雅思口语话题及参考范文：Education's Role

　　1. Should developing countries concentrate on Improving industrial skills or should they promote education first?

　　2. Education is a critical factor in a countrys development. Opinion is divided, however, on whether a developing country with limited resources should give priority to improving and expanding basic education for the masses or to providing a high quality tertiary education for the future leaders. Pd

　　- Why should improve and expand basic education?

　　- Everyone born to this world is equal and, hence, is entitled to receiving basic education.

　　- Only by improving basic education could a poor nation encourage its people to discover their potential, which would translate into their knowledge and skills to be employed at work, thus/thereby improving productivity and , ultimately, living standards.

　　- Its common people who make up the largest part of the workforce.

　　- The moral question of equal opportunities for everyone. On what criteria can a young person be judged as a potential future leader or just as a common person?

　　- Deprive the involved individual of higher education opportunity to explore his/her full potential, and might also deprive the nation of a potential clever leader.

　　3. Describe the major purpose of education in society.

　　- Well educated and good citizens.

　　- Skillful and qualified workforce.

　　4. Too much education is dangerous. If people receive more education than they need to function in their job, it only breeds dissatisfaction. For or against? -Preparation and practice 141

　　Too much education is dangerous?

　　- Education gives people unrealistic ambitions: the law of the market decrees that not every one can be a managing director.

　　- There is very little point in training people for a level of job that they can never hope to achieve.

　　- Education is expensive. Overeducation is a waste of time and money.

　　- Students tend to be a disruptive influence on society: found at the forefront of radical organisation.

　　Why should invest in education?

　　- Most countries need a high standard of human resources in order to compete in the world market.

　　- Uneducated people unable to show initiative.

　　- Constantly changing technology means that the workforce has to be flexible and receptive to new ideas in order to be of value to employers.

　　- Moral question: who has the right to say how much education a person is entitled to? What criteria could be used to decide a level of schooling?

　　5. Topic19: Education is the single most important factor in the development of a country. Do you agree? Cuc 2

　　Why education is the most important factor?

　　- Education provides basis for other skills.

　　- Literacy improves working persons capability.

　　- Creates self/ national respect.

　　- Education provides basis for healthy population.

　　Why education is not the most important factor?

　　- Health is more important than education.

　　- Economic development is important, and may only need unskilled workers.

　　- Difficult to find enough trained teachers.