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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."
WORDS: 509 TIME: 限时失败 DATE: 2011-2-15 22:51:19
I agree with the speakers that specially designed education has an uncontrovertible advantage in enforcing the effectiveness of education, comparing to the general education pattern. However, second thoughts need to be given to several flaws, which may stand in the way to the realization of effectiveness, in this educational notion .
Different from the general educatioal pattern, specially designed education which emphasize directly on the individual needs and interests of each student can effectively utilize their craving appetite for knowledge and the enthusiasm to learn about the unknow, and consequently, learners' hidden potentials may be stimulated to an unpredictable extent. The dynamic between teachers and students will vary fundamentally from passive receiving to initiative request, which makes enforcing the effectiveness of education possible for both parties in the process of education.
Though this idea of specially designed education sounds extremely appealing, there are several practical problems which are bound to take place if we put such an idea into motion. The first compelling argument against this idea has to do with the opportunity cost. Considering the huge number of students and the diversity of each one's needs and interests, the calling for enough educational assets, such as adequate teachers, equips, and so forth, seems reasonable and inevitable. With the prospective to completely fulfill each student's needs and interests, schools' desire to become perfectly-equipped can never be fulfilled. And Social resources as human/money/time will be disproportionately distributed to the education industry while our other pressing social problems need to be addressed.
The other argument against the idea has to do with the uncertainty and fluidity of each student's needs and interests which stand as a crucial figure in the process of specially designed education. Just like the favour for food, our inclined subjects to learn and explore are always in change through our lives. Especially for those who are at young ages, the uncertainty and fluidity of their needs and interests to the uncharted world can be much more telling, and confusing in a way. How can a person expect to be effectively educated if he haven't got a clue what to learn? Furthermore, one who constantly changes his interests to learn will certainly be deprived of the privilege to spend quality time with his teachers on a long-term basis, and enjoy the unceasing development and perfection of the interactions between them, which positively will make the reinforcement of effectiveness seem like a castle in the air.
To sum up, special design according to each student's needs and interests does not guarantee the effectiveness of education which the idea intends to bring, simply because it is not proper to assess a policy by its motivation rather than its feasibility. Yet, the notion that perfection can never be achieved does not hinder our progress towards it. We can make it possible to keep in balance between fulfilling the needs and interests which students hold and preserving the essence of education, as long as we erase the utopian idea to satisfy everyone's needs and look into our limitations in the first place.
啊,看了ISSUE 51的例子了,提纲跟我今天写的处男帖几乎是一致。看来我也不是无可救药啊。 |
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