【写在开始写作之前】

最近三场的雅思写作大作文的话题其实都比较抽象。给人感觉是：

我国国民早已具备的素质（competitiveness）怎么还要讨论？

我国国民正在实现的目标（the environment）怎么还会疑惑？

我国国民基本以及习以为常的情况（full-time education until the age of eighteen）怎么还有顾虑？

这些“理所当然”的情况反而不好讨论吧。毕竟，当我们太先进，能够体谅他人的疾苦也是一种素质。

In many countries, an individual must attend full-time education until some point of his or heradolescence. The point may be sixteen years of age. Does it need to be a bit later, say, eighteen? The answer may not be globally universal.

1) The proposal is based on the legally nominated age, worldwide, at which adulthood starts. 

2) The underlying idea is that one, at the age of eighteen, is more or less ready to join the community – largely its workforce, and to participate in many activities, for example, voting – excising a constituent’s right that is most valued by the government.

3) Not a government conspiracy, education is actually designed to serve the purposes, and to fulfill its missions, education needs to guarantee that individuals are competent or qualified for their roles.

4) Eighteen years of enlightenment, training, cultivation and edification that are constant and focused, without any disturbing matters, may be the well-calculated span of time and intensity that are believed to be most likely to successfully prepare individuals for their roles in the community.

5) For this reason, it is plausible to have non-optional full-time education till the age of eighteen.

Yet, things are not as simple as the rationale; otherwise, we would not be discussing the age as a proposition but celebrating an accomplishment. In many countries, full-time education until the age of eighteen is still an ideal that the authority is making tremendous endeavors to achieve. The difficulties are the shortage of labor, due to which the government has to make young individuals usable labor at their premature ages, and the lack of money to sponsor full-time education that is available to the public and spans almost two decades. In those countries, some leeway should be allowed, and a couple of years earlier than eighteen may be acceptable for now.