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weaselUID: 2739489

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youngstoneUID: 2670818

Students have higher and higher expectations towards their education system. When education is specifically designed for the individuals, the advantages are obvious. For the curriculum is chosen by students themselves and these students are prone to try their best to learn. But the disadvantages are also neglectable, for this kind of education system will not only do some harm to the students, but also entails the more money and efforts.

The curriculum specially designed for each student has a crucial impact on the students' attitude and enthusiasm towards study. Firstly, the students' ardent desire to learn a certain subject could generate endless energy. The great happiness to learn the subject is just like the situation that a person in endless desert suddenly found an oasis or the arid land receives a drop of rain. Secondly, students choose their subjects due to their interest and preference. Common knowledge tells us that interest can relieve the tiredness of working and people can continually challenge their limitations. A good example is the world famous conductor, Seiji Ozawa, who usually gets up at 4 in the morning to read the score. Just as he said, he didn't feel tired because of his great interest in music.

However, this kind of mechanisms has many potential adverse effects. Firstly, it is quite possible that students choose their subjects concerning whether they are easy to learn. Then maybe many students prefer to learn easy subjects and as a result, they fail to learn some difficult knowledge that is necessary. This can hinder the development of academy, since the society has demands for different graduates who can master different skills.
Secondly, students' demands may change with the time and not stay all the same. At such times, what they are at first interested in may not intrigue their interest any more, which may leads to the quandary that whether the subjects should be altered. Whether these subjects are altered or not, it is certain that the effectiveness of education can not be ensured. Thirdly, the students may form a habit of egotism because from very young, they are taught to learn what they want. The students' expectations are always met and thus they may lose the ability to adapt. For they may only want to change the outside environment to meet themselves, not adapt to the environment. But the society is more complex than the ivory tower, more challenges and obstacles are there and the students must learn how to fit with the surroundings.

In addition to the disadvantage above, it is quite hard and costs much to implement this kind of education system for a large part of this system is a waste of time and resources. For school's perspective, it is not easy to arrange the teachers to meet the students' demands. For the number of teachers before are based on the former arrangement of the curriculum. And whether the number and the proportions of the teachers can meet the students' new demand is unknown. The new employment of teachers costs such a lot. For teachers, they have more pressure than before and it may be harder to ensure the quality of teaching.

To sum up, the purpose to meet the students' needs are reasonable but the result may be not that satisfactory. Since many factors should be taken into account if the curriculum system is changed. True effectiveness of education can be achieved by the students' attitude and studying habit. Actually, for each single student, they should try to develop their interest in what they are learning for the moment, not just have the intention to change these subjects to their own style or preference.

weaselUID: 2739489

In view of the complexity of the issue whether education will be truly functional when designed to meet everyone’s needs and interests, voice from various people differs. Admittedly people equipped with needs and interests can study more actively and forwardly. However, there are also large numbers of negative effects and some impossibility to put the ideal policy into practice. After series of serious consideration, the conclusion emerges: we must seek a balance.

There is no doubt that education that fulfils every individual’s needs and interests can achieve the educational goal to the uppermost efficiency. As a common sense, when pursuing personal needs and interests, we human-beings always keep enormous enthusiasm and energy to come out different kinds of means, capture every opportunity and then do our best. At the same time, the genuine effective education requires every student to the extent that one exerts all of his/her endeavors on daily leaning assignments. Thus, if education is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student, it is obviously truly effective. A realistic example around me can be cited to illustrate the point. My primary school classmate, Sbets, has an interest in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). After giving up formal education which cannot offer any courses about Chinese Medicine, he chose to learn from a local TCM researcher. At present, Sbets has become a qualified TCM doctor with long-term experience. It is just what he longs for the informal education offers to him.

However, when going with the impossibility and harmful consequences, the viewpoint above is pen to be suspected. Actually, this kind of education has no must to exist and will never appear in current society in virtue of the following two aspects. Firstly, exorbitant attention on pursuing individual needs and interests will take negative effects to student himself/herself. For instance, one, who clearly know what benefits to their needs, probably only chooses relevant courses and thus never cares about other curriculums such as virtue education. As a result, he may lack essential moral quality, which is possibly a potential disaster to the whole society, especially when his odd and harmful interests gain the maximum satisfaction. Secondly, when considering the possibilities, we will ask a question inevitably: is it possible that the governments offer a sophisticated TCM expert to every TCM lover? Unless the whole society focuses all money and resources on this ideal education, it will never happen in current society. To sum up, we can not execute such “effective education”.

What should we do in order to attain a practical effective education? In my point of view, the optimal approach for us is to seek a balance. Without meeting students’ needs and interests, most of them will hold a passive attitude to learning in school. And it is also not practical and even harmful to emphasize on pursuing individual interests and needs. Therefore, the problem must be addressed with equilibrium. As an education government, it provides schools with proper money and resources. As a student, they train themselves essential abilities through compulsory courses and pick some optional courses to meets their needs and interests.

From the analysis above, no one can deny the fact that any alternative to the issue is not wise and even full of flaws except a balance point. We can image that unless a soldier is equipped with a sword on the right hand and a shield on the other hand, how can he kill enemies and protect himself at the same time?

钱钱去米国UID: 2761990

How can the education act on students more effectively? In this statement, the speakers hold the view that only when the education is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student can it is truly effective. I agree with the author in most case that if the students have interests in what they learn, they would study better than learn something they hate.

I cannot consent with the speaker that only when the education is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student can it is truly effective. No matter whether students are interested in or need a kind of education or not, education will have effect on them that may be advantage or negative. For instance, many students hate math because of many different reasons, but some of them may learn it well although they hate math and their logical thinking are well treated by the study of math which may good for their further study especially for study some departments of science, such as physical chemical and biological. The other student may fail to study math well for ever and quail of all the departments of science.

However, it is obviously that if students are interested in something they would learn it better and happier. Interest is the best teacher for everyone and every subject. For instance, Thomas Alva Edison, an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, includes the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.but when he was in school, the young Edison's mind often wandered, and his teacher was overheard calling him "addled".From this, we can find that Edison was not a smart student when he was young and he could not grasp what the teacher taught. The education young Edison receive in school cannot interest him. Fortunately, his mother met his interest which let Edison to learn science well leading him being a successful inventor and scientist at last

Besides, offering the education that cannot meet the individual needs and interests of each student would be inefficient. As students may refused to accept this education, and even they accept it, it is hard for they to learn these subjects well. While if the students like what they are taught, they would get it quickly. To provide the subjects that students don’t need or interest is a waste of time and energy. Specifically compare with offering education that designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student. What’s more, it may kill students’ aspiration of study, if they dislike the subjects they have to learn.

To sum up, although the effect of education will act on students no matter they needs or not. But it is important for education to meet the individual needs and interests of each student, which can let students learn well and protect their aspiration of study.

sola-nanaUID: 2744594

On the issue about whether interests andneeds are the only factors of effective education, I would like to take thecontrary position and claim that interests and needs could only stand on theposition of assistance but never determinant in the efficiency of education.

Admittedly, it is proved beyond doubt thateducation specifically designed for students’ interests and needs shows greatefficiency. Everyone who has been through education would have the experiencethat once a subject or a question arouses his interests, he would put all hisheart and soul into the study with concentrated focus and enormous enthusiasm. Onthe contrary, if a subject is boring or dreary, it would feel so tired inlearning without apparent efficiency. The students with great interests inlearning would give all his focus and craving to study with the payment of hugegratification. Interest is the driving power of learning as it could stimulatethe infinity of one’s potential; meanwhile, interest is an emotion of learning andan important factor in the development of one’s intelligence and cruciallyinfluences the efficiency of study. The notion of learning lies in an initiativeprocess during which students convert passive learning into an initiativeprocess. Only with profound interest and love of what he studies in can one hasthe most qualified vigor in learning to reach for the best learning state.

While, whether classes are designed to meetwith the interests and needs of students could not be the decisive factor whenjudging the efficiency of education. Is the class one had chosen in the name ofinterest the real one of which he is fond now? What if it is just a temporary choicethen or going with the stream? Choices of thepast could not stand for what is needed right now. Maybe it is a decision whichis made when one is not ready to accept the choice of life which means he maynot have the ability to judge what the real interest is and what is necessaryand helpful to his rest of life and not just for fun. Provided that fewer andfewer people care about the moral problem, what a mess our whole society willbe? With the rapid step of development in the society, there are more and moreneeds of well-rounded individuals. Such an interest-based education model doesnot fit well here.

What’s more, there are many other thingsthat interest-based education might overlook. First, interest-based educationcould not teach students how to culture the spirit and capacity of cooperationwhich is also an indispensible goal of education. in the trend of economic integration academic skills are needed,however, the ability of communication, cooperation, interpersonal skills andteam work are more important than ever. Second, interest-based education maynot instruct students how to be a person of integrity, how to cultivate correctvalue and philosophy(人生观) and theimportance of being grateful.

At last, the assertion of the speaker istoo absolute. How to be an effective education is a big issue which involves somany problems and could not be judged so simply. There are other possibleapproaches to be an effective education such as modifyone’s way of teaching to suit the special requirements of each student or case.Students may not be clear about what their interests are; as a result, theirparents and teachers could treat them with different methods according to hisnatural ability or their merits.

On balance, it seems that only with interest-based methodcould not education do an effective job. Granted that interests and needs play importantroles in being impetuses in the study of students, denying disadvantages ofinterest-based education and other possible approaches might be unjustifiable.