Issue Practice 5

Issue: It is unfortunate that today’s educators place so much emphasis on finding out what students want to include in the curriculum and then giving it to them. It is the educators’ duty to determine the curriculum and the students’ duty to study what is presented to them.

As one of the most important role played to promote the development of our society, not only has education always been attached a great significance to, but also it has been recognized as the decisive factor of a nation power. Books and materials, the heritages that our predecessors left to us recording their accomplishments and achievements, together with their legacies and sagas, have been utilized by educators, who take the responsibility to pass the heritages, and students, who are expected to receive and accept them, and based on them to create more accomplishments and achievements, which means to make contributions to the development of our society.

The difference in their historic missions has decided that educators and students have to do respectively different things; however, meanwhile, the boundary may not be absolutely divided.

On one hand, it is the educators’ mission to figure out what type of heritages they are going to hand down to their students, which means to find out what students want to include in the curriculum. A good educator may not absolutely be a perfect scholar, but he must know clearly what and how to transmit the necessary knowledge to his dear students. In contrast to this, the students’ mission seems to be passive. They are asked to catch the apples chosen and thrown by people up in the trees and consider how to exactly accept and eat them, and maybe necessarily find out new ways to do with them.

However, on the other hand, the throw-and-catch work is not so simple. The thrower should take the situation into account where the catcher is in, including the condition of the ground that the catcher is standing on and the angle in which he can make it easier for the catcher to work better. Similarly, the catcher should be good at communication with the thrower, telling the thrower the specific place of himself and what kind of apples he prefers. The educators are supposed to listen to the thought of the students, consider the level they are at and prepare them with appropriate curriculum, while the students should actively tell their teachers the way that they expect them to teach, not just try to accept passively what is presented to them.

To sum up, both sides of the educators and the students are supposed to finish their own duty, yet with mutual communication and consideration.
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