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9"Academic disciplines have become so specialized in recent years that scholars' ideas reach only a narrow audience. Until scholars can reach a wider audience, their ideas will have little use
1 从目前社会的飞速发展和科技的融合的确要求学科细化。而事实上,大部分学科越细化,它被人群的接受能力越低。As a matter of fact, the more specialized the ideas, the less accessible to them.
2 然而,学科细化对学者的idea的作用没有太大影响。Specialization does not have any impact on the value of scholars’ideas.原因:评价idea有多少作用,并不是看其audience的多少,而在与idea的应用潜力和对社会的价值。因为这是两个不同的概念。
1) 有些idea因为过于深奥而不可能reach a wider audience, 但是不影响社会做出了很大的作用,比如NMR, 由于设计到的知识和学科及其广泛和深奥, reaches only a narrow audience, 但是不影响其作出了很大的贡献
2) 更多的情况是,idea不需要广泛的audience,人们也不需要了解,就可以广泛利用了。比如人们不用知道cup的工作原理,但是对使用电脑没有妨碍。
Issue9 第5篇 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧!
作者:六翼小宇 共用时间:59分30秒 583 words
从2004年6月16日18时50分到2004年6月16日19时59分
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Academic disciplines have become so specialized in recent years that scholars' ideas reach only a narrow audience. Until scholars can reach a wider audience, their ideas will have little use.
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Academic disciplines have become so specialized in recent years, which can only be understand by those who devoted themselves to the subject while avoiding outsiders even from relevant subjects accessing, let alone the public. By this fact, does scholars' idea have little use due to the narrow assessment of the audience? At the first glance, this opinion seems to be somewhat appealing, but further reflection tells me that I cannot agree with it for the following reasons.
As a matter of fact, the more specialized the ideas, the less accessible to them. I concede that many subjects, such as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. (Abbr. NMR) study, cannot reach a wider audience due to their abstruseness. Anyone who wants to be an effective audient in NMR must hold enough experience in both quantum physics and physical chemistry, and abundant knowledge in medicine, even sufficient comprehension in neuroscience. Obviously, few people know all these skills listed above. Specialized academic disciplines heighten the doorsill; as a result these ideas reach only a narrow audience.
However, few assessments of one idea do not mean that it is useless. To evaluate the social evaluation of one idea, we cannot simply put it by counting the quantity of its audiences. As a matter of fact, the much more important factor is the contribution or potential contribution that the ideas bring to our society. The value of the scholars' ideas have few relationship to the popularity of it’s' audience. To illustrate this, I will give the reasons giving below.
First of all, as the specialization of academic disciplines, certain field of study becomes so profound and complex that it is impossible to reach a wild audience. Nevertheless, these disciplines have broad application and significant worth. Take a look at the study of NMR again (as I mentioned above for its abstruseness), though it have narrow audience, it have significant society value and is regarded as the really break though in medicine and other biological subjects in the 20th century. By NMR Technology, we can observe the physical alternations deeply under the brainpan of our brain instead of troublesome B ultrasonic, we can trace certain drugs observed by our organs and use the best amount to treat tumor instead of harmful chemotherapeutics. For these advantages, 3 times of Nobel Prize was awarded to the scientists who have great contribution on NMR study in past 10 years. Therefore, less audience does not necessary lead to less contribution to our society.
Secondly, it is not necessary for the public to understand all abstruse ideas scholars hold. For example, most people do not know how the CPU is running in the personal computer, but this does not hamper them to using computers. It is the scholars' business, not the public, to explore these ideas. For one pharmacologist, he knows that the popular OMT medicine QUICK to treat cold was first developed for heart disease as Viagra, but under clinic application, QUICK is particularly useful for the cold but injurious to the people who have heart disease. But to the public, what they want to know is the descriptions on the cover: QUICK is useful for cold and not for heart-weak people.
To sum up, due to the above mentioned reasons, which sometimes correlate with each other to generate an integrate whole and thus become more convincing than any single one of them, we may be comfortable to say that though the specialization of academic disciplines today narrow the audience of scholars' ideas, it does not influence the value of that idea |
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