托福獨立寫作話題素材拓展：教育
對于很多TOEFLer來說，托福獨立寫作最讓人惆悵的并不是不會寫，而是不知道該寫啥?托福獨立寫作部分話題涉及各類領域，考察考生對特定話題的獨立觀點闡述， 而讓很多考生感到頭疼的恰恰不是語言表達本身，而是拿到題目不知從何寫起，遇到自己之前不熟悉不了解的話題，往往大腦一片空白。還有些同學因此走極端開始進行各類素材的瘋狂記憶積累，背到最后舌頭打結卻并不能清楚明晰自己到底都背了啥。
其實，托福獨立寫作的思路拓展我們完全可以“功夫在平時”，通過日常閱讀和聽力材料積累必要的話題素材，不求字字句句銘記只需大概了解特定范疇，再在日常托福備考中注意練習應用，學會觸類旁通融會貫通，考場上自然可以心中有數。下面我們來看一些教育類話題素材拓展。
Sample Question：
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more important for a teacher to help students gain self-confidence than to teach them specific knowledge.
當我們遇到教育類的話題時，我們首先應該思考的是：何為教育(What is education?)
Connotation 1: Knowledge imparting (知識傳授)
知識傳授(knowledge imparting)是教育的一個重要內涵，教師是傳授(impart)專業知識的主要角色。
Sample Sentences:
1. Knowledge imparting is one of the important connotations of education. One responsibility of teachers is to teach specific knowledge to student.
2. Undoubtedly, teacher should impart knowledge to students since it is their main duty.
Connotation 2: personality cultivation(個性培養)
如果學校只提供專業知識的傳輸而不注重個性培養，這個學校顯然是誤讀(misread)了“教育”，因為教育應該“以人為本”(people oriented)，人的培養應該是全方位的(comprehensive)，比如個性的培養，自信的建立等。
Sample sentences:
1. Education should be comprehensive, not only to impart knowledge, but also to cultivate personality and self-confidence.
2. In some sense, self-confidence cultivation has more profound significance than specific knowledge imparting, since the former can assist.
Connotation 3: Cooperation and competition(合作與競爭)
朋友既可以是來自相同背景的，也可以是非常迥異的人通過競爭與合作共同進步。同時，當今社會競爭如此激烈，有不同背景的朋友有利于在社會上立足。
Sample sentences:
1. With different expertise, friends can make progress together by cooperation and competition.
2. Making friends with variety kinds of people fits in with the trends of nowadays’ society, since it’s competitive everywhere, we need all sorts of help
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