WORDS: 570(607) TIME: 0:45:00 DATE: 2007-8-11
With explosive development of science and technology, a lot of problems that human has never met during the past arise. When comes to the settlement of those international problems, there are always a host of different opinions held by different individuals in different fields. Should all schools, you may wonder, be required to help eliminate those problems? Admittedly, there are great needs for schools to participate in the solution of international problems. Yet, perhaps more other means should be taken in order to allay these problems.
To begin with, it is true that for our children's education, that to a large extent determines the destiny of our societies, we should consider it a responsibility to teach students the essential interconnectedness of all human beings so as to help solve or eliminate severe problems such as cultural conflicts, wars, terrorism, and so forth. After all, many social problems are shared by people from different countries in the world.U The most persuasive problem concerns all kinds of wars and conflicts that have never stopped on our Earth.
And a lot of countries other than the five licit nuclear weapons-owning nations are developing antipersonnel weapons such as nuclear weapons and biochemical weapons. Another severe problem is terrorism and perhaps no American individuals will forget the day of Sep. 11, 2001 when the highest two buildings in the world was damaged by terrorists, leaving all people in the USA with horrible feelings. UIn light of this, it is rather necessary for our schools to involve in the settlement of these international problems.
However, to help allay international problems between different countries is not the main purchase of our school, for which to help students learn more knowledge and master professional skills is much more important. While schools cannot reject the responsibility to inform students of the interconnectedness of all human beings on the Earth, schools should not regard it as the primary goal, as the high quality of a school lies in the students' academic performance. Only with a higher quality of education, can our schools provide more excellent graduates who will determine the future of the world and up to whom all those international problems will primarily be solved.
How can you imagine that graduates with low levels of professional skill will make any contribution to our societies? Viewed in this fashion, the most important goals of all schools should still be an increasingly higher education quality.
In fact, during the process of the settling of severe international problems, the involvement of schools is not the most important at all and many other respects should be considered to help solve those problems more effectively and efficiently.
