Topic: Should basic education be abolished to concentrate resources to improve the quality of elite education? Affirmative arguments (advocating the abolition of basic education): 1. Concentration of resources: Abolishing basic education can concentrate the country's limited educational resources on elite education, improve educational facilities and teaching quality, and cultivate talents with outstanding international competitiveness. 2. Improve efficiency: The popularization of basic education may lead to excessive dispersion of resources and waste on a large number of students who cannot fully utilize educational opportunities. Concentrating resources on students with potential can improve the efficiency of resource use. 3. Innovation incentives: Strengthening elite education can motivate students to pursue excellence in skills and knowledge, thereby better promoting innovation and development in science and technology, economy and society. Negative arguments (opposing the abolition of basic education): 1. Social equity: Basic education is the cornerstone of achieving educational equity. Abolishing it may cause the solidification of social classes and further widen the gap between the rich and the poor. 2. Universal quality: Basic education plays a vital role in improving the cultural quality of the whole people, cultivating civic responsibility and basic life skills, and is the foundation of social stability and development. 3. Exploring potential: Basic education provides all children with an equal starting point. Many outstanding students with potential may lose the opportunity to develop because they do not receive basic education. This topic can be discussed in depth from multiple levels such as resource allocation, social equity, and educational effectiveness.