▶ Your Answer :
Adopting
the same nationwide education curriculum is a precarious attempt. Since people
are born with inherent rights, their educational rights must also be respected.
They have the right to follow their own curriculum, or at least have options to
try for what they like until the entrance of college. Even if creating one
identical curriculum may bring some benefits as students can follow subject materials
when they are moved to another place. Or the educational board itself will be
able to lower the cost of organizing educational reforms as they can focus only
on one curriculum. However, the benefits are only transient and are in short-term.
Having such system will eventually beget more disadvantages.
First, creativity
will be hampered. Students, especially when they are in teens, are at a crucial
time of developing cognitive capacity. It is when they begin to find out their
talents, whether their genes tell to stick with science, sports, history, or
economics. Even if it is still too early to determine their course of life,
they are encouraged to make a variety of experiences in school by taking
different classes or even joining in extracurricular activities. By allowing
themselves in a greater pool of opportunities, they will eventually find out
their academic road until they enroll into a college.
But,
what if those students are caged in a closed education system where they are
taught the same materials with peers and have to do homework, and discuss uninterested
matters? Can they choose a different course next semester? The answer is no
with only a single directed course. Because it is set in a preordained manner, students
have to go along with the system that can possibly close the many other doors
that students are seeking. In order to increase diversity and creativity, it is
inevitable the school opens up options for academic choices.
Second, there
will be unbalanced preferences in making professions. In other words, as
students are learning with the same materials with all other peers, they will
be likely to choose a profession similar to their peers. It is obvious. For
example, if the curriculum is set to focus on science, all the students will
eventually find their interests related to math, physics, or chemistry instead
of other liberal arts educations such as history, political science, or even
economics. This does not mean all the students will end up having the same
jobs, making another profession obsolete in near future. It only creates a
greater possibility that students will likely move in a similar direction. Of
course, there will be an extremist, so called a skewed-person, who will anyhow
find something he or she likes despite the rigor of same curriculum set.
Because
of such potentially unbalanced distribution of jobs in later life, it could
create a economic slowdown. Not all students will find jobs due to the limited
spots, and when they become unemployed, they are now in a predicament. They learned
only what school has taught, which allowed them to focus on a matter that they
now cannot use, then they will have more difficult times than those who
followed their own courses of education. Such unemployed people may blame the
school system that shaped his current failure due to its inflexibility, lack of
diversity, and freedom. But, it is too late to go back to the past. Therefore,
in order prevent such disastrous outcomes, school should not make all the
curriculum exactly same across the nation.
Instead, it has to be flexible by
creating divergences, allowing students to navigate of their own life while
teachers guide students alongside, finding their potential talents and
coaching. By conducting in such a way, not only the students will benefit
itself by developing their own fate but also the nation as a whole will benefit
having a diverse group of people coming into the economic world that can help
boosting economics.
In
conclusion, creating a one identical education system is dangerous after all.
Individual rights will be disrespected, creativity hampered, causing economic
slowdown due to lack of diversity and unbalanced proportions in job markets.
Therefore, the school board must be careful in adopting such system and find
alternatives to bring prosperous future for students. |