Issue 5 请赐教！！

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我刚开始练作文，可是8月26号就要去马来西亚考试了。。。下面这篇是我没计时写的。请各位大侠赐教！！


Should a nation require all its students tostudy the same national curriculum until they enter college instead of makingthe schools in different parts of the nation decide which courses to offer? I havea lot of sympathy for the speaker’s assertion insofar for a uniform curriculumwould inculcate the next generation the pedestals of our society and promoteequity in university admission. A too rigid curriculum, however, would possiblypose hazard to our nation’s education.   
To begin with, a uniform national curriculumwould help ensure that students from different parts of the nation would beable to learn the fundamental skills and knowledge that they would rely onheavily in their future study or career. At the same time, students would be imbued with the values, beliefs and etiquettes that laythe very foundation of our society. As a result, students from different partsof the nation will have this collective identity that they associate themselveswith and recognize the common ground they hold. Without such a common identity,a society would never have the propeller to advance as a whole.
In addition, a national curriculum would help collegesselect candidates and build course curricula. The admission committee needs to evaluateapplicants from across the country. It would be difficult for them to selectstudents if applicants took different courses in high school. After all, howcan the admission committee compare two applicants if one of them took thehistory of Georgia while the other took eastern languages? The fairness ofcollege admission might be compromised because of the different curricula eachstate employ.
Have said all of the above, a rigid national curriculum without anyleeway could actually impede learning to the extent that it would efface theregional features of education. For instance, California has a large Latinpopulation and Spanish should be part of language education in California, sois French in the southern states. A uniform national curriculum would not beable to take into account the cultural and ethnic diversity of differentstates.
In conclusion, I believe a scientifically-designed,standardized national curriculum best serves the purpose of education—to nurturethe next generation so that they will grow up with a clear self-identity, solidvalue system and fundamental skills. Nevertheless, the national curriculumshould still be applied with certain degree of flexibility, taking into accountthe differences inherited by different states.