Thinking Beyond the Horizon

Thesis- Emerson's argument in "The American Scholar" about American society still holds true today.
Emerson's argument is a valid statement, because people are no longer thinking to broaden their knowledge. In China, they only learn what subject you are good in. So if you are good in math that will be the only topic you learn. This would not broaden your knowledge and not allow you to be the professor, priest, and the scholar like Emerson explains. Another example is if a student goes to school only worrying about the subject he is good in like science. In the future he won't be able to be all he can and do the jobs others can.

The common man/women today does not care how their job influences others. They just do their job everyday and get paid. Men and women need to think like the scholars of how they help the world. The farmer helps the world by feeding people so they don't die. Doctors help people become healed when they are ill. Now a days though, people just worry about how much money they will make. Emerson had a great analogy when he said "Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end." He is saying without everyone working together in the world and feeling they have a purpose then we are basically useless.