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发表于 2008-10-29 13:55:05
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Issue 51 Education will be truly effective only when it is specially designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student.
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What is the standard to assess the effectiveness of certain form of education? (The answers may be various, which leads to other questions like which type of education are we talking about and how do we define effectiveness?这句分两句来写可能会更好) The statement above uses word student which indicates that the education that we are about to discuss may be more focused on its narrow definition, the schooling education. Effective institute education should not be designed only in the consideration of student's demand but ultimately for the harmonious development of human society.
Two exceptional features of schooling which differs from home and social education are its normative mode and explicit goal. Unlike the latter two types of education whose non-normative and unsystematic influences to individuals result in uncertainty of their outcomes, schooling is initially designed to cultivate persons with robust body and healthy mind as well as basic knowledge and abilities for better adaption of real society which can be eventually constituted by educated people. It is the virtuous cycle of this education that ensures the continuous development of society. So schooling serves a greater purpose other than personal interests.(我觉应该是rather than meet personal interests)
In that case, inner demands, such as student's needs or interests in schooling education system seems inadequate for assessing the system itself. Effectiveness of schooling mostly depends on whether the students it cultivates fit and contribute to the society well. Separation of science and engineering in higher education shows a proper example. In most of the universities worldwide science and engineering are divided into different subjects for students of different academic interests in theories or applications. Students choose their courses fully on their own just according to interests, and sometimes needs for credit points, rarely consider the relations between what they learn and what they will use in future. This design is gradually proved to be ineffective because the task in real job always asks for both scientific minds and engineering hands. The limitations of students’ knowledge and abilities resulting from inappropriate design of education eventually affect the development of society. Personal interests need regulations and guidance from upper benefits of both individual and society.
Admittedly, interest plays an important role in learning. As Albert Einstein, one of the greatest physical scientists in Twentieth Century had said and I quoted, interest is the best teacher. Studying with passion and desire makes one acquire the knowledge on his or her initiative that would definitely increase the effectiveness of education. Moreover, individual intellectual and interest differences naturally demand specific education design aimed to tap the potential of each student. Take military school for example, if the educators carry out only one type of method that prepares people to become general for all its students, most of them would fail and even accomplish nothing, simply because not all people have the potential to be a general. A well-trained army needs only one good general but tens of thousands of different branches of soldiers. Why push one to become a bad general while he is competent for a good soldier?
However, teaching according to individual interest is actually an ideal method and hardly can be achieved in institute educations. High cost of human resources and fees mean a lot of people can not afford this education which obviously violates the principle of general education. How to conceive the normative pattern of schooling while technically each student should take a different curriculum? Even if we don't consider the economic predicament, then how to find out every student's personal needs and interests? How to make this education system impartial? These questions shows that institute education designed for student's needs and interests are unpractical which indicates it is certainly ineffective.
In sum, although specifically designed education is an ideal teaching method, the social calls of schooling and its confinement in practice decide that the real effective schooling seeks balance between individual accomplishment and social evolvement.
语言不是我的能力所修改的就逻辑来看你的文章很完整,每段论证也很充分.
你正面说:兴趣有助于学习
反面说:1.教育不只是满足兴趣
2.过于注重兴趣会让人迷失.
3.注重兴趣的教育只是理想话的,现实没法达到.(个人感觉这一段和前面的段落有点小冲突)
不过如果是我的话,你的段落的顺序我可能会变一下.
第一段:Admittedly ,兴趣有助于学习
第二段:however,教育不只是满足兴趣
第三段:In addition,过于注重兴趣会让人迷失.
注重兴趣的教育只是理想话的,现实没法达到这个观点有可能就不用了.
当然可能我读的还不够深刻,对你理解上有偏差.所以你下次可一把提纲也贴上来,方便改个时候好参考.
PS:我发现需要定义的名词可能不是effective而是need,至少我两对need的理解不一样. |
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