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本帖最后由 icheban 于 2010-8-7 10:34 编辑
TOPIC: ISSUE153 - "Students should bring a certain skepticism to whatever they study. They should question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively."
Should we bring skepticism to everything we taught with instead of accepting passively? From my perspective, I agree with the assertion to some extent, however, prior to question what we are told we should develop a foundation of knowledge and have an in-depth thought of ourselves and do our uttermost to seek for the answers.
First and foremost, it is undeniable that skepticism plays an important role in our study, not to mention the significant functions of boosting the development of our daily lives nowadays. Look back on the history, we never fail to be fascinated by the skepticism that preeminent giants held, which created a lot of treasure for our human beings. Copernicus put forward heliocentric theory, which has toppled over the prevailing geocentric theory; relativity theory of Einstein shows the deficiency of the classic mechanics; Galileo, regarded as the "father of modern science", brought with a denial to the theory of velocity of Aristotle, who dominated the authoritative view. From these examples, the significance of skepticism manifest and it is this spirit can our society have a progress on a continual way.
Moreover, students are the hope of the future and the pillars of society, among whom will eventually become scientists, engineers, doctors, lawyers, scholars and even the president. Only accepting what others tell us without questioning is detrimental to our development of future and at last pose a threat to the society for the reason that no one can possess new ideas and opinions, in other words, the society lose the soul of innovation and cease to proceed. A myriad of examples inform us one without critical thinking can not have splendid achievement. At present still exist many unknowns in our lives require us to seek out. Suppose a professor if only handles knowledge that his or her teacher tells him or her, when facing a problem that has no definite and correct answer, he or she may feel confused and with a freezing mind regarding what to do, and unable to walk for longer in his or her profession without original thinking.
However beneficial skepticism might be, too much emphasize on it will obscure the drawbacks it might bring about. There are two major reasons. Firstly, over skepticism might be counterproductive in educating teenagers, sometimes can cultivate an atmosphere of self-righteousness and what is worse, it may be lead to a distrust in others whenever every time, this can conduct to a discord in society. Secondly, before one doubts others, he or she should first develop a foundation of knowledge and have an in-depth study on it, otherwise without thinking after learning a person is likely to become one simply knows to question but actually have not much ability to solve.
In sum, I agree with skepticism will benefit the students and society in a long run; however without critical thinking and over skepticism is both detrimental to education, thus critical thinking should develop in a foundation of solid knowledge.
请有空的高手们帮忙看看逻辑和结构和语言咯~~在此谢过了~~
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