Issue51 [0610G急速末班车小组]第一次作业

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ISSUE  51 "Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student." [05/90; 06/90]
只有针对每个学生的需要和兴趣，教育才真正的有意义。

提纲：
1.论证：教育的目的和对象决定了其必须以人为本，以学生为本。
2.正面：教育应当以发现和培养学生优势为主，因此必须因循价值取向不同因材施教。
3.反面：每个学生的天赋和兴趣不同，过于强调单一的人才标准会造成严重的浪费，人才上的和教育资源上的。

As is known, education plays an important role during an individual’s life and somehow affects the social development. Therefore, it’s significant to discuss how to make education most effective to an individual. However, this problem seems to be controversial and full of challenge.

Education’s goal is to develop individuals and teach them what their dreams are and how to realize them. Therefore, education needs to put the individuals who receive education in the first place as its subject, which is determined by the nature of education. Whatever the concrete educational subject is, it surely isn’t successful that the students never realize that their self-fulfillment is the education’s real purpose. Thus as far as I am concerned, education doesn’t make any sense unless it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student.

Meanwhile, the task of education is mostly finding and cultivating the individual student’s advantages and encouraging them to pursue their careers. So, education needs to be different for different students because every one’s definition of success varies with each other.

On the other hand, if we ignore individual needs and interests, and overemphasize the only standard of successful students, education will possibly lead to great waste, both students’ potentials and education resources. Since the only standard of value may bring in the misunderstanding of the function of education, and the boring classes may make the students motiveless in their courses. Furthermore, the limited education resources need to be distributed rationally and efficiently among students in order to cultivate the best savant or staff for our society. Thus education will waste lots of teaching resources such as good teachers and high-tech laboratories if the individual interests are totally ignored.
Education nowadays is still teacher-centered or knowledge-centered which I think should be student-centered in some places around the world. There are several obstacles which it cannot overcome easily, but the real education should concentrates on individual needs and interests. Students should have more flexible schedules for their courses and more professional guide on how to study what they are really interested in. Alternative learning should be encouraged, while at the same time thorough and deep research is supervised by the tutor in order to prevent laziness.

Without considering individual needs and interests, education will lose the ultimate purpose—to help individual develop better. Foundational knowledge should properly be taught in the class, for example, for a physics learner, mathematics should be learned well, but education should respect more to individual interests and provide the learners enough knowledge and good atmosphere to pursue it, not only accept it.