No one can deny the key role that intellect plays in society. Not for systematical reasoning and other cognitive skills set up by generations of scientists and thinkers, the modern industrial world couldn't have come into being. In recognition to this, our society has put greater emphasis on the intellect in order to sustain the development, whereas some non-intellectual skills are ignored. 开头简洁明了，统领全文，不错
In a sense, intellectual skills and non-intellectual skills are somewhat like skeleton and flesh of a body.（不错的比喻） Rational and rigid, the intellectual skeleton holds the body up steadily. Whether or not the bones are strong decides the strength and puissance of the organic body. While non-intellectual flesh fills up the body, enriching it and endowing life to the otherwise numb frame. Art and literature serve as flesh for our society. As we enjoy music, paintings, poems, novels and sculptures, admiring their beauty, inspiration and plots while forgetting the routine reasoning, we set ourselves free spiritually. Intellectual skills can hardly bear all these and bring them to our life, which actually calls for sensation, creativity, feeling and other non-cognitive skills. 语言相当好
A society cannot advance without cognitive skills, yet it cannot keep well-being without non-cognitive ones. Everyone will shudder at just a thought of a society that has no art, no literature, no imagination and no any break-through from intellect. In order to keep the society grow healthily, a balance should be kept well between the two. The "balance" we mention here is more than just a division in career, like someone assigned to do scientific or technical work while others to art or literature occupations. Such a division is one of the divergent meanings of balance from a more macrocosmic view. From an individual aspect, a sound balance should be kept within every person. One should be able to employ reasoning and other cognitive skills dealing with his or her work and other affairs, yet he or she needs non-intellectual skills as well: taste for art to make life enriching, origination? to break through the dull life, inspiration to keep spirit alive. 不错的修辞
Both crucial to individual and society, intellectual and non-intellectual skills, however, receive unfair attention at present. The material world urges us to cultivate intellect. Kept been told how important reasoning ability and objectivity are since we were little children, we might have neglected non-intellectual skills for such a long time. The achievements are weighed partly according to individual intellect while non-intellectual capabilities are just something trivial. Trying to avoid this trend, we should grant non-intellectual skills their merited notice. People should be encouraged to nourish their interests in art, literature and so on. And those who do outstanding jobs in non-intellectual areas should receive no less recognition from the society than those intellectual workers. 本段应用了各种不同的句式，但感觉缺少了一点连贯
No one would like to live in a world with nothing but reasoning and, still reasoning. Yet frustration or ignorance may prevent those talented people from pursuing non-intellectual jobs. And consequently average people will be deprived of the chance to enjoy their life better. Fortunately, we could prevent the disaster from happening by just giving non-intellectual skills more, or actually, deserved recognition.
本文行文如行云流水，相比ARGU，语言相当不错，不少地方有很地道的表达。不知LZ如何练习，讨教
发表于 2006-12-14 21:58:35
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