Determining whether a nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they go to learn in college or should allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine by themselves could be weighed in many aspects. Different people have different answers due to their respective points of view. On balance, my view is that most of the curriculum should be uniform all over the nation with a few of them being chosen according to the different cases of different areas.
Firstly, there is no doubt that a national curriculum can be more convenient to improve all of students' educated level. With the same curriculum, students have more chances to discuss problems with the students all over the country. In order to illustrate this point clearly, let us see an example. A student who studies in a poor village can get the same knowledge as those in the city. Thus, all students can make progress simultaneously so that the nation' whole educational level can roar steadily.
Furthermore, the national curriculum facilitates teachers and professors in the colleges. It is the same curriculum that make the students from different areas have similar knowledge structure. So teachers and professors can prepare courses adapting to most of the students. On the contrary, if a part of students from city A have learned advanced mathematics before going to college while others have not, teachers will be in a dilemma. Therefore, college education can be more succeeded when the students learn same curriculum before they enter college.
Admittedly, it does have goodness to allow schools to determine their own curriculum.
Different areas have their special cases. They tend to open some courses being of great benefit to the local development. Moreover, not all students go to college after graduating from school and they may work at their hometown. In such a case, it is necessary to open some courses adapting to their hometown. However, this alone does not constitute a sufficient support to deny the significant effects of the national curriculum.
Consequently, due to analysis and reasons above, we may safely arrive at the conclusion that on the condition that that the national curriculum taking up a majority of the courses is warranted, we can open some local courses.
[ Last edited by staralways on 2005-8-3 at 00:41 ]