General education is important because it is the basis for specialized knowledge. The problem is that specialized education many times does not rely upon general education. For example, take my major of Political Science. It requires a general education in composition, history, and humanities among other broad study fields, but in order to be knowledgeable in my specialized education, I do not require more quantitative fields. A STEM student may require more technical classes as his or her basis of study, but he or she does not need humanities to excel. Ultimately, this shows the downfall of the UK Core. While Composition might be a good fit for all students, humanities or quantitative reasoning are not. It wastes not only a student's limited time at the institution, but it also wastes the individual's money on superfluous classes which do not help the student. A way to aid this may be to provide a broader definition to what is a quantitative class. Political science majors would benefit from statistics as a Mathematics requirement; whereas, STEM students would benefit if Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics History met the requirements. UK Core may parallel with issues in Common Core or No Child Left Behind due to its cookie cutter image of all students.