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发表于 2009-1-25 20:00:20 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

TOPIC: ISSUE179 - "What most human beings really want to attain is not knowledge, but certainty. Gaining real knowledge requires taking risks and keeping the mind open-but most people prefer to be reassured rather than to learn the complex and often unsettling truth about anything."

To talk about this issue, we should first of all figure out what does 'knowledge' mean and what do people learn it for. For most of the time, we were taught by our parents in a young age that we should go to school to get education, which in most part means to pursue knowledge. But in most occasions, our parents miss the part or just cannot speak clearly of what we use the knowledge to do which as a result leads to different motivates and attitudes towards learning knowledge. Or even knowledge is not included in their final aims of pursuing.

So that we can divide these people into two kinds depending on thier motivations. People who go to school for true knowledge, wanting to know the rules and laws of the world.
On the other hand, there are people who do not care about the knowledge but whether they are right, that is to say, they want the right thing instead of the real thing.

The most common phenomenon of people's target in certainty rather than knowledge is clearly shown in the students who are facing the exams ahead of them. For example, when they are doing the maths exercises, they face a very complex problem which needs them to judge whether it is right or wrong. Most of the time, knowing that the exam paper would not infer to such difficult prooving questions which even cannot be solved by the teachers, the students may just remember the right answer instead of the proving process. Other occasions are also familiar, such as a student asking the teacher about the accuracy of his way of culculating only aiming at knowing whether it is right, but not really wanting to make affort to obtain the way to solve the problem.

As for these kind of people, they always ask other people or other books whether they are right, that is to say, to hand the right of judgement to other people's control. They learn knowledge only to obtain other aims such as going to university, getting a job and acqiring a liscence. They are always not confident and relying on others such as their teachers, bosses and parents.

But there are still persons who concentrate on getting the 'truth' rather than the 'right'. Scients are such person that they can be defined as so. They always have a curious mind and pair of sharp eyes to explore and learn, and discover. They always know about the rule that authority does not means truth, just as the school slogan of Harvard University ‘I love my teacher, but I love truth more’, what they want is something that really exist and can be prooved and acquired. They are confident and persistent.

Not only in the areas of study, but also in daily lives can we find such two kinds of people. People who search for real things think everything or most of the things in life are natural since they are ready to accept everything that exists and think they are just going as they should do. But those who search for right things may always get hurt because they don't know that the world is not only consisting of right and wrong and even it is, they don't know that the standard of right and wrong is not and could not be set by a single person. Always they are more unrealistic so more sensitive and unconfident.

Those who search for centainty only could not attain certainty but only unconfidence. Those who really search for knowledge are those who are most certain---they get the certainty without other's consciousness.