191. "Education should be equally devoted to enriching the personal lives of students and to training students to be productive workers."
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In my view, preparing students for the mundane aspects of work should be secondary to providing a broader education that equips students with historical and cultural perspective, as well as thoughtful and principled personal value systems and priorities. # {) B) c9 T& t* _3 }3 q
1. One reason why educators should emphasize personal enrichment over job preparation is that rote technical knowledge and skill do not help a student determine which goals in life are worthwhile and whether the means of attaining those goals are ethically or morally acceptable. 4 E6 f6 C: x2 d
2. Another reason why educators should emphasize personal enrichment over job preparation is that specific knowledge and skills needed for jobs are changing more and more quickly.
/ ?. f K1 i9 A2 ~: ^3. A third reason why educators should emphasized personally enriching course work—particularly anthropology, sociology, history, and political philosophy—is that these courses help students understand, appreciate and respect other people and their viewpoints.
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201. "The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas--not to prepare them for a specific job."
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1 s7 ]% B, l. [! p ^2 v$ d教育的目的应该是给予学生一个价值体系,一个标准,一整套想法----而不是为一个具体工作培养他们。
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9 K0 ^1 G# E V: C/ M+ x% A1. By helping students develop a thoughtful, principled value system educators actually help prepare students for jobs.
$ t5 {0 Z+ I1 N3 S) s c2. Another reason for my viewpoint lies in the fact that technology-driven industries account for an ever-increasing portion of our jobs. 9 ?6 p' ]: i( s: L
3. Besides helping students develop their own thoughtful value systems, educators should instill in students certain basic values upon which any democratic society depends; otherwise, our freedom to choose our own jobs and careers might not survive in the long term.
+ G; Q5 e( s: O0 L4. Admittedly, values and behavioral standards specific to certain religions are best left to parents and churches. ! Y+ v1 n; ^0 U2 s7 ?! b& A( i
6 s& u V9 [5 B6 y A213. "Too much emphasis has been placed on the need for students to challenge the assertions of others. In fact, the ability to compromise and work with others--that is, the ability to achieve social harmony--should be a major goal in every school." |