■ Direction Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. Typically, an effective response will contain a minimum of 300 words. ■ Question Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use specific reason and examples to support your answer | |
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Topic :Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than to memorize facts and figures. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer
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Often, the Asian education system is accused of forcing its students to just memorize the contexts in the textbooks rather than promoting problem solving abilities. I am totally aware of the problematic situation and believe that students should learn to understand ideas and concepts rather than to memorize facts and figures. This is because understanding is a better way of learning in terms of lasting longer in memory and promoting creativity.
For one, understanding the basics and logics of ideas lasts longer in memories. Rather than just memorizing the resulting figures, going back to the rudiments involves thinking about how the whole idea logically works. If the mechanism is understood wholly, you can always derive the final facts and figures from the process or apply in certain situations. Thus though you may forget the attained results from the process, you can always go back to the basics that is stored for long in your memory. For instance, I used to be awful in science when I was in secondary school. Lots of times I could not understand the logics of how some experiments worked, so hopelessly, I would just memorize the attained results. I would be ok in exams because I had memorized the results, but I could remember nothing about the experiment itself after the exams were done. So these days, if I encounter related concepts in daily life regarding what I have learned before, I can hardly remember anything. If I had understood back then how the logics actually worked, I would have undoubtedly been able to apply them to daily life afterwards.
Furthermore, by understanding the ideas, students can develop creativity. Learning the concepts and ideas involves more thinking, and students will even be able to apply the logics to other things if they understand the basics. This whole process involves creative thinking, whereas just memorizing the figures only requires reading the numbers and shoving them into your brain. To illustrate, I had a friend in highschool who was a whiz in math. He used to receive numerous awards in creative problem solving competitions, and I asked him the key to its excellency. He told me he never tries to just memorize the formulas, but understands how the formula works from the beginning by thinking about the basic ideas and concepts. So though he encounters a seemingly complicated problem, he triesi to think in varies ways how it can be derived from the ideas of the formula and the answers arises that way. From his case, I could learn the strategy of his creative problem solving ability, which involved understanding the concepts rather than just memorizing the formulas.
In conclusion, I wholeheartedly agree with the opinion that understanding ideas and concepts is more important than just memorizing the facts and figures. This is because understanding the basics is more effective in the sense that it lasts longer in memories and it fosters creative thinking. Thus, learning should be directed to knowing the logics, rather than to solely memorizing the results.
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