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It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than to learn facts.




As for the education of students, some people believe that it is more important to understand ideas and concepts than to learn facts while others consider learning facts are more important. No doubt, I choose the former, because there have more advantages for students to understand more ideas and concepts.
Student is a period that accepting systemic knowledge and novel concepts. As they are always very young, it is necessary for them to learn various ideas and concepts, which will helpful to cultivate them to be an upright person and how to select their occupations. For instance, teachers teach students the idea that person must have virtues and kind hearts, teach students kinds of concepts about physics, chemistry, history, biology and so on, which will be important for them to define their personalities and made them be a integrate person, although it seems no use immediately at once.
Furthermore, understanding ideas and concepts is a precondition to lean facts. Compared with facts, ideas and concepts are usually idealized and simplified, so, it’s easy to learn much and understand more, which will make the student quicker to understand the things as they really are when meeting some facts. An example is that as a student want to know how steam engine works, if he understand the basic idea that strong steam can cause rotation of turbines, he would realize the steam engine easily. Otherwise, does not he understand this idea, he would be difficult to realize how stream engine works because there are so many parts in a stream engine. Thus, understanding of ideas and concepts is very important.
However, to some extent, we should admit that learn some facts are also helpful to understand ideas and concepts. And learn the facts are also the finally aims of understanding ideas and concepts. But as for the students, understanding the ideas and concepts are the period to accumulate knowledge and ready for future, learn facts is the mainly tasks when they are working in their posts.
In summery, I support the opinion that it is more important understand ideas and concepts than to learn facts for students.