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TOPIC: ISSUE153 - "Students should bring a certain skepticism to whatever they study. They should question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively."
WORDS: 476          TIME: 00:45:00          DATE: 2010-8-17 20:54:19

As far as I can remember, I spent my school time in taking notes and doing homework as the teachers told me to. I put learning as my top priority and that's why I got high scores all the way through my elementary and middle and high schools. I rarely doubted what the teachers taught although later on I found not all of my notes were grounded as I thought to be. But what I obtained was the firm memory of basic human knowledge which I could have missed out if I treated it as skeptical and which benefited me forever.
Today we see more and more prodigies who question about Einstein not long after they were born. We are stunned by their talent and we think that students may learn better if they carry a sense of skepticism in class. However what we have overlooked is major goals for different stages of education for the ordinary children. In elementary school, pupils are mostly taught the common sense and language. Children at the age of seven to ten tend to raise simple questions but what they need is a definite and beneficial answer. As they grow older and gain more knowledge and vision, questions from them do become harder to answer but still they need guidance not debates. The title of "student" gifts them sufficient or limited resources and definitely thinner insights than their teachers.
Students, to some extent, should be encourage to question the on-campus authority- the teachers. No teacher would like to perform monologues and no student is willing to be an outsider in class. According to surveys, teachers improve their teaching skills and research work when they get more feedback from students. Students also find their interest in a course by taking a question to the teacher. But this varies to the nature of every discipline. Like in literature and philosophy, there were traditions of skepticising and rebutting because even people outside the discipline are capable of answering certain basic questions such as "what is happiness?" "Is death the end or the beginner", so as the students; while in maths or astronomy, it's difficult to be skeptical if there lack solid statistics. The indiscriminate skepticism only leads to sabotage of the authority and blind arrogancy.
Today we have a never better freedom to question while some hundred years before the skepticism might end up bound on a burning stake. We are extremely lucky yet we should not abuse our right. Before children go to school parents should tell them to respect the teachers and the books. Usually a good book and a responsible teacher are the media to pass down the wisdom of ancient sages. Maybe some statistics are wrong and some technology can be improved, but the wisdom verified by many and helping many is always the treasure one can never overestimate.

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