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The speaker asserts that educators should assess thestudents' learning on the ability to explain the ideas, trends, and conceptsthat those facts illustrate not on students' grasp of facts. In my view, thisstatement seems a little extreme. Theeducators assessing the students’ learning on which aspects should depend on differentdisciplines they learn .The speaker's opinion is not suitable for all circumstances.

When the students learn someabstract disciplines, teachers should assess the students learning more ontheir ability to explain the idea, trends, and concepts that those factsillustrate. For example,it is hard to imagine teachers just demand students to recite the fact or thedetails of the pictures, when the students of art learn the course about theprominent painters’ works. This rote memorization just exercises students'memory and they can comprehend little about the artist's real thought. Teachersshould recommend the artist's ideas and the trend of art of the artist's period.Without understanding the Picasso's ideas of arts, the students cannot reallycomprehend his unthinkable creativity. That is why just remembering the factsis useless and inefficiency.

But sometimes, without the largenumber of fact, the students will be bewildered and confused about the ideas, trendsor concepts .Forinstance, if the history teachers taught their students the develop trends ofAmerican at their first class. It is difficult for them to understand. Thestudents should first recite some events such as American War of Independence、The Civil War and the period of each event. Then theywill have entire concept of the American history. If they can connect these eventsby time, the trends of this period will be clear without learning. So historyteachers should first assess students’ knowledge about the facts of historythey know.

Sometimes, teachers should assesstheir students’ learning on the facts and the ideas or concepts at same time. When students learn the some physical laws such aslight spread along the straight line. They can first learn the facts of thetotal solar eclipse. Then they can learn the ideas and formula of the light sothat they can resolve other questions. In this example we can see, it is allvery important to learn the facts and ideas. So teachers should take equalattention to assess these two ability of their students.

Although grasp of the ideas trends or concepts is moreimportant than just grasp of the fact under some circumstances , the teachersof different disciplines should have different emphasis to assess theirstudents.

To talk about the problem of whether the politicalleaders should withhold information from the public, different individuals havedifferent opinions. From my position, I approve the former idea closer than thelater one .That is to say , for political leaders, it is necessary to withholdsome information, although public has right to be informed sometimes.

To ensure the safety of a nation, the politicalleaders should hide some information from the public. If a country expose allthe information to the public, the safety of this country will be difficult to ensure.Some people or countries will take advantage of this information to threatentheir safety.

Besides, in order to conduct some important strategiessuccessful, the political leaders shouldn't disclose the information or detailsof these strategies. The War of the Red Cliff can explain this viewpoint clearly.One side of the war use a strategy to cheat another side linked all theirwarships together and made use of the strength of wind and fire destroying allthe warships and army of another side, Using the few army to defeat the many.If the loser of this war have known the winner's strategy before, it is hard tosay which side will win the last game.

However, fully conceal some information may have badeffect on resolving problems sometimes. For instance, the spread of SARS in thevery great degree is caused by the hiding information of the political leadersof China. At the beginning of this case, just two persons infected by this virus,but the leaders concealed this information and little people known about this case.As a result, hospitals in other provinces did not take preventive measurestimely so that SARS spread around China quickly and caused more people infectedand even died. If the political leaders informed this incident and tookmeasures quickly, the followed loss could be decrease significantly.

In conclusion, the political leaders should withholdthe information which regard to the safe of a nation and some importantstrategies of the government. But fully conceal all information may not a goodchoice.

The speaker indicates that governmentshould offer a free university education to all students who
has beenadmitted to a university but cannot afford the tuition. Although weshould admit the importance of the university education, offering a freeuniversity education may be either difficult or have some negative effects.

Education is veryimportant for the development of a country. So government should supportstudents receiving higher education, especially the students who cannot affordthe tuition. Take Japan as an example. The economy of Japan was badly hurt bythe Second World War. It is unthinkable for Japan to recover from the ruins sorapidly. In practice, it is because Japan attaching importance to educationfrom Meiji restoration and the people who accept the higher education helpJapan develop quickly. So the government should take some measures to supportthe university education.

Not all the countrieshave ability to offer a free university education to all the students whocannot afford the tuition. To support students going to the university, the governmentshave to pay a large amount of money on education. But for some country ofAfrica, a lot of people even cannot afford the food let along the tuition ofuniversities. If the governments offer a free university education for thesestudents, a lot of other things will be influenced significantly. So offer afree university education should be based on the ability of the government.

Even if thegovernments can afford these students' tuition, offer a free universityeducation may not be a good method. If the students who cannot afford the tuitionof the university are offered a free charge of university, they may nottreasure the opportunity like before. So other methods should be adopted. Forexample,  the American universities provide various of scholarships suchas research assistant、teachingassistant. Students also can find part-time-job in American universities. Thesemeasures can resolve the question of the students who cannot afford the tuitionto a great degree. It also can encourage these students in academic works andthey will also treasure the opportunity of receiving the higher education.

In conclusion, thegovernment should take better methods to support the university educationrather than offer a free university education to any student who has beenadmitted to a university but who cannot afford the tuition.