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发表于 2005-2-14 23:42:37 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

5 A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer."

The modernization process affects every area of society, and personal values and attitudes alter markedly. Recently whether a nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college or not is a broadly debated issue that attracted many attentions. Some people prefer to a national core curriculum for all children up until college. Other people, on the other hand, may assert that before college schools in different regions should decide on their own courses instead. The choice, nevertheless, is not an easy one to make. As far as I am concerned, however, I can agree that the former one is more reasonable. My arguments are listed as follows.

First of all, the main reason that supports my view is that a standard national curriculum until students enter college can cultivate broad interests in differently academic fields and constitute strong knowledge bases in every area. A good example can be found in the case that most countries have the Ministry of Education, which usually scientifically arrange basic education from nation position but not only from part standpoint They prepare national curriculums scientifically including broader fields. In addition, the forming learning in element middle and high school occupies a central position in students’ lives. If different parts are allowed to determine which academic courses to offer, they often incline to meet the part areas’ needs and strengthen some courses and cut some, which may decrease many chances for students to contact with different fields. Hence, this demonstrates the undeniable fact that the standard national curriculum in foundational period plays a considerable part in modern education.

Secondly, there is a further reason that must be taken into consideration. Local schools should not deprive students’ rights of studying broad field knowledge before young students cannot determine in teenager age which field should be chosen as a future career. As a case in point, schools in the area with factories concentrated may offer technical courses instead of art or literature for students. However, students in that area should not be introduced to the worker career too early and they may intend to pursue art or music. What is more, an open brain can offer a student more chances after he/she can choose a field in which he/she really interested when becoming an adult. At the same time, however, after high schools, thinking of the possible differences, colleges have freedom to choose academic courses for local students. Thus, it is sagacious to maintain that all students should study the national curriculum before entering college to constitute a good foundation.

Finally, “It is the best of time and it is the worst time” Charles Dickens began his “Tales of Two Cities” with such a paradoxical statement, which could also be applied to this topic. Admittedly, it may be true that there are a couple of merits of allowing schools to decide courses in some conditions. For instance, schools in the area with factories concentrated would like to teach students technical courses to help them to find jobs easily after graduation. However, this alone cannot constitute a sufficient support to claim that it is better to allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer before college. In fact, it is too specific and too weak to make this conclusion. Also, I feel the drawbacks are more obvious, such as determining students’ future too early and giving too weak foundation and too narrow knowledge for students. When the merits and drawbacks are carefully examined, the most striking conclusion is that all students should study the standard national curriculum before entering college.

To sum up, it must be explained that the reasons presented above sometimes intertwine to form an organic whole, thus become more persuasive than anyone of them. Therefore, any thinking person do trust that a nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer.

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