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本帖最后由 fancyww 于 2010-2-5 21:49 编辑
写了一个小时多一点吧。words count:569。
Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student.
It is widely said that "Interest is the best teacher". I concede that education should try to meet the individual needs and interests in order to maximum students' personal advantages and motivate their talents. For modern education, however, it is impossible, unpractical, and also unnecessary to do so. In fact, there are some alternatives to achieve effective education.
I admit that the speaker's claim has some merit in its emphasis on the importance of the individualized education. Satisfied individual needs and fulfilled interests are very powerful motivations to simulate the students to get fully improvement and let their imagination soar in their beloved field. And in fact, this is how education likes in its very beginning. Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher, once pointed out that the real education is the process that an insightful teacher, with a few passionate students, discussing the issues they concerned. Here, Socrates focused on two elements of education: passion and concern, which could be translated in modern context as interest and need. Later, the whole Greek and the rest of the world witnessed his magnificent success on education. So we can conclude that if the real interests and reasonable needs of students is satisfied, the education for such students is truly effective.
However, due to the change of the recipients and goals of education, even though such individual-oriented method is effective, it is unpractical and unnecessary for modern education. On the one hand, the recipients of modern education have become all the people in our society. Nowadays, education is not only accessible to elites and nobles; on the contrary, we have entered a mass education time. So it is impossible and infeasible for our limited educational resources to meet the needs of every individual. In order to nurture billions of Plato, billions of Socrates is needed. Obviously, this is out of the question. On the other hand, the purpose of education has shifted from nurturing philosopher like Socrates and Confucius into the bringing up of social workers. Mass education is more skills-oriented and job-oriented. We can even conclude that it is the need of society calls for education rather than the interest within the learner's inner voice. In this sense, the criterion for the effectiveness of education should be the compatibility with social need.
The impracticality of individual-oriented education for every students does not means that we cannot achieve effective education in modern time. On the contrary, there are some alternatives to choose from. And abetter approach should be a combine of basic compulsory education and autonomous courses. For example, for primary school, we should adopt the uniform national curriculum, as it is more important for students to firstly construct a integrate and comprehensive framework of the world and society. As for high school and college students' level, they become more aware of their own interests and more responsible for their own choices. So education can try to design some special curriculum according to their aptitude. In brief, wFor primary education, the uniform arrangement of teaching and basic courses will make education really effective,Read more: wwe should allocate the educational resources in a rational way, meeting the general need of the majority, with a few institutions offering personalized education.
In sum, although education cannot ignore personal interests and needs, contemporary society actually cannot reproduce Socrates' success as in ancient times. Considering the purposes and students of modern education, we should seek for a balance between the needs of individuals and society, and this is the right way to approach effective education. |
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