第一篇I 终于挤出来了== 作业交迟了 求各位给改一下的咯~

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Just imagine what would happen if every student in college, regardless of his/her major and interest, coerced by the school requirements to take courses about imaginative literature, all crowd in a big classroom in which the student in the back could hardly tell what the professor is talking about, dozing off in the professor’s cliché. Hardly could I tell what our education would be like if this really happens, while it is absolutely no good news for the development of students, college and even the whole society.
Admittedly, imaginative literature is conducive to one’s personal development. However, the speaker unnecessarily extends this broad assertion to embrace requirements on every students to take courses about imaginative literature while overlooks certain compelling reasons why these requirements might be unjustifiable.

Let us get down to the fundamentals and agree that we humans have never been in a era of so many rapid social and technological changes which lead to increasing life complexity and psychological displacement, calling for not only intelligence but also emotional thinking, both of which are indispensable for a well-rounded person in this new era. As the crystallization of human wisdom and imagination, imaginative literature is a chief means by which we spare no efforts getting in touch with our feelings, foibles and fate--in short, with human nature. And it serves to emancipate our imagination, the precondition of any creative work. With imagination, a fact is not only a fact, it is invested with all its possibilities; it’s no longer a burden on the memory, it become the stimuli of our new ideas, as the poet of our dreams, and as the footnotes of our purposes.
Burdened with the responsibility to impart knowledge imaginatively and to make young people become responsible, thoughtful and enterprising citizens, college is obligated to offer courses of imaginative literature.

However, the implicit rationale behind the speaker’ statement seems to be that the impartment of knowledge pales in importance compared with students’ interest, which I take leave to doubt. No one would doubt that people should have the right to control his/her own life and future, and so do college students, who should as well have the right and ability to choose and direct their learning—what they want to learn, how to learn. To be more specific, they should be directed by their interest and goals, rather than school requirements, to decide if, how much and how fast they want to learn. One’s freedom of learning is part of his freedom of thought. Without this, one is equally deprived of his right of curiosity and the right to develop his own interest ,and even the right to find himself.

The understanding and appreciation of literal work relies more on the combination of the author’s words and our own experience, which can hardly be approached in class. For example, when reading the book The Sorrows of Young Werther written by Gothe at the age of 8, I could not understand the sorrow, torment hesitation from Werther’s letters to his friends—why he fell in love with an engaged girl, why he could get on with his girlfriend’s fiancé and why he killed himself. Though my teacher deeply analyzed the work in class, I didn’t figure out these questions until I really fell in love with someone and know how it feels to love someone. That is why literature is the method by which we find ourselves and inspire us in life. Education in class, however, works little on that, and even be counterproductive. If, for example, the teacher’s talent is too limited to appreciate a masterpiece or convey the thoughts and ideas of a work to his/her students, it is at least likely that the students would be misled and their interest in literature could be even destroyed forever.（没积累什么例子，就想到这个，有点龊，实在想不出别的了···）

As is said by Willian Yeats, education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. The purpose of college education should never be merely imparting knowledge and make students well-rounded person. What our education should aim at is develop the personality and creative thinking of individual and inspire them to think freely and solve problems independently; this is the basic architecture of life; the rest is decoration.
If, however, students are deprived of the freedom to choose their learning, that is,the freedom of thinking, then query whether this can be called education at all.

It is therefore my opinion that college should provide courses about imaginative literature and leave students the right to choose whether to take. Because neither these courses or our education should never be aimed at making our students well-rounded.

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