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发表于 2006-6-22 09:16:02
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TOPIC: ISSUE51 - "Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student."
WORDS: 446 TIME: 0:41:53 DATE: 2006-6-21
With the advent of the Information Revolution, the whole society is operating much more like an organism, which calls for much more effective education. Therefore, the education that is specifically designed to meet the learners' needs and interests would be the truly effective one for our current situation.
The origin idea which the truly effective education should always maintain is its consideration on the learners' own needs and interests. There is an old proverb saying, "The best guideness and teacher is the interest itself". Actually, as an individual in such a systematic society, the original power for the learner joining in the education system is to make himself/herself more essential and significant to him/her and others. This is the architecture, the others are the oraniation. Consequently, designing the education to meet the individual needs and interests will, of course, not only benefit the single learner, but also the other individuals.
Meanwhile, the education that focus more on the individual needs and interests will benefit much more to the whole society. The higher education in university and college in the United States are such good examples. In almost each college, we can easily find dozen of selective courses in the lists. The students do not need to select all of them. The merely rule here is the requirement on the total credits. Except for this, everyone can choose whatever curriculums they need and interest in. In such a free situation, there goes also dozens of scientists with Nobel Prize, mathematicans with Fires Prize, allmost of who has concentrated they whole lives on the modern society progress. With such great contribution the higher education has done, is there anyone would say it is not truly effective?
however, is the learners' needs and the interests the only rule that the effective education should obay? Of course not. The principles of education contains the honesty, the equality of opportunity, the fedelity to the fridends, the family and the country and the like. All of them are the basics and foundamental of the world. The education paying little attention on such rules would lead to the great damage or even destroy of the whole society. The education system in the Hitler's age in Germany, as an example, focusing only on the needs and interests and ingnoring the great characters of human being, has finally led to the World War Two and left nothing but damage to the whole world.
The effective education will not only benefit the individuals and their family, friends, and their related, but also the civilization, the mordernization and the whole society. Among which, the education focusing on the learners' benefits and needs is the most straightforward one.
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