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用时两个半小时…第一次的痛苦,望指正,一定回拍 51"Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student. The author states that to achieve truly effective education,educators must design their courses specifically to meet specific needs of every student,which seems to be a truth. However,shaping education to each individual's interests contradicts with some other factors in the effort of providing effective education for each student. I do agree with the author that students are better educated when taking courses designed for each of them instead of a uniform curriculum, which overlooked the diversity of the students' backgrounds,patterns of thoughts,learning habits,and most importantly, their interests. Interest is the best teacher, especially when we look at the fields medaler Terrence Tao, who loves mathematics and studied calculus at seven, became college professor in his early twenties, and finally got the prize, meanwhile he didn't learn most of the regular courses in high school.Hence in a world thirsty of talents, letting all students study the same courses is no longer the best solution. We need some adjustments for individuals. However,the author overlooked some unsubstitute ingredients in effective education. First, some basic courses like language,history and law,should not be omitted from any student's curriculum.Otherwise,we take the risk of making the type of student who is professional on his favorite subject,but who has no idea of his own country,the society he is living in,and the moral disciplines it holds.He may become alienated by others.Even more,his knowledge could be used for illegal acts,which disobeys the intentions of education.For example,hi-tech crime,which has been developing rapidly since the computer is widely used,has done great harm to societies.The criminals in this kind of crime are all well-educated, even experts in their area,but their knowledge is used against mankind. This fact warns us that basic courses is essential in education that wiping it out from an individualized curriculum could cause serious social problems. Second, by separating a group of students into individuals and give them different educations, we lost the benefits of the existence of competitors which make students find their advantanges and disadvantages during the comparisons with others and motivates them.Even in the case of some world-famous companies,we can see the benefits of rivaling. Coca-cola and Pepsi, have been in a fight for the market for many decades,in which they both learned from the other, both get developed from small companies to large enterprises and both obtained a large group of consumers.This illustrates that competition is essential in every process of development,education involved,of course. Finally,over individualizing diminished the power of teamwork, whichplayed an essential role in study.Everyone who has a group learning experience would agree that by discussing and sharing ideas with others one can learn faster and deeper.But if students study various courses on their own,they would becomestubborn and stuck in their own world,making the teamwork impossible.As an illustrasion,in many colleges we can see seminars and work groups held by students and professors,often concerning a difficult theory or an effort-demanding experiment.In the situations above it is too hard for one man to do all the things,but through efficient teamwork everyone can learn a lot by doing less job, which shows that teamwork should not be abandoned from education. In short, although individualizing can sometime increase the efficiency of study, education, as a method to pass knowledge and values from generations to generations, may not reach its goal if practiced to individually. What we need is a balance between uniform educations and individual ones. |