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发表于 2004-3-10 22:42:08 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

Issue9 Academic disciplines have become so specialized in recent years that scholars' ideas reach only a narrow audience. Until scholars can reach a wider audience, their ideas will have little use.

It seems that the auguer want to convince us that high specialization causes the shrinking of research range, and in addition, the influence of scholars’ ideas, but I can just agree with him partially for the reasons as below.

It is obviously that academic disciplines have become highly specialized in recent years, which means that the fields scholars would put their attention into may be narrower in some degree than before, when science research was not so exquisite and profound. However, it dose not mean that the influence of scholars’ ideas and academic outcomes will be limited at the same time. Take penicillin, one kind of most popular antibiotics, as an example, it has saved millions of people’s life since it was found by Sir Alexander Fleming, notwithstanding its function mechanism and productive procedure is unfamiliar to the public. And also, we can enjoy TV programs despite how the little box is made up, chat with friends through internet disregard why the information can reach them so quickly, drive cars wherever we want to go if only we know where the accelerator and brake lies in. Accordingly, there is no need for the public to understand the abstruse academic knowledge just for taking advantage of the academic outcomes.

Furthermore, many branchs of learning interact with each other more and more thoroughly, which impels the advance of many different realms of science and technology and the emerging of many new interdisciplinary subjects such as Bioinformatics, Biochemistry, Biophysics and so on. These novelties bring new vim to the whole academic circles and lead to even more up-to-date ideas, through which a benign cycle comes into being, and then push the development of science and technology unceasingly. From this point, although academic disciplines have become highly specialized, each single branch of learning amplifies its influence to the whole academic circles through the interaction with others.

Admittedly, the more abstruse the idea is, the narrower the audience it can reach. Although it is no need for the public to understand excessively abstract theories, it may be beneficial for them to have a sketchy acquaintance of them. Hence, if scholars want to propagate their ideas to the public, they have no choice but to simplify and universalize their theories to the standard that can be accepted by ordinary people. A case in point is computor. When the first computer came into being, it was so gigantic and complex that only a few technologists and scientists could operate it, which made people take it as a mystery. This mysterious veil had not been disclosed until the personal computer came into people’s life. Now, everyone can run a computer by means of a little mouse if only he has a simple learning of it. In other words, for the popularization of their ideas, scholars really need to lessen the gap between the specialists and the public. But it dose not mean that only do this can they spread out their thoughts, not to mention the use of those crystal of wisdom.

In conclusion, specialization is the definite tendency of modern academic research, and the interaction of each branch of science and technology is another liability, thus every valuable idea can be developed both in depth and width. Maybe scholars’ ideas reach only a narrow audience, but they can exhibit their usefulness in many other ways.

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