本帖最后由 jupiterding 于 2011-6-10 21:20 编辑
Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
Thousands years ago, a great philosopher , socrates ,once said, the real education is to enlighten the spark of wisdom that god has put in every individual , not to cram students into a box made by educational institutions themselves.as far as i an concerned , i;m totally agreed with him for several reasons.
Firstly, it is sheer purgatory for student condemned by university that they are predestined not succeed in some fields . When wright brothers told the world they wanted create a machine that can soar in the sky, no one including that so-called specialist thought that is possible.impossible is nothing,said one of advertisement of nike; every individual is different person, starting from different line and bound to different ends ; it is students themselves,not educational institutions ,that can find out what is the unique potential they possessed and decide which field they ought to devote in.
On the other hand , there is a ridiculous principle in present doctrine---to err is to wrong . Look around , how many middle managers , housewives , construction works fear to try new things just because they are afraid of making mistakes once or twice. The essence of human being's forward is creation and imagination ,which function as trial and wrong that means if we just follow the fixed routine all the time , we are a dead mind machine producing the same useless products . So do we students, the only way to take our talents to the right place is endless trying and making mistakes. After all, the great achievement our ancestor had is on the stepping stone of err: columbus thought he had finding the new route to india , edison knew thousands of ways not to make a light bulb .
Last but not least , the students who are equipped with knowledge in one single academic field is not marketable .what these educational institution should do is to widen boundary of knowledge, create more opportunities , teach more life-long skill and motivate individual potential, instead of isolate student from other "unlikely success field". |