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Issue 5 "A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different part of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer." 提纲: 部分同意 1 National courses provide basic skills, values, and knowledge for student, which is benefit to students and the whole society. (采用列举论证有那些好处) 2 可能会带来的弊端. 第一, 一旦national curriculum 由政府决定,政府为了自己的统治,课程可能会带有偏见. 第二, 一旦national curriculum is exclusive one,违背的教育的目的. 第三, 为了保持当地特殊的技能和文化有必要开设特色课程. 耗时: 2hours 字数:523 According to the speaker, a nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college in stead of allowing schools in different part of nation to decide which academic courses to offer. I agree with the speaker that insofar as some basic courses would ensure the educational quality of the nation. However, if all the schools are not given freedom to decide their courses at all, a nation's system would defeat education purpose. National core curriculums do benefit the nation in some aspects. Firstly, by providing all student fundamental skills and knowledge, the national common core courses can enable us that all the students would to be reasonably informed, productive member of the society. Secondly, the same national courses would offer to student some basic values, and ideas upon which democratic society would depend on. However, once the common courses become exclusive ones, they would also pose problems which would far outweigh the benefits mentioned above. In the first place, it is like hood that the power to determine which courses are provided is in the hand of government officials. Insofar as a government would do its best to maintain his power, therefore the curriculum determined by the government is likely bias. For instance, history, which is considered to be necessary to understand any nation, should be displayed objectively to all children. However, it is often the case that the government would do some changes in order to take every advantage of it. Therefore it is unreasonable to let national courses to be decided by someone who would like to maintain its political power. Secondly, exclusive courses would be counterproductive to the purposes of education. The purpose of education is to enlighten students--display different opinions about one problem and encourage them to find the answer for themselves instead of pouring some rigid, one-side information to them. Therefore, once the common curriculums have been fixed, naturally, all the information which is contrast to it, would be banned. In fact, it is difficult to find an exclusive explanation to an problem in areas of quarry, thus various ideas should be told to students, otherwise they would be limited in books only, of course, which would disobey the basic idea of education. Thirdly, it is necessary to allow the schools in different part of nation freedom to have some courses which belongs to local area particularly to maintain .One apt example illustrate this point come into my mind. In North West of China, certain courses, such as the skills of haunting fishes, and making clothes from animal's fur are included in school's subjects, since such skills are necessary basic ones for people living there. If schools are not allowed freedom to determined courses, skills required to make a living would be lost. In sum, while national core curriculum should be required in schools of different part of the nation in order to ensure students get basic skills and knowledge, schools should be allowed freedom to determine certain course according to the local condition. Therefore, national curriculum is a double-edge sword, we should consider carefully before a decision is made. | 
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