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35. Educationalinstitutions should dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in whichthey are unlikely to succeed.
Write a response in which you discuss your viewson the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. Indeveloping and supporting your position, you should consider the possibleconsequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequencesshape your position.


Which field isthe one most unlikely to succeed for students? Undoubtedly, nobody knows theright one for common students, especially a special individual. Therefore, itis quite unreasonable for those educational institutions to offer someplausible and sometimes even harmful suggestions for students’ future.


To some extent,no field is impossible to make a breakthrough. If there is a “clairvoyant”recommendation about career plan from educational institutions, in large partit also comes from the judgment for the current situation. But except God, whatthe future will be is out of perception. In this case, the field which is acold and unpopular nowadays one is extremely probable for people to have newdiscoveries in the tomorrow. For example, no one knew that the computer sciencewould have a spring in the 21 century when reviewing the history of 1970’s. IfBill Gates had listened to advises from his teachers and instructors and gaveup his own choose for interest-the computer, maybe there will be no Windows forus to use today.

Besides, the“cold” field which is crossed off by educational institutions needs more freshblood if it’s useful to human beings. If all of us are unwilling to make acontribution to some specialized and narrow field, our civilization and historywould cease to go ahead. On the other hand, there may be fewer competitors inthe unpopular field and easier to have outstanding achievements, given the factthat most people don’t want to devote to those professions unlikely successful.One appropriate example is about group theory, a really cold and unpopularbranch in mathematics, while Galois chose it as his whole-life career and evenlaid a foundation for the field. Thus, sometimes there may be a big space tostudents to make a significant progress in some certain kinds of fields whileeducational institutions dissuade us pursuing for them.


In addition, themost important thing for students is independent and rational when encounteringthe determination about their careers and future. The one who knows us best isourselves, so relying on others is useless completely, to some degree. As theex-CEO, Steve Jobs, had said in Stanford youth ought to be independent and don't live with theother's thinking. If one finds his or hers interests and talents in a handfulof specific fields, the pivot in the next is to spare no efforts to accomplishand realize it. The other worry and vexation, like whether it is likely tosucceed in the future, is secondary.

To sum up, youngstudents should belong to the group who has an air of inspiration and courageto follow their inner voice, rather than live with those dogmas from educators,experts, and instructors. Independence is always one kind of character owned bysuccessors; in fact, it is the very thing that students have learned fromschools. That’s the most meaningful and salutary instruction from educationalinstitutions.