"A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter collage rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer ."
According to the speaker schools in a nation should be required to offer the same national curriculum rather than chose academic courses by themselves. Actually, as the need of further education, some core curriculums should be thought in all schools. But it never means schools can do noting in the choose of academic courses.
Some curriculums should be thought in all schools. First,a national standard of curriculum should be set in order to make sure all the students acquire the fundamental skills and knowledge, such as math, physics, history and so on. Secondly, the enrollment of college also need there be some common curriculums all students have learnt. For colleges need a standard to decide which student should be chose while which to reject. If there is no common ground of the education of students, in which ways could college to select? But all these never means school and community could do nothing in the sets of curriculums.
First of all, because of region and religions, students from different parts of a nation could be significantly different in certain place. So teaching them the same course sometimes is not scientific and practical. For example, Canada has two official languages, that is English and French. Obviously, It is not reasonable that both the students, no matter they are native English speakers or French speakers, have the same language course. It may be too easy to one group of students while too frustrate to another group.
Secondly, the same curriculums may be failure in keeping the traditions and character of different communities. Take Suzhou, a tractional southeast Chinese town, for example. Suzhou is famous for its richness of culture and it is the cradle city of QUN opera which once is every popular and prevalent in southeast China and was selected as World Immaterial Cultural Legacy. The QUN opera, once all the citizens no mater the intellectual nor the needy can enjoy even play, now could just be heard in the theater and few of the young graduation can understand. Because QUN opera need to play in Suzhou dialect, while mandarin is the only language used in school all across the nation then students have no chance to speak dialect in schools. As a result, few and few Suzhou young citizens can speak Suzhou dialect, never mention to play QUN opera.
In total, There should be a common sets of curriculums that all the school in the nation should take, while according to its reginal character, schools also has the freedom to add some courses. A successful set of curriculums need not only the nation as a whole but also the local community's wisdom.