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发表于 2009-5-31 23:06:31
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51"Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student."
It is often asserted that the purpose of education is to free the mind and the spirit. Therefore, some scholars suggest that it is the responsibility for education to design courses that every student will be interested and needed. After considering the assertion carefully, to be honest, I only concede that specifically designed individual education may be truly effective in some particular situation, otherwise, its disadvantages are overweigh its advantages.
Admittedly, it is reasonable to design courses based on needs and interests of each student, especially for university students. Since traditional education is a little bit rigidify which might put students into a deadlock. In other words, when students go to the college, they often can not find which specialty they really enjoy,or some of them lucked to find one but the time has passed by. Professor Judi M. H. who is an US psychologist, she has a survey about how interest important for university success, It conclude that interests gives a richer understanding of motivational dynamics that can promote academic success and lifelong learning as adolescents enter university, and make academic choices. And we also have the same feeling in this point, when we fascinated with certain field, no matter how difficult it is, we always have energy to overcome them.
On the other hand, it is true that individual needs and interests should be satisfied in some way, but it is not feasible to specially designed courses to meet each student’s demand, especially with fundamental education. Nowadays educational mode has been studied by numerous educators and economists; it has developed for many years and has a rather practical pattern to suit for circumstance of today. We could simply imagine that every one has individual interest, or maybe each of them has several interests, so every school needs tremendous teachers. This is impossible. Well, individual education indeed has fostered a large number of remarkable people, like Mozart and Leonardo da Vinci, but the governments have not enough capital to cultivate each student to become a master. Even if individual education has practiced in some particular area and private school, it is unrealism to apply to the whole educational system.
Finally, specifically designed individual education may impede the development of students. A lot of students are used to learn knowledge in which they interested by themselves. However, teachers and designed courses may change learners' thoughts in some way. Since the relationship between students and teachers are asymmetrical and unbalanced, when teachers being a position of authority, the students have little choices but to passively absorb the information provided by the teacher. As Professor Judi said: “there is not much that educators can do about individual interest, but they have an enormous impact on it.” Therefore, specifically designed individual education may not truly effective. Nevertheless, it seems generous education always has some benefits on motivating students’ interests and provide an integral perspective in their study. Bill Gates is good example, he is surely a genius of computer, but if he has not the ability of management, he will never found Microsoft and become the riches man in the world.
All in all, as I have mentioned above, specifically designed education for each student is not practically, it is not enough for students to free their mind and soul, and not truly effective to meet their needs and interests. In the field of studying education, we also need more novelty and sensible ideas to meet all students’ demand. |
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