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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."
Education is an important part of our society; the arguer advocates that providing students with a value system, a standard and a set of ideas is the purpose of education. At first glance, this statement seems to be somewhat appealing, however, according to personal experience and respective angles I conclude that the purpose of education should be to provide students with creative thinking and analytic ability. In the following discussion, I would like to provide evidence to illustrate my standpoint.
To begin with, the purpose of education should be not to infuse a value system, a standard and a set of ideas into students for our world is changing and our society is developing, every minute, every second. Actually such is, Bill Gates, creator and CEO of Microsoft and the richest man in the world now, once said (and I paraphrase):"the only thing, which is non-change, is change." Some value standards are not fit for the world any longer, which man once made sure of them, such as man is superior to woman which people accept they should share equal rights now. Based on the condition, it is obvious that it is not suitable that the purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system, a standard and a set of ideas.
In addition, education is a good tool for us to improve our analytical and creative ability. Benjamin Franklin, American president, had said "Genius without education is like in the mine." when we receive education, we study mathematics, natural philosophy, logic and rhetoric and so on, which makes us not only know what the world is, how the past is, but what will be like in the further. During educational procedure, we can see more and intrigued to ask more, think more, what is the most important thing that education gives us, thus our analytical and creative thinking is improved. As what Francis Bacon, a British philosopher, had said" Histories make men vise; poem witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend." Thereby, education should place most emphasis on improving the ability of creative and analytic of students.
Last but not the least, we have to pay attention to this case that it is likely for man to make contribute to society when he get the ability of creative and analytical. In order to express my view, a case in point in this respect is that: Einstein, German-born American theoretical physicist, whose special and general theories of relativity revolutionized modern thought on the nature space and time and formed a theoretical base for the exploitation of atomic energy. He is a great man for his creative thinking and analytic ability make a great effort on our society. Therefore, we can see it creative thinking and analytic ability play an important part in developing our society.
To sum up, based on reasons and analysis mentioned above, which sometimes correlate each other to form an organic whole and thus becoming more believable than any single one of them. As a result, any thinking people must arrive at the conclusion that the main idea for education should be not to provide students with a value system, a standard and a set of ideas but make them creative and analytical.
这是我的第四篇,前三篇我都写偏题了,这次自己要争气一点。 |
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