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发表于 2006-3-13 20:04:59
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52. "Education encourages students to question and criticize, and therefore does little to promote social harmony."
教育鼓励学生们提出问题和进行批判,这样做的结果无助于促进社会的和谐。
The speaker asserts that social harmony could not be promoted by encouraging students to question and criticize. While I contend that criticizing too much can be harmful to any society, I disagree with the speaker otherwise. In fact, I would go further by contending that encouraging students to question is beneficial to society to some extent, and that society needs such questioning and criticizing.
As what comes first, I would begin with discussing that what real social harmony is. Social harmony is certain environment in which people lead peaceful lives without too much combat threatening people’s happy lives. It does not mean that people could not be encouraged to question and criticize, because certain forms of criticizing or questioning are good signs of harmony. Could you imagine a society in which people do not ask, at all, any questions to each others. That would be a society without any activities, and the development of society would not be rapid. Therefore, it would be reasonable to consider a social harmony as harmony in which there are proper questioning and criticizing and people think logically without any blind faith.
In addition, blind faith would be harmful to society as it makes people avoid thinking independently and logically. In field of polity, people who believe and follow their leader blindly would have no their own ideas, and there would be less debate on decisions made by government. The leader could not be always right, so some problems may come out from such blind faith of political leader in government. In field of art, questioning and criticizing promote people’s creativities, which accelerate the development of art. And education, as the most important component in a society, affecting the future of society, should encourage students to question more and criticize more to form a logical environment for the whole nation. Every nation develops itself by keeping questioning and criticizing prior theories and rules. For instance, in Italy Galilei made that famous experiment, which overset the old physical theory, and gave a brand new view of physical theory to the whole world. Hence, to question and criticize could not be considered as factors making disharmony in society.
Nevertheless, too much questioning and criticizing may cause some problems in society because sometimes people need a leader to make some huge decisions for the whole nation. It is good to express someone’s unsatisfying of decisions made by government, but if there is too much complaint or strike, social harmony would be destroyed. Dealing with too much doubt would cost government floods of time and money. Thus even questioning and criticizing are good and should be encouraged, they need to be limited by certain rule. And students should be educated to make their questioning and criticizing in proper ways.
In sum, I agree that overemphasizing questioning and criticizing would do harm to society. Understandably, either political leaders or managers in corporations need to be support and their ideas need to be followed by others—at least to some extent. However, education should never avoid encouragement of questioning and criticizing, which would not harm society if they are made in proper way and limited in proper boundaries.
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