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Issue 5
A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer.
The speaker's assertion that the same national curriculum rather than the academic courses decided by different parts of the nation is essential to all the students until they enter college is not without empirical evidences, but I cannot totally agree with such extreme position, because the speaker's viewpoint to national curriculum and academic courses determined by different parts is too bigoted and oversimplified.
To begin with, it seems that the speaker's assertion rests on the assumption that all students can enter college. If this assumption can set up, national curriculum which is much more broad and better balanced, can let students consider fully all subjects and then select objectively their major of college. But actually, no society can guarantee that all students have the opportunity to go to college at present, for the reason that besides some finite educational resources, different students have different interests and talent. For example, some students have strong interest in repairing electrical appliances. Apparently, some courses about technical skills rather than some courses like calculus, organic chemistry which are required courses in national curriculum, seem much more suitable for those students to learn and much more beneficial to their future career. Thus, it is quite necessary to provide various technical skills to students across the nation who are not expecting a higher education.
At the same time, to a certain extent, which academic courses to offer lies in the measure of the progress of economy of the part of a nation. In fact, impoverished living conditions are most likely to restrict educational resources which in no small measure influence national curriculum's accomplishment. Consider in a poverty-stricken area, without funding to set up laboratories, students there cannot do experiments to observe chemical reactions; without funding to furnish students with computers, students, even teachers there cannot master basic skills of using computers, which directly results in many multimedia courses to be canceled. It's obvious that some of national curriculum cannot be carried out in some parts of a nation and it's reasonable for different parts to determine which academic courses to offer in accordance with different educational conditions.
While some of national curriculum might not be received by all students on account of the foregoing reasons, we should not lose sight of the fact that some basic courses such as fundamental knowledge, social skills, moral education should be instilled in every students irrespective of the differences among parts of a nation, in order to satisfy the goals of education, according to the point of Dwight W. Allen, an eminent scholar of Educational Reform, (I paraphrase)"There are two goals of education, one is to make students more intellectual; another is to make each student a moral person.". Therefore, such basic courses should cover a large proportion of national curriculum and there is a compelling argument. National curriculum is more economical than provincial curriculum. It takes a lot of money and time to make an entire course and in this process, many experts related to education are required to participate. In national curriculum, only one making procedure goes through. In addition, when preparing a class of the curriculum, teachers can share ideas each other and get some help from another teacher, which undoubtedly would conduce to students' learning. In contrast, providing that provincial curriculum is made respectively, a large amount of economic losses is produced.
In final analysis, I concede that basic courses of national curriculum are superior to ones of provincial curriculum. However, by virtue of the differences of educational conditions among different parts and of individual interests and talent, not all courses of national curriculum are able to be carried out and to help all students. Hence, it’s sensible for schools to provide basic courses of national curriculum, together with some optional courses on a basis of actualities. |
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