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Should Educators teach facts only after their students have studied the ideas, trends, and concepts that help explain those facts? I agree that with the help of those ideas, trends, and concepts, students could have better understanding of the facts. However, the assertion ignores the possible negative effects by firstly introducing ideas, trends, concepts. In my point of view, a balance is needed to make the best.
To begin with, the firstly introduce of ideas, trends, concepts are very important for students have a better or deeper understanding of facts, and provide them tools or help them develop the ability to solve the specific problems, especially complex ones. As we all know, the complex problem could be divided to some simple problems, and with those simple problems solved, then the complex one is solved. Take the design of airplanes as an example. Without basic ideas, concepts of mass, force, velocity, acceleration, gravity, pressure, newton fluid dynamics, we could not understand and figure out how to make a lift-up force, and how to make a turn in the air. Without all of that, we could not make a plane to fly.
However, sometimes the learning process of the ideas, trends, concepts, could be very long and frustrating, eventually boring at last. The students' interest and motivation could all be flushed out. Thus, the learning of those ideas, trends, concepts, may have negative effects in return. For example, in a history class, for most students, it could be boring when teacher keeps talking about names of some one, or years of some events, etc. For most children, they cannot follow the continuing spoken out names, years, events and so on. It could be very frustrating. At the even worse, some of them may lose interest of history. That is against the prime purpose of history class, which is to excite children's interesting.
As a result, for those classes, which may introduce a long time, or a large amount of ideas, trends, concepts, we should not apply the same policy. That could not help at all. And the best solution to that, is quite simple: bring back the interest of students. Such as, for history class referred above, teachers could firstly introduce some interesting events, or affairs happened in history to catch their attention and interest. At sometimes, interesting questions are also helpful.
In summary, we should not simply follow the rule to only teach students facts after they have studied the ideas, trends, concepts all the time. Instead, we should depend on the specific situation of each class and students' requirement to adjust. To make the best, a flexible policy is in need. |
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