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发表于 2010-7-7 22:17:14 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

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

In a diversified society, we are more convinced of such an idea that people should and could engage in what they are really interested in. Nor can we forget those cases, the great contributions are always driven by the inventors’ interests and imagination. So, to some extent, it is appropriate to design our education for students preference. However, in practical, the thing is not as optimistic as we premised before, especially considering the essential objective of education. More often than not, the real need and interests of teenager would contradict each other, which could or could not be coordinated by education. And we cannot neglect the great cost if we completely construct the education be capable of be used to everyone’s demand.
Admittedly, during the process of education, teenagers should be encouraged to do what they really interested in, and strengthened in what they are really short of. It is interests resolutely lead people to overcome the tremendous difficulty and bring much the pleasure from the hard working which might be deemed as boring and tiresome by other people. Paul Erdos, a Hungarian Jewish mathematician, can sustain 18 hours working in mathematics everyday and has never complain the food if coffee is available. He did not have much property and hardly enjoy great fame as Albert Einstein but left thousands of theorems about the most abstract branches in science. The case is used to reveal the great power provoked by the interests. Therefore, helping students achieve the intriguing works is no less than pouring plenty of creativeness into society, which reflects the effectiveness of the education indeed.
However, realization of catering for everyone in education would cost too much to be afforded. Teenagers are people whose awareness are volatile. First day, they may be attracted by a rock star. Tomorrow, they will be probably fond of pop music. After tomorrow, they would be crazy for some TV series. So there may be a tremendous budget to completely feed what they want. Even if one day we are capable of realizing this blueprint, it would not certainly benefit the youth. After all, being educated is not as pleasing as recreation, whatsoever.
Even if some development could make us neglect the cost of the individual-based education, it may not operate so well as we thought. At least, what teenagers really need is not often identical with what they enjoy, sometimes they are even contradictory. Maybe it is the predilection somehow cause the problem deserves to be fixed. And be used to new behavior or minds somehow imply pains. As long as the problem exists, to accomplish the both in one system is not always possible, however huge it spends.
In sum, making people develop as their willing may be more of ideal beauty than practical works. Till now, to realize that means really huge spending. And it may somehow deviate essence of the education. Therefore, to broadly state that a education system was designed for every individual will be effective is unreasonable.

Siegfried