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51. "Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student."
In this era of rapid social and technological development, education among different fields, especially in college and university, acts as a compelling important strength in promoting the progress of the whole society. However, the statement above launches a puzzling question in front of us: must education be designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student. In my opinion, education should take into account the general demands, such as critical thinking, creativity as well as originality, and the special needs, especially involving grasp to those ideas and opinions on special domain.
In the first place, fostering the ability of creativity, and originality, as well as critical thinking would be the fundamental purpose of modern education and in this way, learners share education without any distinction. Several centuries ago, knowledge was not as abundant as that of today and communication between divergent civilizations was not as efficient as of our time. In this case, Aristotle, the ancient Greece scientist, had been considered having mastered the entire knowledge. But in modern society, dramatic increase on knowledge promotes further specialization on certain realms and those abilities such as creativity, and originality, as well as critical thinking have become necessary for everyone who wants to succeed in this society with ever-increasing complexity. For example, most colleges in diverse countries have paid great attention to these methods in their common education. High attention on creativity and critical thinking in America would best illustrate this point, and in this case, their abundant achievements on economic and scientific fields have been far in the lead within range of whole world.
In the second place, in this advanced society, the complexity of the modern society would ask for people possessing different experiences and abilities in diverse domains. Furthermore, it is the development of global economy and specialization that make education have to consider the needs and interests of diverse individuals in different professions. For example, physicians in any hospital should learn that what countless diseases result from, and what their characteristics are, and how they could not be confused, and how they could be solved, as well as what is the outcome they would leave on patients. However, researchers in scientific or technological domains would have to grasp through what kind of methods the unknown world would be recognized, and what kind of biases and prejudices would be accompanied in the studying process, and what other items have not been taken into account in their experiment, and so on. Obviously, physicians need not know what obstacles would be encountered in experiment, while researchers would not have to understand what patients or their diseases are like, unless their researches are about medical items. From the two professions mentioned earlier, we would not have to go very far to see that, though the general abilities like creativity and critical thinking would benefit them, education should also be designed to meet the individual needs and interests of learners.
Finally, the best way to solve this problem is to combine these two purposes of education together because they do not have conflict with each other to all intents and purposes. For example, in medical school, students would accept many courses on their fundamental techniques and knowledge, such as the physics, biochemistry, pharmacology, pathology, and so on, which play a role as core of their thinking when making a diagnosis, and other courses on their special direction, like internal medicine, surgery, pediatric, and so forth, respectively. Consequently, the former courses would function as fixed courses and the latter courses would be selected to learn in a deeper degree according to one's interests and needs. Then the application of these methods would benefit the interests of learners and the society as a whole to the great extent because this style of arrangement on their courses would economize the time and energy and funds in all.
In conclusion, I would claim that, whether education is designed to general abilities like creativity or critical thinking or to special training according to different domains, it would equally benefit its learners effectively. As for the educational executives, they should be made aware of the complexity of this issue and try their best to benefit the learners and society as a whole - their responsibility. |
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