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icyrayUID: 139286

“The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas—not to prepare them for a specific job.”

The statement above is trying to convey a notion that the aim of education is not to provide the students for a position in the specific field but to give them a value system, a standard, a set of ideas. Ir may seems right at first sight, but cannot afford a deeper and more careful weighing.

First of all, what is truly concerned in the education is in fact the “life skills”—logical thinking, analysis, creative problem-solving and so on. To each individual, it is of the most importance that the ability to analyze, solve and handle a situation as severe as some social problems like drug abuse, youth criminals and violence, or as slight as choosing which course to take and to drop in study. Thus, schools should give their students enough instructions to enhance this kind of ability and further more, focus more on the social problems and some major policies besides the primary science instructions.

What’s more, the school’s job is to help children shape their own value system and standard of judging and in this way build up a positive attitude towards everything. A perfect one should be optimistic, upfront and positive. But there is not a standard to weigh if this or that kind of attitude is positive—there are 1,000 Hamlets in 1,000 readers’ minds. We are not able to confine the explicit rightness or wrongness, all these should be left to children themselves to judge with their own value system, and thus our education only need to tell the students primarily what is wrong like murder or other things that will break the order of society, and what is right. All that school and parents should do is to give them enough guidance and instructions when needed.

There is no standard value system for our children to be imbued with and each individual should have his own method of thinking, and thus our education system have not the ability to provide each student with a standard or a set of ideas. What our education system can do is to help the students to build up their own ways of thinking, and, to some extent, shape some creative thoughts that may be useful for the society. We know a lot of great thinkers in ancient Greece. How will their flame of thoughts be lighted if they had received a well-prepared value system and standard?

At the same time, we also admit that the purpose of education should not be to prepare the students for a specific job, for the children’s tendency in choosing which specific field has not be well confirmed and thus children’s future career cannot be established at such an early time. Surveys shows that in average more than two thirds of students considered changing careers other than what they are now studying. Then if the purpose of education were to prepare them for the specific job, it would be totally useless later when they decide to change career.

To sum up, the real purpose of education is neither to provide them with an already-established system and standard, nor to prepare them for some oriented direction.

doublemanUID: 142534

第一段
The statement above is trying to convey a notion that the aim of education is not to provide the students for a position in the specific field but to give them a value system, a standard, a set of ideas（这里和前面太远了吧，看花眼了，It may seems....(better)) may seems right at first sight, but cannot afford a deeper and more careful weighing.
感觉3，4段有些东西写重了
感觉倒数第2段加上去是完全为了最后一段的观点总结，但前文给人的感觉一直是作者全盘否定原文观点，所以我觉得应该把观点提到开头，这样看的人从一开始就对这篇文章有了整体认识，不至于读到最后有点唐突之感
纯属个人愚见，希望有所帮助：）

木耳UID: 123036

The statement above is trying to convey a notion that the aim of education is not to provide the students for a position in the specific field but to give them a value system, a standard, a set of ideas. Ir may seems right at first sight, but cannot afford a deeper and more careful weighing.

First of all, what is truly concerned in the education is in fact the “life skills”—logical thinking, analysis, creative problem-solving and so on. To each individual, it is of the most importance that the ability to analyze, solve and handle a situation as severe as some social problems like drug abuse, youth criminals and violence, or as slight as choosing which course to take and to drop in study. Thus, schools should give their students enough instructions to enhance this kind of ability and further more, focus more on the social problems and some major policies besides the primary science instructions.(life skills似乎是说生存技能，是不是该联系到相关职业，人的社会性什么的handle a situation as severe as some social problems like drug abuse, youth criminals and violence好像有点远）

What’s more, the school’s job is to help children shape their own value system and standard of judging and in this way build up a positive attitude towards everything. A perfect one should be optimistic, upfront and positive. But there is not a standard to weigh if this or that kind of attitude is positive—there are 1,000 Hamlets in 1,000 readers’ minds. We are not able to confine the explicit rightness or wrongness, all these should be left to children themselves to judge with their own value system, and thus our education only need to tell the students primarily what is wrong like murder or other things that will break the order of society, and what is right. All that school and parents should do is to give them enough guidance and instructions when needed.（这段是不是有点矛盾？先说
build up a positive attitude，又说We are not able to confine the explicit rightness or wrongness，既然什么是对错都不知道？还怎么shape?我猜你的意思是要说人与人在思想观念上千差万别，不可能要求每个人都有一样的态度和对事物的看法，但基本的是非对错还是要传达给学生的，对吧？但这段逻辑不是很清晰，也可能是英语表达的不准确。）

There is no standard value system for our children to be imbued with and each individual should have his own method of thinking, and thus our education system have not the ability to provide each student with a standard or a set of ideas. What our education system can do is to help the students to build up their own ways of thinking, and, to some extent, shape some creative thoughts that may be useful for the society. We know a lot of great thinkers in ancient Greece. How will their flame of thoughts be lighted if they had received a well-prepared value system and standard?（是不是和第二段重复了？）

At the same time, we also admit that the purpose of education should not be to prepare the students for a specific job, for the children’s tendency in choosing which specific field has not be well confirmed and thus children’s future career cannot be established at such an early time. Surveys shows that in average more than two thirds of students considered changing careers other than what they are now studying. Then if the purpose of education were to prepare them for the specific job, it would be totally useless later when they decide to change career.

To sum up, the real purpose of education is neither to provide them with an already-established system and standard, nor to prepare them for some oriented direction.

有些地方逻辑不是很清楚。

木耳UID: 123036

开始练笔是写的，没限时，你参考批判一下

“The purpose of education is to provide students with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas—not to prepare them with a specific job.”

According to the speaker of the title statement, education should emphasize on the value system, standards, set of ideas, but not to prepare the students for a specific job. Admittedly, it is true that an important aspect of liberal education is as a way of transmitting common values and ideas, setting moral standards. However, preparing students for careers in a technology advanced society should not be ignored.

It is the fundamental function of education to develop the students to become autonomous, creative, inquiring people who have the will and the intelligence to create their own destiny. To attain this aim, the school should not only include some moral courses in the curriculum but also cultivate their students’ minds in diverse ways. Take my university—Nanjing University for example. In my university, on one hand, moral courses are compulsory ones whatever departments students are in. Through these courses, students learn how to be good citizens. And in 21st century, “citizens” mean citizens of the world and not of this or that sect or nation. Based on this point of view, my university also set many optional courses introducing different cultures and nations not only to enrich our knowledge but also to free our minds. On the other hand, in my university education is not just conveying knowledge in classrooms. Almost every teacher in every discipline has his or her own way to inspire our interest and originality. In such a circumstance, we gain humanity as well as knowledge.

Actually, education has two major functions. One is to replace an empty mind with an open one, which is for the individual. The other is to train different individuals to supply the immediate and specific needs of societies so that the work of the world can continue. And this function is for societies. So besides providing students with a value system, moral standards, ethical ideas, education should also prepare them for a specific job. Some people may argue that the function of the education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s time but not to train individuals to become working machines. It is true. However, what human beings live in is a realistic world, but not Garden of Eden. Everyone have to make a living for himself and sometimes his or her family. So a job is absolutely necessary. Based on this, there are diverse disciplines in whatever universities to prepare students for a specific job.

What should be paid more attention to is that there should be a balance between life preparation and job preparation in school education. When education aims only at job preparation, it deteriorates into training. And when education equals to training, its products are working machines more than individuals with imagination and knowledge. On the contrary, when the education is so romantic that it abandons job training, the world would become a place full of dreamers, who have originality, moral and passion but can do noting. The ideal situation is the harmony of life preparation and job preparation. Individuals who have been educated in universities should be ones who have their own spiritual world and can think deeply by his or her creative minds. What is more, they also should be the ones earning their livings by practicing one of the professions, or in pursuing a trade, or by engaging in business enterprise. Without them, however, societies would be either disintegrates or else become an anthill.

To conclude, life preparation and job preparation both affect the development of individual profoundly and mutually, thus, one can not put ether of them aside in order to pay more attention to another. So, only by combining the two, can individuals become citizens and further more, themselves.

果酱面包UID: 142490

我觉得木耳的语言非常好，能给我一点建议吗

风雅儿UID: 134742

The statement above is trying to convey a notion that the aim of education is not to provide the students for a position in the(a) specific field but to give them a value system, a standard, a set of ideas. It may seems right at first sight, but cannot afford a deeper and more careful weighing.
First of all, what is truly concerned in the education is in fact the “life skills”—logical thinking, analysis, creative problem-solving and so on. To each individual, it is of the most importance that the ability to analyze, solve and handle a situation as severe as some social problems like drug abuse, youth criminals and violence, or as slight as choosing which course to take and to drop in study(这个句子读来别扭，我建议这样写the importance of analyzing ability lies in the situation not only as severe as some social problems, taking drug abuse youth criminals and violence for example, but also as slight as choosing which course to take and to drop in study ). Thus, schools should give their students enough instructions to enhance this kind of ability and further more, focus（最好在提一下主语 they still should focus） more(与focus语义重复，可没有) on the social problems and some major policies besides the primary science instructions.
(我觉得这段跑题。life skill 与后面提到的诸如社会题的那种联系，感觉生硬)
What’s more, the school’s job is to help children shape their own value system and standard of judging and in this way build up a positive attitude towards everything（这样的长句让人初读起来费解，也可能是小女子还太菜？）. A perfect one should be optimistic, upfront and positive. But there is not a standard to weigh if this or that kind of attitude is positive—there are 1,000 Hamlets in 1,000 readers’ minds. We are not able to confine the explicit rightness or wrongness, all these should be left to children themselves to judge with their own value system, and thus our education only need to tell the students primarily what is wrong like murder or other things that will break the order of society, and what is right. All that school and parents should do is to give them enough guidance and instructions when needed.
There is no standard value system for our children to be imbued with and each individual should have his own method of thinking, and thus our education system have not the ability to provide each student with a standard or a set of ideas. What our education system can do is to help the students to build up their own ways of thinking, and, to some extent, shape some creative thoughts that may be useful for the society. We know a lot of great thinkers in ancient Greece. How will their flame of thoughts be lighted if they had received a well-prepared value system and standard?
At the same time, we also admit that the purpose of education should not be to prepare the students for a specific job, for the children’s tendency in choosing which specific field has not be well confirmed and thus children’s future career cannot be established at such an early time. Surveys shows that in average more than two thirds of students considered changing careers other than what they are now studying. Then if the purpose of education were to prepare them for the specific job, it would be totally useless later when they decide to change career.
To sum up, the real purpose of education is neither to provide them with an already-established system and standard, nor to prepare them for some oriented direction.
总的来说，我觉得这篇文章句子让人感觉很不爽，虽然有老美喜欢长句一说在前，不过我觉得水平不足时最好不要生硬模仿，不然感觉一句话要表达的意思很混乱。

菜鸟的意见，仅供参考。

风雅儿UID: 134742

这个题目我也写了一篇，愿切磋。
这个题目你写了多久？我是写了能有两小时，没有模版，issue的模版我总是用不好，快考了，真着急呀！！

“The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas—not to prepare them for a specific job.”
We would find that most of the people who have received education apparently different from those who have not, why? Just because education can provide people different value system, standard, a set of ideas which can advance people’s thinking ability? Of course education have that kind of function, however, it is not proper to confine the purpose of education to these. In my opinion, the function of education is not only to provide people a systematic society idea and thus result the development of society, but also cultivate a kind of specific expertise which assisted people could take responsibility in their future job and to survive in the world.
On the first hand, I strongly assert that the ultimately aim of education is to provide students with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, because they are the foundation of the society and stability, development and prosperity of a society. In a feudal society, the emptor is the supreme; people were confined to the status determined by hierarchy. The basic value is fealty to the emptor, whose authority is given by god. A series standards and ideas were born after it, the most essential is that destiny is determined as soon as you were born, and you should not struggle for you fate. Such kind of value hampers the society to develop. In nowadays, when individual struggle and fair competition were advocated, talents have the opportunity to present their versatility and thus contribute to the society, they were put on the right place through equal competition, in that way, they can produce more than those who are not eligible, So an advanced value system, standard and ideas can much enhance productivity of the society. And the most important method to propaganda those values and ideas is through education.
Besides what I have mentioned above, the significance exist in the growth of adolescence as well as in the society, no one could avoid to be socialized if he what to live happily in the world. Every one need to be accepted by others and acknowledged by the society, receiving ideas belonging to one specifically society which transmitted by education to the people is the only way.   
While, on the other hand, it is not enough just helping people to socialize, education still has responsibility to assist people to survive. Butter-and-bread problem should always be put on the first place, that’s because; it is material foundation determined whether spiritual pursuing could be built on or not. Suppose a person has no food to eat, no clothes to wear and no room to live in, just as a beggar, how could he has the energy to consider being accept and respect by others.  
Also, we were born to a peculiar time; today no one in our society can cover all the knowledge of human being as the volume of information increased as rapidly, just as some elites of our ancestor did. The diversity of knowledge calls for every one to contribute his talent and ability to constitute the structure of our society. Everyone in the society have that responsibility. So purpose education should be to prepare the students for a specific job either.
In sum, we should both pay enough emphasize on transmit value system, standard a set of ideas and prepare the students for a specific job. Spiritual world need material things to support. None idea or value could be built on vacuum. Only when the ability of independent living on world is ensured by people, will they have energy to development. Then value system and others could be built on, and thus our society will be developed on and on.

木耳UID: 123036

最初由 果酱面包 发布
[B]我觉得木耳的语言非常好，能给我一点建议吗 [/B]

呵呵，其实里面很多话都是老孙红皮书后面工具箱里的，觉得好，就用了，见笑见笑
liberal education is as a way of transmitting common values and ideas, setting moral standards

education to develop the students to become autonomous, creative, inquiring people who have the will and the intelligence to create their own destiny

supply the immediate and specific needs of societies so that the work of the world can continue

education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s time

practicing one of the professions, or in pursuing a trade, or by engaging in business enterprise. Without them, however, societies would be either disintegrates or else become an anthill
其实这些都是抄的，呵呵，不好意思。

风雅儿UID: 134742

最初由 木耳 发布
[B]呵呵，其实里面很多话都是老孙红皮书后面工具箱里的，觉得好，就用了，..

以下省略...... [/B]

求问木耳，自己限时文章时如何能自然而然想起自己背过的东西呢？你做的到吗？