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发表于 2014-4-19 06:28:07
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本帖最后由 235vanburen 于 2014-4-19 06:38 编辑
task2:Students from rural areas often find it difficult to access university education. Some people think that universities should make it easier for them to access higher education. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
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The opportunity of receiving higher education should be equal to both city and rural children. It sounds quite reasonable and no one can deny it, but the reality is cruel that children who grow up in cities are getting much higher possibility than rural kids to enter in good universities and graduate with advanced degrees later on. So I have to ask why and how we can help those rural kids to receive the same educational benefits just like their peers living in the cities. My point of view is very straightforward: educational institutes have the responsibility to make it easier for children living in suburban and rural areas to enter in colleges. Here are my reasons.
It is beneficial to the whole society that everyone has the opportunity and hope to succeed, even though you may be born in poverty. Think about a child who was born in the severe poverty, and both parents were never admitted into college. Even worse, people around him/her always say that his/her life will never be changed and will be poor forever, just like his/her parents. It is natural that the child will feel powerless, angry and hopeless. Being hopeless is so horrible that anyone could make a big wrong choice under such extreme situation. In five or ten years, there could be another murderer or drug dealer appears in your community, and you start wondering why? The reason is very simple because they lost their hope to succeed or just survive many years ago when we, as the part of society, kept ignoring their terrible life and education condition. It is critical to everyone in the society to understand that we all are connected in some way. If some people are hungry, needy or treated unfairly, we have the responsibility to help them, because it is actually helping ourselves somehow. Different from urban families, poor families in the rural areas often lack money to pay the expensive university tuition. There are many ways we could help them, such as tuition waiver and creating on-campus part-time jobs.
Another reason for making it easier for rural kids is because higher education should be a public benefits for all the citizens. If getting a college education is just a privilege for elites, it will be a huge humiliation for our country. In the advanced and rich countries in the world, the proportion of people who hold higher education is often much higher than the proportion in those comparatively less-advanced countries. Higher education is not only a benefit, but also means confident and ability to survive in the bad economic situation. If depression happens again, skilled and educated people can switch their career paths and start learning some new skills and knowledge, such as new coding skills and new foreign language, so that even if they lost their jobs temporarily, they are able to find another positions in the market. Less educated people are not so lucky, since they usually don't have the ability to learn new things by themselves. An important measure on whether it is a good country is fairness, and higher education is the key factor of societal fairness. To make the country better, I strongly suggest that we should give more access to the comparatively poor rural children.
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