A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
Taking a glance at the various education systems around the world, one can easily find that the statement a national standard curriculum should be established for all students before college is a contentious one. The benefits brought by such a policy are self-evident, yet so are the disadvantages. In my point of view, the disadvantages of this policy outweigh the merits and thus I can’t agree with this policy completely.
A national curriculum can benefit the society in several ways. First, with a common curriculum, it’s easier for universities and colleges to recruit students and to design courses. Second, a well-designed curriculum can usually provide the students with the basic knowledge and skills that one needs to grow into productive and responsible citizens in the future. Moreover, the curriculum can also teach the students the core values upon which the country is built. This policy, along with a national standard in terms of school facilities and faculty, is especially effective in a relatively homogenous society such as Japan, whose education system has cultivated a number of Nobel Prize winners and facilitated a highly productive and disciplined society.
However, apart from these benefits, the policy also engenders multiple problems that will undermine its efficacy. First, in a country with a more complicated demographic distribution, a national curriculum, to find common ground, will preclude the courses that are of regional or ethical significance, which may have negative influences on students’ identities and inheritance of culture. For example, it would be inappropriate to adopt this policy in Canada, where most residents in Quebec are descendants of overseas French while citizens outside Quebec mainly speak English. Pushing a national curriculum in countries like Canada will undoubtedly meet with strong resistance. And in fact, Canada does have one of the most localized and specialized education systems around the world.
More importantly, the curriculum is most likely to be designed by the national department of education. Therefore what should be included in or excluded from the curriculum falls in the hands of a few people, which may undermine the benefits of this policy because the decision-makers can be careless and arbitrary. Can they cover interests of all the students in the curriculum? Have they taken into consideration the fact that a number of students learn at their own pace? Can their design reflect the common notions of the society? A perfunctory curriculum design will not only defeat the purpose of a national curriculum but also impair the quality of education.
What’s worse, the decision-makers can utilize this policy as a way to promote their biased and one-sided views. For example, the Chinese and history textbooks in China are, in my opinion, tools to instill unquestioning patriotism into the students. The textbooks that are supposed to enlighten and inform the students blatantly downplay the disastrous consequences of a series of absurd decisions, obliterate the doubts about the legitimacy of the party and contain misleading connotations, all of which are pernicious to the students’ understanding of the society they live in. Therefore an inappropriate curriculum design, how unlikely it may seem, will have serious repercussions on how the students view the world.
In conclusion, the policy has its pros and cons. While a well-designed curriculum demonstrates several benefits especially in certain homogeneous countries, the disadvantages of this policy, as shown above, preponderate its benefits in most countries. Therefore, I fundamentally disagree with this policy.
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- It is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero. 66
- A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. 83
- We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own. 79
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 77.0 58.6224719101 131% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3144.0 2235.4752809 141% => OK
No of words: 566.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.55477031802 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87757670434 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.18493220573 2.79657885939 114% => OK
Unique words: 284.0 215.323595506 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501766784452 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 1007.1 704.065955056 143% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 14.0 4.99550561798 280% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.6776108491 60.3974514979 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.923076923 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7692307692 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.38461538462 5.21951772744 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.223118873765 0.243740707755 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0695637803078 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0646468341269 0.0758088955206 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123437052822 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0503538994465 0.0667264976115 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 48.8420337079 68% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.91 12.1639044944 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 164.0 100.480337079 163% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 11.8971910112 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.7820224719 136% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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