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WORDS: 558 Generally speaking, the purse of education is to transmit a society’s accumulated knowledge and values to the target groups of students, so that their mind, skills, and physical ability can be well prepared for the social roles they are going to lead in real life. Only the education fitting this purpose could be labeled as TRULY EFFECTIVE. It is undeniable that individual requirements should be taken into consideration by educators. Yet absolutely personalized education, as cited by the quotation, is impractical, hazardous, and thus ineffective. Admittedly, general education--with standard curriculum and standard teaching methods, has committed certain mistakes in neglecting students’ personal voices, which directly gives birth to the argument for individual-driven education. For instance, some students may want to develop their personal hobbies, say painting, during their limited spare time, while piles of homework unfortunately gert in the way; what is more, they have more than mastered the knowledge related to the homework. Should they simply turn a deaf ear to the teachers’ requirement, which will definitely affect their GPA and consequently deduce their chance to higher education, or should they reluctantly hold their interests in abeyance, which will possibly shade their dreams to be celebrated painters? Either choice would frustrate the students. Problems like this are common in nowadays education, which unavoidably degrade educational effectiveness. Although imperfect current education is, absolutely individual-oriented tutoring could not guarantee educational effectiveness either and even worse, could result in social chaos. Under the circumstance of education being unavailable to numerous impoverished kids, educational resources could only be too pressing but rather sufficient to meet personal needs. I concede that it is viable to focus the limited resources to certain students, but what about the abandoned children? Without sufficient education, they will grow up into rude citizens incompatible with modern civilization, they will be incapable of grasp any skill to earn a life, and probably some of them will be reduced to anti-socialists. Should we manage to collect enough educational resources and distribute equally to meet each student’s requirement, the educational effectiveness would not be realized. The reason is that group-oriented teaching today is also designed to cultivate cooperation ability among students; while in the personalized education, educators care more about personal needs which will lead to students’ ego-centrism. Then the question is: how can we accomplish truly effectiveness in education? My answer is: improve the existing educational system, as well as resort to social forces. First of all, educators should give more freedom to students, such as assign less homework, add more selected courses, and allow talented students’ absence in courses they have mastered. Furthermore, social organizations ought to establish technical schools or training classes to help students develop their hobbies or skills. For instance, students, who fail to fix the normal university life but prefer cooking, may drop out and join a cooking school instead. Last but not the least family cultivation should never be neglected. A case related here is Lang Lang, the celebrated pianist who played at the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for US President Obama; ever since he was very young, his father pinched and scraped to buy him a piano and insisted him practice everyday . In conclusion, individual-oriented education is unfeasible and cannot guarantee the educational effectiveness. Instead, improved traditional education in combination with social assistance could result in real effective education. |