Different Chocolate, Different Ways of Education.
李小玢 山东省济南市山东省实验中学 “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get. “ This is a classic (插入 part) from the movie Forrest Gump, which suddenly occurred to me when I got this topic. So please grant me to explain my contention with different kinds of chocolate. There are three kinds of chocolate in the current market, white chocolate, black chocolate and milk chocolate. In my humble opinion, each represents a way (form) of education. White chocolate is called “chocolate without cocoa”, and it is honeyed and scrumptious, not a bit bitter. Formal university education is like the white chocolate. Receiving a formal education means having a bright new future, and those graduates’ lives will be as sweet as honey. It is true that a diploma granted by a formal university can impinge more on (bring more benefits to) a student’s future, but this kind of education doesn’t always mean a coign of (a secure) vantage. Some students who attend to a formal university tend to be idle and lazy, and some even act like an Epicurean. That is the same with white chocolates–too much sugar and milk could also spoil its wonderful taste. Black Chocolate contains at least 35% of chocolate liquor, and taste much too hitter to most of us. But it has an endless aftertaste. It is the same with informal education. Students who failed in the college entrance exams tend to have a busy life. Most of them have to work while studying at a night school. This kind of life is bitter, but it may bring some cordial aftertaste to a student’s life, too. Sweat doesn’t always mean failure, to a degree, and it may mean the Blue Bird to their future. I have a neighbor whose father is a migrant, and he received a 7.5 in the ILETS while helping his dad with all the housework. So far, you may think that I an in favor of informal education, don’t you? To tell you the truth, what I like is the milk chocolate, a combination of these two chocolates. In my humble opinion, a perfect education should combine the advantages of the two kinds of education together as a whole, it should absorb the comfort of formal education and the deligence (diligence) of the informal education. In that way, students can enjoy a colorful life, while at the same time, they gain sweat and tears through practicing their skills. It is my contention that both of the education is useful, hut the combination of the two is more perfect. Because only in that way can we make our juveniles highereducated and more skilled.
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