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本帖最后由 Silpakorn 于 2011-7-11 01:28 编辑
Should educational institutes dissuade students from pursuing field of study in which they have slim chance to succeed? The speaker says yes. As far as I am concerned, following the speaker does have some short-term benefits for the certain educational institute, but it is sure to create long-term negative effect on the society as a whole.
First of all, doing what the speaker advocates only serves the narrow interest of educational institutes. Educational institutes, like other agencies, are also concerned about their own reputation. They are competing with each other how successful their graduates are. They are competing with each other in the number of award their students earn each year.They are competing with each other how many donations they received from their successful alumni annually. In other words, they all expect fast returns than those invisible and uncertain ones. Dissuading their students from something in which they are less likely to succeed, is the first step to count on these faster returns in the future, which may only help build up reputation for the educational institutes.
Besides, we have to answer a question: who are in the position to determine who can succeed in a certain field? Society today are profoundly influenced by practicality and educational institutes are not exception. Hobbies like music, painting and carving, are always deemed by educators as merely hobbies not a valuable field to study. They are unwilling to, and sometimes unable to recognize students' talent in these fields. In that case, it is obviously unwise to follow their well-intentioned suggestion since only these students can answer how long they are able to go in their pursuit.
Many people may contend that pursuing those difficult task would incur necessary cost, including both money and human resources, which could have been deployed to other areas. It might be true for those profit-centered enterprised but not for educational insitutes. If we take long-term benefits we can expect from our educational institutes, into account, those who are only concerned about their own interests are truly evading their social responsibilities. Education is not only about reputation. It is the way that we can nurture talent to contribute our overall understanding of the world and make it a better place to live in. Those areas, which seem to be unable to succeed right now, always have enormous potential benefits. For example, elimination of small pox, which have taken heavy toll on human beings, used to be considered as an impossible dream. In the history, a host of people had devoted themselves to the mission impossible. Elimination of small pox, by any definition, was a field of study in which people are unlikely to succeed and is also dangerous. And now no one can undervalue its contribution to our society. If people at that time were all dissuaded by their teachers from carrying out these undertaking, our world is still mired in its desperate struggle with this fatal disease. In that case, many of today's achievement might be inconceivable.
To sum up, dissuading students from pursuing something that they are unlikely to succeed only serves the selfish interests of certain educational institutes and their definition of success might not be applicable to everyone since they are unable to accurately pinpoint whether a student may succeed in a certain field. By doing so, these institutes might just stifle many highly beneficial discoveries. |
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