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本帖最后由 红绡 于 2010-7-2 01:44 编辑
ISSUE 153
153. "Students should bring a certain skepticism to whatever they study. They should question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively."
分类:学习
Nowadays, people enthrone an idea calling for skepticism for what we learn in order to improve or modify knowledge we developed with seeking truth. As we all known, the way to truth-seeking is endless, and what we have learned cannot be definitely guaranteed to be truth in future. Thus, skepticism is essential for world’s developing and proceeding.
Too many predecessors and theories were emerged to certify the philosophy of skepticism. Such as, theory from mechanism to relativity, earth from a flat disc to an ellipsoid, and approval of heliocentric theory and so on. As for Mikolaj Kopernik who created De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium—a splendid opus on which he spent almost half of his life time, however, even if bringing forward the vital points of his theory had not meet with opposition from the pope, he had not received his first published book until the day he was gone. With later generation’s untiring efforts, Kopernik’s theory revealed its real value. Thereby, such as these stories and records are too numerous to mention one by one, we can see the science is developing step by step circuitously. As a consequence, it is necessary to cultivate the skepticism when students study.
Furthermore, to some degree, bringing a certain skeptical spirit to what students study would advance their initiative, not to mention capacity of thinking in multi-perspective. Those who can only receive knowledge are not talents what the world needs, on the contrary, society needs more genius who have active and powerful thinking skills. While active thinking people would show a certain skeptical style of work, or in other words, skepticism is another expression of thinking.
Among others, skepticism should not be undue, that is to say, modest skeptical spirit can bring objective sight to everything, if it becomes excessive, one would be sunk into internal friction which is wasting time and life. Moreover, one who has not enough basis knowledge could not think much about whether information learned is real or not. So maybe one cannot make sure of being a skeptic without basic cognition, one could only do one thing that is to receive information actively. When people own enough knowledge and judgment, they could think forwardly and suspect what they do not approve.
In sum, learning is without limits as the process of chasing the truth in science. The truth comes from micromesh attention and active thinking which shows a certain skepticism to one’s cognition to new objects. Thus, the students who own basic knowledge and discernment should not accept knowledge passively, while they must recognize the significance of moderate skepticism to what they study and work in future. |
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