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今晚第一天写GRE作文。 搞了个将近1小时，郁闷死我了。 对字数什么的没概念啊。 先发上来各位大牛瞧瞧。请猛砸！！！切勿留情！！！
BTW 我打算15天之内去考GRE。。。因为再不弄申请PHD就来不及了。。。这个请轻砸。。。我的确不是个good time manager。。。

214. Society should identify those children who have special talents and abilities and begin training them at an early age so that they can eventually excel in their areas of ability. Otherwise, these talents are likely to remain undeveloped.


Children who show special talents and abilities at an early age always surprise people and draw great attention and expectation on themselves. People who are amazed by are often eager to advance their progress in growing up and put their talents into greater use. Being a kind wish for its purpose, the idea of identifying and giving special training to genius children does not always produce the positive results as people wish.

True is it that numbers of scientists have proven that uncommon talents shown at early childhood are likely to fade away and eventually disappear if not identified and reinforced with special training. New born babies can hold their breath and stay comfortably under water for quite a while, because aquatic environment is very similar to the situation in the mother’s womb. However, if they are not trained how to strike from that moment on, this natural instinct disappears. They become alienated with water and may suffer drowning if not re-trained years later of how to hold breath and swim. This is a loss of the society, monetarily when talking about training fees, and socially when talking about saving drowned children each year.

But, does the fact that early talents do have positive social impact imply that we have to take action against its fading, through providing special education and training? Not necessarily. The possible costs and consequences linked to this kind of training are worthy of cautious consideration. First of all, special training often means restricted playing time and strengthened exercises believed to reinforce the correspondent ability. Children receiving training are relatively isolated from peers and the rest of the world, resulting in weaker ability of interpersonal communication. Furthermore, overemphasizing on one certain talent may lead to ignoring other potentials that are temporarily buried on a child. Excessive training may take up the time and attention needed to develop him or her in more than one aspect. Einstein was mostly famous for physics, but he is also a great violin player. Da Vinci was adored as a great painter, as well as an amazing inventor. If their parents discovered their early talents and force them to focus on only one specialty, the world would lose a great deal of treasures.

At the same time, we cannot overlook the practical difficulties in developing such kind of training programs. Special talents are of various forms, and thus hard to define or measure, making it difficult to decide which kind of talents should receive training while others should not under limited resources of a society. Even if budget is sufficient, training expertise for each specific talent is not always available. The training programs may not be valid and reliable enough to offer at the very beginning and the society has to risk distorting and losing some valuable talents. Even those children are properly trained, it remains a problem how to place them in the giant machine of the whole society, without bringing shock to the current system.


After all, we admire all human talents and are always accountable of helping individuals to develop and utilize them. However, when it comes to genius children, there are more strings attached to it and we have to take action only after we cautiously assess the possibilities, the costs of the training and potential outcomes for the individual and the society as a whole.

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