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教育类范文

People attend college or university for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge). Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

In China, more and more people try their best to attend college or university. What are the reasons that make people long for it?

First of all, in my opinion, the most important reason is to gain competence to live a better life in the future. Competition of our days has become more and more drastic, and even a very simple job or low position will attract hundreds of candidates to apply for it. Only those who have a good education and general knowledge can gain better work. So, we should attend college or university for better competence.

Second, attending college or university can change our life. For example, to myself, I am a student from countryside. I am one of the few people who can attend college or university. Most of those who have not studied in college or university go to work early in a small factory in a small town or on a farm in their hometown. Just because I have taken higher education, I can get better chances to study or work in the capital of our country where a lot of people want to go to. Why? Good education gives me chances to change my life.

The third reason for attending a college is to increase knowledge. Study is a so interesting thing that it make our life rich and colorful. It expands our eyesight by informing us with lots of new things what we cannot gain from our common life or experience. On the other hand, by attending college or university, you can learn the knowledge or skill necessary for your future work. People attend college or university for various reasons. Some may attend for new experiences, and others may think about other things. What I have mentioned is just very few of them.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Parents influence their children dramatically for a lifetime. I think people are molded by two factors, family and the society that they are in. From birth, humans are influenced by the surrounding people for their characteristics. Parents play an indispensable role in bringing up children, which, of course, affects their lives for a long time.

In early infanthood, babies are looking to moms and dads to learn basic manners to be accepted in society. Some of these manners include not running around in restaurants or hitting other kids. As they grow up, they learn more from parents about social etiquette, which makes them more suitable to live in society. Children tend to look to their parents for role models knowingly or unknowingly.

Besides, parents can also affect children's study habits. Children of doctors ,

lawyers, investment bankers, and other professionals see their mothers and fathers work a lot of time, reading books, and punching keyboards, even at home. They are showing their children how to study by their own behavior.

However, parents can also be a bad example for their kids. It is difficult for children who have abusive parents to lead a normal childhood and is possible that they may become similar to their abusive parents when they grow up. In this case, the parents' negative role in shaping the children's personality cannot be emphasized more.

In conclusion, parents are the best teachers for their children. They leave big marks on their children's lives and are therefore more influential teachers than any others they may have in their lives.

Learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

I disagree wholeheartedly that learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present. In fact, the definition of learning includes the idea of an accumulation of experiences from the past. Learning can only take place if we make an association between things that have happened in the past or between something in the past and something that we predict will happen in the future. All knowledge that we acquire as we grow is from the past-language, customs, academic subjects, and so on. So, in a very real sense, all

learning depends on past events.

We are only able to live in this world with our current standard of living because we have learned from the past. We receive knowledge from the past and we are able to use it and improve it. We examine our actions in the past and we make judgments about what was right and what was wrong. Then, it is hoped that we will attempt to avoid those same mistakes again.

Furthermore, all of the knowledge that we have today is a result of all the work of our predecessors. The ancient Greeks developed geometry, which helped other European scientists analyze the solar system, which in turn gave us a new understanding of our place in the universe. The great majority of technology today also depends directly on several thousands of years of work of past thinkers. To ignore the knowledge of the past would be to throw away five thousand years of history and experience.

There is, however, some seemingly small, but important value to ignoring the past. It is often the case that history or tradition has the effect of constraining our thought in the present and many important philosophical and scientific

breakthroughs have only been possible as a direct result of ignoring the past. The past, in a sense, can blind us to the truth, we can become bound by tradition. For example, at one time, leading thinkers in Europe thought that the Earth was at the center of the universe and those who disagreed were persecuted as heretics, even Copernicus, who we now know was correct about his heliocentric model of the Solar System. However, scientists were eventually able to break from the past

and accept the new model of the universe.

In short, learning from and analyzing the past has enormous value for us and life as we know it on Earth today would not be possible without the benefit of thousands of years of history and accumulated knowledge. It is important, however, to ignore the past so that we can make a step forward, and such free thinking should be encouraged, although not at the expense of past knowledge. Learning from the past is something like learning from our parents-in most cases, their past helps us have a better future, but there are times when we need to make a break from the past and make a bold step into an unknown future.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Classmates are a more important influence than parents on a child's success in school. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

According to my experience, I fully agree the view that classmates are a more important influence than parents on a child’s success in school. I like to use following reasons to explain why I think do.

The first and most important reason is children can easily share their thoughts with peers. Undoubtedly, children can readily exchange their ideas in front of classmates. I clearly remember that I used to like to confide my troubles to my little friends when I found that my parents could not utterly understand my thoughts. Sometimes when I got a score with which my parents were not

satisfied, my friends could give me comfort, which motivated me greatly to continue to study.

Another equally important reason is that the communication with classmates frequently is good for the cultivation of our characteristic. When we often talk to our classmates or friends, we can find our own advantages and drawbacks of which we may not be aware when we are staying with our parents. Classmates can frankly point out our shortages, which is necessary for our future self-development.

Of course, I admit that parents can also give us much help. For example, they can teach us to tell what is correct and what is not. And when we encounter difficulties, they always give us immediate help. But if all factors are considered, the influence of classmates clearly outweigh that of our parents.

From what has been discussed above, we can safely draw the conclusion that classmates are a more important influence than parents on a child’s success in school.

Many teachers assign homework to students every day. Do you think that daily homework is necessary for students? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

There's much controversy about the necessity of daily homework for students. Some say homework is necessary since only practice makes perfect,

while others disagree because they believe a student should have the freedom to study whatever in whatever forms just as he/she likes to. In my opinion, daily homework is necessary for students.

First, a teacher could assign homework as a guide for the students to study. A student needs help of a teacher because he or she may not have an overall understanding of the knowledge he is going to study as the teacher. This means, at the beginning, a student could not well plan his or her study, just as a kid who is in a swimming pool for the first time could do nothing but play with water. And a teacher could make a good study plan for him or her, so that he or she could learn efficiently.

Secondly, Sometimes, even when a student, especially a young one, has already understood what he/she should do in order to master some skill or knowledge, he/she might still be unwilling to do this for the lack of motivation. It seems to be a lie when one tells that he or she has never been lazy, at least once in their life, about studying. So some homework could function as a task for the student to perform, which is helpful to motivate him/her.

Thirdly, homework is an important form of feedback for a teacher to understand the effectivity of his/her work. As I have mentioned before, a teacher makes a study plan for the students; but does it really work? or does it work for all the students? It's not difficult to know this only if the teacher pay some attention to the homework of the students. Then he/she may be able to find if there's any problems in his own teaching, and make corresponding

adjustment to that, either for all the students or for a single one. Without some feedback, it is impossible for the teacher to do this. A test is also a good form of feedback, but obviously one or two tests are not enough, and sometimes this kind of feedback just comes too late.

However, This conclusion might be misleading that one may believe all forms of homework are necessary. Actually, only proper amount of homework in proper forms is acceptable; some homework may not only fail to help the students, but ,on contrary, bore them, so much so that they may lose their innate interest to study. So, \"Proper\" homework, in my opionion, should vary in its forms; it might be some extensive reading, a paper, or even just a game, as well as other ordinary exercises. And it should leave enough freedom to the students so that they could do things they really like to do with self-motivation, rather than unwillingness.

In conclusion, we should always remember that homework is something for us to guide the students, rather than drive them. Only if a teacher keep this in his/her mind, the homework could be of most help to the students.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Grades (marks) encourage students to learn. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

In many schools, teachers evaluate students by their grades. Many people think that it is unfair and one-sided to do this and it will discourage students to

learn. I believe, however, grades can encourage students to learn. The reasons can be analyzed as follows.

First of all, tests are important for students’ learning. Attending classes is not enough for students to truly grasp the key points in a subject, no matter how carefully they listen to what teachers say. They need examinations to review the lessons. In most cases, grades or marks are the only means by which teachers measure students’ learning ability and learning progress. Therefore, grades encourage students to study for examinations, and it is good system for them to learn the subjects.

Secondly, test scores are a standard measurement for students’ learning ability and knowledge level, which is why universities all over the world use test results to decide whether to give admission, offer fellowships, and grant a graduation to a student or not. Also, high school teachers use the results as a means to evaluate the effects of teaching, and students’ learning progress. By test scores, teachers also know each individual student’s ability to learn.

Thirdly, test results can stimulate a student to work hard on his courses. The testing mechanism encourages students to work hard in order to achieve a better result; they will devote more time on study, and develop a \"never give up\" spirit. This will not only benefit their study, but also teach them the truth that everyone needs constant learning and hard working in order to be useful to this society. so they can have good performance in schools and be superior to others in other aspects; for example, such natures are important factors even

after finishing schools. I believe most students understand the importance of these qualities and impacts on their life; therefore they know how important it is to work hard and try to achieve a better score.

In conclusion, marks can stimulate student to learn, and good marks can give them advantages in going to a good university and finding a good job. Therefore I strongly support the statement that marks can encourage students to learn.