[Issue11]第一篇GRE习作，求拍

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11. *11. All nations should help support thedevelopment of a global university designed to engage students in the processof solving the world's most persistent social problems. [7]
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The idea that all nations contribute to develop a global university aiming to solve the world’s social problems is interesting to explore. This is indeed a great suggestion and I perfectly agree that only when the world gets together can we achieve many things. However, it failed to take in to consideration of the economical and social complexity of this issue,making this suggestion unsubstantiated and weak. Most persistent social problems include global warming, poverty, education, power (exhaust of fossilfuel) and so on. None of them can be solved completely by simply building a global university.
Poverty, for example, can’t be simply tackled by an aristocratic education institute, it involves complex economic issue. Ethiopia(or any other African country) has many ppl starved to death every year. In Japan, on the other hand, people dump milk into sea every year. Naïvely, there are activists suggesting Japan should give the remaining food to Ethiopia and the issue is solved. Indeed, for short term, a famine in Ethiopia is handled. This action however will backfire in the long term. Local agriculture of Ethiopian will be destroyed competing with literally “priceless” foreign donations. Education is virtually a possible solution if citizens of Ethiopia can receive free and high quality education. Inversely, a university gathered experts of all fields and ingenious students from all over the world will not be able to do anything about it unless they condescended to work and contribute in Africa (which it highly unlikely according to economics).
Also, a university supported by all nations in the world is idealistic, and hence impossible to build. Not all nations in the world share the common interests. While developed countries are urging every factory to reduce pollution to air and water, the third world is trying to sit in the same dining table as the priors regardless of the cost. Not a single social problem in the world is purely black or white. From different perspectives, they look vastly different. While the many countries in the western world that still hold their cold war ideology consider North Korea’s nuclear project a threat, China, Japan and many Asian countries began to realize this is in fact a move for food. If US manage to remove its trade sanctions on North Korea and treat it as a normal country, nuclear project will naturally cease and be replaced by the vast domestic demand of economy growth.
Even if a global university is built, it is still controversial on what will be taught there and who can go study there in terms of fairness and democracy. Given the fact that this university concentrated all possible resources, it is safe to assume it will offer the best learning experience and the best tutoring from the world’s greatest minds. Then the metrics of enrollmentis a controversial issue. The quota allocated to different countries for instance, is unsolvable. Do we allocate in terms of population, or do we divide the opportunity according to each country’s contribution to the construction ofthe university? Either way is not OK because many shareholders will be unsatisfied. Also, the curriculum will be hard to determine. Based on the previous discussions, different countries hold different perspectives and ideologies towards many key issues in the world. There is no way for all of them to compromise and find a uniform resolution.
Finally, there will be no law or bondage restricting the students’ career after graduation. With the best education possible, they will probably more keen to find a job in an investment bank and grow rich instead of striving to fight for the freedom and greater good of mankind while remain impecunious.In this case, many efforts that this university is ever been built in the firstplace are in vain.
To sum up, developing a global university that aim to solve the world’s social problems is a beautiful idea and worth a try, but the social and economical complexity of the issue has made such move idealistic and controversial. To make matters worse, the multi-ideological nature of the worldand graduate’s freedom to choose their life are possibly making this whole idea a utopia.