Using your knowledge and experience to solve the problems VS. Asking other people for advice Hi! I'm TOEFL beginner. I'm trying to practice my writing alone. If possible, I would like to get help from you about my grammar and vocabulary. I would also appreciate any other advice you may have. Many thanks! When I get in trouble, there are two ways to solve the problems. Solve it alone or get some advices from other people. It may depends on the circumstances, but I think it's better to try to solve the problems based on my knowledge and experience before asking other people. Because, first of all, I can obtain the way to solve it alone. It is important to solve the problem, but I think it is more important to find out how to solve it myself. This is related to ability to think creatively and independently. If I get too accustomed to getting advices from others, I may have difficulty in situations where I have to find a way alone. Because I cannot always expect to get the help of others, I have to get used to solving my own problems. Second, it is better in terms of acquisition efficiency. Sincephenomenon is organic, to cope with a single problem, it is necessary to know a great deal of knowledge associated with it. Moreover, the knowledge learned from others is not remembered long. Thus, when another similar problem occurs, the ability to deal with it may be reduced. If I have solved the problem or have tried to solve it alone, I can apply obtained solution to find another solution. Suppose that I am trying to cook fried egg but there is no cooking oil. If I get advice from someone and find that I can use butter instead of cooking oil, I can solve my problem right now. But what happens next if I have a situation where I do not even have butter? Should I seek advice from people again? On the other hand, if I recognize the absence of cooking oil, identify the characteristics of it, select substances with similar properties, test one by one to see if they have sufficient effect, and conclude that butter is a substance often found in the kitchen of those substances I checked, I would be able to cope with it when I faced such a problem. In this way, I think it is better to solve it on my own based on my knowledge and experience rather than relying on someone else's advice in order to fundamentally solve the problem situation. It takes a lot of time and effort and sometimes it can fail to find a perfect solution, but it is well worth it. It is not too late to seek advice from others after failing.

Getting advice from friends (peers) VS older people Hi! I'm TOEFL beginner. I'm trying to practice my writing alone. If possible, I would like to get help from you about my grammer and vocabulary. I would also appreciate any other advice you may have. Many thanks! 2. Getting advice from friends (peers) VS older people All people inevitably face some problems during their life time. In the most of cases, they can solve their problem by themselves, but sometimes they can't. If they become stagnant to one problem for a long time, it can be very helpful to seek advice from others. There are many people who can give us a advice around us including friends, peers and older people. I think it's better to take advices from older people if we can choose just one adviser. They have experienced a lot, so they may have had same problem as ours. They have already overcome same worries as mine and already know and understand my difficulty. They may also predict some of the consequences of my choices. So we can get more practical advices from older people than people in same ages with me. Of course, older people may not be able to sympathize with my situation unlike my friends. Because they was living in different generation as me, exchanging opinions is a little difficult in the culture like my country where the order is determined by age. But if we are seeking realistic advice rather than an exchange of emotions, complete emotional sympathy may be unnecessary. The essence of problem is always the same across the ages and in all countries of the world. The same problem always repeats. Though there are minor differences, we can handle older people's advices as a good lesson and actively cope with that. The choice is up to ourselves. Talking with a friend is considerably efficient in terms of emotional exchange, but the question about effectiveness remains. In conclusion, effective advice based on older people's failure and success will be very helpful to our choice relative to friends in a similar process as me.

All High school students should learn basic economics. (AG/DIS) Hi! I'm TOEFL beginner. I'm trying to practice my writing alone. If possible, I would like to get help from you about my grammer and vocabulary. I would also appreciate any other advice you may have. Many thanks! 1. All High school students should learn basic economics. (AG/DIS) Economics seems like quite difficult and distinct from us on the face of it. However, in fact, this subject is closely related to our real life. We need to learn economics to understand not only our personal wealth management, but how our world is going. In this respect, I would like to suggest that all high school students should learn basic economics. Whatever they will do in the future, economics would directly effect on their everything such as food, clothing and shelter. Moreover, if students don't learn economics at all, we will lost important critical view on economy for our society. In my case, I had no chance to learn cultural subjects including basic economics when I was in high school, because education system in my country made me focused on major subjects only at that point. As a result, honestly, I have not gotten any idea related to economics. I can't manage my budget well, and I can't understand and discuss about economic news on the TV and newspapers. I was lacking in basic concepts about that, so I naturally lost interest in it and it has been kept up to now. For these reasons, I think learning basic economics in high school is very important because it is helpful for our life's quality and essential to get independent economic opinions.