Issue 51 [Shining Sep] 作文组 第四次作业

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Issue 51 [Shining Sep] 作文组 第四次作业

1。观点：满足大众需要的才是有效的
2。让步：specific的好处
3。小孩子不知道自己的need
4。教育资源少，specific的花费大
5。specific花费可能导致的后果
6。重申观点

没有什么出彩的地方。平平的一篇作文。不过第一次在规定时间里写完了(虽然还有很多语法和拼写错误没有找出来...下一两篇要有改善!)，还是一个比较有意义的里程碑啦~后面的作文还要多加点文采，再加点比较insightful的分析~

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ISSUE51："Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student."
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To judge whether education is truly effective, the benchmark is different from person to person. Some may believe that a specifically designed education will be good to personal development while others may insist that only a broad education to all is efficient. I hold the opinion that although education that is effective designed to meet specific needs can be beneficial to individuals, only broad education can help the whole society to reach the ultimate goal of education and be truly effective.

Admittly, when designed specifically to meet one student's need, the learning process can reach its highest point. Students' needs are heard and responded; the effective teaching methods are adopted; the inner desire to learn what they want to learn are triggered, and the result of this process can prove to be effective as students find the point where their interest are and potentials are met. With all the abundant resources devoted, anyone, if not inferior, would reach the goal of education: one's love for knowledge develops day by day; one learns what he likes with the whole-hearted will and devotion; one best uses his or her potential to demonstrate his or her various abilities.

But problems arise when knowledge is taught in this way. When we need to cultivate a child, we should first know his or her real interest and need. Is it easy for a child, given a kid under 12, to decide what he or she is going to learn specifically? Does he or she really know what his or her real needs are? Won't that decision be too rational and irresponsible for his or her future? No one can give an exact and satisfiable answer to these questions. The chances are, the learning is too complicated a system that any premature kids or even teenagers could make fair decisions about their interest and need. They may change their ideas from time to time. Thus the mere good willing "to meet their need and interest" is too difficult to put into practical use.

Besides, to evaluate the outcomes of education, one should not base on the individual's performance. The ultimate goal of education is to inform most of the people, if not all, in the society. If education is totally designed to each individual's need, considering the cost of time and money to know each student, the one-to-one teaching style, the cost of faculties, this total amount of cost would be huge. The schools and the families will suffer a lot from this heavy burden. Even the government will spare more taxes payments to support education.

If that is the case, then only very wealth family can afford their children to go to the school. Even if those children will be the elite of the society in tomorrow, there are more left behind as illiterates. It is possible that some one cannot survive with the specific skills which used to be learned from school. Can that kind of society, without a equilibrium between the rich and poor, well-learned and uneducated, a good society? Can we say that the education reached its goal of getting people enlightened? Would it be possible that as most people lack the education, our society will even recede? Can we judge the education is truly effective only to the lucky few of the whole society? Possibly not. And this would be a disaster for the human beings.

By evaluating the cost and the revenues of the education style to teach student with specific design, I suggest, to make the whole society better educated, the education should be designed not only for the individual's need, but for the mass of people as a whole. Regardless of the most of the people's need and the society's need as a whole the education cannot be said to be effective.

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Nowadays, student-centered education, which is specially designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student, is more and more popular. As we know, education plays an important role in one’s life and the whole nation, and therefore an effective education method can earn a lot for oneselves and the nation. As far as I concerned, student-centered education can make students to learn forwardly without being taught mechanically and passively. Thus, I generally agree with the speaker's assertion.
    Throughout the nation and history, it has emphasized that public education as a means of transmitting democratic value, creating equality of opportunity and preparing new generations of citizens in society. Thus, the reasons why I support the statement above is that the traditional teacher-centered education imposed too much on students, which they may not eager to learn or has little to do with their future jobs. For supporting examples one need look no further than  before universities or even when they are freshmen, students have to learn a lot mathematics and computer languages even if their major in humanity and social-science. It is a waste of time and energy for some of who otherwise would spend more time learning their majors and something they like. On the other hand, students who major in science and engineering have to spend much time learning politics and literature, which they are not actually interested in. What a pity for such students!
    Admittedly, student-centered education has its advantages. While however, only student-centered education may sometimes lead to problems, for the reasons that students in universities especially freshmen do not have a clear view towards their future. In other words, they do not know exactly what kind of jobs they are searching and even what kind of life they are going to lead. It is the time when effective instructions are needed, which will give them proper suggestions and actually help students to choose the true field which they are really interested in and what exact courses are useful towards them and their future. That is the case. Thus, to some extent, proper and prompt help from the instructors is very necessary.
   As to the society, education should consider its need too. For some reason, the society do not need so many people from the same major, while it may need people from different majors to cooperate and compete together for a better social development.  
    To sum up, it is better to arrange the courses and design the education methods both meet the individual and the society needs. Only follow this rule, can education go long way and better developed.