issue47 【076G－背水一战小组】jw84第二次作业

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issue47
"Society does not place enough emphasis on the intellect-that is, on reasoning and other cognitive skills."

提纲：
1.肯定认知能力对科学的作用
2.过分强调智力因素会带来负面的影响
3.情感教育的作用
4.社会对于情感教育的不够重视。

The speaker asserts that society does not place enough emphasis on the education of intellect.It is true that our society should pay attention to cultivate people's cognitivie skills, however, the education of emotion is worthy to be emphasised on as well.
  
  Firstly,the funcion of cognitive skills cannot be denied.There is a strong force which propels the progress of science-the force of our impulse to accurate observation and logical deduction.The objective observation reflects our deep cognition of the common phenomenon, while the deduction by logic requires the reasoning skills. Newton deduced the Law of Gravity through the fact The Apple Falling. Galileo generalized his law of motion by experiencing thousands of times. Almost every scientist has the ability of cognitive skills, so they can gain profound conclusion by experiment and analysis. Today, with the rapid development of science and technology, reasoning and congitive skills play a more important role in the filed of education.
  
  Secondly, too much emphasis on the intellect exerts bad influence the education.On the one hand, our education of intellect leads to overemphasis on the academic performance.In order to get a high score, some students even cheat in the examination.And to the great degree ,the dishonesty, jealousy stunt the healthy growth of the children. On the other hand, many clever children are influenced by the wrong idear,that they can easily succeed in the future due to their high intelligence quotient. Actually, in history many scientists were not clever in the school,but they finally gained the academic achievements by the persistence and passion.
  
  Thirdly, the education of emotion, which is essential to one's personality, has been neglected to some degree. In the past, people merely contributed one's achievements to their intelligence. Gradually,people realised the importance of other factors, especially the emotion;Whereas the emotion was widely accepted as the instinct which could hardly be changed by the postnatal effort.Nowadays, the theory of psychology points out that the emotion ability could be improved through imparting the knowledge of emotion. For example, an indrawn child probably isolates him from others.But after he is taught the skills and methods of communication, he may find it easy to get along with his classmates. Unfortunately, there are still many schools which don't have the psychology lessons.
  
  Finally, the absence of the education of emotion may cause a series of social problems. For one thing, today, the students face with more fierce competion and hign pressure in the school and society, but most of them lack the ability to control their emotion especially when they meet with the frustration.So it is not surprising that some students with high intellect commit suicide only because of failure in the examination. For other thing, even some researchers commite crimes for the simple reason that they are tempted by money.A news was reported in the Journal of Nature that Japanese researcher was accused of stealing cell samples. The example alerts us that our society may suffer from villainy without the proper education of emotion.
  
  In sum, in order to better our society, it is necessary to keep balance between the education of intellect and that of emotion.And it is not only the responsibility of parents and teachers , but also of the whole society.