American Scholar

Emerson's argument in "The American Scholar" about American society still holds true today.

One reason Emerson's argument still hold true today is because once you go to college you focus on one career path for the future. In college your educaion and classes are all focused on teaching if you want to be a teacher or engineering if you want to be an engineer. We widen our knowledge on a variety of things not just one.

In the article Emerson states, "Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an enigineer but he is all." He is saying this is not how America is today and it needs to be this way in the near future. He is saying people become the job they perform and nothing else and we need to keep our lives open to all jobs and skills and not focus on one to put a complete stable society into existence.