Pressure on the school and university students is increasing?

Pressure on the school and university students is increasing and students are pushed to hard work when they are young. Do you think it is a positive or negative development? 

It is irrefutable that the burden on school and university pupils is burgeoning and they have to work very hard at a young age. This situation has both positive and negative effects. A balance needs to be created in which parents and teachers have a big role. In the following paragraphs, I shall discuss the issue in depth. 

Pressure on students is increasing because of many reasons. Firstly, today we belong to a highly competitive era. Students need to get good scores to get into a good college. To add to it, higher education is very costly and students need to do part time work to fund their education. What is more, sometimes parents push children to adopt those subjects in which the child has no aptitude. This also creates tension on the mind of the students. 

This is a positive development because the habit of working hard right from early years makes them realise the dignity of labour and they are better placed in life later on. Secondly, they do not indulge in any violence and crime and drugs. This is because they don’t have time for such activities. Finally, if they work hard in early years they will develop a sound career and will have a happy and contented later life. 

It is a negative development because it leads to stress and strain. Sometimes, students cannot strike a balance between work and leisure which may result in boredom. Secondly, when students face failures or can’t cope with the pressures they can have suicidal tendencies.  Students also face stress if they are forced to choose a course against their wishes. 

On balance, I believe that being pushed to hard work is a positive development. However, parents and teachers need to do proper counselling and guide them properly. Aptitude of the student needs to be given consideration. Alternate career choices should be explained to both parents and children  

The best way for a nation to prepare for the future is to invest more resources in its young people?

The best way for a nation to prepare for the future is to invest more resources in its young people. How true do you think about it? What are the best ways to spend these resources?
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Young people are often seen as the leaders of changes in the country. With knowledge, skills, creativity and enthusiasm, they are believed to contribute greatly to the growth... of a nation, and therefore, deserve to be most invested; however, others claim that the fate of nation depends on a variety of factors and the young are part of the entire picture of thriving only. My essay will shed light on how to allocate the investment of country for the effective resources to guarantee the long-term development.

It is first claimed that in some countries where the young population dominates, for example, America, Vietnam and others, the earmarking of a high amount of budget for their education and career development schemes makes sense. It is undeniable that America, after a short time of growth, has stuck to the plan of attracting the high-skilled labor, especially, the younger group from all walks of life, bestowing upon them the high salaries and other privileges, by dint of which it has achieved staggering accomplishments in fields of technology, economics and entertainment. Nevertheless, not all nations are peopled with a majority of the young people. Facts have shown that in such developed nations, particularly, North Eastern ones where the number of the young is relatively modest, and people tend to have a lower birth-rate, it is essential for governments here to distribute their budget significantly for the maintenance of good health care system and welfare for the old, along with their constant improvement in education systems to raise awareness of the young, including the free tertiary education.

Youngsters are, second, cited to be the main work force which adds great value to the country’s work force. It is true that equipped with updated technology, being creative and enthusiastic, they can find it easy to give birth to new ideas to heighten productivity of organizations. That explains why they are normally granted more bonuses, for instance, high salaries and training programs from places where they work while governments are spending a huge amount of budget for their education to make sure that no sooner do they graduate from university than they embark on working effectively. However, the problem is that whether the young can totally make use of redundant resources given by authorities. As a result of being too young and still disoriented about their future, it is inevitable that such expenditure can go wasted and the older groups, say, the middle and senior, feel outcast and reduce their work performance for this inequitable treatment of the government. Japan is a telling example of a nation which is able to obtain sustainable growth with strong emphasis on the step-by-step effort and slow economic bonus for this group in work places; it is said that only after, at least, being adherent to the organization for about 10 years will the young employees stand a chance of being promoted or being given a more important task.

In the final analysis, I strongly believe that all groups of people in the society, whether the old, young and middle age should be equitably addressed for their unique value. While the young tend to be dynamic and creative, the senior are the old hands of the jobs and are able to deal with any unexpected situations with calmness, loyalty and foresight. A group of people that I think government should greatly take into account is female who prove their outstanding and equal value in the modern work places, but still undergo unwanted discrimination. Another suggestion to ensure the effectiveness of their investment is that the close supervision of their outcome of their policy and the understanding of their country’s current context to figure out which group, at a certain stage, will receive the most significant investment.