I3 教育 -- 求拍

冷月钟笛

定时30min，超时7min，回头修改了单词拼写上的错误~

Issue 3.  
Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim.  In developingand supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
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We always value education a most important issue and expect the educational organizations to do the best to guarantee a good one for every single child. While in many situations our expectations are reasonable, sometimes the responsibility we expect the institutions to undertake is somehow exorbitant. This issue about whether an educational institution has a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed is one of such cases. Although sometimes from some views I concede the opinion in this issue is worth thinking about, in most situations I do not agree with this point in a wide sphere.

The first issue is how to define the term "success"? Does it represent more money you make or bigger reputation you earn? It seems more than that. The "success" is in fact an abstract concept, generally meaning the expected goal being fulfilled with respect to different goals of different people. With this blurring standard for judgment, I wonder how the educational institutions distinguish who can make success and who cannot in a given subject. Given two extreme cases, they may manage to do it: we can tell that a dumb person not suitable for a defending lawyer's job since he cannot talk, and we can tell that a deaf person cannot fulfill the requirement for a qualified musician due his disability. But even in these situations, where these disable people may not be able to fulfill the major perspective of one job, we cannot say they cannot succeed in this whole industry: the dumb can still be an authority in laws by doing some paper work without talking and the dumb can also create music like Beethoven, if they really devote. In other cases, it may be difficult to tell who is unlikely to “succeed” in some work. From this point, the educational institution simply cannot manage to fulfill this responsibility.

Moreover, even if the standard of success can be defined as a fixed issue, the institutions may fail to unearth the real potential of a student, and therefore mislead him with a partial evaluation. Consider Einstein as an example, who was somehow gauche and slow compared to other children in his childhood: if let the institution judged which field was more suitable for Einstein and he followed, he could possibly never set foot on the field of physics. No matter how much effort an educational institution pay, they may never portray a full picture on a student's potential for a work judgment, let alone the common value that the freedom of judgment should be obeyed and the choice should be made by the person instead of others.

Given the educational institution cannot be aggressive to make judgment instead of the students themselves, they do have responsibility to provide information as a good reference for the students to make a wise judgment. There must be some data technical that can only be obtained by the professional institutions, data like the employment situation in this major, field description, potential development branches and so forth. I suppose the educational frameworks can fulfill this job and carry out their responsibility well.

In sum, there are many natural barriers inhibiting the educational institution from making judgment on field choosing for the students, barriers like the blurring "success" concept, the difficulty in evaluation on student's potential, freedom of decision and maybe the financial and technical issues. Good profile and data on the related major should be provided by the institutions to the students as a good reference, and that is enough.

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普渡哥

a nice one!

冷月钟笛

thank you :-)

山梨酸

赞一个， 结合了学做要求，与时俱进！ Kept abreast of ETS, nice!