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Some people think that it is necessary to punish children so that they can learn the human virtues. What is your opinion?
有人认为为了让儿童学会人类的美德, 惩罚儿童是必要的. 你的观点如何?

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本文目的在于培训学生写作逻辑意识，字数明显超过实际应试要求。

范文一　　2004-11-30写于北京新东方总部教室，共694单词。   
How can children be well educated? A prevailing bias is that punishments are at least one of the effective ways to educate children. The prejudice is based on a false analogy between children and criminals. Its assumption is that punishments serve a function of determent. Punishments, in fact, are to revenge. Even punishments signal, signify, or at least imply the pragmatic value of violence. To punish children is to tell them that they are expected to take the measure of “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”, but this clearly betrays our human virtue for “Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also”。 Unfortunately, so frequently have we human beings sought to the violence when we ask for the virtue and to the wars when we desire the peace. Superficially it is mere a child education issue, virtually this issue exerts immeasurable influences on human civilization and its various forms of conflicts, confusions, controversies, and contradictions. 

Appealing to punishments logically assumes that children’s misbehaviors, delinquencies, or criminals stem, at least partially, from the consciousness of children that their behavior would not harm themselves. However, this will be clearly unable to account for the vandalism prevailing among some slums or ghettoes.

This logical analysis casts doubts on the bias that punishments can be employed under all circumstances. But this does not constitute a solid foundation to argue that punishments are always negative, nor can this be the evidence to conclude that punishments are always ineffective. The complexity of the issue thus makes it imperial to examine when, where, to whom, in which case the punishments can be employed in child education. Theoretically, it seems that exists a clear cut for people to distinguish between when punishments can be used and when not. Pragmatically, nevertheless, the imagined line is rather hard to discern or discover, even to the trained eyes. A five-year-old child blaspheming his neighbors, for instance, might pique the parents to punish the misdoer.

In this case the parents clearly manifest that the adults possess the power (if not the right) to appeal to violence when their own moral, ethic, or value is challenged, that violence (whatever the motivation of such violence) works well in case that the one who uses violence is physically stronger, and that the minors or the weak must be obedient to those who hold the power to slash.