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Date: 2008-7-16

Time: 8:38:50

Issue No.139

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Question:

Some experts maintain that students learn best in a highly structured environment, one that emphasizes discipline, punctuality, and routine. Others insist that educators, if they are to help students maximize their potential, ought to maintain an atmosphere of relative freedom and spontaneity.

Explain your position on the issue of structure versus freedom in an ideal learning environment. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

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Your Answer:

As to the issue about how to study efficiently and sustainably, different people will render different opinions, which can be, fundamentally, categorized in to two, the discipline one and the freedom one. As a college student myself, I would like to support the second one for several concerns. On the other hand, we cannot bear the consequences of overlooking the merits of a studying model emphasizing discipline.

In the first, the traditional relationship between teachers and students has been confronted with unprecedental challenges in the past one hundred years. In most colleges, as well as middle school, the teachers being dictating on the stage and students taking notes has changed to a more free model. For example, most university teachers encourage their students raising questions or interrupting their speeches whenever those sudents think necessary. The benefits of this model is fascinating, that students will have more opportunities to discuss with their teachers in a more efficient way.

In the second place, it is the rapid development of modern soceity, which attach great importance to innovative ideas, that requires the free teaching model to be dominant. Today, represented by computer skills, new technologies and theories come up at a bewilding speed, the force behind which is the innovative ideas. Never before we find how important it is to find oneself another path to success. For instance, Bill Gates withdrawd his Harvord course to establish Microsoft, which might be dispised by traditional studying model, but when we find his success, we believe he made the right decision. This soceity advocate innovation and spontaneity to the extent our ancestors can never image before, which means the traditional idea about study should be interpreted in new channels.

On the other hand, however, we cannot ignore the importance of synchronize discipline, punctuality and routine to our component of study. To explain this viewpoint, we should go back to the singularity about the purpose of study. We teach and we learn not simply to endow people with skills to work, moreover, we want cultivate people to be a civilian or a educated people. The purpose of education should never be limited to passing skills but extended to the scope of cultivate character and personalities. To follow discipline or “learn orders" is of fundamental importance of personal enrichment and the ethics of the whole society. As an old Chinese saying goes "there cannot be square and circle without rulers and yuangui"

All in all, personally, I believe to create a free and spontaneous environment for students contributes to the cultivation of their innovative ideas and can better promote the spread of knowledge. On the other hand, learn discipline and routing also constitutes an important part of the forging of students' characters.

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Date: 2008-7-16

Time: 9:06:28

Argument No.102

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Question:

The following appeared as part of a business plan created by the management of the Take Heart Fitness Center.

`After opening the new swimming pool early last summer, Take Heart saw a 12 percent increase in the use of the center by members. Therefore, in order to increase the number of our members and thus our revenues, which depend on membership fees, we should continue to add new recreational facilities in subsequent years: for example, a multipurpose game room, a tennis court, and a miniature golf course. Being the only center in the area offering this range of activities would give us a competitive advantage in the health and recreation market.~

Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative explanations or counterexamples might weaken the conclusion. You can also discuss what sort of evidence would strengthen or refute the argument, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion.

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Your Answer:

The argument concluded that to add new recreational facilities in subsequent years, the Take Heart Fitness Center (THFC) can increase its number of members and consequently its revenues. However, with scrutiny, we find this argument is based on a series unwarranted assumptions, which make it groundless as it stands.

In the first place, the author falsefully attribute the 12 percent increase in the use of the center by member to the new swimming pool. However, without specifically designed questionnaire or further information, we cannot make this conclusion. For example, it is possible that in the past year, the community where the THFC located saw a increase in population due to large number of immigrants, or it is possible that last year more people had realized the importance of physical fitness because the intensified advertising strategy of THFC. Anyway, without exclusion of the factors, we have no reason to believe that it is the new swimming pool that contributes the increase of members.

In the second, the author unfairly equals more membership to more revenues. For example, the author ignores the possibility that the cost of new added facilities cannot be supplemented by the increased membership fees. It is also possible that the increased membership call for more resources to manage and maintain the facilities, namely more staff, and it might increase the overall cost of THFC. Without consideration about this factors, the proposal to add new facilities find itself no ground.

In the third place, even if new facilities can make more profits, the manager ignores other possible channels when he/she carries out this plan. For example, to establish a new center in another community might be more profitable or to introduce a new managerial system might help to reduce the cost, or to update old facilities rather than buy new ones might be more economical. All of these factors serve to undermine the proposal of the manager.

All in all, we find that a series of unwarranted assumptions soften the argumentation of this proposal. In order to persuade me, the manager has to carry out more details, such as what contribute to the increased membership last year, whether the increased membership create more profit for THFC, and whether there is any alternatives to increase the profit of the fitness center.

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