“日落沙发”的作文帖--8.31

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8月31日交
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Younger school children (ages five to ten) should be required to study art and music in addition to math, science, history and language.


At present-day society, education for all-around development of students had attracted our attention. Some people argue that youngsters should learn art and music as well as math, science, history and language. Personally, although I agree that there are indivisible historical origins between art education and formal education such as science, history and language, I would not support the idea that art education should be imposed on youngsters as other subjects.

To begin with, the main social functions of art are acknowledgement function, moral function and aesthetic function, which make it sure that art-education will do benefit to moral education, intellectual education and aesthetic education. There is no denying that art and music play an important part in our daily life. We can seldom see people who are learned in music or art commit a crime. Art and music can help people built a positive and strong quality. When people listen to soft music, they are pretty relaxing and soothing. While strongly rhythmic rock music can make people happy and exciting. Not only art and music itself is beautiful, but it can also make our life more beautiful.

However, we cannot enforce younger children to study art and music at school since they already suffer a lot from heavy homework assignments. Some, particularly boys, reacted violently to being forced into formal education too soon because of the need for schools to do well in tests at twelve. If they are demanded to study art and music, it is unavoidable for their parents to ask them to take a serious exams in the area of art and music. Of course, it will take a lot of time and energy for youngsters to receive art education. In the end, they would get sick and tired of school work because they seldom have free time to play with others.

Moreover, it is impossible for all the students to study art and music at school. Art education differs a lot from formal education in the aspect of ways of teaching and learning. It requires the teacher to guide students face to face and one by one in the class. Sometimes, the guidance should last more than half an hour. Since the number of students in a class in China is usually larger than 50, it is very hard for the class to go on with efficiency. Also, our class is not big enough to put in all the music instruments or sketching easels and drawing boards.

In conclusion, education must follow the principle of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and interest. Art and music should exit as elective courses instead of compulsory courses for young children. Children should have enough spare time and should have the freedom to do whatever they want.