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6) A nation shouldrequire all of its students to study the same national curriculum until theyenter college.

Education before college aims to shape the characteristics of under age children, develop their intelligence and broad their knowledge to the degree that meets the primary social demands. Schooling, along with home education and social education undertakes the affairs. National curriculum form  the frame of the school education before university, which means it decides what every student can learn before being an adult with mature self-management and moral judgement. However,  from my point of view, in order to maintain diversity in thinking, culture and even labor force, the national curriculum should not be standardized into one single pattern.

Surely most of the citizens benefit from the uniform curriculum for its undoubted equality. Usually, states with a unified curriculum tend to have relatively fair university entrance examinations and evaluation system linked to the curriculum. People believe that eliminating interfering factors inside education system provides them with greater chance to receive higher education. Unnecessary options prepared only for privileged class to take overpriced learning is a typical example.  Besides, the schools utilize the same subjects to inculcate students with the shared values in the country, promoting the cultural heritage and accumulation. Moreover, it is a critical source of the social cohesion. Accompanied by the Confucian curriculum, Chinese civilization lasts more than 2000 years consistently.

However, unified curriculum is still not the choice for many nations, especially those who have large population and territory. Inside a country, religion, race, economic condition and culture may vary significantly. Image how large the budget is to add swimming courses into the syllabus of a middle school near a desert. How could children in remote rural areas learn computer without internet or even electricity? Though kicking those subjects out of the curriculum seems to be a satisfying solution, carrying out flexible curricula is apparently more acceptable when take into account the astonishing cost of money and time in training offered by universities and businesses.  

In the same way, different institutions needs various kinds of workforce or researchers with specified skills and features. In a country, only a few students go to the university while the others seeking for work just after graduation from high school. If a nation adopt the policy to make their students study the same national curriculum before college, the extreme case is that employers and admission officers always meet the ‘same’ applicants, leading to vicious consequences. The distortion made by the inflexible standard totally deteriorate the smooth connection between schooling before college and students’ further development in either workplaces or universities.

Thus, by defining the national curriculum as a guide rather than restrictions, the education can take the advantages of retaining traditions and sharing values while averting producing standard products in a pipeline. A complete national curriculum should include the principles in teaching, compulsory subjects and the granted selective courses offered by local schools. In addition, a relevant evaluation benchmark considering both efficiency and fairness is required to perfect the education system.

To solve the problem of poor conditions of teaching in some backward region, non-governmental organizations can be an effective supplement. According to statistics, ‘Teach for China’ helped approximately ten thousand students in poverty. More organizations and individual volunteers do the same thing every year in China.

Education is never a simple matter, and a national issue is always complicated. It is wise to comply with the principles and settle the specifics flexibly on a case by case basis.

109) Some peoplebelieve that scientific discoveries have given us a much better understandingof the world around us.Others believe that science has revealed to us that theworld is infinitely more complex than we ever realized.

All the individualsin modern society benefit from the explosive development of science andtechnology in the past century to some extend. Our ancestors on the back ofhorses should have not imagined that thousands of years later we can travel aslong as 1000 miles in one day just by sitting comfortbly in those running steelboxes. To explain why people can utilize the natural world more efficiently andeffectively today, I think the main reason is that we know much more about itthan ever before. Moreover, in the predictable future, human beings willundoubtedly get better understanding of this brilliant world.

Without thesignificant discoveries in scienfic areas, people’s vision would still benarrowed to what right before their eyes. The accidental invention of themicroscope by Leeuwenhoek revealed a new world of micro-organism, and eventuallyled medicine to another level. Gradually, researchers began to know about thecauses of various deseases. The study on bacteria and virus makes medicine tobe a discipline which is more of experimental than of emprical. Doctors caneasily explain the mechanism of the cure for the patients in hospital. Medicinecompanies extrct specific substances out of a great deal of herbs to eliminateby-effects from pills. The average lifespan of people on earth dooubled throughlast centuries. All these comes from increasing knowledge of medical science.

In addition,scientists try hard on researches just in order to get better understanding ofthe world, sometimes they succeed. The enthusiasm for science usuallyaccompaies with pure curiosity. When the apple fell on Newton‘s head, theconfuse formed in his mind drove him to interpret why. Since than, people coulddescribe the world better with the concept of gravity. Indeed, the realisticneeds to know about the world is more common. Scientists have no choice but toanalyze the structure and the ingredients of different natrual minerals formore durable materials and more efficient energy.

However, theprogress of science truly brings us with more puzzles and surprising issuesnever been dreamed. The history of human society verified this point. Millionsof years ago, ancient people cared only about how to pick the berries on thetree and grab a fish in the stream for the next meal. When it came to farming,they worried about fertilizing-the concept they never knew before. The firstone who looked at the rim of the Milky Way through astronomical telescope musthave immediately come up with a question-what is out there? Along with theadvance of science and technology, people realize that the world is infinitelycomplex more clearly.

Though it isimpossible for one single man to comprehend everything on earth, we havejustification which is persuasive enough to hopefully believe that all themysteries of the universe is knowable to human. The subversive discoveries ofscience refreshed the observers’ cognition many a time in history. When criticsstated that Physics came to an end after the collapse of the belief inclassical mechanics, quantum mechanics and relavity steped on the stage in goodtime.

No other creatureslike human place great effort on explaining the nature. This is why we arehuman and what we should be proud of. The fear of the infinite unknown shouldnot be the block of groping in dark.