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51"Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student."

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Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude has been one of the significant education principles in ancient China, which is mentioned by Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period. It means: Teachers should start teaching from actual conditions of knowledge and acceptance of each student; meanwhile, teachers should, on the basis of the different characteristics and personalities, conduct the students to form good social behaviors. Likewise, western education scholars also emphasize the importance of this pedagogy. Johann Comenius, the pioneer of modern education, points out in the book The Great Didactica that, “some students are smart, some are slow, some are docile, some are stubborn, some like to gain knowledge and some prefer to learn skills” and therefore teaching should be carried out according to the particular circumstance of individual. Up to the present, this significant education principle is still great of value. However, admittedly, this method is not the only way to impact education nowadays. Consequently, we need to make a concrete analysis on the topic, mainly from two aspects: home education and school education.

As the saying goes, parents are the first teachers of the children. Every child has his own characteristic; parents would teacher their child in different ways. Yet one successful teaching experience could probably not produce the same effect on another student. When I was studying in middle school, two fathers were invited to give a speech on family teaching methods---both of their sons were simultaneously accepted by Beijing University, one of the top universities in China. Unexpectedly, the two parents came to dispute in the meeting and the debate centered on whether the children need take supplementary courses after class. From my point of view, the high score their children got is just because each child attuned to each way of studying instead of taking more courses or not; maybe the two successful fathers actually did not know the reason of their children’ success. Therefore, for family education, I fundamentally agree with the issue above that parents should teach their children in accordance with individual differences.

In the second place, no one would deny school plays a significant role in education. Different from home education, from my angle, school education need to pay its main attention to improve abilities and knowledge of all the students rather than the individual, because the main task of school education is to teach ways of study which the students could use to learn more knowledge outside the school. Learning methods are a logical system which would not be well instructed if teachers cater too much to the particular interests and needs of each student. However, to make the education better off, each school may also design some specific teaching mode to adapt to the practical situation. For example, students could select some supplementary courses, or the gifted students may skip grades. In short, the way to teach students according to their needs and interests is not the final task to make the education effective and the function should not be over exaggerated.

Thereupon, home education may benefit from the pedagogy when it is particularly designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each child, while school education is not that case. Therefore, I could not agree with the conclusion of this issue and in my view, the speaker needs to do further research on the various styles of education based on the well understanding toward entire social education system.

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When the specific needs and interests of each student are taken into account, the progress of studying becomes more vivid and less tedious, thus prompt the enforcement of the effective education. By this way, the capacity of the potential students would be released and the phenomena of truancy be reduced. However, when faced with the problem of feasibility of the specifically designed and the limited source of education, the “truly effective education” proposition only remain dubious so that I cannot agree with the statement.

As I mention above, interests is the best teacher and will impulse their aspiration of knowledge, which help them obtain something useful and even lay the foundation of the future success. Examples can be seen from the success of many famous artists, scientists, athletes, musicians for instance. Michael Faraday was interested in magnitude and electricity when he worked as an apprentice and later proposed the great electromagnetic induction law. Reasonable as it may seen, under the impetus of interest, students, feeling appreciated and will be motivated to study.

However, we should think about the feasibility rather than the importance of meeting the needs and interests of each student. Consider from the stand of schools, the limited source of education cannot meet the needs of every student. In addition, the goal of education is to teach students how to think and solve problems independently, to cultivate a spirit of continuously learning while the interests will motivate the students to learn by themselves. Moreover, people may take for granted that the more specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests, the more effective they will turn out to be, since students will be much more actively engaged in study without the necessity to learn what does not interest them. Such educational pattern does not make full use of modern educational resources.

Moreover, specifically designed education to meet students’ needs and interests may violate the goal o f cultivating all-round developed students. Too much emphasis on the specifically designed will make students involve themselves in ignore some basic knowledge which is vital but doesn’t meet their needs or interests. Nevertheless, the school should also pay attention to offer some choices to students as long as the quality of compulsory education is guaranteed. For example, history of art and history of literature can be offered to the students who are majoring history. By this way, their needs and interests are met under the condition that their majoring course are guaranteed.

In sum, I partly agree that education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student for the reason that we should find out a balance between these two patterns to ensure that the needs of students are met and their courses are guaranteed. Only by this way, the education will be more effective instead of remain hidebound.

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In an age where individualism isencouraged, people are gradually having more sense of themselves. Pursuit ofpersonal values should not be compromised by any means. When it turns toeducation, however, should education be specifically designed to meetindividual needs and interests of each student?
To answer this question, the pros and cons of such an approach must becarefully weighted.

Admittedly, a specificallydesigned curriculum does have its efficacy. The individualized purpose ofeducation is to develop each student to his maximum potential. From this pointof view, a specified education creates a free environment which will bring upstudents’ passion in study and allow him to be more engaged in the teachingprocesses. It will assure that no one is left behind in study. In the meantime, talented students will be able to advance as fast as he can so that histalent is not wasted. There is no doubt that an individual specified coursecurriculum will suit the innate diversity among students and facilitate theirstudies.

However, such an approach issubjected to question in terms of practicality. To begin with, who gets todecide the needs and interests of students? Most students, particularlyelementary students, may have very ambiguous idea about what subject interestthem and what will suit their needs. Were they get to decide, core curricula thatdo not seem fun at first glance such as mathematics, physics, and literature wouldprobably be left out, and lead to extremely unbalanced curriculum. On the otherhand, were parents to have the right to make the judgment call, it is highlylikely that the curricula they picked would only reflect their interests, andthus undermine students own will.

The decision making of what suitsstudents’ needs and interests is not the only problem. Consider a publiccollege with more than ten thousand students: were each of them to be given aspecial curriculum, who would help to manage and archive these information, whowould make sure that they stick to their plan? The staff and money needed forthis process would be too overwhelming to realize. Besides, teaching resourcesand faculty members would as well struggle to fit students need. The end resultwould probably be a great waste of teaching resources and a total chaos in termof students’ curricula management.

Having considered thepracticality of a specified curricula approach, it may be worthwhile toconsider again whether it would be the best way to teach students. After all,education has another purpose: to cultivate individuals useful to the society.While we were busy considering to diversify students, we perhaps forget that commonground is even more important. Education should not serve only to tell studenthow special they are from other students, but also to teach them how to standon common ground and solve their dispute. After all, the society they will facein the future is one that they must flounder to adapt to, not the other wayaround. A curriculum based solely on students needs may have disregarded thesociety needs.

Specified curricula and generalcurricula, neither of them are perfect and neither of them would assure asuccessful education, nor are they mutually exclusive. The best solution, in myview, is to combine a general core curriculum with selective courses picked bystudents. This way, fundamental education would not be ignored, and studentswill learn to communicate with other people as well as the society based on theircommon ground, and there lies the true efficacy of education.