ISSUE214【Aero小组】第15次作业

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题目：ISSUE214 - "Society should identify those children who have special talents and abilities and begin training them at an early age so that they can eventually excel in their areas of ability. Otherwise, these talents are likely to remain undeveloped."
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In this issue, there the author concludes that society should identify those children who have special talents and abilities and being training them at an early age so that then can eventually excel in their areas of ability. However, from my personal angle, it is a case-to-case problem which cannot be defined as a whole. Although the "talents" do not receive training an early age, their outstanding abilities may not lose. I will explain my perspective in the following aspects.

Firstly, I must admit that there are some examples to train the children at an very early age. Taking art education for example, some of the children who at the very early age in China will show a intense interest in music, and then, they may be forced to learn the skills of playing piano which is a very hard working. With consistent practicing, in their later years, they may receive the highest level. The famous pianolist LangLang is the very example in this case whose parents cultivated him at the age of seven. Also the famous international snooker player Ding Jun Hui is training in this way, and with an even much earlier time, the age of five. Therefore, I cannot neglect the positive influence on the early training.

However, despite those who succeed in their later life there are too many children who were not fond of music at all after decades of years learning the skills of piano or the skills of singing. In this point, they may change his/her directions when their parents or the schoolmaster set for them. These will lead us to a question that whether it is good to every child to teach them or cultivate them with the specific skills at the very early age? I think to the majority of children this is not a good way to their better growing. Because in their early age, they always do not know exactly what they truly love and what is the thing they may good at. In this thought, I recommend children should receive the basic education in schools and when they graduate from high school they can choose the direction and receive the more specific techniques in the field they really love.

What is more, the goals of the basic education will help children to develop their own emotions, and thus, to receive the basic education is a good choice to most of the students. As far as I am concerned, there are three taxonomies of objectives in the basic education, which are cognitive objectives, psychomotor objectives and the affective ones. Cognitive will help students develop the intellectual processes such as knowing, thinking, judging, conceiving and reasoning while the psychomotor objectives will teach them the ways of skilled moving, like handwriting, typewriting, singing and dancing. At the same time, the affective objectives will help them find what is his/her likes and dislikes, attitudes, value and appreciation. Therefore, all of these objectives can assist in the development of the students' abilities to learn for themselves. If learning is properly understood as an activity of constructing knowledge, the children will be mentally active, which has many benefits to them in their whole lives. In this way, the outstanding abilities of the students will not lose even after they grow up.

To sum up, it is unnecessary to train the students at the very early age. After the basic education, they will develop their own skills.