<< It can be said that it is more important for students to study history and literature rather than it is for them to study math and science. Although studying the latter contribute to advance in technology, the former still seems more important. This is due to the fact that studying these subjects enables them to learn about the world and how society works. It is crucial for students to learn history and literature, for these subjects enables them to lean how the society works and how we can solve the problems in our society. History, from which students can learn the events in the past, gives them great deals of ideas how the society works and how we have to deal with the problems in the society. This knowledge is helpful for students to survive in the society as grown up adults after they start working, as this knowledge can help to roughly predict possible outcomes of things and coming events and to avoid troubles. Furthermore, in a larger scale, these knowledge on history and literature give us ideas and thoughts on how we run the society; which kind of government is preferable, how our government should be operated, what kind of policies by the government will maximize the welfare of the people and so forth. These series of insights of how we should design the society are crucial in establishing society where we can pursue well beings of humans. This is due to the fact that, without these ideas, we cannot make the most of what we have to maximize the welfare. By obtaining how the society works and should be, students are able to learn and figure out efficient use of resource and how to distribute to people equally. This leads to a consideration that studying literature and history are extremely important for students. Some may say that it is more meaningful to study math and sciences, as students can improve their scientific knowledge, and thus to invent more technologies. By studying these subjects such as math, biology, medicine, physics, students can learn gain knowledge on natural laws. Furthermore, this knowledge will lead to advance in technology and improvement in our understanding of the natural world. For example, advance in medicine can be led by those who studied medicine when they were a student. This can contribute to the society in the way that the new medicine can lead to increase in healthy lives. Some may say that this fact indicates that studying these scientific subjects are more important. Nonetheless, it can be said that studying history and literature to learn how society should work is more important. To return to our example about medicine, we should have knowledge on how we deal with this new medicine and information, how to test it safely, how to distribute it equally and so forth. If this promotion, advertisement, marketing of this medicine was carried out by those who lucks this knowledge on society, the invention of medicine can have adverse affect on the society. For instance, if this medicine is distributed by a company that ignores the importance of side effects, conditions of the patients will be worse. This is more likely to happen when such processes as marketing and distribution, which needs knowledge of society learnt though history and literature are done by those who luck of this knowledge. In conclusion, it can be arguable that it is more important for students to learn history and literature, because they provides us to lean about society, which is crucial to lead to a maximisation of welfare. Some may say that science and math are more important because this lead to advance in technology. However, literature and history still seems important, for we need to have knowledge on society to deal with new technology.