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Issue 51"Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student."
How to educate students more effective? Nowadays, more and more people emphasize individualism, so the speaker assert in order to educate students effectively education should be designed to meet every student’s needs and interests. As far as I am concerned, it is a good idea, but too difficult to carry out in reality.
Admittedly, as what Einstein once said, interest is the best teacher. Without doubts, pursuing knowledge and enhancing competence is a hard process. During our daily lives, we can find if we don’t like something, we won’t want to learn it. However, if we are interested in something, nothing can prevent us, and we will devote ourselves to it regardless of its hardship and anguish. Consequently, we will view it as happiness. In reality, different students have differed intellect levels and personalities; therefore students have various interests and needs. Obviously, how can we adopt the same teaching contents and methods for all the students? Nowadays, more and more people suggest that our education should be altered according to students’ traits and talents.
However, there are different purposes during the process of education, it isn't possible that whole education can fulfil students' interests and demands. First, the purpose of primary schools and high schools is providing general knowledge and correct values and ideas. The former includes verbal, math, chemistry, physics, music, art and so on, and latter includes moral, regulation, ideal and life, etc. Modern people must possess all these in order to survive. So it is suitable to design uniform courses. Of course, students’ various interests and personalities can be properly considered. For example, schools can open some extracurricular classes to meet students’ needs and interests. Second, the purpose of colleges and universities is, according to students’ individual interests, offering numerous courses to them or conduct them separately. They have adequate freedom to choose what they really like, thereby they could be easily motivated and their potential talents could likely be explored. Ultimately, students can find their interests and prepare their career well. In addition, some special educations, such as occupational education and skill training, should be designed to individuals due to their special learning contents. Therefore, specifically designed education is not suitable at every education levels.
Moreover, the realization of specifically designed courses is troubled by a lot of problems in reality, although they can meet individual interests and needs. The problems include the lack of teaching resources, limitation of teacher’s qualification, the scientific design of courses and concrete teaching methods, and the most significant problem is money. Even in developed countries and areas, it is difficult to achieve it not mention to developing countries and areas, where traditional teaching methods and contents are still effective.
In conclusion, though interest is very important, which represents the development direction of modern education, it is too hard to achieve the goal. Education should focus on general knowledge and basic skills training, so students could develop personal interests on this foundation. Thus, every student could make a contribution to the society after graduation, where the real purpose of effective education lies in.
Argument 51
In this argument, the arguer claims that all patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain should take antibiotics as part of their treatment, because secondary infections may keep some patients from healing quickly. To support the conclusion, the arguer cites preliminary results of a study and makes a comparison of two groups of patients. At the first sight, the argument appears reasonable, but under careful examination, there are many critical fallacies.
First and foremost, one problem with the argument is the arguer primarily relies on a study of two groups of patients, and then concludes that antibiotics work efficiently in treating muscle strain. However, the arguer fails to consider possible differences between these two group members, such as patients’ age, gender, health and the degree of injuries. It is possible that patients in first group are younger and healthier than those in second group, or perhaps patients in the first group are mild injured while patients in second group suffer from serious muscle strains. Without ruling out these factors, the argument is unconvincing. Thus, it is unwarranted to claim that their recovery is due to antibiotics. Besides, the experience and capacity of two doctors will influence recuperation time. Generally speaking, doctor who specializes in sports medicine knows how to solve muscle strain better than a general physician. Consequently his patients recover faster probably owing to his specialized capacity and effective treatment, but not because of taking antibiotics.
In addition, the arguer considers that patients in the second group do not realize that their medication is replaced by sugar pills, yet provides no evidence to verify it. Movreover, the arguer doesn’t demonstrate whether the pills have negative impact on the patients’ recovery. Therefore, any of above analysis, if true, would undermine the argument.
Furthermore, even though antibiotics is effctive to treating muscle strain, it is hasty to reach a general assertion that all patients diagnosed with muscle strain should take it as part of their treatment. On one hand, it is not necessary for all patients, because maybe some of them do not suffer from secondary infection. On the other hand, the arguer doesn’t consider the problems that antibiotics bring, for example, side effects and allergy.
Finally, the arguer assumes that the result of the study could substantiate the hypothesis, which implies that the secondary infections may prevent patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain. However, the result of the study proves nothing about this hypothesis, because it does not show that these patients are suffered from secondary infections.
In a word, the conclusion, in this argument, isn’t warranted and persuasive as it stands. To strengthen the argument, the arguer should have to present more information about the rate of secondary infections in all patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain. Additionally, the arguer should conduct a convincing and valid survey in which doctors and patients should possess similar background. |
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