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发表于 2006-2-15 17:16:14 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

TOPIC：ISSUE 214 - "Society should identify those children who have special talents and abilities and begin training them at an early age so that they can eventually excel in their areas of ability. Otherwise, these talents are likely to remain undeveloped."
WORDS：634 TIME：0:45:00 DATE：2006-2-15

提纲
1、肯定特殊教育的作用
2、特殊儿童的选拔问题
3、特殊教育的负面影响

Should the society provide special education for students with distinctive talents and abilities? Some people believe so and assert that these talents will remain undeveloped if the students receive the same education with ordinary ones. As far as I am concerned, although I agree that special training at a young age will help to develop students' talents, I doubt the feasibility and potential benefits of carrying out such measures.

Admittedly, special training can play a significant role in developing students' outstanding talents and abilities. By taking courses and participating training programs within the area which a student is especially good at, he or she can further upgrade the born talents. Moreover, such training provided at a young are more important and effective in cultivating students' specialties. Without special training programs, it is likely that the young's talents will remain dormant and gradually disappear as they grow up. What a pity it will be if children who are talented in music have no chance to touch instruments, or if children with distinctive abilities in language cannot learn a foreign language. Special training programs that are targeted at cultivating children with certain talents can help them explore and further develop their abilities, the effects of which may not be achieved through ordinary education that are aimed at larger student population with various intellectual levels.

Nevertheless, the problems involved in identifying talented children and setting up training courses for them cannot be overlooked, for they are related with the feasibility and benefits of such measures in our society. On one hand, to take out such actions, people are confronted with the problem of how to select talented children. What kinds of talents deserve special training? Dose students who are talented in math more deserving of training than those talented in arts? Moreover, what kind of intellectual level can be qualified to receive special training? There are no clear standards for such measurements. On the other hand, people have to realize another undesirable consequence. The identification of so-called talented children will provide an indication to the young students that those who are selected to receive special training are more excellent than those who are not. As a result, identified students will form a sense of superiority which may lead to conceit, while others will form a sense of inferiority that may exert negative influence in the development of self-confidence.

Moreover, I feel it is too optimistic for people to believe that special training for talented children will eventually make them excel in their areas of ability. Students who receive such training are also caught up in lots of attention and expectation from teachers, parents and other social entities, which will probably lead to unbearable pressure that can undermine their performance. The program of educating teenage college students in China two decades ago can be a good evidence to show the negative consequences. While these identified talents receive higher education since a young age, few of them turn out to have great achievements after graduation. The main reason lies in the fact that most of those students suffered from excessive amount of pressure during study, as the media reported on their intelligence and marvelous talents frequently. Eventually, many of those originally talented students were ruined by the psychological problems such as being afraid of failure, unwilling to communicate with others, and so forth. This failed project proves that special training for talented children may result in counterproductive effects.

In short, while I agree that moderate amount of special training for talented young students will do good to the further development of their abilities. However, the difficulties and negative effects of identifying those talented children and providing special trainings for them cannot be neglected. People have to contrive more sensible way to cultivate the special talents for the young rather than training them separately since an early age.

[ 本帖最后由 iq28 于 2007-6-26 04:30 编辑 ]