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题目：ISSUE28 - "Students should memorize facts only after they have studied the ideas, trends, and concepts that help explain those facts. Students who have learned only facts have learned very little."

In recent years, a widely accepted viewpoint claims that facts play a less significant role than informations that help explain those facts for students. In taking various factors into consideration, to large extent, I fail to persuade myself to agree with this point of view totally and reckon that it is unreasonable to let either the facts or the knowledges connected with those facts to overshadow the other.

First of all, I have to concede that students who spend all their time memorizing forebears' experiences can hardly reach the real success. Maybe the textbooks are able to tell us great amount of truth that has been testified, a scholar's real value can only based on his own creation. As the Asian old saying says "learning without thinking will lead to confusion", we would find it a mission impossible to make the facts useful in guiding our practise studies if we only passively accept them as real truth without any deep thinking.

Nevertheless, if we always try to find something which has an effort in help us comprehending the facts better every time when we are going to study a subject, an ironic problem may therefore appear: a portion of those "learning skills" is even more complicated than the facts they want to explain. A true story related to my best friend, Tim, may serve as an appropriate case to strengthen my claim. Tim is so interested in Japanese cartoons that he decided to learn Japanese in order to enjoy the original cartoons without any lost caused by translation. As we know words and pharsed are the indispensable fundaments for learning a foreign language, at the very beginning Tim borrowed a lot of books that with a title like "learning Japanese words is so easy" and so on. After he had finished those books, he told us that he had summarized a principle in memorizing new words: all the “magical” means provided by those book are nonsense, for their authors always write several paragraphs to "help" you to learn even one word. The unique and most efficient method of memorizing those obscure Japanese words is: more time, energy and willpower without any so-called "best learing skills".

At last, it is unfounded to emphasize either the facts or the ideas, trends and concepts more than the other without considering any actual conditions. In most of the scientific majors, we can understand a theory better by learning some other informations that help explain the theory. On the other hand, as there exists no obvious relationship in some artistic productions, what shall we do is to keep them in our mind, and our abilities of appreciating works of art can be improved thereby.

To sum up, both the facts or the ideas, trends and concepts that help people to understand the facts are not mutually exclusive alternatives. To the contrary, the former and latter serve as interwined elements and are able to co-exist in a harmonious way. Indeedly, students can also benefit from merely memorzing facts especially those who major in art.