issue 5 杀G精锐部队 第1次作业 by 夏日新生

夏日新生UID: 2419909

Education, as means of transmitting democratic values, creating eaquality of oppurtunity, and preparing new generations of citizens to fuction in society , is the basis of freedom and justice. I agree insofar as some core curriculum would serve useful purposes for any nation. However, schools in different regions should have the freedom to adjust the curriculum in a certain extent according to the local situation and the needs of students.

A national curriculum would be beneficial to a nation in several respects. First of all, the implement of national curriculum would help the government use the educational resources more effectively , and improve the performance of teaching at the same time. What is more, by proving standard courses, a common curriculum would not only help ensure students all around the country to have the same opportunities to be admitted by universities and get equal preparation for their further eduction, but also provide a foundation upon which college administrators could easily build curriculum for students according to their level of educationl experience. Finally , a core curriculum would guarantee the core values, such as indenpandence and self-condidence, be transmitted to all students  no matter where are they educated.

However, requiring all students to study the same curriculum would pose certain problems. Firstly, because of the difference of historic , geographic and cultural conditions of each area, it is really hard to determine what kind of courses should be included in the national curriculum, and it is almost impossible to design a “panacea” curriculum which can cover the interests and needs of all the students. Some universal courses such as mathematic should be contained in the core curriculum undoubtedly, but how can we build a national curriculum to gratify different needs of each student. For example, it is necessary for students in metropolitises to obtain more modern technology while students in rural areas need to learn more on biology and agriculture.

Secondly, the rigid standardized content of the national curriculum might exclude courses that are primarily of regional or local significance. No one can seriously think that every part of the nation is the same, consequently it is neccecary for us to show enough respect to the diversity and protect the unique traditions or the particular ways of living passed down from their ancestors. And one of the best method to transmit the unique local traditions is to provide relevant courses in schools. Unfortunately, a national curriculum might not allow for this, and we lose a good way to protect thr diversity of our culture.

Thirdly, a national curriculum would make the adjustment of curriculum very slow. In such a increasingly changing world, knowledge is renovated more and more rapidly, thus courses be taught in the classes should be adjusted to the development of the society. However, revising the national curriculum is such a huge program that needs a large amount of resources, and would be last for a long time.

To sum up, a national curriculum would help achieve educational equality, improve the whole level of education, but it also pose several kinds of problems. A balanced solution, in my view, is to impose a basic curriculum and at the same time leave the rest up to each state or community, only in this way can we provide a curriculum flexible enough to meet the sheer diversity of students’ learning needs in a rapidly changing society.