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Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student.
I basically agree with the speaker’s statement that education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual interests and needs of different students. As we all know, interest plays a significant and critical role in learning for children. Thus, specifically designed courses accordant with students’ talents will be certainly effective. Notwithstanding, considering the real conditions, there are also some problems remained to discuss.
To begin with, from my point of view, fairness of education consists of not only the opportunity to go to school, but also the equal right to develop personal characteristics and talents. Hence, it’s obvious unfair for those gifted students to attend the general designed courses, and so specifically designed courses are needed. Furthermore, interests are the optimal foundation upon which students rely to learn knowledge effectively and productively. In order to stimulate children’s initiative to learn, specifically designed courses are also required.
From the society’s point of view, our society not only needs students equipped with vast amount of general knowledge in different fields, but also students proficient in certain field. It implies that education needs to fully develop students’ potential talents by offering specifically designed courses. In addition, letting gifted students attend the general courses would be a waste of their time and energy, which could be spend on studying their interested fields. For example, Bill Gates left Harvard before he graduated, and established Microsoft. It’s hard to say he would reach the same achievements as today if he didn’t drop out of university and continued to attend those meaningless courses. Another example is Darwin, founder of the theory of evolution, once was forced by to study medicine and theology, which definitely waste him lots of time. Accordingly, education should be designed specifically for students in order to fully develop their talents.
However, we have got to realize the fact that some students don’t know what they are interested in and what they are good at. Many students nowadays just attend classes and finish assignments monotonously, hardly or even never have they thought carefully about what can distinguish them from all the others. So, schools need to undertake the responsibility to find and cultivate students’ potential abilities. For example, schools can offer various kinds of optional courses for students to choose, or set up scholarships to encourage students to develop their interests.
Given the real conditions and resources, it would be impossible and meaningless for school to care about every student’s interests. On the one hand, the number of teacher is far from enough if educating students specifically; On the other hand, as has been discussed above, some students do not know definitely what they are interested in, and some are not able to identify what they should learn. For instance, the mathematics, many students dislike, but obviously cannot be cancelled. Obviously, undue emphasis on individual interests will only induce to teaching disorder.
To summarize, enough emphasis should be placed on respecting students’ interests, which will surly help develop their talents to the greatest extent. However, we also need to consider the real conditions and resources and carry out appropriate plans to reconcile the contradictions. |
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