GRE 作文题目
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Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free. [Specific Task Instruction: Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.]
题目分析
翻译
正式教育有束缚而不是解放我们思想和精神的趋势。[说明：写一篇文章，讨论你同意或反对这个说法达到什么程度，并解释你选择这个观点的理由。在展开和支持你的观点时，你需要考虑这个说法可能在哪些方面成立或者不成立，并解释你所考虑的这些东西如何体现你的观点]
指导
本题讨论教育对人们思想的影响，题目认为虽然教育原本是要解放思想，但实际上却把思想和精神束缚了。此题改编于老GRE的ISSUE128 "It is often asserted that the purpose of education is to free the mind and the spirit. In reality, however, formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free"和老GRE的ISSUE104 "It is primarily through formal education that a culture tries to perpetuate the ideas it favors and discredit the ideas it fears"可以相互借鉴。分析前首先要了解formal education的内容，其包括以下五部分：formal education包括：primary education、secondary education、higher education、adult education、alternative education、indigenous education。在分析的过程中，可以从人们对解放思想和精神的需求、教育设置的目的、正式教育的具体形式、正式教育对人们的正负面影响、解放或束缚思想和精神的具体行为等方面展开思考。
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1. 请列举几个国家（例如：中国、美国）的教育制度以及内容，并对比这些制度的设置目的、具体方式、对学生思想和精神的影响以及效果。
回答：
中国：应试教育，让学生掌握一定量的知识并且通过考试达到相应目的。对思想和精神没有办法解放，反而会禁锢。
其他国家不了解。
2. 教育的目的是否是“解放思想和精神”，解放思想和精神对于学生、社会、国际以及教育本身的发展有哪些正负面影响？请举例并简述。
回答：
教育的目的之一是解放思想和精神，其他的还包括让学生成为社会上的人，对于真理的探寻和追求
解放思想能够让人对于社会有进一步理解，对于封建时期有利于社会进程的加大和改革的顺利，对于国家而言，思想解放的民众可能会对权威进行质疑不利于国家政策的实施。
3. 现实情况下，正式教育培养学生的目的有哪些？给学生传递了哪些信息？这些信息对学生会产生哪些作用？请举例并简述。
回答：
考试→上大学→目的性强，对于基础知识的厌恶。
4. 教育中的哪些内容会起到解放思想和精神的作用，哪些内容会束缚思想和精神？请举例并简述。
回答：
正：基础知识对进一步延伸扩展和解放的帮助。
反：拘泥于知识本身。
其他用户的回答
作文
Formal education, by definition, is what going through most of us life, including the time we spend in and knowledge we learn from elementary schools, junior schools, high schools, college or universities. Some would argue that people always get educated with some basic knowledges, which are quite simple and useful for open minding, and sometimes may even worsen that those educations we are got would likely to restrain our mind and spirit. However, after weighing the pros and cons of formal educations, I would prefer to think it in the ways that formal education will do help in open our mind and free our spirit, though it may need reform part of its from.Admittedly, formal education may limit out mind when people have a specific purpose like getting a certificates or admission to a job or school. It would not be hard to find such examples to illustrate this point. In China, if students want to get their chances to be admitted in their dream school, they have to attend Gaokao, a college entrance examination. For most students in this country, since their elementary school, their families and teachers mention the importance of the examination again and again. They compete with others from the moment they start in schools, all the knowledge they learn, no matter it was mathematics, english, poems or science, is for better answering the questions they meet in the exam papers. In this passafic situation, those formal education definitely restrain peoples' mind.However, no one could life in the world without any basic knowledges, that is to say, without formal education one just so simple-minded and naive, which is far from spirit-freeing. Just as known to all, in ancient time, people knows quite a little about the world they live in, the things the meet, the reason for any event happened around they, so they prefer to explain the world with what we called the myth. Those who did get any formal education will never be thought mind-free, even they did not learn formal knowledges. Moreover, freeing the minds and spirits is based on formal education one once got. Some great scientist we known, like Mikolaj Kopernik andGalileo Galilei, find some extremely amazing things and free peoples' mind based on what they learned by well educated in schools. If they did not formally educated, not a chance could they concluded the theory like sun is the center of the university. It is not difficult to got other examples to demonstrate this point. Sun Zhongshan, a great man who free the old China, BALABALABALA.To sum up,
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