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TOPIC: ISSUE51 - "Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student."

Whether an education institute should provide each student with services specially designed to satisfy his or her needs and interests is an ever lasting question troubling many people related. In my opinnion, the answer depends heavily on what type of education the institude provides, and in most cases  should be negative.

I do not deny that generally speaking, if education is designed to meet personal needs and interests, it will arouse great enthusiasm and motivation thus promote efficiency greatly. Also, in such cases the study process is usually mastery-oriented which means students actively seek knowledge and train themselves with related skills, instead performance-oriented which means grades are students' main concern. Specifically designed education for every single student are an ideal shared by both educators and students.

However, few of us could find out what we are really interested in at early stages. At the beginning students don't even know about what choices they have due to lack of necessary knowlegde about both the world and themselvesk,and how should education satisfy their needs and interests which even they themselves have no idea of? In elementary schools and middle schools, instead of designing courses specifically for every single student,  educators should focus on equipping every single student with necessary knowledge and critical thinking skills to discover their own personal goals in their own life, and only after that , which usually means in colleges and universities, can students be granted the right to be educated according to the goals they set for themselves, though not completely.

Even in colleges and universities in which students are grouped by majors according to their own choices, the confict remains that students do not have enough knowledge about their majors. Also, whatever their needs and interests are,and even with a limited degree of freedom to choose the courses as they like,  they still need to participate necessary lectures and projects, and master necessary skills ,required by his or her major. For example, it is unacceptable for a Computer Science student to be unable to write any computer programmes no matter he or she like it or not. Designing education specifically for each individual completely according to their own needs and interests will do little to improve efficiency, if not deterioriate it.

Another problem with the author's opinion is that designing courses specifically for every students requires too much resources to be practical. Designing courses for every single student, even with the knowlegde of what he or she needs or interested in , requires a lot of extra time and efforts from experts. Even without these types of extra costs as it is today, education still could not cover all who need it, and there are still no enough teachers to go around. Our society simply can not afford doing so, not to mention improving efficiency through it.

In the end, based on what I stated above,even though I agree with the idea that designing courses specifically for every student according to his or her personal needs and interests is the ideal form of education,in practise it is not the only effective , not even effective or realistic, way.