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提纲
1、过去的经验给予我们经验与教训,我们的知识几乎都来自过去
2、 过去的经历是个人认识自我的手段
3、认同祖国的历史可以使人们联结在一起,激发爱国热情
4、不应该被过去的知识经验所限制
In this era of information, newly emerge technologies, knowledge, and concepts fill every pore of our life. We are facing an everyday-new world, handling complex and overloaded information nearly exhaustively. However, does this provide us with an excuse to ignore our past? Or a reason to contend that its guidance no longer fits? I find it not, for nearly all our present knowledge, our moral lessons, and our ability to forseen the future springs from our past experience, and so will it in the future. And more importantly, we need to identify ourselves by what we have gone through before.
Knowledge from the past is one of the most important, if not the only, means by which we get to understand the world around us, and walk our way forward. After all, if we do not count on our past for guidance, what shall we refer to, as the present is changing every second, the future remains uncertain? Sophistically, if we did not turn to books recording what our predecessors discover in the past, we would be as ignorant as we were thousands of years ago. What happened in the past always provides us with instructions of arduous paths to avoid, effective measures to take, illustrated with vivid examples. Better understanding of the second World War-- what triggers it, and what painful loss we have suffered from it-- urges us to prevent the rise of any authoritarian country in the world with our utmost endeavor, prohibits nations from declaring war inadvertently. Another example of the given lesson involves the introduction of the concept of sustainable development to developing countries, which stems from their knowledge of the heavy pollution once brought by the unhealthy pattern of development in now-developed countries. Indeed, we shall perpetuate the value of such lecture accquired by reviewing our past, because however different a world we will face, our nature, concern, or weakness as human remain somewhat unchanged.
What's more, if we realized how essential the picture of our past is in understanding and identifying ourselves, we would find it actually indispensable. We may often experience moments when we suddenly feel confused about why we live in the world, who am I, where am I going to. These questions in fact pose an enduring philosophical proposition, the answer to which our meaning of life hinge upon. If we do not even know what kind of people we are, what group we belong to, what we have gone through in the past, how can we value our present being? After all, it's our past that shapes our personalities and interests, develops our abilities and virtue, and fully understands our deepest need and desire, thereby defined who we are. Abandoning our past, we are nothing but an empty being.
Such need of an individual to identify himself actually is analogous to that of a nation. Historical heritages handed from our ancestors, museums collecting belongings of the ancients, and history books recording our past all serve as evidences of the being of a nation. These days, there is a popular trend that nations establish festivals to commemorate their great history events and heroes. By recognizing the history of their homeland, people often feel a sense of belonging, and they will act more in the interest of the nation. Therefore, understanding its past, and then cultivating people's patriotism by stimulating proud in their shared history, can help to consolidate the nation.
Despite the useful advice and great benefits from our past, I insist that the function of what happened or fixed in the past should not extend over providing guidance, to dictating our current behavior, and become inviolable rules. Otherwise, it jeopardizes our future progress. As is pointed out by the speaker, so much is changing rapidly today, and relations of emerging new things are complex. One method proved effective to a particular problem in the past is very likely to lose its power days after. Before twentieth century, it is regarded as undoubted fact that time and space is coherent, until with the coming of the theory of relativity, this doctrine is overthrew. This example shows that what we learn in the past is merely knowledge, never rules, and we shall take it free to challenge it and alter it, if we find it no longer fits. If not, we risk losing the impetus for progress, and falling into the trap created by our previous selves; in this case, we may never know that time slows down when we travel in high speed.
In sum, I find the speaker unfairly underestimates the importance of knowledge of the pastin giving lessons for progress and guiding us to seek the answer to the question of who we are. However, a wise attitude towards our past calls for courage to change what's fixed if necessary. Because we human beings will lose ourselves if we have no past, while we might lose our future if we see only our past.
时间限不下去啊~~
另外写的时候思路有点乱,不知道past包不包括个人的经历,大家帮忙看看有没有跑题~~
[ 本帖最后由 cipherhuang 于 2008-12-5 14:21 编辑 ] |
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