issue47 [0710G 戴三个表冲刺小组] 第28次作业

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1.       同意。
2.       abilities of reasoning, cognition, and creation and comprehension的好处
3.       第一个原因，计算机等新技术使的给我们带来了帮助，但也减少了我们思考，因为机器替我们思考了。
4.       第二个原因，教育体制，重视考试，不重视能力
5.       第三个原因，人们更pragmatic重视职业技能，忽视了思考。
6.       不能忽视non-intellectual skills, psychological health, emotion, communication, interrelationship ex: Virginia Tech Shooting, Cho Seung-Hui (时间紧，未写改点)


TOPIC: ISSUE47 - "Society does not place enough emphasis on the intellect-that is, on reasoning and other cognitive skills."
WORDS: 596          TIME: 00:46:27          DATE: 2007-8-26 17:02:24

I fundamentally agree with the assertion that we fail to attach sufficient attention to the intellect which help to practice the skill of reasoning , understaning, creating, analyzing, and the like. Three major factors in the current wold, in my opion, contribute to current situation, thay are the side-effect of new technology, the drawback of traditional education and too much emphicis on professional training.

The chief reason I assent with the assertion lies in the impect of new technology, especially the wildspread using of computer and Internect, which influence nearly every aspects of our life. To witness this, you need look no further than the way of your work and your life. As for the eduction the computer enhance the efficiency of teaching and learning by present the faster, more convinient way at the expence of diminish their chance to think, reason by themselves. For the students, computer can serve as a personal teacher to help them, CAI(Computer-aided Instruction) can feed back to the student what they have inputed, and help the student learn more effectively. which made it less necessary for the students to do somework as their parents used do, and they therefore, became more dependent on the new machine than their own brain. As for the teacher, they share the commen situation with their student. A authoring system, which provides a pattern, and makes all the  work of teacher have to do is just add their material into the pattern, can significanly ease the pressure of  preparing teaching material. The teacher tend to be directed by the pattern predesighed by the software engneer rather than their own ideas or judgements. And also in the other field, computer and other machine help to liberate us from the tradional work,  deprived our passion and initiality to think by ourselves, thus serve as an impediment in intellectal training rather than an aide to some extent.

The second reason I believe we don't pay enough attention to intellect has to do with the herent limitation of education system. Though great improvement have been made, the education system fail to pratice the ability of reasioning, cognation, and analyze. The teacher still be customed to impart their ideas into students' brain while ignore the purpos of geniue of education, which has been pointed out by Sucrates in two thousand years ago. He told us the aim of education  should be elisite the skill they have from their mind  instead of insert stiffings of information. And the exame oriented policy in most of the Asian countries made the situation even worse, the students nearly give up their thinking, totally believe and take what the teacher taught them and write it down on the test papers.

And last but not the less important reason is excessive professional training ,recommended as a way of educate the people can benefit the development of society, greatly influenced the students's choice of learning. Most students became so pramatic that they prefer to be an operator of machine to ensure a stable job than to be a designer or inventer by their hard work in reasioning and analyzing.

To sum up, intellect which generally regarde as a way of human life, a feature of human beings has been ignored  in the current world. And it will defenitely danger for the future of work to let it free unfetterd. Some mesures should be taken to diverse the trend. Such as teach the students and teachers to use computer in a proper ways, to reform the traditional educational system and develop the professional training in a dispassion way.

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改基本错。
I fundamentally agree with the assertion that we fail to attach enough attention to intellect which help to practice the skill of reasoning, understanding, creating, analyzing, and the like. Three major factors in the current world, in my view, contribute to current situation. They are the side-effect of new technology, the drawback of current education and excessive emphasis on professional training.

The chief reason I assent with the assertion lies in the impact of new technology, especially the widespread using of computer and Internet, which influence nearly every aspects of our life. As for the education, the computer enhance the efficiency of teaching and learning by present the faster, more convenient way at the expense of diminishing their chances to think and reason by themselves. For the students, take CAI (Computer-aided Instruction) for example, which can feed back to the student what they have inputted by telling them what they input is right or wrong and even give a hint of the correct answer, and help the student learn more effectively. Also make it less necessary for the students to do some works by themselves as their parents used do, and they therefore, become more dependent on the new machine than their own brain as a result. As for the teacher, they share the common situation with their student. An authoring system, which provides varied formatted pattern, and makes all the work of teacher have to do is just add their material into the pattern, can significantly ease the pressure of preparing teaching material. The teachers tend to be directed by the pattern designed by the software engineer rather than their own ideas or judgments. And also in the other field, while helping to liberate us from the traditional work, computer and other machine deprived our passion and initiative to think by ourselves, thus serve as an impediment in intellectual training rather than an aide to some extent.

The second reason I believe we don't pay enough attention to intellect has to do with the limitation of education system. Though great improvement has been made, the education system fails to shape the ability of reasoning, cognation, and analyze. The teacher still be accustomed to impart their ideas into students' brain while ignore the purpose of genuine education, which has been pointed out by Socrates in two thousand years ago. He told us the aim of education should be to elicit the knowledge from the students they have from their mind instead of insert stuffing of information into them, and it is the drawing out of what is in the mind. And the exam oriented policy in most of the Asian countries’ education system make the situation even worse, the students nearly give up their thinking, totally believe and take what the teacher taught them and write it down on the test papers.

And last but not the less important reason is excessive emphasis on professional training, recommended as a way of educate the people who can be practically useful and can benefit the development of society, has greatly influenced the students' choice of learning. Most students became so pragmatic that they prefer to be an operator of machine to ensure a stable job than to be a designer or inventor by their hard work in reasoning and analyzing. That is too much emphasis on professional training, more often than not, underestimate the significance of reasoning and creation but simply lay much value on proficiency of operation machines, which never go a long way to gain in the intellect.

To sum up, intellect, which generally regarded as a way of human life and a special feature of human beings, has been ignored in the current world. And it would definitely danger for the future of world if let it unfettered. Some measures should be taken to divert the trend. Such as teach the students and teachers to use computer in a proper ways, to reform the traditional educational system and develop the professional training in a reasonable way.