Issue51 Exe2

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TOPIC: ISSUE51 - "Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student."
WORDS: 576          TIME: 1:30:00          DATE: 2008-2-29

     Will Education really act effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student? In reaction to this issue, I hold that it requires comprehensively analysis from dialectic perspective, while I agree it's merit from certain standpoint insofar as it can be specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of students. After critical analysis of the concerning concepts and hypotheses, a preliminary viewpoint comes to my mind that specifically designed education to a reasonable extent will be practical and effective.
     It is true that needs and interest play an inconceivable role on the individual study. In the one hand, incontrovertibly, the needs are part-and-parcel since we realize and care much about them. As a consequence, we try our best to satisfy ourselves including study without reservation. For example, if you want to go abroad for further education, you need to study your major as well as English. As a matter of fact, there is no defying enumeration. On the other hand, it was even as the prominent scientist Einstein once said, " Interest is the best teacher." Since we humans are the intellectual and emotional species, it takes all sorts to make our world. Without needs, we would come to a world of standstill; without interest, the world would become monotony and tediousness.
     As for as the great influence of needs and interests are concerned, I approve the statement without reservation that  a education system that can take into account  the specific needs and interests of each individual will actually help them to fully achieve their potential. In such a scientific, efficient and reasonable educational system, students, feeling centered and appreciated, will be more motivated to study.
     However, we would concede that despite the merits of needs and interests mentioned above, overextended the needs and interests of individuals will be possible counterproductive, even harmful.  The harm it produces, in my view, both palpable and profound. Let's bring our discussion here to a practical and present context. Consider, for example, if a student in school merely study his or her interested courses but giving up all others, you can imagine, perhaps, one day he or she will become a good specialist but absolutely not a qualified and complete social man.  In short, for the individual, it has a debasing on the integrated development including the core values such as the philosophy of oneself; for the society, it not only defies the mission of formal education that cultivating all-round developed high-quality talents, but also promotes a negative tendency among people.
       To better curb such unfavorable blights, it is advisable for us to take the following steps into consideration in due course. In the first place, schools should do their best to offer more choice and autonomy to students as long as the quality of compulsory education is guaranteed. In the second place, we should pour more investment into education in respect of the resource limitation for it. In the third place, we should cultivate and strengthen people’s awareness of the significance of education for our human society.
       In conclusion, I concede that needs and interests of individual are necessarily the factors greatly influencing the effectiveness of education. Nonetheless, the speaker’s claim overrates the importance of one’s needs and interests for education. In the final judgment, the optimal approach, in my view, is a balanced one that education should stands from a global view when it comes to one’s needs and interests.