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发表于 2007-1-7 23:22:39 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

TOPIC: ISSUE5 - "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."
WORDS: 574       TIME: 1:00:00       DATE: 2007-1-7

The speaker asserts the necessity of the same national curriculum for colleges, while in my perspective, whether it is suitable to apply such kind of policy depends.

One the one hand, a nation's cohesion and unique culture should be preserved with national curriculum. The history, which may have been lasting for such a tremendously long time that real distilled things are left for people from generation to generation to preserve, because these things are thought to be useful and should be handed down as traditions. China is  a country rich of historical treasure which, though seems to be out of date, still gives Chinese people correct alerts to better live in today's  complicated world. Through the curriculums, students tend to deeply realize who they are and what they should do for their country. In this sense, same national curriculum means prosperity of a country.
Moreover, a general curriculum decided by authority rather than by local schools avoids limiting students to a narrow scope of knowledge too early. Authorities' abilities should not be ignored when involving the arrangement of curriculums. While education professionals can't get enough time to decide the courses to the tastes of everybody or every school of different areas, they do try to make the curriculums fit for the exiting conditions of contemporary education. But local schools, which are comparably near-sighted, tend to see merely the confronting problems, and may give only essential courses which are to teach skills with which the students can make a living when they step into society. Such arrangement of curriculums misses the purpose of education, that is, cultivating students to well deal with the future challenges, thus they will be well -rounded people to stand firmly even when society is under serious pressure.

One the other hand, the condition of a multi-cultural society is supposed to be taken into account to preserve and promote traditional cultures of different ethic communities. A country seldom consists of only one kind of culture, for the reasons that, a country might be united by the foundation of a particular purpose-for example, the peace for the US-but not same culture; or a country, with a large area of land, have to bear different climates or conditions of oil, thus meanwhile a correspondingly different ways of living, that is called multi-culture.  People from different cultures tend to share different views which could coincide each other; therefore necessity of different curriculums comes out.

Elective courses are indispensable for local schools to build its unique culture chrism and, meanwhile, help students develop their own interest. Students sources are too some extent a key role for a better development for a college, because excellent students are more likely to raise the fame of a college, and then result in better student sources. Thus a good circle begins. Also, differences between individuals should be respected. Only when students are provided by what they should be taught can they be fully developed. Otherwise students with excellent gifts might be ignored for even a whole life, it is the loss of the society and what is worse, this loss results from the ruining of a student's great life.

In summary, we should not go to extremes to merely decide whether or not same national curriculum is needed. Some conditions such as cohesion of a nation, varieties of cultures, and differences of individuals should all be taken into account to give a suitable answer for every main element.

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