Of late, many educators have started to engage in a heated debate regarding the criteria one must meet in order to get admitted into an academic institution, some believe that individuals should be accepted on the basis of their educational merits, while there are a few who believe that it would be much more wiser to have a mix of students with varying potential studying together.
A great
deal of schools take pride in nurturing exceptional scholastic talent, it is
their belief that good grades are a necessity for an educational establishment
to become renowned and sustain their excellence/finesse in educating the society.
Moreover, this traditional view strongly disapproves of granting admission to
those who are not good at studies as teaching and putting efforts on them would
be a waste of time and energy. Similarly, allowing dull pupils to study with
those with higher intellect will only slow down the imparting process, and
cause distractions.
However,
there is a lobby which believes that teaching pupils with different abilities
together is a much more prudent and practical approach to bring out their
innate aptitude lying dormant inside of them and to develop their unique
personalities. As different ideas and moral values would clash they would
create an atmosphere for innovation and help students to improve their social
skills by making them more open minded and tolerant towards each other. In
addition to this, it would instil a positive competitive spirit among peers to
do better which would surely help the academically weaker improve
themselves.
In
hindsight, I opine that teaching learners who have different capabilities
together would help them to appreciate and develop their distinct characters.
Thus, it would be a better idea to teach people with different abilities to be
taught together.
