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发表于 2007-2-1 11:43:07 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

TOPIC: ISSUE47 - "Society does not place enough emphasis on the intellect-that is, on reasoning and other cognitive skills."
WORDS: 424       TIME: 0:45:00       DATE: 2007-2-1

During the last decade, among people not only in the American but also in the other countries all over the world the discussion of the high controversial issue about intellect has come into vogue. Just what is dangerous about the anti-intellectual? Judgment should be dispersed. I think imparting the reasoning and other cognitive skills are the most significant emphasis of education and are the assurance and motivation of the developing of society.

Though nowadays, lots of people pursuing the utilitarian and the most unfortunate is that they ignore the emphasis on the intellect and they may be have the sense of anti-intellectual to some extent. However, Russell once said that (and I paraphrase):" Pursuing knowledge only may lead to harmful unless it is combined with wisdom."  Intellectual are the leader of society, and they are the leavening of society, evaluating the progress of the, realizing the potential of culture, directing the improving of society, and defending the traditional culture. Without the intellectual who has learned reasoning and other cognitive skills, our society will bog down in the pitfall of no purpose or disintegrate into multitudes of fragment or become an anthill.

In the current education system, the significant aspect of university should be the contribution for society of providing intellectual, creating equality of opportunity and imparting the truth of knowledge. Unlike the training school which generates a multitude of working machine and like a well-trained dog as the Einstein said, the purpose of the education is self-improving. We can learn the skills of reasoning and other cognitive skills from the pure education and will realize the ending of life and the deep insight of direction of society developing. As the backup of education, the teachers and educationalists should realize the significant potential importance of imparting intellect.

Admittedly, in the capitalism, pursuing the sake of survival, we all fall into the Sargasso Sea of the sense of utilitarian. The life of pursuing intellect will be long. The intellectual must elicit their emotions and ideals, neither of which are defined in the terms of dollar and the commercial merit. The intellectuals have been challenging the status in quo and they are labeled by the utilitarian the "blockhead".  But the real blockhead is no one but the people  pursuing dollars only.

All in all, it's likely that not all the people will reach the same point as I discussed above. Nevertheless realizing the emphasis on the intellect must be the most important for our society developing.  We should learn the reasoning and other cognitive skills。