finance management and car repairing, which do you recommend as high school students' required course?

Outline

Education is nowadays a vital component of a person's life and the courses taken could have huge impact on one's lifelong development. I am personally prone to cooking course rather than personal finance management or car repairing courses as one of the high school students' required course. Firstly, cooking is a basic skill for life. Secondly, cooking could be a reason for friends to get together and improve relationships. Finally, delicious food has positive effect on comforting people's negative emotions and even the process of cooking itself could serve as a tool to bate one's emotional fluctuations.

Response

First of all, cooking is a basic skill for life. People need to eat everyday and the cooking process endows food with safety and favorable taste. There is not doubt that personal finance management and car repairing can both be useful skills in one's life, but not as frequently as cooking are they needed in daily life. There are lots of commercial institutions one can hire to take care of his financial affairs or help repair his car. However, going to restaurants everyday can add up to be a tremendous financial burden.

Moreover, cooking could be a reason for friends to get together and improve relationships between each other. Try to envision what you would do if you learn how to cook a new dish or invent a cuisine. I suppose it must be the most general answer to invite your friends to taste your food. And if what you cooked is favorable, your friends would be willing to get together to join the party in no hesitation, eating delicious food, chatting about how is everything and thus improving the relationships between each other. The key to all these is mastering the secrets of cooking, which could be a spontaneous consequence of taking the cooking course during the high school. And these advantages are hardly achieved by learning how to manage personal financial affairs or repair a car.

Another benefit of cooking, which the other two skills cannot bring, is its emotional effects. Cooking brings delicious food which has positive effects on comforting people's negative emotions and even the process of cooking itself could serve as a tool to bate one's emotional fluctuations. I still remember the very night when I failed my analog electronics exam. I was feeling sorrowful and frustracted all day long until my mom serves me her cusine specialty, the warm curing chicken soup. It almost in an instant wiped the sadness away and brought smile back to my face again. What else could be better than serving a warm soup to a depressed person?

All in all, besides being a life skill, cooking has mysterious and magical power that utilitarian skills, such as personal finance management and car repairing, can never have. Learning how to cook is much more beneficial in the long run, so I think if only one course is allowed to be a required course for high school students, cooking will be the very one.