雅思口语话题及参考范文：Education's Role　　1.
Should developing countries concentrate on Improving industrial skills or should they promote education first?
　　2.
Education is a critical factor in a countrys development.
Opinion is divided, however, on whether a developing country with limited resources should give priority to improving and expanding basic education for the masses or to providing a high quality tertiary education for the future leaders.
Pd 　　- Why should improve and expand basic education?
　　- Everyone born to this world is equal and, hence, is entitled to receiving basic education.
　　- Only by improving basic education could a poor nation encourage its people to discover their potential, which would translate into their knowledge and skills to be employed at work, thus/thereby improving productivity and , ultimately, living standards.
　　- Its common people who make up the largest part of the workforce.
　　- The moral question of equal opportunities for everyone.
On what criteria can a young person be judged as a potential future leader or just as a common person?
　　- Deprive the involved individual of higher education opportunity to explore his/her full potential, and might also deprive the nation of a potential clever leader.
　　3.
Describe the major purpose of education in society.
　　- Well educated and good citizens.
　　- Skillful and qualified workforce.
　　4.
Too much education is dangerous.
If people receive more education than they need to function in their job, it only breeds dissatisfaction.
For or against?
-Preparation and practice 141 　　Too much education is dangerous?
　　- Education gives people unrealistic ambitions: the law of the market decrees that not every one can be a managing director.
　　- There is very little point in training people for a level of job that they can never hope to achieve.
　　- Education is expensive.
Overeducation is a waste of time and money.
　　- Students tend to be a disruptive influence on society: found at the forefront of radical organisation.
　　Why should invest in education?
　　- Most countries need a high standard of human resources in order to compete in the world market.
　　- Uneducated people unable to show initiative.
　　- Constantly changing technology means that the workforce has to be flexible and receptive to new ideas in order to be of value to employers.
　　- Moral question: who has the right to say how much education a person is entitled to?
What criteria could be used to decide a level of schooling?
　　5.
Topic19: Education is the single most important factor in the development of a country.
Do you agree?
Cuc 2 　　Why education is the most important factor?
　　- Education provides basis for other skills.
　　- Literacy improves working persons capability.
　　- Creates self/ national respect.
　　- Education provides basis for healthy population.
　　Why education is not the most important factor?
　　- Health is more important than education.
　　- Economic development is important, and may only need unskilled workers.
　　- Difficult to find enough trained teachers.