各国普遍重视青年教育。而成人扫盲更加重要，政府应致力于成人扫盲。同意反对？

这是一道观点类大作文，考的是教育类话题中的成人扫盲和政府投入的问题。

话题本身不难，但同学们在审题的时候一定要注意2个关键点，一是对于成人的扫盲教育比青年教育“more important”，二是政府要为此投入“more money”。

这里要提一句，月半鸭和老师注意到有的回忆题目中“educating adults who cannot write or read is even more important” 变成了 “also important”，虽然是一词之差，但是审题论证上会完全不一样，前者是要论证“成人扫盲”和“青年教育”哪个更重要，后者只是讨论“成人扫盲”是否重要。

我们的观点是，“成人扫盲”是重要的，政府也应该投入更多的成本完成这个事情，但是“成人扫盲”和“青年教育”哪个更重要是无法比较的。

也就是说，这道题如果是“also important”我们持赞同态度，“more important”我们则持反对。下面我们就来分别看下具体分析。

大家稍微了解历史的话，一定会听到过说新中国成立后就开展的“扫盲运动”并且一直持续至今，将新中国成立时近80%文盲率下降至如今不到5%（注：上门这段只是个背景提要，别真的写进作文里）。那么为什么扫盲重要，甚至政府要花许多成本投入，原因有三个。

一是便于个人更好地生活和融入这个社会。一方面，一个人想要在现代社会更好地生活，意味着需要能够更好的使用手机、电脑等电子产品，而使用这些产品的前提是他必须得先识字。另一方面，一个人想更好的融入社会，就得先了解社会上发生的事情和变化，如果这个人不识字，意味着他只能通过口耳相传来了解，但这种方式效率低。现在的信息越来越多，一个人想要更快更准确的了解世界，必须要识字然后要通过上网、看电视或者报纸这些更便捷的方式。

二是接受过教育的人才能更好的找到工作，文盲很大程度上只能完成基础的体力工作甚至失业在家，很难找到更加好的工作获得更高的收入。而一旦人们无法通过正常途径养活自己，则可能会通过犯罪等违法手段来获取收入，破坏社会的治安和健康生活环境，这对于社会来说也是不利的。因此，政府投入成本提高教育帮助人们找到工作，不仅有利于他们更好地养活自己，也有利于减少犯罪率。（大家是否还记得上周范文汇中，正好有一道教育罪犯帮助其找工作来减少犯罪率的题目）

三是识字的成年人对于国家来说是更加合格且高效的劳动力。接受过教育的人相比文盲能够准确地操作更多机器、完成更多工作进而产生更高的价值。因此，对于国家来说，进行扫盲有利于在未来国家获得更加优质的劳动力和提高生产力。

为什么扫盲重要但是很难和青年教育相比较哪个更重要的原因。因为教育本身就是一个延续的过程，成年人不识字本身就是因为在青年时期没有接受过良好的教育。因此，给青年人提供良好教育避免其成为长到成为文盲和对现有的文盲提供教育都是必要的，将其拆开来进行重要性的对比是难以实现的。

Some people claim that governments should invest more in eliminating illiteracy among adults than in children’s education. However, I would say it is impossible to venerate either stage of education as more important due to the ambiguous boundary between each other.

Indeed, it is not difficult to understand why some people prioritize adults over younger generations in education. Those who think in this way opt to attribute many conundrums embedded in society to illiteracy of adults. Problems regarding this include unemployment, poverty or high crime rates, all of which are considered to be inextricably bound up with low educational level among adult demographic. In this respect, many people jump to the conclusion that authority should invest more in eradicating illiterate adults as opposed to children’s education.    

Plausible thought the above reasoning seems, I would say it is not justified enough to assume adults superior to younger generations in education. Those appealing for more educational subsidies in adult population are oblivious to the fact that education is something more of a continuum – an adult’s failure to read and write may inevitably stems from a lack of elementary education in his or her early age. Based on this understanding, it seems absurd to me to attribute the aforementioned societal problems to any specific phase of education and then claim for more investment based on the presupposition.  

From what has been discussed, I would say that it is erroneous to claim for primary emphasis on the education on adults as contrasted to that on younger generation, because education process is a continuum that cannot be divided into specific stages.

Eliminate/eradicate  消除  

Illiteracy 文盲  

Demographic   群体

Continuum  连续的整体

Subsidy  资助