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本帖最后由 红绡 于 2010-7-22 11:39 编辑
1# candygege
What we have done yesterday determines what we are today. Then understanding past experience, no matter of individuals or the society, provides much guidance for living in the present.
Although things today are much new and complex that distinct with the past from surface, what inside is similar. So-called understanding of the past does not mean that simply indiscriminately copy the old experience to dealing with present problems, but thoroughly analysis the deep reasons that caused success or unsuccessful (failure). Admittedly, technique and contents are changeable, but the basic inner development laws of events are similar span times and space. For example, Internet is a totally strange technique for ancient person, but it remains a double-edged sword as other existed techniques,(对于互联网是双刃剑,解释一下再过渡到下半句会比较好) and when recognize this trend by studying the science development history, today's person would make a better use of Internet. We should try to find these consistent truths from the past, as well as not neglect the special condition with it. If you embrace my opinion and practice it, you will enjoy the merits of learning the past as follows.
First of all, comprehension of the past provides a terrain for understanding, appreciation and development of the morals, values, and ideals. A heightened awareness of cultural evolution or figures' growing, in turn, helps us formulate informed and reflective values and ideals for ourselves. Based on these values and ideals, we can determine our authentic life path as well as how we should allot our time and interact with others on a day-to-day basis. It even seems like a light which illumines the darkness and broad our vision over temporary difficulties. Providing that you unfortunately lost legs by a traffic accident, feeling despaired, you would be possibly inspired by the courage, tenacity and hope from learning Helen Keller's experience. In short, learning about grand accomplishments of the past can help us get through the everyday business of living, whatever that business might be, by lifting our spirits and shaping our value system.
Furthermore, experience of the past can illumine us and society to solve problems more easily. There are many available experiences we can learn from the past. Turn our focus on a book, Sun Zi's Art of War, which contains Sun Zi's practice and thinking about wars. Today's military commanders, business leaders and even person falling in love gather valuable information that allows them to operate more efficiently and effectively. While maintain the factors correlate with the past success, we should also abandon the factors caused failures. Take the environment problems as examples. Looking back on the past to see the effects of the people behaviors on the environment can show us what would happen if no proper measures are taken. The nuclear accidents and the forest fire have been studied to ensure that they do not happen again. And the study of oil spills and their effects on the environment gives similar guidance on how to avoid or at least minimize the damage of an oil spill on the environment. All these examples of studying the past provide values on guiding present actions.
To sum up, you will harvest all these profits from studying the past, no matter how new and complex today is, as long as you know the meaning of an understanding of the past.
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