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TOPIC: ISSUE153 - "Students should bring a certain skepticism to whatever they study. They should question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively."
WORDS: 473
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010/4/5 1:17:46
I partially agree with the speaker that students should keep a skeptical prospective when they are learning something, but not everything. It is important for students to unconditionally accept certain axioms and proven truths, yet if students accept whatever they are taught, that would be deleterious to effectively teaching and developing innovation and critical thinking skills.
先让步,有的公理啊啥的是不好质疑的
要质疑也要有坚实的知识基础后,例爱因斯坦
Admittedly, some knowledge are based on the arduous efforts of thousand of forerunners and have stood the test of time, thus no further doubt is necessary. Specifically, some fundamental laws and regulations in physics and biology, such as the conversation of energy, the circulation of human blood, have already be proven by previous experiment and practical experience a thousand times or more, there is no good for students to suspect those basic laws or they will be sucked into the myth of agnostics. Besides, students of little solid knowledge could hardly be wiser than all genius scientists or have the academic right to challenge them. Only when students are learned enough could they be able to effectively challenge those laws. For example, after years of careful analysis, Einstein successfully reversed Newtown's laws of motions decades after his graduation from academic institution . (最后这句真拧巴)
顺便对北美范文和其他一些文章的一个疑问——用哥白尼的例子做论据支撑怀疑精神作用,说哥白尼怀疑地心说,才有后来发现
问题是哥白尼是学生时期提出来的吗?
40岁时,哥白尼提出了日心说,并经过长年的观察和计算完成他的伟大著作《天体运行论》。
很多发现当然都是怀疑精神的结果,但大部分科学家还是在有一定积累后才能发现吧
首先,老师讲的不一定是对的
However, it is dangerous for students to abandon skepticism and learn whatever the lecturer preached. First of all, the lecturers' knowledge and intelligence is so limited that they might be giving wrong directions to students, or the teacher was simply not well prepared for a specific course. In that case it is natural for students to openly question what the teacher taught. Through that process the teacher can progress as well, and teaching and learning become mutually beneficial. Cases in which teachers made obvious mistakes abundant, and students have the responsibility to suspect such mistakes so as to expel wrong ideas.
例子上,感觉想不出比较“大”的,都是具体的小事例……
其次,怀疑精神有助于培养独立思考,critical thinking
Second, even if the teachers are always right, cramming dead knowledge into students would kill their ability of individual and critical thinking, eventually impair their innovation skills. While by keeping a skeptic prospective, students are more likely to pose questions and seek for answers by themselves, thus bring up new ideas and form individual opinion. For instance, in my lesson of International Relations the teacher always used some models to explain certain incidents, like the game theory in interpretation of the international arm race. Some of us were doubtful about the credibility of that explanation and developed their own theory. The teacher encouraged us to further examine our theory with experimental practice and form a thesis on it, and that’s what we did.
不被动学习,主动学习
As far as I am concerned, maybe it well behooves students to accept knowledge actively instead of passively, and teachers have the responsibility to help build constructive skepticism. By learning actively I mean every student should pose questions after thoroughly understanding the basic theories and carefully considering his or her questions, and teachers should be more than glad to help. Moreover, teachers should motivate students to help themselves or help each other through meaningful discussion. In this way we can avoid groundless skepticism and promote effective teaching and learning. |
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