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June 24 Issue130 "How children are socialized today determines the destiny of society. Unfortunately, we have not yet learned how to raise children who can help bring about a better society."On Jun.20 Time 1:05 Words 553 沉寂了好久,不是因为没有写,是因为缺乏修改,文章太烂不敢入眼了。这篇的优点是字数比较少。 June 11 Issue 112 "Some educational systems emphasize the development of students' capacity for reasoning and logical thinking, but students would benefit more from an education that also taught them to exploit their own emotions"简要提纲 中心论点:完全赞同作者的观点 1. 教育的本质是树立人格,而完整的人格包括理性和情感两方面。 2. 情感教育的重要性之一:不能了解自己的感情世界,就不能在社会上立足。 3. 之二:不能了解自己的感情世界,会让感情因素影响自己的理性分析能力。 4. 逻辑教育的重要性。 末段结尾 I strongly agree with the speaker's assertion that teaching students to explore their own emotions is an important purpose of education, as well as the development of reasoning and logical thinking. While the capacity for reasoning and logical thinking plays a direct role in the students' future career of every conceivable type, the ability to explore and manifest ones own emotions, contributes greatly to establishing the personalities of every member of the younger generations. In reading this essay, one might argue as follows: "I know, cultivating emotions is important to the arts, but this ability is incapable of facilitating any area in science. Nor could it add a single dollar into the GDP." It is true, that analyzing what a brain is feeling seems like the job of a psychologist.Yet, this argument is merely correct when it focuses on the prospect of the society. As analyzing the nature and purpose of education, I would like to quote one saying of my preliminary teacher, who indicated that the contribution to the society should not be the main goal of the students. Instead, a student should "learn to be a human". What the human nature consists is of course, not only logic, reasoning, or intellect. Education, therefore, should be responsible of teaching the students how to understand their emotions, and to control them wisely. In order to analyze the importance of emotional teaching, I would like to display my point of views in two parts. First and foremost, a man incapable of exploring his own emotions is incapable of standing on his own. As descendants of the great psychologist Freud, we all know that the mind is complex, vast, and dark. So the skill to discover and control one's own emotions requires years of education. The ignorance of what oneself is thinking, which is resulted from the lack of teaching in emotions, could be deleterious, even when one is masterful in reasoning and logical thinking. Take Friedrisch Nietzsche as an example. The great philosopher, who should be considered as a grandmaster in the area of German classical philosophy, could not control his own emotions, and end up with paranoia. Even a philosopher with great intellectual abilities could not prevent himself of being crazy, how can we modern social animals, who are constantly exposed to complex information in the chaotic world, deal with the psychological displacements like stress and anxiety, without the abilities to explore our mind?Incapable of exploring ones own emotions, will a man only find himself like Nietzsche, who could deal with his affairs properly only with the helping hands of psychological doctors. Secondly, one's abilities of logical reasoning will be affected by his emotions. No one on earth is able to separate completely the worlds of logic from emotions, and a sad person cannot be shedding tears, while at the same time, doing math problems in the SAT. When it comes to efficiency and equity, there are always some students of economics, affected by the compassion towards the poor, could not judge correctly the efficient status by logic. For one’s feelings of sympathy, empathy, and so forth, could not be eliminated, (otherwise, it will be doubtful whether he is a human or not), and this separation discussed above is impossible, education should have responsibility in teaching the students the ability to explore their emotions, and of course, control it wisely. While we are considering the importance of emotions, intellectual abilities such as reasoning and logical thinking must not be ignored. The tradition of education, developed since the medieval era, has its reason of existence. The professors teach the students the traditional way of logical reasoning, and the methodology of the relevant majors. Such way of education serves the purpose of education, as intellectual ability or rationality, plays a principal role in human nature. With the education of intellectual abilities and habits of objective reasoning, not only will the students be completely calmed when facing complexities in their future lives, but the society will also be more peaceful as individuals tend to discuss problems by reasoning instead of quarrelling. In the final analysis, we must keep in mind the purpose of education when we consider its contents. Teaching students how to explore their own emotions is important, because a student ignoring what he is thinking cannot cope with emotional problems. Such incapability, not only makes him unable to survive in the complex world, but will also let the emotions to freely affect his ability of reasoning. Meanwhile, we must not forget as enabling the students to do critical thinking, to reason logically, the benefit to each individual, to the whole society, and the significance of the purpose of education itself. Words in blue indicated what I revised in the second version. May 21 Solaris给人带来的是回到过去,改变一切的机会么?还是命运早已注定,回到过去也不过是重复曾经的错误?To Lion: 基本上是在说一部电影,如果你没看过的话强烈推荐~ To others: Thank you for your support and I'm okay now 'cos nothing truly happened. Pls forgive it that I revised this artical in consideration that it might cause more misinterpretations. Pls also forgive it that I could not revise it soon enough due to some problems of my own computer, and the delay had caused even more misinterpretations than what I expected. Well, everything's fine now. I will begin to paste my GRE analytical writings on my space (if my own computer works fine) and on my space at www.xiaonei.com. |
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