I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and the now.We cannot help the egoism of our senses.Sight and sound and touch are bound up with our own bodies and cannot be made impersonal.Our emotions start similarly from ourselves.An infant feels hunger or distress, and is unaffected except by his own physical condition.Gradually with the years, his horizon widens, and, in proportion as his thoughts and feelings become less personal and less concerned with his own physical states, he achieves growing wisdom.This is of course a matter of degree.No one can view the world with complete justice, and if anyone could, he would hardly be able to remain alive.But it is possible to make a continual approach towards justice, on the one hand, by knowing things somewhat remote in time or space, and, on the other hand,by giving to such things their due weight in our feelings.It is this approach towards justice that constitutes growth in wisdom.
Can wisdom be taught?And, if it can, should the teaching of it be one of the aims of education?I should answer both these questions in the affirmative.I do not think that knowledge and morals ought to be too much separated.Even the best technicians should also be good citizens: and when I say "citizens," I mean citizens of the world and not of this or that sect or nation.With every increase of knowledge and skill,wisdom becomes more necessary, for every such increase strengthens our capacity of realizing our purposes, and therefore strengthens our capacity for evil, if our purposes are unwise.The world needs wisdom as it has never needed it before: and if knowledge continues to increase, the world will need wisdom in the future even more than it does now.
Although classes often seem outwardly the same because there is always a teacher and some students in a classroom, the differences between teacher-centered classes and student centered however, are enormous.
In teacher centered classes, the teacher usually dominates the class.He lectures, puts outlines and languagepointsonthe blackboard, gives solutions to problems, and fills the students＇ heads with information. The students oniy sit, listen and take notes silently at their desks. In student centered classes, on the contrary, the teacher tries to stimulate the students to learn on their own by asking provocative questions, by posing problems, and most important of ail, by being a participant too. Students in these classes are more actively involved in the thinking learning process. They ask questions and read up to search for the answers themselves and then discuss in classes what they have found.
I prefer student centered classes because they are more natural and more interesting ways of obtaining knowledge. They not only make learning active and enjoyable, but also enable the students to learn how to find and solve problems themselves.
There is an old saying that two heads are better than one, which suggests that the majority’s collective wisdom always dwarfs that of the minority, let alone any individual. There are people who believe that for a society to cohere there must be a strong consensus as well as unity and discipline. Therefore we must not overemphasize the importance of critical thinking which is abound to result in confusion and quarrels.
But I don’t agree with this. First, I have no respect for majority’s wisdom. I believe that most people do not usually use their heads, they are also lack of creativity, and therefore are ignorant and prejudiced and often become mobs and stampede easily. Second, anyone who has the creativity will have an important impact on our society. But their wisdom is usually different from the majority’s.
In a word, everything has two sides. What’s more important is that to learn knowledge from different kinds of wisdom and to improve our ability.
As the development of the Internet, more and more people have computer, we use computer everyday, it has become part of our life. As for college students, almost all of them have computer, they need it so much, but when the students come in the dormitories, they play games all the time.
随着网络的发展，越来越多的人拥有电脑，我们每天都使用电脑，它已经成为我们生活中的一部分。对于大学生来讲，几乎每人都有电脑，他们很需要电脑，但是当学生回到宿舍的时候，总是在玩电脑游戏。
On the one hand, college student need to use computers to search the Internet, so they can find useful message for their study. As a student, we need to get all kinds of dates for our research paper, we need to get to know about the world and other people’s paper, so we can make some creation. Computer provides such a big stage, we should make full use of it.
