Should Science and arts Education be Separated?

A recent survey shows that different peoplehold different attitudes towards whether science and arts education should beseparated. Some people favor the division between science and liberal arts.They believe that such practice not only provides more focused education butalso lightens students’ academic burden. I don’t think so and I insist thatscience and arts education shouldn’t be divided.

最近一項調查表明不同的人對文理科該不該分班有著不同的態度。有些人喜歡把文理科分開。他們相信這樣子能夠讓學生更加注重學科，而且也能減輕學生的學習負擔。但我不這么認為，我堅持文理科不該分開。

I have several reasons tosupport my view. First of all, science and arts are integral parts of thequality education. Students must learn both of them to gain an all-rounddevelopment. In addition, there’s no direct connection between students’ studyload and the number of subjects they have to learn. More often than not, it isthe existing educational policy and system that make students feel stressed anddepressed. Finally, it is a fact beyond all disputes that being forced to makea choice between science and arts, more students will lose interests in theirstudies.

我有幾個理由來支持我的觀點。第一，文科理科都是素質教育的組成部分。學生必須都得學了才能在學業上有較全面的發展。還有，學生的學習負擔和他們要學的學科的數目沒有直接的聯系。通常是現有的教育制度和體系讓學生壓力山大和郁郁寡歡。最后，強迫學生選文理科，讓他們很多人都對學習失去興趣，這是一個不爭的事實。

From the foregoing, we can safely draw aconclusion that science and arts education shouldn’t be separated from eachother.

綜上所述，我們能夠得出結論，那就是文理科不該分開來學。