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1. For older school children, some people think that these children should study a large number of subjects, but others believe that children should study less subjects but in details. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
There has been a debate about the range of subject students are encouraged to learn. While some people advocate a curriculum covering a wide variety of subjects, others propose a more concentrating way of study.
Some people argue that students should be engaged into a broad range of curriculum and their most convincing reason is the possible scope of knowledge and horizon that students can expand during their learning process. It is true that such students would be exposed to various disciplines which allow them to understand the world and society from a variety of perspectives. What’s more, these diverse areas of knowledge are connected with each other directly or indirectly, facilitating students to better and more deeply understand each subject and inspiring their curiosity to their world. However, not everyone gets developed in balance. While some students are excellent at language and weak at mathematics, some are talented in science and challenged by history. In these cases, coercing school children to study the subjects that they find difficult is very likely to end up with students getting tired of study altogether which is certainly the last thing that educators and parents would want to see.
The other side of the argument is also reasonable. Teenagers focusing on a few subjects tend to be able to perform well because they concentrate their limited time and energy on a narrow range of school work. The increased efficiency and academic results in turn enhance their confidence in their academic ability and sense of achievement. Allowing students to select a small number of subjects also gives them the opportunity to be only immersed in their favorite classes or what they are good at instead of those that they have no clue about at all. This is crucial for individuals and society as well because it means that everyone can be an able and useful person as everyone has his/her strength.
My personal view about this controversy is that both sides are based on good sense, and they can be reconciled with each other. In the primary stage of education, children should be encouraged to get involved in as many areas of knowledge as possible so as to have more chances to experience the world. As for the secondary school, adolescents basically have identified their tendency in academic and career terms, so they should be allowed to narrow down their study to a particular domain related to their future career.
2. Nowadays, there is a large amount of advertising aimed at children. Some people think they have negative effects on children and should be banned. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Nowadays we cannot go anywhere without seeing advertisements of one kind or another. The penetration of advertising into our life has gone so far that sometimes we even feel amazed by its ubiquity. Advertising is, of course, very useful, informing us about what to buy, where to buy and how to buy, but it also has negative effects on individuals.
With attractive designs and images, advertising, on top of being informative, tries to persuade people to spend money on the commodities or services it promotes. This is important to the economic development of a country. As a matter of fact, we can even find a close association between the strength of a country’s economy and the visibility of its advertising. The more advertisements are seen in a country, the more developed its economy is. The reason is simply that advertising encourages people to consume, even more than is necessary for them, and consumption, as our economics textbook would tell us, is key to the economic development.
However, advertising may also bring about negative impacts on individuals as well as the society. For one thing, advertising may make us less content with what we have and what we are now and leave us craving hopelessly for those unattainable commodities. I still remember a few days ago when walking in front of a supermarket, I saw how a little girl, with her eyes glued to an advertising board, pestered her mother for the expensive toy on it that her mother apparently could not afford. Advertising, then, while providing us with useful commodities information, also creates the unwanted desire at our heart and makes us unhappy. For another thing, lured by the promises of advertising, some people may choose to commit crimes, which then causes a lot of social problems. A student, for instance, may rob his classmate of an iphone 8, for he was told by advertising that iphone 8 is superior to its previous versions. Likewise, an official may take bribery to buy an expensive house by the lake because the advertising says the luxury of living there is superb.
In my view, advertising is necessary in our economic life and therefore, it should not be banned. Yet those misleading advertisements ought to be well kept in check, and individuals should try their best to stay as far as possible away from the negative effects of advertising.
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