The American Scholar

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

One reason Emerson's argument still hold true today is that the people who do the jobs they do only know how to do that kind of job. For example in Detroit,MI when the auto industries shut down the people who worked there did very specific jobs so it became harder for them to find work. In the article it also talks about jobs, "The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal woth to his work, but is ridden by the routine of his craft, and the soul is subject to dollars." (Emerson 1) This just further proves the point of how far off people are from the Man Thinking.

Before you get to a job you have to go to school, there's an upside and downside to the schools in the U.S.A. Though in most schools there are a lot of different classes people fail to try new classes they wouldn't normally take. Yet those classes could end up leading you to something you really like or just another way to gain a new skill. "Is not indeed every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof." (Emerson 1)