issue51 【ForOneReason小组3】7.20

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"Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student."
Why +if+ then+ position
I agree with the speaker’s assertion that education should put student’s individual needs and interests as priority and individualized education can increase education effectiveness by great measure. but the speaker fail to consider other approaches originated from social development and subject knowledge when designing education.

Taking a perspective of education history, education has walked a long way towards individualized education since industrial revolution. Actually, individualized education can be dated back to more than 2000 years ago when Confucius in China recruited students and made study tour around country and when Plato set up the School of Athens, they both communicated with their diciples individually and guide them in accordance with their aptitudes. However, industrialization made education a workshop producing people in a same norm regardless of individual differences. Realizing the problem, soon the issue of individual need and development was put back on table, individual difference was taken into account in education . American psychologists invent varies scales assessing individual needs in every aspects and separated students with special needs from regular children. In 1970s, the first instruction machine was invented, the machine can design instruction based on individual user’s learning pace. In recent year, education technology is developing rapidly to equip the learning environment to support individualized education. For example, as soon a user register an online course, a specially designed intelligent agent will learn the user’s need and interest and recommend him/her learning material accordingly.

Although much effort has been made, the vision that education is designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student is still far from reality.
The class room size is getting smaller, but it never possible to attribute a specialized teacher to each student. Technology of Artificial intelligent can assist learning but can never replace an experienced and caring teacher.

While we acclaim the value of individual’s need and interests, at the same time we should be circumspect about education design and be aware that social development and subject knowledge system also determines what students learn and how they are taught. Whether education is effective are not only characterized by students’ self satisfaction and realization. To assess an education system, we also need to see how the educated are recognized by society and whether the essence of past generation’s experience are well passed on to the current generation. In the late 1970, Chinese government raised a slogan that” Science and technology are primary productive forces. ” and put great invest in science education. so children then spend much time studying science believing “Math Physics and Chemistry rule all” as the
popular saying goes. And they were encouraged to choose science or engineer as their college major. 40 years later, it turned out that China has undergone a great leap in science and technology development , even leading in some area like aviation. If student were educated according to there own interest, I assume many more people would turn to easier subjects. John Dewey, the world known philosopher and educational reformer, asserts education should be child-centered. He argues that education should not be focused on curriculum where only subject matter are discussed in the classroom. He even set up an experiential school to apply his theory. While the movement turned out to failure because the students didn’t learned enough subject knowledge as required.

To sum up, I agree with the author’s assertion that effective education should be individualized because final objective to education is personal development and we are always perusing perfect individualized education. Nevertheless, we can not ignore the fact that education bears responsibility to bring up contributing citizen and pass on culture through generation. So education only focusing on personal needs and interests regardless of social need and subject knowledge is bound to fail

AlmightyEricUID: 2855660

I agree with the speaker's assertion that education should give student’sindividual needs and interests priority and individualizededucation can increase education efficiency
bygreat measure. But the speaker fail to consider other approaches originatedfrom social development and subject knowledge(不懂) when designing education.

Taking a perspective of education history, educationhas walked a long way towards individualized education since industrialrevolution. Actually, individualized education can be（去掉）date back to more than 2000 years ago whenConfucius in China recruited students and made study tour around countriesand when Plato set up the School of Athens, they both communicated with their disciplesindividually and guided them inaccordance with their aptitudes. However, industrialization made education aworkshop producing people in the same normregardless of individual differences. Realizing the problem, soon the issue ofindividual need and development was put back on table, individual differencewas taken into account in education. American psychologists invent variesscales assessing individual needs in every aspects and separated students withspecial needs from regular children. In 1970s, the first instruction machinewas invented, the machine can design instruction based on individual user’slearning pace. In recent years, educationtechnology is developing rapidly to equip the learning environment to supportindividualized education. For example, as soon a user register an onlinecourse, a specially designed intelligent agent will learn the user’s need andinterest and recommend him/her learning material accordingly.

Although much effort has been made, the vision thateducation is designed to meet the individual needs and interests of eachstudent is still far from reality.
The classroom size is getting smaller, but it never possible to allocate a specializedteacher to each student. Technology of Artificial Intelligent can assistlearning but can never replace an experienced and caring teacher.

While we acclaim the value of individual’s need andinterests, at the same time we should be circumspect about education design andbe aware that social development and subject knowledge system also determineswhat students learn and how they are taught. Whether education is effective arenot only characterized by students’ self satisfaction and realization. Toassess an education system, we also need to see how the educated are recognizedby society and whether the essence of pastgeneration’s experience are well passed on to the current generation. (有点啰嗦，也许可以用absorb the essence of previousexperience)In the late 1970, Chinese government raised a slogan that” Scienceand technology are primary productive forces. ” and put great investment inscience and education. So children then spentmuch time studying science believing “Math Physics and Chemistry rule all” asthe popular saying goes. And they were encouraged to choose science or engineering astheir college major. 40 years later, it turned out that China hasundergone a great leap in science and technology development, even leading insome area like aviation. If student were educated according to there owninterest, I assume many more people would turn to easier subjects. John Dewey,the world known philosopher and educational reformer, asserts education shouldbe child-centered. He argues that education should not be focused on curriculumwhere only subject matter is discussed in the classroom. He even set up anexperiential school to apply his theory.While the movement turned out to failure (难以让人信服，怎样的failure应该提一下)becausethe students didn’t learned enough subject knowledge as required.

To sum up, I agree with the author’s assertion thateffective education should be individualized because final objective toeducation is personal development and we are always perusing perfectindividualized education. Nevertheless, we can not ignore the fact thateducation bears responsibility to bring up contributing citizen and pass onculture through generation. So education only focusing on personal needs andinterests regardless of social need and subject knowledge is bound to fail
作者基本同意speaker’s assertion，从古代的教育机制来说明meet individual needs 的好处，但关键是effectiveness没有例证说明。下面说明物质条件上不可能满足，然后说明教育的社会责任使得教育不能仅仅满足个人需求。问题：应该说明满足个人需求和对社会贡献的矛盾之处，否则论点不成立。字数600字以上，语言比较娴熟，看得出作者的语言功底。结构如果能紧凑连贯就更好了

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"Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student."
Why +if+ then+ position
I agree with the speaker’s assertion th ...
huohuo0101 发表于 2010-7-20 21:56

Taking a perspective of education history, education has walked a long way towards individualized education since industrial revolution. Actually, individualized education can be dated back to more than 2000 years ago when Confucius in China recruited students and made study tour around country and when Plato set up the School of Athens, they both communicated with their diciples individually and guide them in accordance with their aptitudes. However, industrialization made education a workshop producing people in a same norm regardless of individual differences. Realizing the problem, soon the issue of individual need and development was put back on table, individual difference was taken into account in education . American psychologists invent varies scales assessing individual needs in every aspects and separated students with special needs from regular children. In 1970s, the first instruction machine was invented, the machine can design instruction based on individual user’s learning pace. In recent year, education technology is developing rapidly to equip the learning environment to support individualized education. For example, as soon a user register an online course, a specially designed intelligent agent will learn the user’s need and interest and recommend him/her learning material accordingly.
Although much effort has been made, the vision that education is designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student is still far from reality.
The class room size is getting smaller, but it never possible to attribute a specialized teacher to each student. Technology of Artificial intelligent can assist learning but can never replace an experienced and caring teacher.
While we acclaim the value of individual’s need and interests, at the same time we should be circumspect about education design and be aware that social development and subject knowledge system also determines what students learn and how they are taught. Whether education is effective are not only characterized by students’ self satisfaction and realization. To assess an education system, we also need to see how the educated are recognized by society and whether the essence of past generation’s experience are well passed on to the current generation. In the late 1970, Chinese government raised a slogan that” Science and technology are primary productive forces. ” and put great invest in science education. so children then spend much time studying science believing “Math Physics and Chemistry rule all” as the
popular saying goes. And they were encouraged to choose science or engineer as their college major. 40 years later, it turned out that China has undergone a great leap in science and technology development , even leading in some area like aviation. If student were educated according to there own interest, I assume [that]many more people would turn to easier subjects. John Dewey, the world [-]known philosopher and educational reformer, asserts education should be child-centered. He argues that education should not be focused on curriculum where only subject matter are discussed in the classroom. He even set up an experiential school to apply his theory. While the movement turned out to [be]failure because the students didn’t learned enough subject knowledge as required.
To sum up, I agree with the author’s assertion that effective education should be individualized because final objective to [换成of好一些吧]education is personal development and we are always perusing[？没看懂] perfect individualized education. Nevertheless, we can not ignore the fact that education bears responsibility to bring up contributing citizen and pass on culture through generation. So education only focusing on personal needs and interests regardless of social need and subject knowledge is bound to fail.
我看了有人已经给了，我也没什么新词，还是一些小问题，注意下就行了。。