Issue51

51"Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student."
(438 words)
The issue of whether specifical designation to satisfy the individual needs and interests of each student is the only judge to an effective education is a complex one, since it involves a conflict between education and citizenship. In my point of view, the final judgement should depend on a case-by-case analysis of the two parts.It's true that needs and interests are part-and-parcel of the studying progress. They two are always referred to as the best teachers. The more useful and interesting a student finds a course, the more time and efforts he is willing to devote; the more time and efforts he devotes, the more progress he is likely to make in the course; the more progress he make in a course, the more interested he is in the course. Were individual needs and interests removed from our educational system, how can you imagine that our students would learn by heart a number of disciplines every day which they cannot find any interest in; how can you imagine that test-takers would remenber everything they have recited after the examination is over; and how can you imagine that our teacher's feelings would not be hurt when they see their pupils just doodle the class away?However, though the speaker's assertion that education catering to individual needs and interests has many merits, one can't wield the two points merely to certify the effection of education. For example, an important aspect of education in the United States is the relationship between education and national identity. Throughout its history, this nation has emphasized public education as a means of transmitting democratic values, creating equality of opportunity, and preparing new generations of citizens to function in society. These values are the basic of the country, these are why US was established, and how the government serves its citizens. Thus the teachers and faculties in the United States will treat these as normal ideas for which all the masses should take granted. At this monent, the specificality doesn't exist, yet few would agree that this point adversely affects its effort.To sum up, due to the above mentioned reasons, which sometimes correlate with each other to generate an integrate whole and thus become more convincing than any single one of them, we may be comfortable to say that specifical designation to surfice to the individual needs and interests of each student is prerequsite for a certain education to be taken as "truly effective", however, there are some situations in which above two things can't be taken as the only judgement, it's better to add the benefit of society to make it more reasoned.