Writing Topic
There are people who think that
children should start school or kindergarten when they are still very young and
should learn early in life to work hard at their studies. Others feel that
young children should be more free and should spend a lot of time playing and
enjoying themselves. Discuss these opinions. Which idea do you share?
☆Let’s Think
1.
What
should people experience and learn when they are children? What is given as
education might be only a small part of what a child should learn.
2.
What
is the purpose of early childhood education? What does it teach children? Do
the subjects match their psychological development? Do you think early
childhood education is an essential initiation for an individual to do well in
today’s society? Is there any difference between people who received early
academic training and those who did not?
3.
In
Japan, children start kindergarten at the age of 5 and school at the age of 7.
Do they need to start studies earlier?
4.
What
about the child’s feelings and rights to pursue happiness?
☆Hints
for Points
Hints for points for agreement
1.
Other
than one’s innate ability, how one spends the first few years of one’s life
will significantly affect one’s life. Studies show that most human-brain
neurons are formed by the age of 6. In addition to the genetic factor, the
environment you are in during these early years will decide what brain you will
have, in other words, what kind of person you will be.
2.
Early
childhood education can allow children to make a good start in studies. Many of
the children who did not receive early childhood education have difficulty in
learning as they are not accustomed to sitting in the classroom and do not know
what other children already know.
3.
In
modern society, where traditional communities are gone, children need school as
substitute for community. At school, they can interact with adults and other
children and learn things that children in the past learned from people in
their community such as interpersonal skills, manners, folk songs, or
traditional plays, which will be their lifelong assets.
Hints for points for
disagreement
1. Some
children who received early childhood education and now go to a prestigious
high school say that they have not really appreciated it. They have always had
a feeling of loss. They miss their lost childhood. They say they wanted to play
more. They were always envious of other children playing in the park when they
had to go to a cram school. They always feel as if they lack something
important as a human being because of this lack of experience of ordinary
childhood. (This idea is based on a response of a former student of mine.)
2. I
doubt whether the best environment in which a young child to prepare for the
years to come is school or kindergarten, because they are artificial. The
world, nature and society, is complex and dynamic. Children should be exposed
to them so that they can learn them directly. They should touch the earth,
catch insects, or interact with many kinds of people before they start studies.
3. Children
should play as much as possible because play is their work. Playing helps
acquire things that are of fundamental importance in life such as attentiveness
to others and self-confidence. It also teaches children manners and social
skills. Playing in nature will give them primordial fulfilling feelings that
make them affirmative of life. The free time one had in childhood will give one
power to work hard in later years.
☆Sample Body
Structures
Sample
1
【About the first idea】
【About the second idea】
【My choice】
Sample
2
【Point 1】
【Point 2】
【Why my choice outweighs the other choice】
Your Sample
【Point 1】
【Point 2】
【Point 3】
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