ISSUE153习作

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ISSUE153

Should students be skeptical to everything they learn, as the statement suggested? While I admit undue skepticism does impede young children to learn effectively, I agree with the author’s judgement that students should keep skeptical to what they are taught. Not only individuals, but the whole society makes a progress with the spirit of skepticism.

Students are living in such an environment where grade is the key criteria and critical thinking is neglected. It is necessary to develop students’ spirit of skepticism from an early age, questioning thoroughly whatever they are taught instead of accepting it without thinking, thus can make them obtain knowledge deeply and comprehensively. as a proverb goes, he that knows nothing, doubts nothing. Only by considering the subject seriously can a student raise doubt. In addition, if a student feels doubtful to what the teacher says, he or she would search for datas and backgroud materials to make a judgment between the different viewpoints. Even it is proved that the student is wrong, this experience will impress him or her deeply and the correct knowledge will live longer in their mind.

What is more important, every student will grow up, and become scholars, researchers or
politicians. Being skeptical – a habit they develop in their students’ age – will help them gain great achievement in their professional fields. A scholar may encounter some phonomenon which contradict the known theories. Being skeptical rather than accepting passively can the truth be found eventually. A varieties of scientists can be cited to illustrate this point. Calileo felt doubtful to Aristotle’s theory about gravity, and eventual prove Aristotle is wrong by making reasonable hypothesis and doing experiments. For a politician, skepticism is of particular importance when faced with the established policies. Roosevelt, for instance, standed out to challenging the policies Hoover made, and saved the whole America from the great Depression.

Furthermore, our society is advanced by the spirit of skepticism. “As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.” Such is a remark of Clarence Darrow, which illustrates the point that skepticism motivates the development of our society. Skepticism is associated with the definitions like innovation, invention and discovery. If there were no one in the world to doubt, science would never exist. We may still think we are living in a flat world, and we are the center of universe. Civilization would never exist, we may still live in a turbulent society, full of unstable factor strong enough to ruin our life.

Notwithstanding, knowledge lays the foundation for skepticism. It is more crucial to impart knowledge to the young students. They should spend more time to absorbing the established principles, which is more conducive for them than challenging excessively.

Skepticism is not a radical way of thinking, but a logical thought process. Faced with the sea of information in today’s world, we can hardly distinguish the right from the wrong. Schools should create the atmosphere that skepticism is encouraged, entangling students from limitation of examination marks. The ultimate goal of our education should be making the students learn to think independently and make their own judgments.

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全文挺不错的，尤其是“Being skeptical – a habit they develop in their students’ age – will help them gain great achievement in their professional fields.”这段论证很出彩，虽然例子可能大家也能找到，但论证角度很别致。
不过我觉得While I admit undue skepticism does impede young children to learn effectively这个只是首段提了一下，后来快结束的时候又提了一下可能稍微有一点点突兀，不过感觉你也自圆其说了，所以我加的那一段你不要也可以。
语言方面真的感觉很不错了，读起来也很流畅，也有很多地道的用词。

ISSUE153

Should students be skeptical to everything they learn, as the statement suggested? While I admit undue skepticism does impede young children to learn effectively, I agree with the author’s judgement that students should keep skeptical to what they are taught. Not only individuals, but the whole society makes progresses with the spirit of skepticism.
   There’s no denying that accepting the knowledge passively is a quick way to learn basic knowledge. Student seems to be in high efficiency when they just accept the knowledge without question. However, the former way of learning in the long run will have deep revise effects on the student for lack of critical thinking.
Most students are living in such an environment where grade is the key criteria and critical thinking is neglected. It is necessary to develop students’ spirit of skepticism from an early age, questioning thoroughly whatever they are taught instead of accepting it without thinking, thus can make them obtain knowledge deeply and comprehensively. as a proverb goes, he that knows nothing, doubts nothing. Only by considering the subject seriously can a student raise doubt. In addition, if a student feels doubtful to what the teacher says, he or she would search for datas and background materials to make a judgment between the different viewpoints. Even it is proved that the student is wrong, this experience will impress him or her deeply and the correct knowledge will live longer in their mind.

What is more important, every student will grow up, and become scholars, researchers or
politicians. Being skeptical – a habit they develop in their students’ age – will help them gain great achievement in their professional fields. A scholar may encounter some phonomenon which contradict the known theories. Being skeptical rather than accepting passively can the truth be found eventually. A varieties of scientists can be cited to illustrate this point. Calileo felt doubtful to Aristotle’s theory about gravity, and eventual prove Aristotle is wrong by making reasonable hypothesis and doing experiments. For a politician, skepticism is of particular importance when faced with the established policies. Roosevelt, for instance, standed out to challenging the policies Hoover made, and saved the whole America from the great Depression.

Furthermore, our society is advanced by the spirit of skepticism. “As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.” Such is a remark of Clarence Darrow, which illustrates the point that skepticism motivates the development of our society. Skepticism is associated with the definitions like innovation, invention and discovery. If there were no one in the world to doubt, science would never exist. We may still think we are living in a flat world, and we are the center of universe. Civilization would never exist, we may still live in a turbulent society, full of unstable factor strong enough to ruin our life.

Notwithstanding, knowledge lays the foundation for skepticism. It is more crucial to impart knowledge to the young students. They should spend more time to absorbing the established principles, which is more conducive for them than challenging excessively.

Skepticism is not a radical way of thinking, but a logical thingking process. Faced with the sea of information in today’s world, we can hardly distinguish the right from the wrong. Schools should create the atmosphere that skepticism is encouraged, entangling students from limitation of examination marks. The ultimate goal of our education should be making the students learn to think independently and make their own judgments.