The American scholar

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

Emerson says that man is becoming his job, and that man should not be the master of one job or talent but many. Man should try and learn more then one ability because of many reasons, including, more money, benefiting the world because you can do many things to help people, and if you lose one job it should be easier for you to find another one. Emerson says that not a lot of people are not multi talented because they believe that they can only do one thing, and don't try to excel in other talents. An analogy would be if you only workout on your arms that is all that will be strong, but if you work on your legs and core also you will be better built.

My plan for high school and college for my world languages is to take German through high school and to take Spanish in college, which will make me look better being trilingual than most people when I am interviewing for a job. Many of our past presidents have been multi talented, like Benjamin Franklin who was a scientist, inventor, writer,and president of the United States. A good quote from Emerson that explains what I am writing about is, "Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things", because Man is becoming his job, and not thinking about anything else or what else he could excel at.