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Society should identify those children who have special talents and abilities and begin training them at an early age so that they can eventually excel in their areas of ability. Otherwise, these talents are likely to remain undeveloped.
Although a society cannot develop quickly without certain experts or talents, I strongly disagree on the assertion that children have special talents should be identified and trained to ensure they can excel in given fields. Because by doing so, we actually strive to shape a society admiring elitism at the expense of equality.
In the ever-developing ear, it seems tempting to agree with the speaker that we should cultivate talented children to help our society develop more quickly.(似乎是zehua的风格么) After all, these children are so distinguished in given fields that they can accomplish the same achievement with considerable less effort than ordinary ones. In this case, it will be definitely redeemable loss that leaving such talents unexploited. However, I cast doubt on the speaker's assertion that training them at an early age will bring about a better world, by which I mean more equal, more balanced and more harmonious.
One threshold problem with the assertion is that we cannot choose fair criteria to determine which talents and abilities are more worthy cultivating. For better or not, in the society lionizing pragmatism, it is highly possible that talents associated with economic success get preferred. For instance, a children talented in mathematics or physics is usually be given extraordinary attention and training, because his talents are likely to bring about certain direct breakthrough in information technology that can create a mint of money as a result. On the other hand, children talented in folklore study tends to flag into oblivion, for their success seems to be obsolete and can hardly result in any economic success. In fact, by streaming children to two groups separately labeled talented and ordinary, we seem to be encouraging certain elitism. In my observation, the stream can not justify itself by allocating educational resources unequally even at the very beginning of one's life. However, all the children are equal citizens in the future; therefore they should not be excluded from some privileges intended to a handful of people, which will deprive them of the opportunity for self-development.
Furthermore, it seems presumptuous for the speaker to assert that the well-trained children can eventually excel in their areas and benefit our society as a result. In my observation, such training designed for so-called talented is usually featured by intensive inculcation of knowledge, which, too often, take up so much time that prevent the children from enjoying their childhood. Due to such psychological defect, these children are likely to take study as a boring and unfruitful process that brings about little happiness. After all, individuals, who are absent of interest, can hardly work effectively in given fields. Moreover, it is also possible that our educators underscore intellect and so-called talent nurture at the expense of skill in socialization, a valuable characteristic demanded by modern society. Without proper communication and coordination with others, any individual, no matter how talented he is, can never contribute significantly to our society.
In the concern whether the ethic maturity can keep pace with that of intellect, lies another reason why I take exception to the speaker's claim. If the well-trained children can only excel in given technical field while show little maturity in ethics, our society is likely to suffer from the effort of nurturing such talents. Consider the increasingly rampant criminals over Internet. Many of those attribute to some teenagers, who excel at information technology but lack certain maturity or wisdom to discern right from wrong. In this case, nurturing such talents before ethic mature accomplishes little to the well-being of our society and even serves as a backfire. (这一段最好改成even可以在自己的领域有所成就也有可能不会全面发展吧)
In final analysis, before fully accepting the author's assertion, we are obliged to make sure that the children are ethically qualified for the training. Moreover, we should also avoid elitism to prevent our society devolving into an unequal one.
确实有点像argument, 不过蛮流畅的。就是有点空,如果举几个例子会好一点的。
这个文件对这篇文章有点用,我下了看了一下,没写过的。不过有好多反对意见。也是GTER上的。 |
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