97. Should teachers be paid according to how much their students learn?
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Teachers should be paid according to how much
their students learn. Give specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
『分析』
不能同意。乍看起来(at the first glance)很有道理。问题在于：
教育不是商品。
如何保证能够确切地衡量学生究竟学到了多少？
学生学到多少，并不是老师一个人的事情，还要看学生自身的素质(quality)；能力(capacity)等等。
如果采取了这样的方式，就会出现老师迎合(cater to/ pander to/ play up to students' taste)学生而不是引导
(guide; lead)学生，违背了教育的原则。
『范文』
People usually believe that teachers have the most important job in all of society. They raise our children to
be forward-thinking, bright individuals. They ensure that children get along with each other, and learn to work
together as a team. As such, being a teacher typically means a stable paycheck. However, when some people
propose that teachers should be paid according to how much their students learn, I can hardly agree.
First of all, students may not be interested in learning. When students are not interested in learning, the
teacher can hardly be held responsible. The teacher can grade them harshly, keep them in after class, and discipline
them severely, but the students will still not learn if they do not want to. If the teacher is trying his/her best to teach
the students, and the information is presented clearly and succinctly, he/she can do no better job.
Moreover, there is a limit on how much a child can learn. If a teacher was to be paid according to how much
his/her students learned, there would be a certain point where he/she could teach them no more. I remember when I
was in high school, there would be moments in the year when I didn't think I could fit any more information into my
head. This was not my teacher's fault, and the point is that I just was not absorbing the material. I think many
teachers would find this problem if they were paid by how much their students learnt.
Most importantly, teachers should not be paid according to how much their students learn because some of
the lessons that a student learns cannot be measured by a test. We cannot simply give children a test to discover
how much they have learnt in a class. Tests rarely measure one's social skills, one's ability to communicate, or
one's ability to integrate successfully into the world. However, it is the teachers who help students to manifest
these qualities.
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