issue 3 求拍

acrophobiahy

Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.


Though it is responsible for educational institutions to instruct students, but it is irrational to dissuade a student from pursuing a specific field in which he is unlikely to succeed.


Admittedly, any educational institutions, if responsible, should offer proper guidance of their future study and work to all its students. Educational institutions provide not only basic knowledge and useful skills, but also a deep understanding of ethical principles, moral value and so on, which have a great influence on the students’ development and prosperity. Thus, educational institutions should be accountable for the students’ future, giving them proper guidance, particularly when the student has made an irrational decision, which might not conducive to his future development or harmful to the stable society. For example, a student, who has little interest in and not good at computer science, arbitrarily decided to work as a computer engineer, merely because of its high salaries. At this time, a proper guidance is needed.


However, any educational institutions should not dissuade a student pursuing a specific field of study, merely assuming he is unlikely succeed in the field. Obviously, it pays more attention to the advantages of the performance, but has neglected to take following facts into consideration.


Firstly, educational institutions would overemphasize the society criterion of success, but tend to belittle the individual interpretation of success. Currently, that success is money-making is always be regard as a good criterion of success in life; nevertheless, everyone has his own understanding of success. For example, a student, who is always inquisitive and curious, characterizes success as erudite and informed. Or a student, majoring in musicology, considers the true pleasure in enjoying the beauty of melody is the best reward. As a result of various interpretations of success, any educational institution cannot make an accurate decision for every individual.


Secondly, even if we define the success of a student as being the top of his field, no one can predict whether a student will succeed in his field or not, since any haphazard occurrence might have a great influence on his life. For example, when Copernicus was studying liberal arts in a university in Poland, no one would predict his achievement in astronomy. However, it is his experiences in Italy that ignited his interests and ultimately led to his enthusiastic devotion to astronomy and the establishment of heli-center model for the solar system. Considering similarly possible and uncertain factors, how could the educational institutions definitely conform that a student is unlikely to succeed in a specific field?


In sum, it is true that a responsible educational institution should provide some proper guidance to its students, but it cannot instruct the future direction arbitrarily. Rather than dissuading a student pursuing a field of study in which he is unlikely to succeed, educational institutions should provide more detailed information about the specific field, not only its promising prospect but also its existed deficiency, and then help the students make a more intelligent decisions about their future.

普渡哥

However, any educational institutions should not dissuade a student pursuing a specific field of study, merely assuming he is unlikely succeed in the field.

这里any应该换成all。

这是中国直译写法，any有任何的意思，但跟中文里面的任何用法不一样。

acrophobiahy

请问，你对这篇文章的评价怎么样？

竹林中人

我觉得文章写得还好，条理还算清晰的，比较赞成你这种写法。不过开头略显简略，有必要充实下