According to many educators, learning a broad range of information and skills is more useful to students because
A) the jobs of the future do not yet exist, and the skills we are teaching today to children for the jobs that are available today will be useless by the time children enter the workforce
B) there will be no jobs in the future, so children should be taught how to learn for the sake of learning, not for the sake of future employment
C) most students are uninterested in narrow skills such as those associated with science, technology, and engineering, and promoting these areas of learning past the point of student interest only makes students resentful
D) while jobs requiring narrow skills sets are plentiful, they pay relatively little
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