▶ Your Answer : In the argument, some people might argue that the purpose of education enables students to have free mind and spirit. In this following essay, however, will argue that it is not always hold true and present the following reasons to bolister this argument. Admittedly, the goal of formal education is to give students step-by-step opportunities to think freely through diverse courses in the school. Through the whole formal educational steps which range from the elementary school to the high school, students can prepare abilities to gradually broaden their free thinking and free spirit. Formal education including schools, teachers and subjects followed up the subsequent level of education is paramount and essential as the prerequisites on raising free thinkers. But for formal education, it is hard for students themselves to take free mind and spirit. Therefore formal education’s goal is to help students to be a free thinkers. However, formal education have a tendency to hamper students from thinking freely. On account of the competitive labor market, many of students have a hard time not only in getting jobs but also being stable financially in the future and this leads teachers to encourage students to study practical courses which is far more advantageous in job perspectives rather than courses such as literature, art, music which is hardly to be lucrative in the futures. Thus many of students give up studying this kinds of courses which depend far more on their own creativities, uniqueness in general. In the past there were lots of brilliant and original artist such as Alfred Joseph Hitchcock who opened the new genre of suspense thriller, Salvador Dali who was one of the representative artist of the surrealism and praised by his originality and uniqueness in the many of his artworks like the persistence of memory, however, it is getting hard to excavate this kinds of epoch-making artworks and raise this kinds of revolutionary artist through formal education. Therefore, opaque future in the unstable and competitive labor markets are prompting formal education to being an institution for the future job acquisitions. |