Today education seems like mass-production.Education involves the form of class system,which deals with in which form to give lessons to students.

    今天的教育似乎是造人的过程,教育涉及阶级制度,决定了学生受教育的形式.

    We find that bright children are rarely held back by mixed ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming (把…按能力分班) pupils. It does not take into account the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have a bad effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright child. After all, it can be quite discouraging to be at the bottom of the top grade!

    Besides, it is rather unreal to grade people just according to their intellectual ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We are concerned to develop the abilities of all our pupils to the full, not just their academic ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching contributes to all these aspects of learning.

    In our classrooms, we work in various ways. The pupils often work in groups: this gives them the opportunity to learn to co-operate, to share, and to develop leadership skills. They also learn how to cope with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyze and uate, and to communicate effectively. The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teacher.

    Sometimes the pupils work in pairs; sometimes they work on individual tasks and assignments, and they can do this at their own speed. They also have some formal class teaching when this is appropriate. We encourage our pupils to use the library, and we teach them the skills they need in order to do this efficiently. An advanced pupil can do advanced work: it does not matter what age the child is. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to attain this goal.

    我们发现，聪明的孩子很少受混班教学的影响。相反，他们在知识和经验方面都有长进。我们认为把学生按照能力分班有很多弊端。这种做法没有考虑到孩子们发展情形各不相同这一事实。对聪明的孩子和不太聪明的孩子都有不良影响。毕竟，在最好的那一档里做最差的学生也够令人气馁了！
此外，只根据人的智力水平来对人进行分类也是颇不现实的。这仅仅是全部人品特征的一个方面罢了。（18）我们关心的是让所有的学生都能充分发展各方面的能力，而不仅仅是学术能力。我们也很看重个人品质与社交技能，而我们发现不按能力分班的教学对学习所有这些方面都很有益。

    在教室里，我们以不同的方式工作。（19）（A）学生们通常会以小组为单位进行学习；这样他们便有机会学习相互合作、分享，以及（19）（C）培养领导技能。他们还能学到怎样处理个人问题，以及（19）（B）怎样思考，怎样作决定，怎样分析和评价，与怎样进行有效的交流。学生们不仅向老师学习，也可以互相学习。
    有时，学生们也会以结对的方式学习；还有时，他们自己完成个人的任务，他们可以按照自己的速度来做。在适当的时候，他们也要接受正规的课堂教学。我们鼓励学生们使用图书馆，所以我们要教他们所需的技巧，才能有效地利用好图书馆。一个先进的学生可以做先进的工作，而他的年龄多大并不重要。我们期望学生们可以最大限度而不是最小限度地发挥他们的能力，我们也会尽量鼓励他们达到定目标。