023 “Schools should be responsible only for teaching academic skills and not for teaching ethical and social values.”
037 “Since science and technology are becoming more and more essential to modern society, schools should devote more time to teaching science and technology and less to teaching the arts and humanities.”
062 “What education fails to teach us is to see the human community as one. Rather than focus on the unique differences that separate one nation from another, education should focus on the similarities among all people and places on Earth.”
What do you think of the view of education expressed above? Explain, using reasons and/or specific examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
098 “In order to accommodate the increasing number of undergraduate students, colleges and universities should offer most courses through distance learning, such as videotaped instruction that can be accessed through the Internet or cable television. Requiring students to appear at a designated time and place is no longer an effective or efficient way of teaching most undergraduate courses.”
099 “If a nation is to ensure its own economic success, it must maintain a highly competitive educational system in which students compete among themselves and against students from other countries.”
122 “Schools should not teach specialized information and techniques, which might soon become outdated. Instead, schools should encourage a more general approach to learning.”
125 “Formal education should not come to an end when people graduate from college. Instead, people should frequently enroll in courses throughout their lives.”
135 “In business courses, professors should teach only factual information and skills, not ethics.”
139 “Some experts maintain that students learn best in a highly structured environment, one that emphasizes discipline, punctuality, and routine. Others insist that educators, if they are to help students maximize their potential, ought to maintain an atmosphere of relative freedom and spontaneity.”
Explain your position on the issue of structure versus freedom in an ideal learning environment. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.