Tuesday, October 22, 2013

A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. [AGREE]

Curriculam is a planned interaction of pupils with instructional content, material, resources and processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives.As stated by Nelson Mandela "Education is a powerful tool which you could use to change the world." Education is a bedrock of social and economic development.it is very important to form a strong base for children in formative years so they are not only successful in personal fromt but also turn out to be a good citizen. Hence education curriculum stands of utmost importance and should be carefully chosen inorder to fulfill all these requirements. I believe that curriculum being followed should be similar but shools should have some flexibility to introduce or change it to a certain extent.

Introducing a uniform curriculum is beneficial in many ways. As we know massive production brought about by the same mould reduces the cost of production, increases the productivity and product effeciency. Hence, providing children of different schools with same curriculum would aid in the reduction of the nation's effort in evaluation of different curriculums and hence result in low cost spend in deciding different curriculums. Obviously if different schools or colleges follow different curriculum then nation has to render complex evaluative schemes to assess and comare the knowledge base and talent of different students in different schools. This tedious task can be avoided by following same curriculum. Moreover, following same curriculum can lead to massive production of the required books, teaching facilities and even the extra training for corresponding teacher, which certainly reduce the cost of education.

Considering the students perspective same curriculum leads to stable and universal learning. There are many students who attended many school due to certains reasons like their father have a transferable job. If multiple curriculums are included in education system, it would be tedious for those student to cope up with the new challenges like unfamiliar coursework etc. Thus putting the children at a great disadvantage. Thus, is crutial to have same curriculum for the students.

According to competition perspective, curriculum aids to competition too. Inorder to find a place in society the students have to compete with each other. Therefore, uniformity is required which could lead to a fair competition.Generally for getting a seat in any college, student has to give an entrance examination. This examination is based on the knowledge acquired by the student till now. If there is a variation in curriculum the entrance test might not be considered as fair. As it could benefit one student and even deter another student. Hence uniformity is very important.

For overall development of students as well as maintaining uniformity in curriculum is prominent. At the same time schools should be flexible enough to make certain changes that arouse intrest of students in education as well as benefit them in all aspect. 

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