Issue78 我的第一篇

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TOPIC: ISSUE78 - "Schools should be required to teach the essential interconnectedness of all human beings and thus help eliminate wars, cultural clashes, and other forms of conflict."
WORDS: 502          TIME: 00:30:35          DATE: 2009/8/13 14:11:58

Should schools be required to teach the essential interconnectedness of all human beings in oder to help eliminate wars, cultural clashes, and other forms of conflict, as this statement asserts? In response to this issue, we need to analyze the proposition comprehensively and systematically. While I agree that teaching the essential interconnectedness of all human being is a very important task of schools, however, that does not mean schools should be required to teach it. Besides, wars, cultural clashes and other forms of conflict belong to some inborn nature of human being, which could not be elinimated in the near future.
        Admittedly, there is no denying the fact that the knowledge of essential interconnectedness of all human beings is a crutial part of any education and thus should be emphasized in schools. With a better knowledge of interconnectedness of human beins students could better develop themselves and have a general sense of how our society is connected. This is important because without understanding of others we cannot really understand ourselves, after all, we human beings are nothing if we are isolated from our social groups.
       Despite the merits of the statement's claim, however, i disagree that every school should be required to teach a certain area of knowledge, since it conflicts foundmently with the essentials of freedom. Education, by any standard, is the process of preserving our hope of the future, and thus if we require that schools teach a certain area of knowledge, we kill the possiblity of having a creative atmosphere of academics. What is more, we could undermine our basis of democracy if we force schools to teach a certain area, after all, Hitler managed to control German after he tried to restrict the academic free speech of German universities.
       In addition, the reason that we, human beings, have all forms of conflicts like wars, cultural clashes, is that we are born imperfict, and that why we are called human beings. Greed, misunderstanding and all the other kinds of things which make us not perfict are part of us, and have been so since the very beginning of our history. In fact, if anyone go through any history book of any countries, they would be surprised to find that the history book is, from many aspects, written with all forms of conflicts. Education can help to make us aware of that, but can not help much in eliminating conflicts.  After all, the two world wars happened in the twentith century when we had very good, if not the best, education standard.
       To sum up, from the analysis made above, we need to seek a balance and take an all-sided consideration. While the essential interconnectedness is a crucial part of our education, requiring schools to teach that is not a wise decision since it conficts with the basis of freedom and democracy. Moreover, wars, cultural clashes and other forms of confilcts have been part of our history since the very beginning, which could not be eliminated in the near future.