TOPIC: ISSUE47 - "Society does not place enough emphasis on the intellect-that is, on reasoning and other cognitive skills."
WORDS: 251 TIME: 0:45:00 DATE: 2007-2-28
Should society place more emphasis on the intellect-that is, on reasoning and other cognitive skills? A growing number of people think so, while some believe there should be more emphasis on emotion. As to me, I insist that the society should pay as much attention on intellect as on emotion.
As we all know, the intellect quality of a person educated is essential to his success. Any person, who would become a science, who would be elected as a leader, who could be a successful businessman, who would like to be a good engineer, or even who might fulfill the position of announcer, must accept enough intellect education before he/she can achieve his/her success. No one without a good intellect education will reason logically, cognize the things he/she may come into during his lifetime soundly. So, the intellect is vital to one's success.
More, the intellect of the society forces the world to develop quickly and towards a better tomorrow. The intellect makes the engineer invent a safer and more economical car and thus the transportation of the world is much more effective. The intellect urges the leaders of the countries to perform sound rules to develop each country faster and thus develop the world more quickly. No doubt, the intellect of the society is indispensable to the world developing.
The importance of the intellect is so apparent that it should be paid enough attention to. However the emotion should not be ignored not at the same time.
The emotion decides the success of an intellective person and the progress of the society. A business man will not succeed if he/she is of lower emotion quality. He can not control his emotion when he/she come into a durative negotiation, which may lead to his/her inferior position and the failing ultimately. Similarly an engineer without high emotion quality could not communicate sufficiently the information and ideas with others, such as his/her partners, leaders, which harms the quality of his work and at last the development of the technology. The same situations will come to the leaders, the workers, and so forth. All the worse emotion quality will undoubtedly hold back the steps of the success of a person and finally the steps of the society developing.
As discussed above, both intellect and emotion are so essential to a person as well as the society or the world that the society should not only pay attention to intellect, but also to emotion. Only in this way can a person be able and the society and the world be bettered.