Issue11，全球大学！！4天！！

shadow1987UID: 2605840

TOPIC: ISSUE11 - "All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems."
WORDS: 452
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010-8-7 0:38:48

In this era, scientific and technological changes bring about a complex world wherein people from different areas enjoy the more united and integrated convenience together; meanwhile, we face the tricky problems together as well. Consequently, I agree with the speaker's claim insofar that to establish a global university would be an ideal way to solve the world's most persistent social problems. However, to require all nations to support the program would be impossible with two concerns, that the country's economic capacity varied dramatically and their languages might be totally different.

In the first place, I must concede that many countries do face one particular social problem at the same time and an ideal way to solve this question is putting our intelligence and sources together. Therefore, development of a global university which was designed to engage students in solving the worldwide social problems is indeed a wonderful idea. For example, human beings are facing the energy crisis in modern society and it becomes more and more urgent to find the new energy. Consider, if every country conducts its own researches and experiments independently, the process would be rough and costly since it is awfully possible for many countries to conduct the same experiment unnecessarily. For this concern, the global university could concentrate our limited human resource and facilities which widespread in the world and attain a satisfying achievement.

However, I find the speaker's assertion that all nations should support the program is an over-statement. The reasons can be divided into two respects: the first respect is the countries' economic level is different with each others. In some under-developed countries, the government even cannot provide enough food for starved people, let alone the educational issue. In these nations, the first step is to develop their economy but not the education and the speaker’s recommendation seems not possible for them.

Likewise, another obstacle for this program is the languages. As we all known, we have thousands of languages exist in the world and it is rarely a simple suggestion to unify them. Firstly, the language is part of a country’s or a nation's culture, we should show respect to it, hence it is not possible to eliminate it. Secondly, we should also be aware of the fact that we simply cannot communicate with a person who use another language. For instance, in modern China, there are 56 national minorities and most of the people from these minorities only speak their own language. Dealing with this situation, it is really a hard work to popularize the Mandarin among these minorities and introduce their people into Chinese universities. Consequently, it would be much harder to popularize one language among the students from all around the world, and In short, the language would hinder the development of this university.

To sum up, while admit the suggestion that develop a global university which aim to solve the world's most persistent social problems is a good idea, I venture to disagree the recommendation that every nation should join in this program due the difficulties we would face, includes the country’s economic capacity and the languages’ variety.

clairolUID: 2253814

TOPIC: ISSUE11 - "All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems."
WORDS: 452
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010-8-7 0:38:48

In this era, scientific and technological changes bring about a complex world wherein people from different areas enjoy the more united and integrated convenience together; meanwhile, we face the tricky problems together as well. Consequently, I agree with the speaker's claim insofar that to establish a global university would be an ideal way to solve the world's most persistent social problems. However, to require all nations to support the program would be impossible with two concerns, that the country's economic capacity varied dramatically and their languages might be totally different.

In the first place, I must concede that many countries do face one particular social problem at the same time and an ideal way to solve this question is putting our intelligence and sources together. Therefore, development of a global university which was(用is而不能用过去时吧？) designed to engage students in solving the worldwide social problems is indeed a wonderful idea. For example, human beings are facing the energy crisis in modern society and it becomes more and more urgent to find the new energy. Consider, if every country conducts its own researches and experiments independently, the process would be rough and costly since it is awfully possible for many countries to conduct the same experiment unnecessarily. For this concern, the global university could concentrate our limited human resource and facilities which(are) widespread（adj） in the world and attain a satisfying achievement.

However, I find the speaker's assertion that all nations should support the program is an over-statement. The reasons can be divided into two respects: the first respect is the countries' economic level is different with(from) each others. In some under-developed countries, the government even cannot provide enough food for starved people, let alone (not to mention更好一些)the educational issue. In these nations, the first step is to develop their economy but not the education and the speaker’s recommendation seems not （does not seem 或者seems impossible）possible for them.

Likewise, another obstacle for this program is the languages. As we all known, we have thousands of languages exist in the world and it is rarely a simple suggestion to unify them. Firstly, the language is part of a country’s or a nation's culture, we should show respect to it, hence it is not possible to eliminate it. Secondly, we should also be aware of the fact that we simply cannot communicate with a person who use (uses)another language. For instance, in modern China, there are 56 national minorities and most of the people from these minorities only speak their own language(s). Dealing with this situation, it is really a hard work to popularize the Mandarin among these minorities and introduce their people into Chinese universities. Consequently, it would be much harder to popularize one language among the students from all around the world, and In short, the language would hinder the development of this university.

To sum up, while admit(ting) the suggestion that develop a global university which aim(s) to solve the world's most persistent social problems is a good idea, (and)I venture to disagree the recommendation that every nation should join in this program due (to)the difficulties we would face, includes(including) the country’s economic capacity and the languages’ variety.
找出来一些语法错误，参考一下，总体来说不错，加油啊！

shadow1987UID: 2605840

2# clairol

非常感谢修改^o^, 没想到写得这么慢还是错了这么多, 真难为情~

lingli_xiaoaiUID: 172506

我看这个题目的时候一直在想一个global university的作用到底是什么。。确切的说 大学教育。。是科研么，或者说是为解决社会问题提供方案的地方么
所谓的纸上谈兵，到底有多少社会问题的解决方法是从学校里面被搞出来的呢？
这个建议除了可行性以外，价值究竟在什么地方呢

shadow1987UID: 2605840

4# lingli_xiaoai

小哀姐，不知道我理解的对不对：西方国家大部分的科研工作都是在学校完成的，学生除了学习，其实经常充当着科学研究的参与者的角色，帮助教授完成实验。例如我们经常可以听到美国某某大学新发现了什么物质，某某大学新研制出了什么抗体，其中很多研究是很实用的，不应该是纸上谈兵吧，例如解决能源问题，攻克目前无法治愈的疾病，这些应该都属于social problems的范畴吧。所以我在文中没有考虑论证全球大学是否能达到解决社会问题的目的。

lingli_xiaoaiUID: 172506

但是这种研究到应用于解决问题还远的很。。而且社会问题的解决很多时候都不是技术层面的。
比如暴力，冲突，吸毒。。大学里面的科研能解决的问题有限到几乎没有。而且这种研究都是个人的局限的，一个系里面大多数人都不知道对方在干什么，把所有的人都放在一个学校里面，并没有帮组他们沟通的效果，人都是会跟在跟自己研究一个问题的人沟通，这种沟通跟地理位置完全无关跟我们实验室研究最紧密的是隔着美国大陆的另外一个学校，我甚至都不知道隔壁实验室做的是啥。

即使什么疾病之类的，根本用不着把全世界人放在一起做，自己在自己国家做，都在science发文章，彼此之前发发邮件，参加参加会议，彻底解决。

所以global university 只是physically把一群人放在一起，就能加强各国合作了么。。在我看来完全没意义。
不过我觉得你这么写没什么问题。。。我估计我会写这件事根本不值得做。
如果真的想solve problem 应该加强沟通 知识共享。。之类的

shadow1987UID: 2605840

6# lingli_xiaoai

啊~竟然是这样~
我思考了一下，可以从一下角度写：
1：交流已经十分便利，例如电话会议，视频会议，已经把人的距离拉得很近了，因此从地理上拉近距离（建全球大学）似乎没有那么重要了；
2：即便建了，也做不了什么贡献，都停留在实验和理论阶段，具体操作很复杂，应用就更遥远了，不现实；
3：同时带来一些问题，比如说教学可能影响了科学家的研究，职称制度在有些地方很死板，也可能影响纯学术的氛围。
MS有些像argu了= =！不过仅仅是brainstorming，拓展思维！