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TOPIC: ISSUE48 – “The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals. The most significant events and trends in history were made possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten.” WORDS: 487 TIME: 00:45:00 DATE: 2008-7-17 10:15:28 When we open our history textbook, we see [...]
TOPIC: ISSUE55 – “Competition for high grades seriously limits the quality of learning at all levels of education.” WORDS: 597 TIME: 00:45:00 DATE: 2008-6-23 17:38:55 I regret that I cannot agree with the above notion contenting that competition for high grades will seriously limit the quality of learning at all levels of education. It is [...]
ISSUE210 – “Most people choose a career on the basis of such pragmatic considerations as the needs of the economy, the relative ease of finding a job, and the salary they can expect to make. Hardly anyone is free to choose a career based on his or her natural talents or interest in a particular [...]
TOPIC: ISSUE94 – “Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study because acquiring knowledge of various academic disciplines is the best way to become truly educated.” WORDS: 559 TIME: 00:45:00 DATE: 2008-6-13 15:33:46 I agree in part with the notion that modern universities should take an [...]
TOPIC: ISSUE110 – “When we concern ourselves with the study of history, we become storytellers. Because we can never know the past directly but must construct it by interpreting evidence, exploring history is more of a creative enterprise than it is an objective pursuit. All historians are storytellers.” WORDS: 474 TIME: 0:45:00 DATE: 2008-6-3 The [...]
TOPIC: ISSUE241 – “An individual’s greatness cannot be judged objectively by his or her contemporaries; the most objective evaluators of a person’s greatness are people who belong to a later time.” WORDS: 415 TIME: 0:45:00 DATE: 2007-4-8 Imagine yourself hiking in a moutain flourished with thick forests, where the sky is covered by green skyscrapers. [...]
