Educational institutions should dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
Should educational institutions own responsbilities to persuade students to pursue a field that is more likely to succeed? It seemly appealing at a first glance since students can save time and energy for themselves as well as the society. However, we have to admit the fact that this policy is hard to garantee its fairness and it somehow go against the true essential of education for the following reasons.
Admittedly, students can save numerous time and energy for the fields which they have greater chance to succeed. By doing that, students can be released from the fields that they are suffering from grant pain because they can make littel or no achievement. Since they know that they can hardly succeed in certain fields, they can shift to the fields that they are more likely to succeed. Therefore, students can save time for fields of study that they can succeed and society can benefit from the achievements of these successful students earlyier.
But here comes the problem, who can garantee whether a certain student can succeed on the current field or not? Professor who have taught him/her? The dean of his/her school? Are they authorizors in evaluating students' abilities? According to our experience, no one can tell with great confidence that a certain student will not succeed in the current field nor can anyone guarantee his/her judgment. It is highly possible that a student who had been predicted that he/she can hardly break through in current field actually achieve grant success in the current field after a few years, but he/she changed to another professor who believe he/she can succeed.
Most importantly, one vital respect of education is enlightening but not discouraging. As a result, when a student had chosen a field of study, educators only need to teach the knowledge the field required and stimulate the interests of students. For better prupose, educators can act as advisors to provide suggestions for students and leave them to decide whether to change to another field or not. Furthermore, if a student has been dissuade too many times, he/she will be extremely disappointed and may never succeed in any field of lives. If this is the case, it really fly in the face of true essential of education.
In summary, educational institutions should have second thoughts before they decide to dissuade students from the fields of study that they believe students are of rare likeliness to succeed. Even though they may have a chance to help students save time, they also risk ruining the future of students.
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发表于 2012-9-25 23:51:53
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