Issues 5
Should a nation require the students to study the same national curriculum instead of allowing different parts of the nation to determine their own curriculums, as the statement suggested? Admittedly, a same national curriculum is crucial and important for the students to form a same education background. However, I fundamentally disagree with this statement because it underestimates the characteristic of different local circumstance and the differences between students from different realms of the nation.
First and foremost, there is no denying that the fact that some basic and core curriculums is necessary for all the students. Because the same curriculum will make an effective and equal system for every students before they enter college. Firstly, some basic and core curriculums, such as the traditional courses can ensure all of our students be favored with the opportunity to learn all merits of the traditional values that have been created and tested for a long time by our ancestors. Mathematics, language and history lessons can form a fundamental knowledge for the students to develop themselves. Take account of all these mentioned above, it is convenient for educationist of different parts of the nation to scientifically arrange and prepare the classes of the curriculum. Secondly, with the same national curriculum, the students will grow up with the same education background. Thus, as informed and production members of society, it is easier for college to build courses suitable for all freshmen. Despite the merits of the speaker’s claim, however, I disagree with the statement because it seems to recommend that there are no differences between the educational environments in different areas of the country. However, there are lots of domestic courses in different realms of nations, which represent the local feature, culture, social environment, geological factors and so on. In some special regions where local persons may posses some kind of traditions and customs totally different from rest of the nation, unduly emphasize the application of the national curriculum may ruin their culture and value system. Especially in history class, the content of lessons should not place any discrimination to the history of their own racial. One the other hand, in a multi-cultural society, different ethnic communities should be given the opportunity to preserve and promote their traditional cultures.
At the personal level, education should take account of the individual needs and interests in respect that the genuine purposes of education, which is rooted in eliciting the distinct potential of students and help they realize the riches within themselves. Thus, considering the individual interest and need is beneficial and imperative for education system. As a result, over uniform will make it impossible for different students to elicit their distinct talent.
From the analysis made above, I concede that it is important and vital to require certain basic and core lessons in the curriculum. Nevertheless, over uniform about the curriculum will lead to a counterproductive and dire consequence. In my view, it is also important to consider the special characteristics of different areas. Therefore, the best approach is to take an all-sided consideration and seek a balance between the national curriculum and the local curriculum.
Argument 7
In this letter, the author concludes that residents of Clearview should vote for Ann Green rather than for Frank Braun, a member of town council. To support this recommendation, the author cites the increase in the number of factories and hospital patients treated for respiratory illnesses. Because the current council members are not protecting the city’s environment, electing Green will be a good solution. At first glance, this argument seems to be convincing, but further reflection reveals that these evidences neither constitute a logical statement in support of its conclusion nor providing compelling support making this argument sound and invulnerable.
The threshold problem with this argument is that the author assumes that the number of factories in Clearview has doubled during the past year. Although this is entirely possible, there is no evidence to show that these factories pollute the environment. It is most likely that most of them cause very little environment pollution. Beside that, air pollution problems might be caused by other factors, such as strong winds from nearby towns. In addition, 25 percent more patients with respiratory illnesses have no direct relationship with the air pollution. Perhaps most of patients are from other cities, but only come to Cleaview’s hospital to receive excellent treatment for respiratory illnesses. Until these questions are answered, the statistical examples are worth as evidence.
The second flaw that weakens the logic of this argument is that the author assumes that Frank Braun, as a current council member, is not protecting the environment. Nevertheless, there is no guarantee that it is necessarily case and it is quite possible that Braun does try his best to protect the environment but difficulties arise. So, even if the current council as a whole does not actively aid in protect the environment , this does not prove the same is true for Frank Braun.
The last but not the least important, even if the author can substantiate all of the foregoing assumptions, his assumption that Ann Green should be voted is still unwarranted. As a leader of city, a full view in place of whether that leader has the credentials and experience to meet the requirement is also need. If Ann Green has no respect for the economy, education and other important aspects of running a city government, voters should be wary of choosing this person.
To sum up, the conclusion lacks credibility because the evidence cited in the analysis does not lend strong support to what the arguer maintains. Therefore, if the author had considered the given factors discussed above, the argument would have been more through and logically acceptable.
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