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GRE作文issue素材： Education： （英国夏山学校）freedom individual interests and needs Summerhill, a school founded in 1921 by A.S. Neill who is a famed educator of England, holds the education idea of freedom. In this school, students are not enforced to attend classes; children make rules by themselves and no one will restrict them; the tests are not compulsory and students have never been worried about their marks. Each teacher teaches only one student, so when students graduate at their 16, they will be confident, tolerant and more talented. 现代社会发展快，科技迅速 Ours is a time of problems, of gigantic problems. Everything is being transformed under the magic influence of science and technology. And every day, if we want to live with open eyes, we have a problem to study, to resolve. ----Pope Pius VI, May 18,1969 现代科技的危害： Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau has warned:” Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the twenties century than in all previous human history.” Likewise the environmental organization Worldwatch Institute concluded in 1989. By the end of the next decade the die will pretty well be cast. As the world enters the twenty-first century, the community of nations either will have relied and turned back the threatening trends, or environmental deterioration and social disintegration will be feeding on each other. Homo sapiens, by contrast, being endowed with superior intelligence, was able to adapt environment to its needs by mastering fire, fashioning clothes, constructing shelters, and so forth. 个人VS集体： Responsibility lies with the institutions of society, not in the virtues of the individual. Norway’s former prime minister Gro Harlen Brundtland notes, however, the Western Europeans who initiated the industrial revolution and the ensuing atmospheric pollution, cannot now condemn “have-nots” to the status of “never-will-haves”. Francis Bacon confronted his head-on when he urged that the newly emerging discipline of science be employed for the “benefit and us