Issue236 二战AW换思路恳求指导（一战AW3.5）

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一战其实自我感觉也不错的，只有3.5还是微感遗憾>"<
这次看了使徒斑斑和IQ28斑斑的很多文章，感觉还是找到了理由，毕竟老是列三个论点了事的确千篇一律也难以体现完整的思路，这次尽量打破原有的格局，按自己真实的想法来写。

刚刚决定二战，作文机考考位好像只有8月6日前有了！所以急求路过的大家指导>"<（能顺便指导下怎么刷考位也请指教了！）
先谢谢大家！

（这篇ISSUE好像不是高频，实在有点怕写让朋友报幸运数字决定的= =|||b。不过还算好写，这观点让人想骂就有话说了^^）

ISSUE 236

"Encouraging young people to believe that they can accomplish great things if they try hard enough is both misleading and potentially harmful."

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How young people are educated has large impact on their future life. Giving them hope and teaching them to try their best are of the most important thing to do in guiding youngsters. Therefore, I could not agree with the statement.

The claim stated above is based on a doubtable assumption that young people cannot accomplish great things even if they try hard enough. What exactly are the great things? Do they have to be like leading the people and winning the Independent War or like revealing the theory of relativity? I do not think so. People could define great things according their own needs and situations. A shopkeeper may regard raising his/her profits as a great thing; a student may regard getting a full score as a great thing; a doctor may regard doing a successful operation as a great thing. There are so many short-term goals and reachable progresses that people should not neglect in their daily life. To this extent, great things are apparently accomplishable by hard working.

Then, when it comes to the great things that seem beyond a youngster's ability, shall we tell him or her to give up and stop trying? In my opinion, young people have large potentialities in regardless of how much or how little talent they have. Chien Wei-zang, the famous physicist and applied mathematician of China, got only five out of a hundred points in his entrance examination of Tsinghua University. Shortly after he was admitted to major in history, the Japanese army started to attack North China. Chiang Kai-shek, the president at the time, asked the Chinese army to give up defending because Chinese people had no advanced weapons to defeat the enemy. Hearing the news, Chien felt angry. He thought if China need new weapons, he would devote himself to invent them. Therefore, he begged the professors for a week and got transferred to the department of physics. It was a harsh time but Chien did not give up. He went to the library at 5 a.m. everyday and tried every method to comprehend formulas and theorems. By the time he graduated, he was a top student of the whole class. According to the common sense, Chien could have been considered as a hopeless student in physics. However, he succeeded due to his faith and efforts. Nothing is impossible when a young man devotes himself to his dream.

However, there are a few people tried everything they could and worked as hard as they can but failed time and time again. Are we misleading them and harming them by telling them everything is possible in their early years? Firstly, they may finally achieve success one day because they still have the chance. Secondly, their life become more meaningful as they are chasing their life goal. Thirdly, when they look back to their life, they would feel not shame but released. Therefore, even among those who cannot accomplish great things, the encouragement is still helpful.

Furthermore, if we take a look into the real reason that prevents youngsters from achieving great things and living a happy life, we will find that it might be the lack of such encouragement. As stated before, young people have large potential energies. Even so, they would never be activated if their owners do not know their existence. Imagine if Chien's professor kept telling him that he was hopeless and refused his application of transferring to the department of physics, would he discover his inner ability to master elasticity mechanics and applied mathematics? Probably not. And it might be a great loss of both Chien himself and China.

From discussed above, the quoted claim highly overrates the great things in people's life and largely underestimates the potential abilities lies in the youngsters. Instead of the encouragement the claim refutes, it is the claim itself that may both mislead and potentially harm the next generation.