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Issue38"In the age of television, reading books is not as important as it once was. People can learn as much by watching television as they can by reading books."

Since the first television system was setting into gear in 1940s, its role in people’s life has experienced tremendous changes from a curious object to an information machine, from a solely entertaining box to an education helper. Thus the assertion made by speakerwhich is a controversial topic in every society, actually indicates a fundamental reformation of people’s opinion towards learning, however, whether we could be equally educated through watching television is still open to doubt.

Books have served as the main channel for people to obtain knowledge for a really long time, as long as you can trace back to the ancient time when the book were scrolls such as Bible or the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Time lapses and human beings use these piles of papers to record all their intelligence and passed them down to us. Descartes once remarked “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest man of past centuries.” Because books are the accumulation of the past great minds and great cultures, which can provide us with incomparable broad and fundamental knowledge in various fields such as art, music, literature, mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, etc.. In ancient China, we have an erudite mentor, Kongzi, who tutored thousands of students contributing to China for centuries. After his death, his disciples wrote down all his words in a book which then became the essence of Ru, a still influential philosophical school in China, through which we learned to love each other and found the proper way to treat everything happens in life. 此处去掉了柏拉图学校的例子Although some people may argue that we have many television program explaining the great thoughts in the past and contemporary, however, the television industry is mainly a profit driven one in which educational programs only constitute a small part while entertaining ones hold the priority. As a result， you can not find some indispensable knowledge required by specific group of people such as chemists and physicians, but condemned as tedious by the general. The highly selective contents of the TV programs can not provide all the people with an overall and profound knowledge which books can do.

Besides, compared with television, books can meet the specialized needs of every person towards intelligence. These specific needs may be as minor as the learning speed or the storage of the knowledge for the purpose of latter reference. TV programs seldom, if any, are broadcast for individuals (unless you purchased a DVD), which means they have to concern all the audiences in general while put away the mass’s different demands. For instance, in a program which teaches you three dishes to cook, you are not able to skip the first two you have already known straightly to the third one you wish to learn. And when you forget an important step, you can not go back to check or reaffirm it unless you have recorded that program. A book about cooking can solve for you all the problems.

However, it is also unfair to say that learning by television is devoid (哈哈一开始这里写成avoid了，没有被发现)of advantages. It has been tested and verified that the visualized information are more easily to be remembered, be you a kid or an adult. Kids first learn by images and sounds when they can not read. In 1990s, a program called Sesame Street which taught kids to learn English through the conversation of some toys benefited a lot of Chinese children in the process of learning English. Those English sentences and phrases hardened into their memory and lighted their interests towards this foreign language, which can not be done by any book. Even in the adults’ world, they could learn many vivid knowledge about the nature through BBC’s Discovery, which people might not touch for life if they were written in some biological books.

To sum up, no matter it is in our educational system or in our daily life which learning is involved in, only an appropriate combination of the two plus other advanced technological assistances can secure a successful education as well as a broad and profound mind.
紫色是修改过的地方哦~~请赐教
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按照xinxinw的意见改完变成700多个字了…… 靠实考试的时候写不完老