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153"Students should bring a certain skepticism to whatever they study. They should question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively."
What is the aim of education? Should students be a container to store knowledge or a explor to discover knowledge? Should the marks of examination be the only assessment of a student’s ability or the ability of knowledge acquiring will be the method of judgement? Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime Education is an approach to help students find a apposite way for their study.And what counts most is to help students develop skepticism.
  A student who is skepticism will digest the knowledge that their teachers have taught them again as they will think over it after class.And this,certainly,will cause a deeper understanding of knowledge and a better grasp of technique.He may consider questions in a critical and complex way rather than define the things simply into ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.If his professor ask him to raise a point of view, in order to convince others ,he will look for amount of data and materials before he make his idea known to the public.On the other hand,a student who have accepted the knowledge passively may obtain certain knowledge in shorter time.While the base of their gain in the ‘crash course’ may not be solid.They may not use it adroitly in varied circumstances.
  Curiosity is the source of invention.There is not a axiom developed without human’s thinking .We see it,we doubt it,we think over it,and then we solve it.without skepticism Newton would not find the relation between an apple and the gravity.Without skepticism Marx would not find the relation between some certain events happened in the history and the trend of human society’s developing.Take it in a more narrow way,skepticism which one developed in his early age will bring him unbelievable benefits throughout his lifetime.He may be a student for only a several years but with this skepticism,he can keep learning by himself around his life.No matter he is a scholar,a engineer,an artist or a teacher.Skepticism will prevent his mind from freezing and being contented with the current answer.It may help him create wonders.
  Edison once said:”If you din't learn to think when you are young, you may never learn.”We can see from that teaching children the way to think is very important in early education. However,when the educators help their students to build skepticism,they should notice to give their students a correct direct,especially when their students are very young.For my part,if the student is too young to judge the right from the wrong,the educators should more often let them accept knowledge passively .The skepticism should develop step by step but not in a day.Too eager to the aim may led children into remote way to axiom.The educators should also not only be keen to the skepticism developing and ignore the train of base knowledge,as the base knowledge is the foundation of education.
   In conclusion,education can not leave skepticism’developing.The educators should take action to encourage their students to seek for knowledge with a certain skepticism in a proper way.We need to establish a atmosphere to encourage people’s critical minds and skepticism.