关键词讨论：social harmony （52 213）

happyman2000UID: 136936

ISSUE42--------------------- "Education encourages students to question and criticize, and therefore does little to promote social harmony."
ISSUE203--------------------- "Too much emphasis has been placed on the need for students to challenge the assertions of others. In fact, the ability to compromise and work with others—that is, the ability to achieve social harmony—should be a major goal in every school."

我曾经写过issue 42。在那篇作文里，我根据字面的中文意思把social harmony理解为社会关系的协调与稳定。但根据issue203的解释，social harmony主要指the ability to compromise and work with others，既人际关系的协调。
请各位高人指正，究竟如何理解social harmony.

feier521UID: 109747

我觉得这两个是不矛盾的，
社会的和谐就是通过compromise and work with others（cooperation）实现的，compromise cooperation ，就没有矛盾，所以就和谐咯
我看过你的那篇文章：社会的和谐取决于经济的增长和政治的稳定。我觉得关于政治的稳定就是要求compromise and work with others的， 对吧？

happyman2000UID: 136936

Admittedly it is true that the ability to compromise and work with others should be paid attention in every school, but the emphasis on this kind of ability shouldn’t go too far to encumber the development of critical thinking, which is primarily shaped by encouraging students to question, criticize and challenge the assertions of others. For individuals and the society as a whole, what matters more is the critical thinking, far over the so-called social harmony.
1, the development of critical thinking is one of the main aims of education because it can best prepare students for both their academic interests and professional success.
2, the emphasis on the ability to compromise and cooperate often ignores the true reason for many disputes between people, that is, the different ideas about the truth. On this occasion, the sense of compromise does little to social harmony, but harms its realization.
3, in many cases, it is not the criticisms and challenges between people that causes the failure of social harmony, but the undue attitudes and methods that people adopt to treat with opponents.

happyman2000UID: 136936

最初由 feier521 发布
[B]我觉得这两个是不矛盾的，
社会的和谐就是通过compromise and work with others（cooperation）实现的，compromise cooperation ，就没有矛盾，所以就和谐咯
我看过你的?.

以下省略...... [/B]

多谢你的安慰！
不过，考试时真要遇到这道题，我不敢按原来的思路写了！

gambellUID: 122696

按照你的新理解，那42中encourage students to question and criticize 的确会 does little to promote social harmony （as the ability of compromise and work with others至少是compromise ）,总觉得这样怪怪的。我还是认为social harmony 包括的范围要广很多，各部门的协调还差不多，compromise只是作为协调的一个手段和必要的部分。

happyman2000UID: 136936

我刚开始时把soical理解为“社会的”，但我查字典发现social还有社交的意思。因此我非常怀疑social  harmony主要指社交的或人际关系的协调，而不是社会的协调。
欢迎大家继续讨论！

paisleyUID: 64183

我也觉得二者不矛盾, happyman你原来的理解我觉得是对的,"社会关系的协调与稳定" 着眼于社会整体的，从宏观上来考察, "the ability to compromise and work with others，既人际关系的协调" 这是着眼于个体的，从微观上来考察，可以说，后者的完满达成前者的实现.

另外，我觉得即便你不同意我上面的分析，也不妨碍呀. 这两个即使互相独立，也都可以各自拿来做论点. 本来ISSUE 只要自圆其说就可以了, 自己给这个名词定义好了。人家著名学者研究什么东西，也不一定非按照默认的定义研究，他们也会重新定义的，按自己的理解.

happyman2000UID: 136936

多谢各位的讨论！继续

imongUID: 140258

paisley的论点同意：要是考虑到容易混淆的东西，就再一开始就define出来

erater应该不会纠缠在这个问题上，你事先澄清的话判卷人也没法挑刺的。

我一直认为issue是expression而非debate，所以这个问题的话，只要说出来&说清楚就好。

and，什么时候由zt进化到老鼠了？