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TOPIC: ISSUE51 - "Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student." As Albert Einstein once said, “ Interest is the best teacher”, which is to say, an education system, taking into account the specific needs and interests of each student, will pass students a gold key to open their distinct potential and talent. I agree that education will be better when it contains the needs and interests of students. However, only when education is specifically to meet each student`s interest will it be truly effective? Obviously, from the dialectic perspective, it is really a lack of disinterested consideration to use dichotomy to oversimplifies this issue. The threshold problem is how we can judge the education to be effective. A proper and widely- accepted criterion is necessary. Cite the aim of education from UNESCO(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization),” learning to know, learning to do, learning to get together, learning to be”. According to this, in an education system meets student`s interests and specific needs, students, feeling centered, will be more motivated to learn to know and learn to do under instructions. Students, making more effort and spending more time and energy, will go faster and much more far along the path of knowledge driven by their interests. Thereupon, it is scientific and desirable for education to be designed to meet the interest of each student. Important as interest may seem, it is not ought to be taken for granted that the more education you get due to your interest, the more effective it may turn out. First and foremost, learning to know and to do is not the only aim of education, student need to learn to get together, to learn to be yourself in society, especially how to melt yourself into the circumstance around but not easily lose your disposition and character. Secondly, for most people, education needs to help them obtain comprehensive development, containing intellectual and moral education, not only specialize in student`s interests and needs. Specifically designed education should not take the place of traditional general education, which transports comprehensive developed and professional elites to society. Furthermore, for the complexity of things, transdisciplinarity learning plays an imperative role in contemporary research. There is often a stark gap between the abilities of the gifted individual and his or her accomplishment. One apparently reason is the incomplete structure of knowledge which partly circumscribe their development. Yet, traditional education of comprehensive development is crucial as it to be. Another essential factor why I advocate education only meeting individual`s needs to be unrealistic is that the limited resources of education. Though interest drives people to learn, it is not pragmatic to set the plan and distribute resources of education—like teachers of different subjects—according to each student`s needs specifically and materially. Comparing to the considerable amount of students, such limited, even destitute education resource, is not available to give every student specially attendance. Just as we all want to study in Harvard, but Harvard can`t receive all of us. Although complete liberty in designing education is not available to all individual students, school can try their best to offer more choices and autonomy to students as long as the compulsory education is guaranteed because the completely uniformed education may curb student`s imagination and freedom. For instance, for those students major in math, school can open some classes with regard to the application of math ,such as economy and finance ,in the direction of student`s interests, which both meets student`s special needs and cooperate the comprehensive development and expertise.

TOPIC: ARGUMENT209 - The following recommendation was made by the Human Resources Manager to the board of directors of the Fancy Toy Company. "In the last three quarters of this year, under the leadership of our president, Pat Salvo, our profits have fallen considerably. Thus, we should ask for her resignation in return for a generous severance package. In Pat's place, we should appoint Rosa Winnings. Rosa is currently president of Starlight Jewelry, a company whose profits have increased dramatically over the past several years. Although we will have to pay Rosa twice the salary that Pat has been receiving, it will be well worth it because we can soon expect our profits to increase considerably." WORDS: 479 TIME: 0:30:00 DATE: 2010-10-9 The Human Resources Manager`s recommendation for Fancy Toy Company is well-presented, but is not well-reasoned. By making a comparison between the fallen profits of the Fancy Toy Company leaded by Pat Salvo in the last three quarters of the year and the hiking profits of the Starlight Jewelry leaded by Rosa, the arguer draw a conclusion that it is Pat Salvo who should take the blame and suggest the directors appoint Rosa in charge of the company in place of Pat Salvo. However, the HR manager are failing to consider other possible alternatives leading to the considerably fallen profits. Some unpredictable alternatives, like the disadvantageous fluctuation of the domestic exchange-rate, the recession of market may be included, which far beyond the range of the president. It is possible that the domestic exchange-rate may rise up undesirably and cause the export of toys to be considerably hard , then the quantity of sale as well as the profits would reduce sharply as a consequence. Again, three quarters of the year may be not a particularly long time frame for the director to determine whether change a new leader would be beneficial for the company or not. The toy market in the last three quarters of the year may not profitable like before. The decrease of profits may due to the increased tax adjusted by the government but not the fault of Pat Salvo, who may have been working hard for the company`s future unchangeably. So without more details provided, it appears to be unwise to blame Pat Salvo and even fire her. Last but not the least, we can`t consign it to be oblivion that the different company in different field of market confront different circumstance. Although Rose do well in Starlight Jewelry, she may not be familiar with the production process, the location of the toy commodity, the specific human resources in Pat Salvo and even the distribution of investing on toy. Due to the different constitute of consumer structure, the different potential and prospect between toy and jewelry, the toy market in the short time may perform not as well as jewelry market, considering there is no evidence given by the HR manager, who knows it will prolong in the future? If not, changing the president arbitrarily may be no other than the bolt from the sky to the Fancy Toy Company. It needs to pay the time cost for Rose to adapt herself to the company. In conclusion, the HR manager`s advice for the decision of appointments and dismissals due to the reason behind the decrease of toy company`s profits back to its original seems logical since he is beneficiently considering the interest and development of the Fancy Toy Company. However, before the final decisions are made, do more survey about the market condition and think twice between Pat Salvo and Rose is requisite.