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TOPIC: ISSUE153 - "Students should bring a certain skepticism to whatever they study. They should question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively."
WORDS: 461          TIME: 02:29:39          DATE: 2008-8-24 21:49:04

To demonstrate the topic well, first we must think two definitions. First, what study is. The dictionary gives explanation as "application of the mental faculties to the acquisition of knowledge". The goal of study is to gain knowledge to fill to understand what we have not gained yet. Second, what is skepticism is? "An attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object "tells by the dictionary. It origin from A philosophical which claims knowledge of truth was impossible. What printed on the books or taught by the teachers maybe not the truth, but we should not conclude that whatever they study they should bring this skepticism. Sometimes, we just need accepting.

In the beginning of our study, what we should do? Just accept. Imagine you are a infant and did not know a word yet, how can you study the language with skepticism as you did even know the basic words made up the language? The first thing to study a new subject is to accept and remember. Only if you grasp the basic knowledge and understand what the subject is, you can study it in your own way, including to doubt. Just as what babies do, remembering the words taught by their parents all the time without wonder its correctness. As the babies grew up, they would study literature based on their language learned in their childhood in the school. At that time, they can study with doubting the to literatures' words using or passages structure as they are already proficient using their language.

In other step of study, we need both accepting and doubting because we cannot divide them into different parts. For example, when we study Newton's three laws, we must accept it as it exactly described object laws in the earth. They explain many phenomenons and help us to build a better world. If we bring skepticism all the time when studying, we would not accept these great laws and lost the opportunities to invent the steamengine. At the same time, we should bring some skepticism to it because maybe the great laws are imperfect in some aspects. Or the theory of relativity cannot be detected by Albert Einstein. Accepting and doubting are not separated as they are all processes of study. When we accepting, we aimed to better doubt about the world; when we doubting, we need to better understand the study we doubt itself. Doubting and accepting are not our goals; the only goal of us is to study, to understand knowledge we did not know before.

Above all, we may understand why skepticism to whatever we study is inappropriate. What we should do is both accepting and doubting. Our goal is to understand the world better.