Turn on the dim lights in education With the education system gradually becoming tougher and the workforce becoming more competitive, students and educators are under pressure to to do their best in every job they have. Educators try their best to teach what students need and students take what is useful for their future. Elective courses bring useful aspects into a student's life in learning outside of the core curriculum, but "if the light by which we are guided ever goes out, it will gradually dim and expire of itself,” making the students’ thoughts dull and unvibrant. . “By adhering closely to more applications, the principles would be lost sight of, and when the principles were completely forgotten, the methods could no longer be invented and men would continue without intelligence and without art to apply scientific processes that “we no longer understand”, as Alexis de Tocqueville says, develops the need to have classes outside the core to have learning outside. Some people and students do not feel that college electives are useful and beneficial to their future careers or that they are worth their time and money. However, students should take electives because these courses bring many student-friendly factors, such as contributing to the development of a well-rounded student and helping to choose the career path a student wants to pursue. Elective courses allow students to become a well-rounded student. rounded people. Nowadays, companies, jobs, and even graduate schools are now looking for students whose education has many aspects and topics outside of the required core courses. Not everyone wants a student who has not taken advantage and gone to explore a different subject...... middle of article ......nts to be considered a complete student, modeling a good candidate and one that the workforce wants. Nevertheless, elective courses enhance students' curiosity and influence their decisions for their future. Students will be constantly curious about what they want to pursue and study and will consider various subjects such as electives. “Students will cross an invisible border; new, universal and more liberal laws will begin to be established around and in him; or else the ancient laws will be enlarged and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings" from whom they bring valuable knowledge and thorough education not only of the base classes but also optional courses. (Thoreau). Elective courses will shine the light these students need in the world.