Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed. [Specific Task Instruction: Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.]
翻译
教育机构有责任去阻止它们的学生选择那些不太可能会成功的领域去学习。[说明:写一篇文章,讨论你同意或反对这个主张达到什么程度。在展开和支持你的观点时,一定要处理那些最有说服力的理由和/或例子,它们可能被用来挑战你的观点]
指导
本题讨论选择专业的参考因素。可以考虑教育应当如何培养学生的问题,除了以后的工作以外,教育应当提供给学生什么样的价值观和理念。而且对于“成功”的定义也是需要仔细考虑的内容。在分析的过程中,可以从教育培养学生是为了满足哪些要求、价值观对学生的作用、为成功而选择专业的意义、二者之间的关系以及利弊的对比等方面展开思考。
1. 怎样评价学习某个专业是否可能成功或者不可能成功?应该参考哪些因素?请举例并简述。
回答:
评价一个专业上取得成功与否依赖于在这个专业领域上是否能够做出开创性的工作。比如居里夫人发现了镭,比如沃森和克里克发现了DNA的双螺旋结构。
2. 如果没能形成正确的价值理念标准,而仅仅为了“成功”而选择专业,会有哪些潜在的问题和不足?请举例并简述。
回答:
如果仅为了“成功”而选择专业,容易人云亦云,而放弃了自己本身的才能优势和自身的兴趣观念,最后有可能学习得不愉快,也很可能一事无成。比如我自己,选了生物又换了。
3. 除了为以后的成功做准备以外,在大学阶段,学生应该锻炼哪些其他能力?怎样进行这些能力的锻炼?请举例并简述。
回答:
还有沟通能力和自学能力,这是很重要的。训练沟通能力可以依靠多参加社团活动,尝试与不同人交往来获得。训练自学能力则依靠多听演讲、多根据个人兴趣读书而获得。
4. 在毕业之后的工作和生活中,是否只有专业知识才是有用的?如果不是,还有哪些知识是有用的?为什么?请举例说明。
回答:
No. Knowledge in other areas may still be useful, such as knowledge to communicate with different people, knowledge of basic laws and some other social objects. For example, if your major is psychology, and you turned to be a psychologist after graduation, you have to possess knowledge of specific laws, or you might break some law when you try to solve customers' psychological problems, which might put an end to your career.
5. 教育机构应该对学生的学习和发展起到怎样的引导作用?都应该如何去做?请分析并简述。
回答:
Educational institutions should give students guidance to learn how to discover their own interests and stay curious about the world. As to help them discover their interests, the institutions should provide students opportunities to access to knowledge of different fields as best as they can. As to help them stay curious about the world, institutions should hire experts skilled at teaching and introducing, to make students learn the beauty of different disciplines.