【正文】 ve members of society ? tolerance of others with different viewpoints, and respect for others ? pose certain problems, which might outweigh the benefits ? California39。 many animal lovers create work which allows them to express that love. Caregivers and nurturers manage to find work teaching, socializing, counseling, and healing others. And people bitten by the travel bug generally have little trouble finding satisfying careers in the travel industry. ? In the final analysis, people are ultimately free to choose their work。s career goals, as well as enhancing overall workplace productivity. ? However, by exposing students to various religious beliefs, educators promote the values of respect and tolerance when it es to the viewpoints of others. Besides, in my observation certain fundamental valuessuch as passion, virtue, and humilityare mon to all major religions. By appreciating certain fundamental values that we should all hold in mon, students are more likely to grow into adults who can work together at the workplace toward mutually agreedupon goals. ? Yet it is perfectly appropriate, and useful, to inform students about various religious beliefs, customs and institutions. Learning about different religions instills respect, tolerance, and understanding. Moreover, students grow to appreciate certain fundamental virtues, such as passion, virtue, and humility, which all major religions share. Through this appreciation students grow into adults who can work well together toward mutually agreedupon goals. ? in our technological society where knowledge advances so rapidly, employers and job training programs are better equipped to provide this function leaving formal educators to equip students with a moral pass 210 are people free to choose a career ? The speaker believes that economic and other pragmatic concerns are what drive people39。 fears and prejudices. Yet mon sense dictates that social 2 ills are best solved by identifying causeandeffect relationshipsin other words, through critical thinking. ? is vulnerable to decline. ? emotions can serve as important catalysts for academic acplishment in the arts. Otherwise, however, students, and ultimately society, are better off by learning to temper their emotions while nurturing judgment, tolerance, fairness, and understandingall of which are products of reason and critical thinking. 191 should education devote itself to enriching our personal lives ? emphasize personal enrichment over job preparation ? Liberal studies such as philosophy, history, and parative sociology enable students to develop thoughtful and consistent value systems and ethical standards, by which students can determine how they can best put their technical knowledge and skills to use in the working world. ? Thus it would be a waste of our education system to focus on specific knowledge and skills that will soon bee obsoleteat the expense of providing a lasting and personally satisfying educational experience. It seems more appropriate today for employers to provide the training our work force needs to perform their jobs, freeing up our educators to help enrich students39。s impact on the emotions and spirit. Nevertheless, even in the arts, students must learn theories and techniques, which they then apply to their craft. And, creative writing requires the cognitive ability to understand how language is used and how to municate ideas. Besides, creative ability is itself partly a function of intellect。re being more sensitive to, and respectful of, the rights of women, various ethnic and racial groups, homosexuals, and mentally and physicallychallenged individuals. The reemergence of political third parties with decidedly libertarian ideals demonstrates an increasing concern for individual freedoms. ? peacekeeping missions are now largely multinational efforts ? through joint research program ? the key determinant is not socialization but rather some other factorsuch as a seminal childhood event, parental influence, raw intelligence, or personal conviction. ? in my observation our society is steadily evolving into a more civilized, respectful, and tolerant one 94 what is required to bee truly educated ? tolerance and respect for the viewpoints of others ? one gains the capacity not only to succeed in a career, but also to find purpose and meaning in that career as well as to understand and appreciate the world and its peoples. 112 should schools teach students to explore their own emotions ? While I concede that in certain fields students are well served by nurturing their emotions and feelings, in most academic disciplines it is by cultivating intellect rather than emotions that students master their discipline and, in turn, gain a capacity to contribute to the wellbeing of society. ? After all, artistic ideas and inspiration spring not from logic but from emotions and feelings such as joy, sadness, hope, and love. And, the true measure of artistic acplishment lies not in technical proficiency but rather in a work39。s feelings and emotions. = serve as catalyst for ? Consider, for example, the study of history, political science, or public policy, each of which is largely the study of how the concepts of fairness, equity, and justice work themselves out. It is tempting to think that students can best understand and learn to apply these concepts by tapping feelings such as passion, empathy, sympathy, and indignation. Yet fairness, equity, and justice have little to do with feelings, and everything to do with reason. After all, emotions are subjective things. On the other hand, reason is objective and therefore facilitates munication, consensus, and peaceful promise. ? For example, when it es to the war on drugs, free speech and religion, abortion issues, and sexual choices, public policy today seems to simply mirror