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201"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."

I concede that it is of great importance for education to provide students with values, ideas, and things alike, yet never shall these points deny the necessity of preparing students for specific jobs. What the contemporary society calls for is a combination of the two aspects, since without either education is likely to fail.

Admittedly, one must make a living by taking a specific job, but such fact by no means suggest that the need for a job is so overwhelmingly significant that the emotion of human being has become too trivial to be worth attention. This is to say, though technology have undergone great advancement, people must get down to the fundamentals and recognize that we human beings are after all not machines, yet to train students for specific jobs with negligence to the development of their emotions will inevitably turn them into machines. There is no better example than the famous film “Modern Times” produced by Choplin, in which a highly mechanized world with little regard to humanity was aptly described; everything must function in the way it is designed. Needless to say what a terrible world will it be if the plots were to be realized.

And the situation might be similar if education is to be deprived of the emotional nurturance. It is not very hard to conceive students solely designed for specific jobs or other objectives alike, with their inner feelings not elicited but suppressed. For instance, a certain number Chinese students nationwide have been identified deficient in the development of personality, as a result of intense focus on academic studies driven by the need to make a good performance in the important National Entrance Examination, which severely impaired their balanced development as individuals. The system of education should be the one to blame since it has placed too much emphasis on academic performance, which is alleged as of vital importance to students' finding jobs in the future, and meanwhile weakened the development of students as well-round individuals. These students, deficient in personality, usually find it hard to adapt to new environments, to deal with strangers or colleagues, and consequently encounter numerous problems, both private and public, which actually are of no problem at all to those well-developed in personality. Education without nurturance in the emotional matters, therefore, will bring about such negative consequences, both unfavorable for the individuals and the society as a whole.

Nevertheless, nowadays it is impossible for people to distract vocational training from education as they have become an integrity, which is a product of the technology advancement. In this era of mass production, when it comes to the matter of subsistence one must give in no matter how bigoted he/she is, and for education it is the same story. True educations should have excluded the portion of vocational training, as it once did in some institutions in the past when there is no critical need for individuals to get a job to maintain subsistence, and students benefit themselves greatly after having fully explored their own emotions. However, while with only a penny in the pocket college students could travel all around the Europe, in the past of course, how romantic and unimaginable this wild dream is at this moment. 21st century as it is now, without a job means without everything, and education is inevitably influenced by this idea. While negligence in emotional nurturance results in dull, spiritless individuals, denial in the necessity of vocational training might produce profound thinkers that cannot sustain themselves. Obviously both are unfavorable outcomes.

The situation has become clear. Since nowadays educations is comprised of two aspects so intricately intertwined that neither of which can be downplayed, it is wise for one to recognize the importance to put both into practice in a thoughtful manner. A balance should be delicately exercised to ensure the effect of both, and it would be so nice if vocational training and personal development can be carried out without the sacrifice of each, which is the ideal outcome of education to some sense.

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Charlie Chaplin
Biography
An essay on Charlie Chaplin written by Aaron Hale is available.

Charlie Chaplin was born Charles Spencer Chaplin in London, England on 16 April 1889. His parents, Charles Chaplin, Sr and Hannah Hill were music hall entertainers but separated shortly after Charlie was born, leaving Hannah to provide for her children. In 1896 when Hannah was no longer able to care for her children, Charlie and his brother Sydney were admitted to Lambeth Workhouse and later, Hanwell School for Orphans and Destitute Children.

Charlie had already debuted in the music hall in 1894, when he had sung a song after his mother was taken hoarse.


1903-1906
Performs in Sherlock Holmes, as the newspaper boy Billy
1906-1907
The Casey Circus
1907-1910
Works with the Karno Pantomime Troupe
1910-1912
First tour of USA/Canada with Karno Troupe
1912-1913
Second tour of USA/Canada with Karno Troupe
May 1913
Accepts offer from Adam Kessel (who has interests in the Keystone Film Company) for $125/week
29 December 1913
Signs contract with Keystone
Jan/Feb 1914
Charlie Chaplin's first film: Making a Living
1914
Keystone films
Nov 1914
Signs with Essanay for $1,250/week to make 14 films during 1915
1915
Essanay films
27 Feb 1916
Signs with Mutual Film Corporation for $10,000/week plus $150,000 bonus
1916-1917
Mutual films
17 June 1917
Signs with First National Exhibitor's Circuit for $1,075,000/year
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First National Films

人名的拼写很重要，是不能错的。