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Developing a beneficial and
educational curriculum is crucial to nurturing our future citizens. A solid
curriculum must lie at the core of mandatory education, and should provide
necessary knowledge until students enter college. While some maintain that a
same national curriculum should be followed for all students, this uniformity
may prove to be detrimental due to several reasons.
First, a student’s interests and aptitudes may vary, and
a curriculum which is not variable enough to suit each student’s needs will
certainly fail. Using the same educational curriculum throughout every student
in the country is just as absurd as fitting objects with different shapes and
sizes into the same box. For instance, some students might be talented in math
and will find the national math curriculum to be too easy. On the other hand,
some might find the math curriculum to be too difficult for them to manage.
This is varying aptitude with respect to certain subjects is quite common, and
the curriculum should also be malleable for a more effective education.
Secondly, the same national curriculum is not feasible
because there is no ‘standard’ truth in every field of study. This fact is
equivalent to stating that there is no single correct knowledge or perspective.
A free and democratic society should allow every individual to believe in
whatever he or she wants to believe, and enforcing the same and rigid education
to everyone is against the very definition of a free society. If we think about
it, uniform education was enforced in the past by many fascist and socialist
states to nurture ‘loyal servants’ to their government, but not to raise
citizens who can add genuine value to humanity.
Some may contend that a same education planned out by
the country ensures fairness among students. While this may seem valid at first
glance, upon scrutinizing, we find that it is contrary to fair education. An
equal opportunity to learn and be educated is only possible when the education
can truly educate ‘everyone’, and because every individual is so much different
from each other, a single form of curriculum cannot offer an equal education.
It may fit certain people, while some may learn nothing or little.
An educational curriculum developed by nation may seem
economical and equal, but the actual effect of implementing such curriculum is
detrimental. Just as every person is different, so must be the educational
curriculum as well. A uniform curriculum cannot succeed. |