Issue4 [Transcend小组]第十次作业

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题目：ISSUE4 - "No field of study can advance significantly unless outsiders bring their knowledge and experience to that field of study."
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Should no field of study advance significantly if outsiders would not bring their knowledge and experience to that field of study? The speaker claims so. I fundamentally tend to agree with the assertion that many fields of study need depend on the outsiders' knowledge and experience to development themselves. Nevertheless, in my view, in some conditions the knowledge and experience brought by the outsiders may be harm to the development of the study.

It is true that the assertion is clearly accurate in that the knowledge and experience to some fields of study offered by the outsiders benefit the advance of the study. For supporting example, one needs look no further than the academic research. In the material science research, they need the machinists to invent and product some useful application, such as SEM (scanning electron microscope) to obverse the microstructure of the samples; also, sometimes need mathematicians' knowledge to help material scientists analyzed the datum to make the reasons of the fraction of some material in some different conditions.


Moreover, it is widely acknowledged, to some extend, that outsiders’ experience and knowledge can play a vital role in a nation's economy. Consider, for example, in china the government have been making full use of the western economic experience and knowledge to help their nation economy innovate so that their economy can ascend for a short time and become the fourth economy nation all over the world. As the rapid development of the economy of nation, the government of china more and more emphasize the importance of outsiders, especially the person who ever lived in china and then went abroad to study the developed countries' advanced knowledge and experience, and increasingly hope they can go home for the development of nation. Thus, we can not emphasize the importance of the outsiders’ experience and knowledge too much in those conditions.

Under some circumstances, it might be counterproductive, in a large sense, to consider that all fields of study depending on the outsiders' knowledge can advance. Common sense teaches us, for instance, that it is a mistake to overemphasize the function of outsiders' experience and overlook the value of the filed of study oneself. In the field of culture, as the globalization of the world culture, some countries are filled with the outside cultures, which conflict with their inner cultures passed down for thousands of years, so that their old cultures disappear gradually.


To sum up, there is little doubt that most fields of study can not advance significantly if there would not be the outsiders' experience and knowledge to the fields of study.  Obviously, if all fields of study depend on the outsiders, then the inner value of study would disappear, even the knowledge would do harm to the study. Accordingly, on balance the speaker's assertion is fundamentally correct.