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本帖最后由 梦想在路上 于 2010-6-8 23:46 编辑
According to the statement, the speaker claims that students should keep skepticism on whatever they study instead of accepting it passively. It has some merits from a normative standpoint, though it seems too extreme to some extent. In my opinion, I generally agree with the speaker’s assertion because the skepticism can indeed benefit the developments of both education and society.
To begin with, it is fundamentally believed that students should question what they are taught but not accept passively, on both respects of students and teachers. On one hand, being skeptic is not a radical way of thinking, but a logical thought process. It is useful to cultivate students’ independent thinking capabilities, raise the positivity and activity of learning, thereby stimulating further understanding of knowledge. The progress of skepticism is likely to avoid students’ learning by rote. We all know that one must have understood before being able to doubt about it. On the other hand, it is instrumental for teachers to improve their educating qualities. Since comparing with students learning passively, teachers should pay more attention about methodologies of educating, accuracy of expression, extensity of professional knowledge and so forth. Therefore, the skepticism is helpful for educational system to develop even more healthily.
Moreover, aside from the benefits in education, the skepticism is the foundation of uninterrupted innovation and progress of a society, since, actually, many exist authoritative knowledge have some undiscovered mistakes and leaks. If we keep on blindly following the forebears’ theories or results,the society cannot develop continually. For instance, in the realm of science, Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer who founded the modern astronomy based on heliocentric cosmology, completely challenged the former theory, Ptolemaic system, in the early 1500s. Hence, any society is not able to advance without updating knowledge in various areas and knowledge cannot be maintained fresh by themselves unless by effects of skepticism from varied realms.
Admittedly, the speaker unfairly suggests that students should question whatever they are taught, as the statement appears to ignore certain negative effects to which extreme skepticism might lead, especially in following two aspects. For one thing, education should encourage students to propose their own views and judgments only after careful and overall investigations and researches, which are based on large accumulation of knowledge. Otherwise it will become irrational. Can you imagine a schoolchild query the basic theories of subjects such as physics, mathematics, chemistry and so forth? For another, the basic norms of a society, like ethic and moral regulations, laws and so on, which cannot be allowed to challenged by students who are lacking abilities to distinguish right from wrong. Can you imagine juveniles obey cords of conduct, such as drinking under 18 years old, driving without license, theft and robbery, drug abuse and trafficking, because of their questioning the rightness of them? Consequently, the extreme skepticism is not scientific and suitable but harmful for the farther development and prosperity of the society.
In sum, I basically agree with the speaker’s assertion that students should have skepticism during learning period rather than accept whatever they are taught passively, although the skepticism must be based on certain prerequisites.
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自改一 Thx polo!
According to the statement, the speaker claims that students should keep skepticism on whatever they study instead of accepting it passively. It has some merits from a normative standpoint, though it seems too extreme to some extent. In my opinion, I generally agree with the speaker’s assertion because the skepticism can indeed benefit the developments of both education and society.
To begin with, it is fundamentally believed that students should question what they are taught but not accept it passively, on both respects of students and teachers. On one hand, being skeptic is not a radical way of thinking, but a logical thought process. It is useful to cultivate students’ independent thinking capabilities, raise the positivity and activity of learning, thereby stimulating further understanding of knowledge. The progress of skepticism is likely to avoid students’ learning by rote, as we all know that people will be able to doubt about the issues only when they have surely understood them. On the other hand, it is instrumental for teachers to improve their educating qualities. Since comparing with students learning passively, teachers should pay more attention about methodologies of educating, accuracy of expression, extensity of professional knowledge and so forth. Therefore, the skepticism is helpful for educational system to develop even more healthily.
Moreover, aside from the benefits in education, the skepticism is the foundation of uninterrupted innovation and progress of a society, since, actually, many existent authoritative knowledge have some undiscovered mistakes and leaks. If we keep on blindly following the forebears’ theories or results,the society cannot develop continually. For instance, in the realm of science, Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer who founded the modern astronomy based on heliocentric cosmology, completely challenged the former theory, Ptolemaic system, in the early 1500s. And in the realm of art, Beethoven, a German composer and pianist, was the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time. Hence, any society is not able to advance without updating knowledge in various areas and knowledge cannot be maintained fresh by themselves unless by effects of skepticism from varied realms.
Admittedly, the speaker unfairly suggests that students should question whatever they are taught, as the statement appears to ignore certain negative effects to which extreme skepticism might lead, especially in following two aspects. For one thing, education should encourage students to propose their own views and judgments only after careful and overall investigations and researches, which are based on large accumulation of knowledge. Otherwise it will become irrational. Can you imagine a schoolchild query the basic theories of subjects such as physics, mathematics, chemistry and so forth? For another, the basic norms of a society, like ethic and moral regulations, laws and so on, which cannot be allowed to challenged by students who are lacking abilities to distinguish right from wrong. Can you imagine juveniles obey cords of conduct, such as drinking under 18 years old, driving without license, theft and robbery, drug abuse and trafficking, because of their questioning the rightness of them? Consequently, the extreme skepticism is not scientific and suitable but harmful for the farther development and prosperity of the society.
In sum, I basically agree with the speaker’s assertion that students should have skepticism during learning period rather than accept whatever they are taught passively, although the skepticism must be based on certain prerequisites.
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