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Essay by 谢振礼老师 Jeenn Lee Hsieh
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真题还原
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? "The opinions of
celebrities, such as entertainers and athletes, are more important to the
younger people than they are to the older people." Use specific reasons and
details to support your answer.
范文：
It is universally acknowledged that primary education should be compulsory
and higher education would be optional. This may justify in part why it is more
realistic to invest in the education of the very young children than in
universities. For the individual's academic success, the stage (5 to 10 years
old) is considered as the initial milestone in the life-long educational
process; and for a country's successful development, no money is regarded as
being lost in upgrading basic education.
In receiving education, as in taking a trip, a bad beginning seldom ends
well. One's first academic milestone is so significant that it is worthy of
sufficient public funding. Comparatively, university education, although
important in its way, is just another milestone which is of course not the end
of one's learning journey. Hence, the government's spending policy must address
a solid strategy to upgrade the primary education, for good reasons. To
illustrate, from the age of five onwards, children are instructed to study
reading and writing skills. They begin to develop more sophisticated thinking
and learning abilities, such as the capacity to think abstractly and organize
materials being taught to them, which will help them get on the long road to
economic success.
Few would doubt that a well-begun education could contribute greatly to a
country's long-term successful development. Not that higher education is less
important; but that compulsory education is even more important. This indicates
where should lie the paramount need to spend even more dollars. The priority is
clear enough. The success of a country's primary education benefits both the
individual and society as a whole, while universities are not for all young
people. Besides, education for the very young children in general requires
indispensably public funding more than does higher education mainly because many
universities are privately owned and largely independent in financing through
expensive tuitions and generous donations.
It pays for the government to take better care of the financial health of
basic education than that of universities for an overall national development.
The first academic milestone for an individual is also where a country's
successful story begins. After all, for the government, the financial
responsibility to fund primary schools is compulsory rather than optional. |
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:23:16