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Education includes
various fields from general knowledge such as math and English to more specified
subjects which are perhaps strongly related to one’s future job. Some argue that
teachers have to aid their students to focus on developing their talented abilities
while reducing wasted efforts on relatively less talented fields. However, this
idea is misunderstanding the fundamental roles of education and talented
students.
Firstly, educational
institutions are where providing opportunities for students to access various fields
and enjoy them rather than focusing on one’s great possibility of success. There
are lots of students who are playing the piano, but not everyone is talented
enough to become a pianist. Although many of them know this fact, they still go
to an academy, pay money, and learn how to play the piano. They are not like wasting
one’s time or money, but just enjoying one’s hobby. Everyone has their freedom to
select hobbies and whether one has a great talent for a certain area does not a
big deal in choosing it. In spit of the students do not show enough possibility
to success, there is no reason to prevent them from doing it - they can simply enjoy
it.
Secondly,
there are only vague clues to determine whether students are gifted in certain areas.
Everyone has a different speed to learn something, and it can be accelerated or
decelerated during the steps of learning. For example, there can be two types
of students in Spanish class. One type is those who have a great ability to
acquire new expressions; the other is those with a better ability to apply grammatical
rules even for complicated sentences. At the beginning of class, a teacher might
judge the first group as talented in learning a language. However, as the sentences
are getting complicated to simply memorize, the second group will show a better
performance. If the teacher judged the second group as less talented at the
beginning of class and dissuaded them from learning Spanish, it would be impossible
to get to know their great learning language ability in a different aspect.
Concentrating
on a certain talented area might increases a possibility of being successful. However,
it deviates from educational institutions’ fundamental roles: assisting students
to experience various fields. Furthermore, no one can perfectly judge one’s ability
with its complicated nature. Therefore, preventing students from spending time
on their less talented areas is improper. |