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Issue 128
Topic:
It is often asserted that the purpose of education is to free the mind and the spirit. In reality, however, formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.
Body:
The speaker asserts dual claims: (1).There is a common sense that education’s purpose is to free the mind and the spirit. (2). But in reality, formal education seek to restrain our minds and spirits over set free. For this assertion, as far as I concerned, I support that formal education indeed restrain our own thoughts and narrow our spirits, on the other hand, I argue that the purpose of the education is different to different persons who have the vary background and life experience.
The reason why my disagreement of the purpose of the education is to free our thoughts is that there will be a lot of variety of attitudes toward the purpose of the education, different person will hold different point of view of it. For example, the politician want education to play a role to impart all the persons the belief that the government is a good government and all the government decisions are on the stand of the persons and benefit for them. Free thoughts and spirits are not permitted in political area. On contrary, artist holds the absolutely opposite viewpoint. In art domain, free spirit and thought are seemed to be an indispensable basic qualification. Without it, the artist could not carve or paint an unfading sculpture or painters. Therefore, it could not precisely to define what is purpose of education, for the persons standing on different points, such as politician and artist, will hold the different attitude, sometimes even opposite ones.
Education consists of two aspects, formal and informal. These two aspects of education, however neither better nor worse than each other, are different. Formal education means the school education and the informal one means family and society education.
There are several reasons why formal education always cultivate us as a disciplined one and restrain our thoughts and spirits. The first reason is that formal education--that is, school education—often tells us what we should do and what should not. For example, in kindergarten, the nurses always tell us it is the time to rest, and do not permit us to stay awake although at that time we will not feel sleepy at all. Not only the living habits are restrained in formal education, but also the study habits. When we go to the elementary schools, the teachers is still putting influence on our study and living wont. Take a social activity as an example, when we want to have a picnic with our friends on holiday, the teachers will restrict us by talking with us that the exams is coming and staying at home to study is a better choice. Infusing this attitude regularly, students will get the habits that not to have a picnic and always stay at home to study. All in all, in formal education, the teachers qualify almost every aspects of our daily life, not only our study habits, also our daily life habits.
Another reason is that the format of formal education already determines that it could not free our thoughts and spirits. In schools, thirty or forty students are together in class and face the same teachers every day. They do not have the opportunity to go to the society and absorb different ideas outside school. Their thoughts are limited to the scope of the persons who they interact daily. Only by stepping over to the society and reforming the format of formal education, the minds and the spirits of students could be freed.
The most important reason is that the manner of the education provided by the formal education is a limited one itself. For instance, when we are in university, we are could consider affairs using our thoughts, but the professors impart us the theories in academic field just by telling us this one is an axiom and always be true and that theory is a heterodox.. Different attitude to the theory is not permitted because if we have the opposite attitude, we will lose in the test and even could not graduate from university. Although maybe once the heterodox theory will be a truth one day, the students could not put in that he support the heterodox which is treated nowadays.
In sum, although different persons holding different standpoints have the vary attitude to the purpose of the education, in reality, formal education indeed restrain our thoughts and spirits. Reforms should be taken in effect to resolve this problem if we hold that the purpose of the education is to free our thoughts and spirits. |
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