issue51 [jet 小组] 第三次作业

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Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student.
教育只有被专门设计来满足每一个学生个人需求和兴趣的时候才是真正有效率的。

提纲：（1）的确，满足每一个学生的需求和兴趣的十分有利于学生的发展的。但可能造成一种后果，学生总是想让别人去迎合自己，而不是主动去迎合这个社会。
      （2）但是考虑到有限的教育资源，我们不可能完全照顾到每一个学生。举爱因斯坦的例子即使能满足一部分学生，但学生的要求跟现行的规范又出入，我们不能完全照做。举bill gates的例子
      （3）在这种情况下还涉及一个教育资源分配优先级的问题。
      （4）鉴于充分照顾每个学生的不现实性，我们在完成教学目的的前提下，可以有一些灵活的做法，并非对某个人，而是对某一部分人。  


Date：2008-2-3        Time：60min            Word:573   
I fundamentally agree with the speaker’s broad assertion that it will be effective when education is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student. However, when reality and its practicality are taken into consideration, some logical flaws do exist. My point of contention with the speaker involves the practicality of this recommendation and some dilemmas when it is carried out.  

Admittedly, to educate on the basis of each student’s need and interests would greatly motivate students’ curiosity for the new and unknown territory and incite their insatiable appetite for knowledge which are the key factors leading to academic achievement and future success. Nevertheless, if teachers do their utmost to pander the need from students at the expense of countless education resources and their limited energy while ignoring the respondents from his students, it would raise a sense of self-centered and the reluctance to care about his peers’ feelings and emotions. Of course it is not the situation any informed person wants to see, after all cooperation plays an increasing important role in our society in which these students would sooner or later engage.


I concede that the speaker is on the correct philosophical side of this issue, for what he envisions is rightly the ultimate goal of education today. However, without considering finite education resources and some deficiencies in teachers’ ability, all such recommendations amount to fantasy, let alone any sense of value in directing educators’ future work. Even if we assume that nowadays both teachers and students are equipped with adequate information on this issue, whether it can really work is still limited in some critical respects. One apt illustration of this point involves the early life of Albert Einstein, who was considered to be strange and stupid from a pupil to aCollege Students. According to speaker’s assertion, all his tutors should account responsibilities of this situation for their short-sightedness or sort of blindness to a genius regardless of considering teachers’ main task and ability. Another example comes from Microsoft’s founder—Bill Gates, who is devoted to be a leader in information era by stopping his study in Harvard. Similarly, the speaker would attribute his dropout to our inflexible education system which can’t care about students’ desire to be a boss of their own, who also disregards the existed contradiction between Bill Gate’s activity and regulations from university.

The speaker’s assertion is also troubling in another respect as well. Supposing that all our tutors are able to pick up every genius in a vast sea of students, can it be fair to allocate all the finite education resources to such genius without considering average students’ right, which is obviously against the basis principal of education. Now that we can’t provide every genius the need they required, who would have the priority is also a question faced by educators.

In sum, the speaker’s assertion that education will be truly effective when it meet the individual needs and interests of each student begs the question, because we can’t exactly know each student’s needs. As for the speaker’s broader assertion, I agree with his foresight of the goal of education. Nevertheless, in the final analyze, given finite education resources and some obvious deficiencies in teachers’ ability, we are forced to meet the common requirement first---the good quality of education as well as being interesting, encouraging and inspiring, then to meet the meet the need from each student.

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I fundamentally agree with the speaker’s broad assertion that it will be effective when education is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student. However, when reality and its practicality are taken into consideration, some logical flaws do exist. My point of contention with the speaker involves the practicality of this recommendation and some dilemmas when it is carried out.  

Admittedly, to educate on the basis of each student’s need and interests would greatly motivate students’ curiosity for the new and unknown territory (field) and incite their insatiable appetite for knowledge which are the key factors leading to academic achievement and future success. Nevertheless, if teachers do their utmost to pander the need from students at the expense of countless education resources and their limited energy while ignoring the respondents from his students, it would raise a sense of self-centered and the reluctance to care about his peers’ feelings and emotions. Of course it is not the situation any informed person wants to see, after all cooperation plays an increasing important role in our society in which these students would sooner or later engage.这个观点很新颖，赞~


I concede that the speaker is on the correct philosophical side of this issue, for what he envisions is rightly the ultimate goal of education today. However, without considering finite education resources and some deficiencies in teachers’ ability, all such recommendations amount to fantasy, let alone any sense of value in directing educators’ future work. Even if we assume that nowadays both teachers and students are equipped with adequate information on this issue, whether it can really work is still limited in some critical respects. One apt illustration of this point involves the early life of Albert Einstein, who was considered to be strange and stupid from a pupil to aCollege Students. According to speaker’s assertion, all his tutors should account responsibilities of this situation for their short-sightedness or sort of blindness to a genius regardless of considering teachers’ main task and ability. Another example comes from Microsoft’s founder—Bill Gates, who is devoted to be a leader in information era by stopping his study in Harvard. Similarly, the speaker would attribute his dropout to our inflexible education system which can’t care about students’ desire to be a boss of their own, who also disregards the existed contradiction between Bill Gate’s activity and regulations from university.个人觉得这个论据不是很妥当，毕竟B.G是从学校学到了专业知识的，只是当时他开发出能在pc机上运行的程序后，有一个很好的机会创业，然后他为了这个机会放弃了大学的学习。

The speaker’s assertion is also troubling（troubled） in another respect as well. Supposing that all our tutors are able to pick up every genius in a vast sea of students, can it be fair to allocate all the finite education resources to such genius without considering average students’ right,(a very good point，展开就更好了) which is obviously against the basis (basic) principal of education.（then waht is the basic principal of education?） Now that we can’t provide every genius the need they required, who would have the priority is also a question faced by educators.

In sum, the speaker’s assertion that education will be truly effective when it meet the individual needs and interests of each student begs the question, because we can’t exactly know each student’s needs. As for the speaker’s broader assertion, I agree with his foresight of the goal of education. Nevertheless, in the final analyze, given finite education resources and some obvious deficiencies in teachers’ ability, we are forced to meet the common requirement first---the good quality of education as well as being interesting, encouraging and inspiring, then to meet the meet the need from each student.