Issue154 【越洋农场战队】morallrey

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TOPIC: ISSUE154 - "Both parents and communities must be involved in the local schools. Education is too important to leave solely to a group of professional educators."
WORDS:460        TIME: 45          DATE: 2006-8-7

Can education be left to a group of professional educators, such as tutors, teachers, professors? This is a focus incurring wide concern of parents, educators, and government. Not only does this question involve the extent to which education could explore the potential of students, but also it is relevant to the development and well-being of future society as a whole. In my view, it is, of course, unwise to leave education to a group of professional educators, who, though, are experienced in teaching.

First of all, education is not only an enterprise that only imparts knowledge, information, as well as technology to students, but on top of that should advanced education pass such merits, personality, as well as ethic standards as tolerance, generality, philanthropism and so forth to the accepters. It is widely acknowledged that in order to suit juveniles, teenagers, and undergraduate students to tomorrow society, elemental value and custom inherited from so long-span a history in any country such as China, India, Israel should on most part be taught to students. Is it ridiculous that a Chinese does not know why there is a festival called Duanwu or dragon boat festival in which people celebrate it by eating Zongzi. Indeed, if a person who is up to 20 does not know the origin or genesis of the fulgent culture surrounding him, should a education that only taught knowledge out of life be blamed or parents that do not have the chance to told their son or daughter be disparaged? Therefore, education should not only impart the knowledge that can be easily obtained from textbooks but also it is obligated to pass radical episteme as to the culture and civilization to students, which on the most part are not contained in books.

Furthermore, such merits and custom mentioned above could be better taught by people other than teachers in the school. As can been seen from so many luminaries, celebrities, be they scientists, politicians, poets, they are more or less be enlightened by their parents or other relatives in early childhood. For instance, Libai, China’s most renowned and distinguished poet, was taught the basic etiquettes by his mother. Mozart, a prodigy who had composed and performed so great a amount of classic music, had been brought by her father, a musician in the palace, frequently to concert. There is a common characteristic in these people: they are not taught by professional educators but more or less been edified by their relatives.

In summary, having considered the points discussed above, it is safely to draw such a conclusion: education should not only be solely left to professional educators, but also it ought to attract the attention of people outside the kindergarten, elementary school, senior high school as well as university.