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ISSUE51 Education will be trully effictive only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student.
The speaker asserts that, as long as the educators want to instruct the students effectively, they must design the education issues to meet every student's need and interests. While I agree that in some aspects in the education students' personal interests and needs should be took into account, I insist that, some curriculums, even are far from students' desire but helpful for students' character improvement, as well as the ones that meet the students' unreasonable interests, should be given second thought to determine whether they should be put into the box.
First of all, the education of student-centered form does show more effectiveness than the traditional form of teacher-centered.
The teacher-centered education tend to ignore the interests and need of each student, taking all the students as a single one student, at the same time consider little about their interests or need, and all the contains of the curriculums are determined without asking for any opinion from the students, just take my elementary school time for example. At the beginning of every semester, all of our courses are settled and the very plans, the processes, of the teachers' instruction on certain courses are also required to be worked out before the semester began, which means, the every day, every class of the semester has already been arranged, and every student is
obligated to obey the determined plans. There is no doubt that most issue about a single student's interests or specific need are ignored from the instruction, neither a extra beg for some knowledge about class-irrelevant issue nor a student’s legging behind in understanding a given theory would be paid attention by a teacher.
However, things can be like this, when are put in the students-centered education, as the speaker says,
students' interests and need are taken as the guide of teaching, everything is within the students' willingness, then how about the curriculums out of the students' interests but are essential for them to get fully developed? As we all know, there are some courses students certainly have unpleasant association with but undoubtedly necessary for them to develop a qualified personality as well as a logical perspective toward the world. For example, the Advanced Mathematics curriculum in nowadays' Chinese colleges, toward which quite a few students consider impertinent to what they are focusing on in their own majors, especially for those majors like literature or management. But the educators, the stuff who should have a perspective above the whole situation, should know that the Advanced Mathematics do help the students acquire a logical sense, which is vital for the success in their future careers. So even some curriculums violate students' interests or need as they perspective, these curriculums should still be concluded into the education system.
In addition, when it comes to the students' interests and needs, the unreasonable ones should also be took into account. Undoubtedly, working at students' unreasonable desires would deem to be followed by chaos in education. Imagine, if the students in a college ask for adding PE classes to three times each day, for the reason of The Olympic Games is coming and every citizen should pay more time on exercise, then should the college reply to satisfy the students? Though this example is some kind of extreme, it indicates that some time the students' requests may be obviously unreasonable and should not be followed.
To sum up, equilibrium should be accomplished between the need and interests of each student, and the guidance of the educators' perspective above the whole issue of education. In another word, an effective education should both be guided by a resonable perspective as a whole and the interests as well as the need of each student. |
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