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发表于 2012-6-15 20:01:54 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

Students, especially those who are quite young, tend to get confused when choose the fields of study.  In my opinion, educational institutions do have a responsibility to give some useful advices to students, which can help a lot. But it is unwise for them to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are, in the view of institution, unlikely to succeed  .

First, the institutions can hardly understand the full potential of every student, which is an essential consideration for students when they choose the fields of study . Basically, most of the educational institutions have a lot of students and they have different abilities and potentials. It is impossible for institutions to have a good knowledge of every student because attentions are limited due to the huge amount of students. The outstanding ability of one certain student may be ignored by institution. For example, Albert Einstein used to be slow  when he was young. If his school gave him some advice on future career based on the possibility of his success, he would never set foot on the physics research. In my view, for most individuals, the only way to fully understand the potentials and abilities of themselves is trying (to try) different things when they were young. Through trial and error, young students can have a better understanding both about themselves and the world. So even students want to choose fields of study which they are unlikely to win, they can either learn some experience from failure or manage to succeed.

“To be success” is a questionable criteria when choose the field of study. How do the educational institutions define the term “success”?  Does it mean make (making) more money or earn (earning)a good fame? In my opinion, an educational institution should cultivate a culture of diversity. Students should have diverse interests and motivations which make them choose different fields of study. For example, some students make their mind to serve the poor people, thus choose  (choosing) social work as their field of study. It is possible that they can never make a lot of money but by doing this they can achieve their own value.

While it is unwise for educational institutions to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed, they do have a responsibility to give students some experienced and useful advices.  Young as they are, students tend to be influenced by outside forces when choose the fields of study. In many cases, those influences, unfortunately, turned out to be misguiding. For example, in China, many parents tend to encourage their children (to) study in natural science regardless their abilities. In fact, some children could have done quite well in social science while they are not suitable for natural science. In these circumstances, students should turn to educational institution for advices. Generally speaking, experienced and professional advices from educational institutions are helpful and can save time, money and energy for students.

To sum up, educational institutions should cultivate a culture of diversity with which students freely choose the fields of study based on their personal interests, internal motivation and abilities. But at the same time, experienced and professional advices from educational institution can turn out to be helpful.