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本帖最后由 xihaiweiwei3 于 2010-10-9 20:35 编辑
Issue153.
"Students should bring a certain skepticism to whatever they study. They should question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively."
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For students, there are numerous new things flourishing their world, should students need to skeptic whatever they studied or accepted now and whatever they will be taught in future? Two options in front of students, accepting knowledge a sponge or question it in a critic way. It is hard to distinguish which way is better, the two ways can make complementarily to the other, and balance two will benefit students more than just choose one side.
First, as people know, students should learn certain amount of knowledge before considering these opinions. It is the sponge-like thinking way which can supply students enough basic knowledge, as providing foundation for skyscraper. Therefore, the skeptical thinking way cannot disturb learning process, because accepting some information is prerequisite for student to question some statements. In both skeptical thinking way and accepting thinking way, to receive and accept some fact is first step. If people don’t believe anything, they will reach a paranoia state. Thus, students need to learn general sense from book, then to consider its trueness.
Second, While skeptical thinking is a test to assist student generating discretion. Though there are dozens of possible approaches, the progress can be boiled down to concrete steps. Comment sense indicates that students will gain a conclusion contains numbers of information or even wrong factors. So it is meaningful for students to practice the ability- discretion, through asking themselves two questions: I do not really know and I am not sure. For example, William Harvey, English physician, who discovered the circulation of the blood and the role of the heart in propelling it, thus refuting the theories of Galen and laying the foundation for modern physiology. Moreover, Galileo, who is a student of Aristotle, used a experiment to point out his teacher’s theory, the heaver one will reach the grand when two object falling down from the same height, to be a fallacy one. The scientific method, to some extent, can be said to be entirely motivated by doubt. As a result, to skeptical general sense, to question school book is first step for student to learn discriminative power.
Third, skeptical and accept think method need to be balanced by students. For skeptical often motivate an elaborate adversarial process to sort through all the evidence to come to a decision. As Evolution Theory written by Darwin, this theory appears to be logicality and persuasion. The evolution theory has been accepted by the whole world. But now, after thousands times of researching and surveying, biologists and physical scientists, critic this classical theory. They pointed out that Evolution Theory is only a theory includes inexplicable errors, and cannot explain the complexity of biology and life. However, on the other hand, people who accept some knowledge without doubt will reach right conclusion much frankly and directly than people who skeptical. Especially, in our times, time is money. People need to deal thousands of staffs in one hour, if people skeptical anything and not resolute business in time, company will suffer disastrous lost. And if student learn to skeptical in spear time and handling problem decidedly will reach a better results. Therefore, to correctly using skeptical and accept thinking is a skill need student to practice.
In conclusion, the two consider way is twins, they cannot be separate from each other. Accept-thinking supply student with general knowledge, skeptical-thinking lead them develop discriminative power. And only student who can balance both sides will…
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