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发表于 2010-7-13 11:21:06
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本帖最后由 江雪 于 2010-7-13 11:35 编辑
We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own.” disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning."
To some extent, I agree with the point of view presented above. The reason is rather obvious. That is, if we share our views with someone, we are likely to receive more knowledge and information of this aspect easily from them, For example, if we find a teacher of a certain subject seems to think in the similar way with us, we become interested with him and thus everything that he says and teaches seems correct and useful to us, hence learning much from him. This is what I agree with the argumentation presented in the issue.
Also, it is justified to say that those who we disagree with are liable to inhibit our learning. Since we seem to have nothing in common with them, it is actually difficult for us to learn from each other. When we disagree with someone, we tend to deny everything that he proposes. What’s more, they make us uncomfortable and stressful to the extent of inhibiting our learning. Thus the conclusion in the issue has been drawn. However, in my opinion, there are still something more that must be taken into consideration.
On the one hand, don’t those who we share our views with inhibit our learning? It appears that we have formed a pleasant learning atmosphere and can make progress together; however, don’t we also share the wrong points of view? We all think in the same way, therefore more often than not none of us could find any mistakes in our way of looking at and treating things. If things go on like this, our knowledge will be restrained and creativity inhibited. This often happen in our life.
On the other hand, don’t those who we find us disagree with stimulate or even inspire our minding? We all have such experiences as having been enlightened by some views that at first we don’t agree with. But why? In my opinion, this results from the endlessness of knowledge and relativeness of truth. There are always things that we don’t know, so that only if we open our hearts to accept different opinions can we perceive some truth. Even speak, what does truth really mean? No one can assert whose perception is genuine truth. Thus it is necessary for us to expand our visions and learn to contemplate on different point of views. Admittedly we have the right just to confine us to the cozy field that we can most comfortably snug ourselves in, say, those views that we have been used to since we begin to think independently on our own and don’t need to take pains to meditate on. However, in that way can we really perceive what we really need to perceive merely by staying where we are without advancing, or at best going a little bit farther than where we are now? Surely, the answer is negative.
As far as I am concerned, that is far from what we need to attain in the academic field. Now that knowledge is limitless, we can never achieve higher goal unless we proceed with our pursuit of truth and value of knowledge. On a second thought, not only in the academic field, but also every aspect of human life need such a spirit of critical thinking, which means finding faults with ourselves, learning to get deeper into the ultimate truth of human life, and thus making a better man out of us.
In summary, I must say, I disagree with the point of view in the issue. Instead, we are to communicate with and learn from those people whose opinions we think we can hardly agree with. Through this, we can confirm our correct opinions or reflect on our own mistakes. Only if we harbor in our soul the desire for knowledge and skepticism towards ourselves can we fit ourselves well in the always-changing world, thus better accommodating ourselves in our life. |
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