Issue153 Welcome to jxking's issue forum and evaluate my 2nd issue.

jxkingUID: 141801

Issue:153"Students should bring a certain skepticism to whatever they  
study. They should question what they are taught instead of accepting it  
passively."

One gifted Chinese ancient philosopher named Confucius had once said in his famous analects that, "To believe in books completely is hardly better than to have no books." This antiquity dictum handed down for hundreds and thousands years is full of wisdom and it articulates the importance of cherishing an attitude of skepticism when we are studying. Moreover, it bears profound practical meanings for all of us students,

especially those who are accustomed to accepting passively what they are taught. Therefore, I advocated it with vast affection and gratitude. Many people may take it for granted that all the knowledge they study through books and Authorities are definitely the truth. However, one does not have to go very far to see that even the authorities would make mistakes, and the books written by so called authorities could naturally contain mistakes. For instance, while the prestigious Greek philosopher Aristotle claimed that two objects of different weight share the same falling speed, almost everyone at that time accepted it as unshakable truth untill Galileo standed out to challenge this arbitrary conclusion. By throwing two balls from the top of Pisa Leaning Tower, Galileo demonstrated his judgement that objects, though different at weight, share the same falling speed. At last, people were convinced of his judgement by fact and aware of the fallacy of Aristotle. Not only this illustration resulted in the well-known principle of acceleration of gravity, but also it presented us the importance of skepticism.

Some people may also sincerely believe that the well-developed theory is the best and no another can supercede the present. Yet, a careful examination would reveal that the seeming perfect theory could still be ameliorated if we pay attention to. In the field of medicine, many operations, which have been gradually modified for many times and proved effective, have greately alleviated patients' bitterness and drastically improved their life quality. Nevertheless, some of them can be worthy of skepticism and perhaps another more effective method would exist. To illustrate, the mammary carcinoma, one common malignant tumor which many women are afflicted to in our country is thought to require radical resection during the late phase which removes not only the whole breast but the relevant mucusle and lymphoid tissue and some other parts when necessary. However, by making a comparison with those who had given up operation due to poverty and unaffordable fee, one sedulous and serious young surgeon in our hospital finds that they share the almost the same prognosis of both five years vitality but a relative superior life
quality because of escaping from mammectomy. This conservative treatment, as a result of skepticism to tradition surgical treatment revolutionizes the theory guidance on treating mammary carcinoma.

There is another misconception that many students many hold is that skepticism may lead to more fallacies rather than new discoveries. But they fail to notice that how could new discovery come out if we pay no skepticism to what we study and just accept all thing passively. As one vice principal in my college encourage us (and here I paraphase) "It is precious to skepticize. In some sense, it is the sketicism that leads to many paramount improvement, new invention, and worthful modification. Without skepticism, we are inclined to bog down into a state of colorless and conservative, a society with no innovation, and a world with no originality. Conspicuously, this is not the world we are willing to live in." What a reasonable and meaningful words! I appreciated it very much and learn deeply it in my mind.

To sum up, we should lay much emphasis on the skepticism in order to shape us a rational, industrious and useful person. As long as we insist actively and strictly skepticze what we learned, instead of regarding it granted and random, we would enventally get benefit from it.

genie05UID: 30358

贴子的右下脚有编辑键。自己先编辑一下。分段的时候有问题。1，2段乱了。还有用WORD修改一下在贴吧。
如果有太多拼写错误的话，会影响别人看你帖子的心情和修改质量哦。
^_^

改完了，发个帖子通知一下，会有人帮你看的。谢谢。圣诞快乐。

jorgeUID: 108878

re:"To believe in books completely is hardly better than to have no books"

也许我记错了......是孔子说的吗？

genie05UID: 30358

孟子曾說過:「盡信書不如無書」，今天我們告誡後輩讀書時應有自己見解．而且要有懷疑精神時，常引此語為訓。事實上這句話後面接的是「吾於〈武成〉，取二三策而已矣。仁人無敵於天下．以至仁伐至不仁，而何其血之流杵也。」孟子的這段話，意在批駁關於武王伐紂的另一種描述，也就是《尚書》〈武成〉中說這次的革命行動中，傷亡慘重，血流可以漂杵。

genie05UID: 30358

The Four Books (The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius,
The Mencius) 四书(《大学》、《中庸》、《论语》、《孟子》)

genie05UID: 30358

这种问题最好不要犯。

jxkingUID: 141801

Thank you for modification. I accept it sincerely.

jxkingUID: 141801

anyelse criticism?