issue153 students should bring a certain skepticism to what

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TOPIC 22 ‘students should bring a certain skepticism to whatever they study.They should question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively.’
Doctrinairs always hold the view that their disciples should believe in their words with no doubt.But should students accept the knowledge taught undoubtedly or suspiciously?It need not go very far to demonstrate that one should be the active agent in his own education,rather than a passive receptacle for facts.

First of all ,all the generally accepted theories,have their application limitation;in other words,they are truth only some conditions,and otherwise may be false.Take the classical mechanics for an example.Before the proposition of relativity,Newton’s classical mechanics was regarded by most people as truth,though more and more phenomena can’t be reasonably explained and even contradict the Newton’s theories sometimes;After Einstain, the most famous physist and scientist of the twentieth century,put forward his ideas to successfully and convincingly unravel some mysterious problems challenging Newton’s classical mechanics,man began to realize that Newton’s theory is merely feasible in explaining the macroscopic phenomena,not inerrable in all the cases.Thus ,we should be prudent to trust contemporary knowledge that may be true only under certain imperceptible or generally ignored assumption.Imagine that relativity hadn’t been proposed and physics therefore so advanced as present had Einstein had been conventional without questioning the vadility of classical mechanics.

Moreover ,suspicion is an indispensable and intergral component in the course of our development into maturity.It is only through independently analyzing and synthesizing the information that one cn develop his/her ability to deal with numerous unexpected difficulties and dilemmas in future.Confronted  with a new math problem,for instance,one will be at least diffident in wording it out unless he/she previously participate actively in solving the taught problems by teacher instead of being only stuffed with miscellaneous and indigested facts.Since the genuine and ultimate goal of education,as ,Socrates knew more than 2 thousand years ago,is not to insert the stuffings of information into a person ,but rather train us to be able to handle whataver life may present ,especially the unknowns of the future.Learning will be meaningless and all-consuming if we haven’t it in our power to do so.In this sense,every student should choose to be properly doubtful to anything teachers impart and to be positively involved in the learing process.

But it dose not mean and actually inadvisable to exclusively put anything into question.It is true that no existing knowledge can be claimed invariably true under every circumstances.Rarely if we will encounter the exception,let us say,of a generally accepted theory and such a theory can always be correct in our daily lives, why not just master it first before it can be perfected through further study .

According to the foregoing reasons and illustrations, we should keep a preserved skepticism to imparted information,in order that we may be less likely to bigotedly believe in a fake theory,and that our problem-solving ability may successfully enchanced in the learing process.