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发表于 2010-2-21 09:28:42
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TOPIC: ISSUE155 - "Contemporary society offers so many ways of learning that reading books is no longer very important."
WORDS: 494 TIME: 00:45:00 DATE: 2010-2-21 9:22:25
随机抽的题目,练手感。不知是否论证好了...望指教!重手拍或感想均可,必回!
Despite the variety of ways of learning made possible by the booming technology today, books, tradition as it is, still and will always occupy unshakable position in one's learning.
True, people are enjoying mounting approaches to knowledge and truth. The televison, the internet, the radios and so forth lend a variety of methods that are attractive and vivid for us. We gain from them the latest news, the policy of government, the information on tourism or job application, and even cooking guidance. Compare with books, videos show their merits as being dynamic, realtime and vivid, merits that even schools have started to take advantages of by introducing high-tech media into classrooms.
However, the reason why schools still depend mainly on textbooksis that there are some information so abstract and complicated that only words can convey. Philosophy talks about the most intangible theme--the humanity, the ultimate destination of life, the origin of the world and other conception so abstract that are impossible to be transferred into other form apart from the word. Theoretical science, too, necessitates book learnings. It is unthinkable that students can learn without the reference to instructions and guidance, which are frequenly in the form of written books. Can people perceive Hegel's conception of the spirit of the world simply by video scenes? Can they understand quantumn mechanics without explanation provided by books? Perhaps they can, if provided really specific and detailed programs. However,
given the relatively expensive price of making video programs or radio tapes, it will be prohibit for the majority to afford such access of learning and the path for knowledge is therefore nearly tantamount to be blocked. After all, the abstraction and the complexity of subjects limit their expression form largely to books and written records.
Fundamentally, books offer us records and knowledges that came far before the advent of other high-tech approaches such as videos and tapes. For thousands of years, people write down both the fate of individuals and the bloom and boom of the society. Paper records keep the continuity of human traditions and cultures. If without reading books, how can a person ever know the life in ancient times, and how can he admire the original work of great writers? Though historic videos can render some episodes vividly, many details and truth can be stifled for the sake of entertainment, and true history is found within the long-lived records passed down through generations. Instead of the direct presentation of the without, people touch deeper the spirit and connotation of the author by reading. Be it masterpieces of Shakespear or rountine records of emperor's living, we learn the past mainly by reading books.
Empirical experience verifies the importance of books. From the primary school to the university, textbooks serve as the main source of knowledges. By keeping and reading written records, a society preserves and passes its histroy and culture down. Though the way of learning increases today, the role of books will never fade. |
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