The issue of whether academic abilities should be served as an exclusive standard to select students or not is of great concern. As for me, taking a comprehensive assessment of students’ diverse capabilities should be encouraged.

Depending on your point of view, this trend can be spun as an effective approach to cater to the society’s needs or a barrier for one’s all-round development. On the one hand, admittedly, academic abilities play a dominant role in one’s career path. Because nowadays most jobs require more mental, rather than manual, labor. This helps explain employers take candidates’ academic scores as relevant references before they have any work experience. Under these circumstances, it is understandable that some schools regard the proformance of academic subjects as their sole basis of admission.

On the other hand, individuals lack academic skills, some may argue, are likely to have other latent talents, which certainly deserve a further development at schools. Besides, it is not uncommon that a group of students who present a great insight in the academic field, however, are incapable of handling fundamental problems. This phenomenon alarmingly revealed the disconnection between theory and reality. More importantly, it displayed the weakness of the academy-first educational system. As for individuals, if schools only choose students equipped with high academic skills, students would work flat out to get an ace at every academic exam. It might stifle students’ imagination and creation and impede their further progress.

In my opinion, the intellience in academic study, as a benchmark of one of hundreds of abilities in one’s whole life, renders minimal assistance in the long term. Each student has multitudinous opportunities to become anyone as long as the school serve as a platform where students’ potential can be fully exploited.

Each year brings further evidence that new internet-based products are unprecedentedly revolution of our lifestyle. Since this alternation is welcome for some and miserable for others, it is high time to take a hard look to the detrimental effects and the beneficial effects alike.

For individuals, the rising tide of people rather use instant messaging products to substitute face-to-face interactions, widens the gap between people both physically and emotionally. Furthermore, this tendency also breed loneliness and thereby stifle people’s enterprise and initiative. Apart from that, since now everyone is getting too used to do basic activities online, it could be a curse of a prevalent sedentary and unwholesome lifestyle. For the society, the expedient that modern facilities served intensifies the alienation between people, to some point, brings us an aloof, detached and indifferent society. As a result, it could rock the foundation of social harmony.

To the credit side, for some individuals, instead of feeling isolated, these new, life-altering changes turn out to cater to their needs more. Admittedly, it serves an useful function of boosting people’s efficiency and productivity in some aspects of daily life. A good case in point is that the advent of online banking render queuing before the bank counter a relic of the past. For society, it spurs the development in some fields, such as online shopping and social media applications, which is conducive to sustainable economic growth.

To sum up, novel revolutionary breakthroughs always come with laudable benefits and undesirable side-effects. There is a long process for this development to meet a sober reality check and find a more fitting image for them.