[i习作temp] I124：学生应该出国学习么？ [复制链接]

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124: All college and university students would benefit from spending at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
【Write a response in which you discuss yourviews on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. Indeveloping and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.】【Instruction】

The author believed that the experiences of studying aboard will be beneficial and proposed every student to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country. The purpose of this proposal is to broaden students’ horizons through life and academic exchanges with different cultures and nations. Although the author’s main idea in line with the trend ofthe times, it still appears one-sidedness in some important aspects.

First of all, admittedly, I agree with the opinion that to study aboard can bring some benefits to students, precisely, to some students. For some students, experiences of living aboard alone indeed assist to develop their independence. However, many other students would not be able to tolerate the loneliness of being alone on a foreign land. For these relatively less strong-minded students, loneliness and homesick will not let them become independent. On the contrary, these negative emotions would bequite damaging to their mental health. What is even more serious, some will try to commit suicide. Therefore, in order to prevent such tragedy, students shouldbe fully aware of their psychological state before making decision to go aboard studying.

In addition, some support that exposure to different cultures and nations can enrich students’ view of world and give them deeper understanding of their own culture by examining it in a different angle.However, a sociological research shows that teenagers without clear understanding of their own culture are vulnerable to the impact of other cultures then faded away from their original culture root. As we can see, acountry will risks losing a large number of talented people because of this, and it would be huge disasters for developing countries which are dying for high-qualified people.

On the other hand, who ought to bear the enormous spending if this proposal is implemented? Many people’s first answer is the government and social groups, because the government is the biggest beneficiary of this initiative. Moreover, there cannot be any individual can afford such ahuge expense. However, as for the government, apart from education, a lot of problems need to be settled. Some of these problems might be much urgent than education problem and need more finance support. In such situation, implementation progress of this proposal will become slow or even is nowhere sight.

It is also proposed that students to study aboard at their own expense. In my opinion, this also cannot be achieved. The cost of each semester’s aboard learning and life is at least thousands of dollars which is too expensive for students form middle-class and poor families to afford. Thus, obviously, the idea that every student should study aboard is not feasible.

In sum, because of the two terms discussed above, the author’s advice cannot be implemented unless these problems can be well solved. In addition, I want to add that, in order to obtain satisfactory results, everyone should think carefully about this issue. For students, they should determine according to their own conditions whether they need aboard study or not. For colleges and universities, they should provide students with objective advices and recommendations, and offer necessary help for those who want to go studying aboard. Finally, for government and our society, in addition to assist on part of finance support, they should also take some measures to attract students to work for their own country after graduating.