TOPIC: ISSUE170 – “The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general welfare of all its people.”
WORDS: 586 TIME: 00:73:34 DATE: 2009/2/13 17:51:46
The topic’s opinion is some partial about the definition of a “great” nation, which should be considered about more than welfare of its people.
Firstly, the people’s welfare should be a basic requirement for a country. For example, in Afghan, people are living in danger all the day. They are afraid of walking in the street at night, for they may be attacked by local insurgents. What they care most is how to safely move to tomorrow. It is also the most important part which government is caring about. You can read reports that leaders of the country are trying to sweep out the insurgents although they are usually failed. When a country’s people feel difficult to live here, government would not have extra energy to develop, such as science. At the same time, the country would not be recognized great in any way.
But a country which could make sure of its people’s welfare is still far from great. Sweden, which is ranked first Democracy Index by Economist, could not be better place for living, for its low unemployment and perfect sanitary system. Doors are left open in the night for nobody would break in. Sweden has met the goal, making sure the general welfare of its people. However, you may never hear that Sweden is a great country.
What makes Sweden not great? To answer this question, we would like to get the meaning of great and the definition of great nation. Let’s first get a easier question: what is a great human-being like? There must be some names initially come to your mind, such as Newton, Aristotle… And what is the common character of these great men? It is easy to get that they all make a huge difference all over the world, and rewrote the human history significantly. So we can get a conclusion a great country would make influence for the whole world rather than its people. Now the reason why Sweden is not called great is apparent. Sweden, which is a country filled with happiness of its people, makes little influence on the other parts of the world.
Not only welfare of citizens, the achievements of science and art also indicate whether a country is great. I want to explain my idea with another country: Ancient Greece. Ancient Greece, which lasted from 1100BC to 26BC, has been widely considered as the foundation of Western civilization, making powerful influence on science, philosophy, art etc. In that time, people living in that country didn’t need to care about food and other basic requirement. People are happy to devote to education and science, which leads to numbers of great men, such as Aristotle, Euclid, most of who made such achievements today we still get profit from them. In my opinion, only the country like Ancient Greece is deserved when we are talking about great country.
Actually it is divergent when talking about great country. Because most people couldn’t be objective on this topic, the fault of a country would be omitted. What’s more, facts sometime may be covered so as to make the country’s figure would be brighter in citizens. Like U.S government, called themselves as “world police”, that always invade other countries under the name of justice, it would not be recognized as great anytime by the people in Afghan or Iran.
Although it is some difficult to give a list saying which country is great. A great country would not be only good to its people, but to the whole world.
信号与系统之殇
上学期模电悲剧的时候，我就说下学期一定要把每门功课学好，以防悲剧重演。而且因为准备出国的事情，学分的绩点显得愈发重要 。一个学期过去了，当考期再次临近的时候，猛然发觉对《信号与系统》这门课完全不懂，看着课件的公式和概念，隐隐约约感觉到了上学期模电考试前的慌张。对着老师留的作业题和课件梦看了三天后，带着惶恐的心情上了考场。
结果悲剧发生了……
考的不理想，除了因为平常没有好好看书以外，考期的复习也很没有效率。常常看着看着就看到校内和Google Reader上去了，而且一晃神一两个小时就过去了。
自制力差&不够努力，我离目标还很远，要加油！
作文小组第二次issue写作作业
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: 577 TIME: 01:40:31 DATE: 2008/12/7 22:45:21
As society’s develop, usually we should be able to manage various knowledge to get a good job. But at the same time, we also need some scientists who study deeply in one field.
I think it is necessary to give students a chance to study knowledge from a variety of fields when they in Banchelor or Master course. We know that in many universities students are obiliged to get credit from the courses which are outside the student’s field, which I think could results from at least three reasons.
Firstly, as technology is more and more complex today, the student who only get knowledge in a narrow aspect is less and less competitive. Most time the employ requirements of company, especially in I.T industry, would be consist of some different parts, which is more than tech skills.
Secondly, most of the students, especially in China, don’t have a idea whether they are really interested in the major they pick at the time they get into university. Because of the heavy pressure of study we have to take when we are in high school, most of us don’t have enough time to consider carefully what is suitable for us mostly. But as we can take a variety of course in university, now we can have a chance to access to what we really want.
Last but not the least, the people who achieve success always manage a variety of knowledge. Our country’s founder, Chairman Mao, was a famous exponent. He was a politics, but also known as strategist and poet. In Europe, Da Vince and Newton were also honored by people for they made great contribute to big development in different fields. I don’t think this is just a coincide. The people who are good at different fields usually could get more various views on one thing than the people who are only addicted into a narrow field. This is because the resources that the former could get inspiration from are more than the latter.
But, it is not sensible to encourage students to take knowledge as more various as possible. No matter whether student is going to do research or not after they graduate, basic skill and knowledge inside their own field is indispensible.
If you’d like to take Ph.D Degree, the depth of knowledge you get into in your field really does matters. I know in HongKong Univ. of Techonology and Science, Ph.D candidates only take four cources in their first year while Master candidates would take nearly ten courses. Because Ph.D’s task is to promote the research in some finite field, which requires that someone have to get deep knowledge in base. As a result, they don’t have much time to take these various cources. It is the same to ungraduate students. Of course we should get a wide range of knowledge during our college time, but we have not to forget what is the most important. Sometimes students go too far away to get back, which may result to they can’t get a satisfied job after they graduate from school.
Now we can get a conclusion that aquiring knowledge of various field should be based on a strong knowledge in our major field. Before you are good at your major field, it is meaningless to take many various courses. But, it is not enough to have a good knowledge in one narrow aspect in the modern society, you also have to explore your interest.
作文小组第一次issue写作作业_修改版
from: kuitree31
改了buaa-alun的文章，改得不好，相互交流吧 呵呵issue 42 “Because learning is not a solitary activity but one that requires collaboration among people, students of all ages will benefit academically if they work frequently in groups.”
As the society’s developing, collaboration （替换词：cooperation coordination ）has played an important role in academic research, where people from different fields could（用would更好些） inspire each other. Bio-computer science is such an example which makes interaction between biology and computer science. Inspired by structure of DNA, scientists come up with the idea that we can design the architecture of computer in a new way, which was called bio-computer. (第一段就用例子有点头重脚轻，不妨放后边看看)Apart from research, commercial company is also encouraged to hire the people who are good at teamwork. Because today the complexity of work is much more than before, （Nowadays, because of large amounts of complicated accomplishments ,which are much more than before,）no one could(would) learn everything. But with collaboration we can take advantage of every distinct one, which results to something amazing.(which would results in something around us becoming special and amazing.)
But I don’t think(as far as I am concerned, It seems a little unilaterat to consider ) that learning in groups is the only way we can acquire knowledge. Different people prefer to think in different way. Most of my friends tend to study with a silent environment. Noise from other people could make them interrupted. Famous physician Albert Einstein liked to stay in the roof of his house without leaving for a few days, when he tried to figure out some mysterious theory. Actually the idea from others will always confuse you, which make(makes) you can’t calm down. It’s easy to understand people who work in quiet is more efficient than that(those who) work in noise.
In addition, I have to say the idea(The second reasons to support my standpoint is ) that children of all ages work frequently in groups is not sensible. I think (替换词：consider , give thought to ,turn over in my mind evaluate )education should give children a chance to improve the ability of thinking alone, which is quite important(which plays a significant partment in children’s future). If they don’t have much chance to solve problem alone when they are very young, it’s easy to make them feel more likely to depend on others when they grow up. That’s the reason why your junior school teacher always tells you not to copy homework from others but finish it by yourself.
What decides whether collaboration is good for learning or not? I think that should be considered in different definitions of “learning”.
Firstly, learning could result to（in） study basic knowledge you don’t know before. At this time, to study alone may be more efficient than (studying ) in crowd. Because there is nothing you can share with others before you know .
In the other hand, learning also means that inspiration made by people from different academic fields. With collaboration, people could get fresh air from the place where they never step in before. Like Newton says: stand on the shoulder of giants. The ability of how to learn from others also need us cultivate during our academic life.(放到一段里)
At conclusion, what we need is not just collaboration or just solitary. We need both of them when we’re learning. We need solitary space to get our own perspective and collaboration could broad our perspective at the same time.
As the society’s developing, collaboration （替换词：cooperation coordination ）has played an important role in academic research, where people from different fields could（用would更好些） inspire each other. Bio-computer science is such an example which makes interaction between biology and computer science. Inspired by structure of DNA, scientists come up with the idea that we can design the architecture of computer in a new way, which was called bio-computer. (第一段就用例子有点头重脚轻，不妨放后边看看)Apart from research, commercial company is also encouraged to hire the people who are good at teamwork. Because today the complexity of work is much more than before, （Nowadays, because of large amounts of complicated accomplishments ,which are much more than before,）no one could(would) learn everything. But with collaboration we can take advantage of every distinct one, which results to something amazing.(which would results in something around us becoming special and amazing.)
But I don’t think(as far as I am concerned, It seems a little unilaterat to consider ) that learning in groups is the only way we can acquire knowledge. Different people prefer to think in different way. Most of my friends tend to study with a silent environment. Noise from other people could make them interrupted. Famous physician Albert Einstein liked to stay in the roof of his house without leaving for a few days, when he tried to figure out some mysterious theory. Actually the idea from others will always confuse you, which make(makes) you can’t calm down. It’s easy to understand people who work in quiet is more efficient than that(those who) work in noise.
In addition, I have to say the idea(The second reasons to support my standpoint is ) that children of all ages work frequently in groups is not sensible. I think (替换词：consider , give thought to ,turn over in my mind evaluate )education should give children a chance to improve the ability of thinking alone, which is quite important(which plays a significant partment in children’s future). If they don’t have much chance to solve problem alone when they are very young, it’s easy to make them feel more likely to depend on others when they grow up. That’s the reason why your junior school teacher always tells you not to copy homework from others but finish it by yourself.
What decides whether collaboration is good for learning or not? I think that should be considered in different definitions of “learning”.
Firstly, learning could result to（in） study basic knowledge you don’t know before. At this time, to study alone may be more efficient than (studying ) in crowd. Because there is nothing you can share with others before you know .
In the other hand, learning also means that inspiration made by people from different academic fields. With collaboration, people could get fresh air from the place where they never step in before. Like Newton says: stand on the shoulder of giants. The ability of how to learn from others also need us cultivate during our academic life.(放到一段里)
At conclusion, what we need is not just collaboration or just solitary. We need both of them when we’re learning. We need solitary space to get our own perspective and collaboration could broad our perspective at the same time.
提纲：
第一段：学习中的合作确实是件好事啊
第二段：但学习有时候也需要个人的空间
第三段：对于学习基础知识的小孩子，他们需要培养自己思考的能力
第四段：合作好不好，关键在我们对”learning”的定义
第五段：合作、独立都要
总体写得还可以，思路很好，但是语言过于简单， 加些长音节次较好，中间段落过多 最好是5到6段论
改得不好， 希望提些意见， 互相交流
from:neverland521
修改buaa的作业
issue 42 “Because learning is not a solitary activity but one that requires collaboration among people, students of all ages will benefit academically if they work frequently in groups.”
As the society’s developing, collaboration has played an important role in academic research, where people from different fields could inspire each other. Bio-computer science is such an example which makes interaction between biology and computer science. Inspired by structure of DNA, scientists come up with the idea that we can design the architecture of computer in a new way, which was（was可以去掉 ）called bio-computer. Apart from research, commercial company is also encouraged to hire the people who are good at teamwork. Because today the complexity of work is much more（个人认为用far more更好） than before, no one could learn everything（by oneslf）. But with collaboration we can take advantage（s） of every distinct one, which results to something amazing.
But I don’t think that learning in groups is the only way we can acquire knowledge. Different people prefer to think in different way. Most of my friends tend to study with a silent environment. Noise from other people could make them interrupted. Famous physician Albert Einstein liked to stay in the roof of his house without leaving for a few days, when he tried to figure out some mysterious theory. Actually the idea from others will always confuse you, which make you can’t calm down. It’s easy to understand people who work in quiet is more efficient than that work in noise.
In addition, I have to say the idea that children of all ages work frequently in groups is not sensible. I think education should give children a chance to improve the ability of thinking alone, which is quite important. If they don’t have much chance to solve problem alone when they are very young, it’s easy to make them feel more likely to depend on others when they grow up. That’s the reason why your junior school teacher always tells you not to copy homework from others but finish it by yourself.
What decides whether collaboration is good for learning or not? I think that should be considered in different definitions of “learning”.
Firstly, learning could result to study basic knowledge you don’t know before. At this time, to study alone may be more efficient than in crowd. Because there is nothing you can share with others before you know it.
In(On )the other hand, learning also means that inspiration made by people from different academic fields. With collaboration, people could get fresh air from the place where they never step in before. Like Newton says: stand on the shoulder of giants. The ability of how to learn from others also need us cultivate during our academic life.
At(In) conclusion, what we need is not just collaboration or just solitary.(否定应该使用neither nor) We need both of them when we’re learning. We need solitary space to get our own perspective and（这里应该用一个转折连词while） collaboration could broad our perspective at the same time.
提纲：
第一段：学习中的合作确实是件好事啊
第二段：但学习有时候也需要个人的空间
第三段：对于学习基础知识的小孩子，他们需要培养自己思考的能力
第四段：合作好不好，关键在我们对”learning”的定义
第五段：合作、独立都要
(呵呵 作者和我的写作思路满像的,不过运用例子的能力令我佩服,总的来说文笔不错,有一些介词和连词还要多多注意~)
ps:第一次竟然被两个人拍了，在这里谢谢大家啊。总的来说还是造句子的能力还需改进，其实第一次写看到大家评语还蛮高兴的，我会继续努力的。
作文小组第一次issue写作作业
issue 42 “Because learning is not a solitary activity but one that requires collaboration among people, students of all ages will benefit academically if they work frequently in groups.”
As the society’s developing, collaboration has played an important role in academic research, where people from different fields could inspire each other. Bio-computer science is such an example which makes interaction between biology and computer science. Inspired by structure of DNA, scientists come up with the idea that we can design the architecture of computer in a new way, which was called bio-computer. Apart from research, commercial company is also encouraged to hire the people who are good at teamwork. Because today the complexity of work is much more than before, no one could learn everything. But with collaboration we can take advantage of every distinct one, which results to something amazing.
But I don’t think that learning in groups is the only way we can acquire knowledge. Different people prefer to think in different way. Most of my friends tend to study with a silent environment. Noise from other people could make them interrupted. Famous physician Albert Einstein liked to stay in the roof of his house without leaving for a few days, when he tried to figure out some mysterious theory. Actually the idea from others will always confuse you, which make you can’t calm down. It’s easy to understand people who work in quiet is more efficient than that work in noise.
In addition, I have to say the idea that children of all ages work frequently in groups is not sensible. I think education should give children a chance to improve the ability of thinking alone, which is quite important. If they don’t have much chance to solve problem alone when they are very young, it’s easy to make them feel more likely to depend on others when they grow up. That’s the reason why your junior school teacher always tells you not to copy homework from others but finish it by yourself.
What decides whether collaboration is good for learning or not? I think that should be considered in different definitions of “learning”.
Firstly, learning could result to study basic knowledge you don’t know before. At this time, to study alone may be more efficient than in crowd. Because there is nothing you can share with others before you know it.
In the other hand, learning also means that inspiration made by people from different academic fields. With collaboration, people could get fresh air from the place where they never step in before. Like Newton says: stand on the shoulder of giants. The ability of how to learn from others also need us cultivate during our academic life.
At conclusion, what we need is not just collaboration or just solitary. We need both of them when we’re learning. We need solitary space to get our own perspective and collaboration could broad our perspective at the same time.
附正文提纲一份：
第一段：学习中的合作确实是件好事啊
第二段：但学习有时候也需要个人的空间
第三段：对于学习基础知识的小孩子，他们需要培养自己思考的能力
第四段：合作好不好，关键在我们对”learning”的定义
第五段：合作、独立都要
ps:issue处女作…
presentation@est
est: English of Science & Technology
这是这学期选的一门选修课，中文名叫《科技英语》，我的理解就是教你如何读paper的。课上老师要求每个学生要做一次presentation，题目是本专业一篇学术论文的abstract。
其实第一个星期老师布置这个任务的时候我就开始想我要选哪一篇paper。我想找一篇比较有意义，但又不会离下面听众太远的，最好是能给大家讲明白的。
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
于是我找到了上面这篇paper。这是10年前(1998)Google创始人Sergey Brin & Larry Page 发表在WWW Conference上的一篇文章，文中描述了他们发明的一个叫做google的搜索引擎，号称是世界上第一个可以处理大规模数据的搜索引擎，同时因为利用了现存网页中超文本的结构，可以将搜索结果以一种比较令人满意的方式进行排序。
基于这个叫做google的搜索引擎，他们从斯坦福休学，创立了一个叫做Google的公司，后面的故事大家都知道了。
some words about Research
前几天参加Sun科技日的时候听了一位清华教授的报告，是关于Semantic Web的。
报告完之后跟他又聊了将近一个小时，其中提到了关于做研究。
研究与商业的差距：
研究是可以建立在”假设”上的，因为研究可以超前于当今的技术。相当于你走到前面去了，如果随着时代的发展，你的”假设”被证明是错的，那你的一切结果都没有意义了；可是如果你的”假设”被证明是正确的，那你已经早早地走在别人前面了。
让我想到了：一将功成万骨枯，做研究貌似也是这样的。
而商业，是要讲利润的。对于公司来说，你的理论都么好，多么创新，最终都要转回到money上来。为什么现在各种各样的网游层出不穷，因为这已经成为了一种非常固定的盈利模式。当今互联网固定的盈利模式，广告，搜索和IM。在中国，最大的两家网络公司，腾讯和百度，就是典型的例子。为什么微软花那么多钱在他家的Live Search和MSN上？原因就不言而喻了。
非常惊诧于10年前，那个互联网还不是那么普及的一个年代。两个大学生就已经看到了搜索引擎的重要性，最终通过此他们发明了adWords，成就了Google今天的霸主地位。充满智慧的同时，也非常幸运，能将研究成果与盈利模式完美进行结合的人，问世上又有几呢？
GRE写作计划变动
经过上星期的尝试以后，决定不再每天写5个issue提纲了。
主要原因是因为花的时间超出了我的预期，已经较为严重的压缩学习专业知识的时间。
现在的计划一是跟着作文小组做作业，二是读到手的两本作文书。
另外就是现在仍然坚持背单词，具体写的计划等背完最近这一遍逆序再做计议。
不管怎么说，专业知识才是王道…
Issue作文提纲_2008-11-21&22
“Success in any realm of life comes more often from taking chances or risks than from careful and cautious planning.”
第一段：成功确实在很大程度上是因为运气的成分，可是如果没有仔细的安排和准备，就算有运气，也轮不到你成功。
第二段：不论是历史还是当代，我们可以看到许多的成功，不仅是因为自身的条件，同时也恰逢时代提供条件，比如微软公司。另外从个人的角度，比如史蒂夫.乔布斯。可见，在一个公司或者个人成功的路上，运气或者说周围的环境条件是非常重要的。
第三段：可是，难道这样就可以将成功简单地归因于运气吗？我觉得答案是否定的。其实，对于成功，努力与规划也是必不可少的条件。举几个例子。
第四段：有句话这么说的：机会留给有准备的人。那些最终能拥抱成功的人，无不是因为不断的努力加上一些运气的成分。
“It is not the headline-making political events but the seldom-reported social tranformations that have the most lasting significance.”
第一段：其实不论是headline-making political events 还是seldom-reported social tranformations 都可能会造成lasting significance.
第二段：有时候一些小道消息往往可能会带来一些影响，举个例子。因为这样，有时候人们可能会忽略那些大事件的新闻报道带来的影响。
第三段：但其实，从另外一个角度看，许多时候大事件的新闻报道也很好地推动了一下改变的发生。举个例子。
第四段：其实综合的角度来看，往往那些小道消息最终都会通过大标题的新闻报道才会造成影响。而同时，这些小道消息又是不可或缺的，因为我们可以听到来自各方面的声音，这样子才有利于社会地发展。
“The best preparation for life or a career is not learning to be competitive, but learning to be cooperative.”
第一段：没错，当今社会确实合作非常重要，可你不能看轻了竞争的重要性。
第二段：随着社会地发展，合作的重要性已经毋庸置疑。举例子…为什么合作这么重要，因为随着科技的发展，人们已经难以也不可能掌握所有的知识，如何能将不同的人，不同的知识很好地结合起来，是非常重要的。
第三段：可是，难道竞争就不再重要了吗？我举一个例子…没有竞争，能有如此昌盛的市场吗？
第四段：现今的社会已经被称作”竞争社会”，竞争的概念已经深入人心，一个缺乏竞争想法的人是很容易被社会所淘汰的。而同时团队合作也是不可或缺的。
“The goal of politics should not be the pursuit of an ideal, but rather the search for common ground and reasonable consensus.”
第一段：诚然，政治的其中一个目的确实需要能够让社会变得和谐和稳定。但是在这同时，一个理想仍然始终是我们所追求的。
第二段：从老百姓的角度来看，需要的是稳定的生活环境。而这正是领导者们首先要关注的。举例子…
第三段：中国有句话是这么说的， “逆水行舟，不进则退” (A boat sailing against the current must forge ahead or it will be driven back.)。 什么意思呢？告诉我们如果意味地只顾维持现状，是不够的。有时候我们也需要改革的出现，比如…
第四段：虽然维持社会和谐始终是领导者的任务，但是不能将所有力气都放在上面。许多时候我们也需要改革，虽然过程会伤害到各方利益，但是要相信这是利大于弊的。不过归根结底还是得看领导者的能力，举例子…
第五段：所以不论如何，没有对错之说，评判的标准始终是广大人民或者国家，这是需要时间的。
“Technology creates more problems than it solves, and may threaten or damage the quality of life.”
第一段：我觉得该topic有些偏颇了，诚然科技带来了一些damage，但我相信科技带来了更多的benefit
第二段：环境的污染，原子弹广岛…这些都是科技带给我们的伤害。可以看到，在社会上，许多人自发形成组织来抗议一些科技的发展。
第三段：但其实，从古至今，任何事情的发展总是像一把双刃剑(Double-edged sword)，不仅仅是科技，许多其他的…也都是如此。而科技，它带来的益处是远大于其弊的。
第四段：举一些科技带来的好处，随着科技的发展，他能给我们带来更多的选择，更好的帮助我们去保护环境等等..
第五段：其实what technology bring us is decied by who take it.举举例子，所以不论是说科技如何如何，脱离了具体环境，都是没有意义的。
“The material progress and well-being of one country are necessarily connected to the material progress and well-being of all other countries.”
第一段：一个国家的物质进步和安宁肯定是与其他国家有关联的。
第二段：一个国家如果仅仅只顾自己，是不能够很好地发展。举例…另外，如果一个国家为了安宁，而切除与别国的联系，是非常危险的，比如旧中国
第三段：从上面的论述可以看出，一个国家的发展与安宁，是跟周围的国家息息相关的，举例子…分析其原因，因为
第四段：可见，如果一个国家想要进步或者获得安宁，肯定不能闭关锁国，要与外界多交流，发展。
“Instead of encouraging conformity, society should show greater appreciation of individual differences.”
第一段：遵守传统，还是发扬个性，这要根据不同的场合来进行分析。
第二段：确实，现在社会需要有个性的人。因为当今社会越来越多元化，人们要能够脱颖而出，需要有自己的特点。从发展的角度来看，不同特长的人们，相互补充，也能够做出更好的事情。
第三段：可是，过分地追求个性也不一定是好的
第四段：追求个性是好的，但是不能过度，一些领域仍然需要传统的东西。
“Truly innovative ideas do not arise from groups of people, but from individuals. When groups try to be creative, the members force each other to compromise and, as a result, creative ideas tend to be weakened and made more conventional. Most original ideas arise from individuals working alone.”
第一段：有时候个人的智慧确实在创新的过程中产生巨大的作用，可是有些时候，团队也是不可缺的。
第二段：举个人创新的例子
第三段：其实说团队会阻碍真正的创新，未必见得。因为不同的人可以从不同的角度去看问题，会发现别人想法中的缺陷，这是一个人所无法达到的。
第四段：可是其实在现代 ，innovation is more than idea。而团队的价值则体现在此。从一个想法的提出到实现，也是一个需要团队的过程。
第五段：个人创新确实很重要，但也不能忽视团队的作用，一个人打天下的年代已经过去。
“The most elusive knowledge is self-knowledge, and it is usually acquired through solitude, rather than through interaction with others.”
同”Truly innovative ideas do not arise from groups of people, but from individuals. When groups try to be creative, the members force each other to compromise and, as a result, creative ideas tend to be weakened and made more conventional. Most original ideas arise from individuals working alone.”
“The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas—not to prepare them for a specific job.”
第一段：教育确实需要素质教育，但是职业技能也是不可或缺的。
第二段：我觉得教育最重要的目的是能够帮助一个人成为可以给世界带来价值的人。而一个人最基本的素质，诸如道德、价值观等等，都是教育份内的事情。素质教育
第三段：但是，由于当今社会竞争的事实。教育不仅仅需要锻炼一个人的内在，同时需要教导人们一些职业的技能。
第四段：教育不能简单地概括为应该做这个，不应该做那个，要分情况。
ps:前几天因为Sun Tech Day的原因，整个都很混乱，今天把周五、周六两天的提纲写出来了，周日的只能等到明天一起写了。这礼拜似乎没什么事但也什么事都没有做，看来花在GRE上的时间还是多了，需要提高写提纲的效率才好
"有点恐怖"续集
经过一个晚上的折腾，总算基本上把问题解决了。
解决方法如下：
首先插上320G的大硬盘，安装一个ubuntu，这样各路分区就可以识别这块硬盘了。
然后把这块硬盘卸下来装到移动硬盘盒里，拿到一台非XP的电脑上去(这里非常感谢鲍习武同学的慷慨援助)。
接着使用一个叫做Disk Genius的工具恢复原来的分区，记住这款软件的名字：Disk Genius，这次全靠它了。
然后经过好长时间的搜索，“啪啪啪”把这块硬盘格式化前的分区全给找回来了，接着“啪啪啪”把里面的文件恢复了。结果可怜我原来系统盘找不回来了，估计是因为装了ubuntu文件有覆盖的缘故…不过另外两个“SOFTWARE”、“OTHERS”倒是完完全全给我找回来了。系统盘找不回来，只得重装了。
刚装好现在，正在一个一个软件往回装中，还好之前所有的安装文件我都有留着。
总结：不幸中的万幸，主要损失是我firefox辛辛苦苦整理的搜藏夹和插件全都没了，其余都还好。
教训1：backup is very very important
教训2：不要乱格linux的盘…
Issue作文提纲_2008-11-20
“It is easy to welcome innovation and accept new ideas. What most people find difficult, however, is accepting the way these new ideas are put into practice.”
第一段：我觉得这个观点说的很片面，因为并不是所有情况下innovation and new ideas is welcomed；同时在想法落成实践的过程中也并不一定是困难的。
第二段：首先，在许多时候innovation和新想法是很难让大多数人所接受。medieval时，人们都相信地心说，地球是宇宙的中心。当哥白尼(Copernicus)提出地球是绕着太阳转的时候，着实把人们惹怒了。为什么新的想法会annoy人们，因为这冲击了他们的信仰。有人告诉你你从小到大的依赖的是一个错误的观念，从个人来说这是一件不愿看到的事情，他们自然而然会从内心抵触这种新的改变。
第三段：而至于whether the way these new ideas are put into pratice is difficult or not should depends on situation.比如apple 发明的mac机，以一种革新的图形界面颠覆了人们传统的操纵电脑方式。可以说这受到了广大群众的欢迎和喜爱。可见有时候这中改变是agreeable的。而为什么有时候difficult，有时候agreeable呢？这就要看新的方式能否给人带来切身的利益。
第四段：不论怎么样，当我们接触到新的观点时，应该理性对其分析。而对于那些已经投入到pratice的innovation，我们则要等待时间来验证。
“Success, whether academic or professional, involves an ability to survive in a new environment and, eventually, to change it.”
第一段：有时候，成功确实来源于对整个环境的改变。可这并不是必要条件，有时候在原有环境基础上做一些改进也是非常好的。
第二段：我们知道互联网近十年的发展可谓是天翻地覆，许多公司或者个人因为自己开创的模式成为了某一方的霸主。比如blog，完全颠覆了互联网过去从上往下传递信息的垂直方式，他让每一个可以上网的人都有机会发出自己的声音，人们可以水平地将信息传递出去。blog的成功，正是因为他看到了网民想说话的需求，最终带来了互联网的2.0模式。
第三段：可是，并不是任何时候，成功都需要人们去彻底的改变。相信大家都听说过youtube，另一个典型的web 2.0 站点。一开始YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 billion in Google stock. What Youtube did? 只是提供人们一个机会去上传自己的视频。我觉得他能成功非常重要的一个原因正是他很好地利用了Web 2.0的热潮，而他其实并没有让现有的模式产生很大的改变。
第四段：其实在科学研究中也是一样，举例子…success并不意味着totally change，as it says: standing on the shoulders of giants.
第五段：不论是在学术界，还是业界。成功的标准并不是你对环境的改变有多大，而是看if you can do good to others.
“If people disregard the great works of the past, it is because these works no longer answer the needs of the present.”
第一段：我部分同意作者的观点，尤其在一些教育的观念上，随着年代的推移，过去的一些criterion已经不适用于当今社会。可是在一些科学问题上，许多时候人们否定过去的观点是因为自己自己有了新的看法。
第二段：在中国的古代，孔子被称为saint of education。人们从小被他的思想所教育，比如臣必须尽职服从皇上，女子必须服从丈夫。由于古代是封建社会(fedual society)，这些思想受到中国皇帝的推崇。而在那个年代，社会的和谐要很大程度上归功于他的教育。可是到了现代，这种儒家思想(Confucianism)在很大程度上已经过时了。因为现今社会是一个充满竞争的社会，如果你不提高自己，你则会被别人所淘汰，而这是那个年代所不能看到的。所以confucianism已经不能满足现今社会的需求。
第三段：但是所有那些被人们disregard的works of the past并不往往都是过时的。在科学界，对同一个问题，人们总会对其提出新的问题与看法。爱因斯坦，提出了相对论，指出牛顿经典力学的不足。因为牛顿的年代，由于多方面的原因(包括实验条件等)并不能把问题考虑得这么全面。可是难道因为有了相对论，我们就能说经典力学不再有价值了吗？
第四段：可见，当一个过去的观点被否定时，原因是来自多方面的。
“As long as people in a society are hungry or out of work or lack the basic skills needed to survive, the use of public resources to support the arts is inappropriate—and, perhaps, even cruel—when one considers all the potential uses of such money.”
第一段：实际上是否应该支持art，并不能说的这么绝对。
第二段：诚然，一个人最基本的要求是生存，当一个人连生存都保证不了的时候，其余的事情都是空谈。举个例子…所以政府制订了”Minimum standard of living”这个计划，用来帮助这些人。通过这项计划，许多人从中受益。
第三段：可是由观点的意思可以推出，是希望将所有public resources用来suppport such kind of project。我觉得这个是欠思量的，因为这会给人带来一种错觉，我只需要等待别人的帮助就可以生存了，而不用自身的努力。举例子…可见，无限放大这个project的作用是不理智甚至可能会带来相反的效果，就是社会上lack the basic skills的人会越来越多。比如我是不会给乞丐钱的…
第四段：我们再来谈谈关于建设艺术的必要性。从topic的句子可以看出，art是一个可有可无(dispensable)的东西。要反驳这个观点，我们要先从art的意义谈起，我觉得艺术非常重要的一个作用是可以让人们从另外一个角度来看待我们的世界，许多优秀的艺术品，不仅仅只供观赏，它会让人们进入一种思考的状态，比如…比如在城市建立博物馆，就是一种suppor the arts 的行为。博物馆的好处举例子…此外，既然是public resources，就应该为public提供更好的利益而不是特定的群体。
第五段：综上所述，我们确实应该去帮助这些…的人们，但我们要考虑我们的形式和量度，这样才能真正地帮助到他们。此外，艺术并不是一个可有可无的玩物，对其进行支持是可以给所有人带来利益的。
“Education should be equally devoted to enriching the personal lives of students and to training students to be productive workers.”
第一段：没错，教育确实应该在培养学生成为productive workers 的同时enrich the personal lives of them.不过有时候可能因为国家的需要，教育需要培养出具有某些特定能力的学生。
第二段：在我看来，教育对于某个人来说，是最最重要的一件事情。当一个人还是婴儿时，他就开始接受各种形式的教育。教育很大程度上决定了一个人未来会成为什么样的人。所以，在许多时候，好的教育应该能够充分挖掘人们的天性，让每个人有机会发挥自己的特长。比如….
第三段：可是在很多时候，由于社会的原因，教育是有非常大的导向性的。在中国，每个有机会上学的小孩都要学习语文、数学和政治。学习语文是为了，学习数学是为了，学习政治是为了…可是并没有强制要求每个人要学习音乐或者美术。我觉得这并不是一件谁对谁错的事情，这是由于需求决定的。因为学习理工科学的人，今后更可能为社会地制造财富。从整个国家角度的来说，这样子更利于整个国家的发展。
第四段：而且，每个人的天性(personal instinct)千差万别。并不是任何时候发展天性都是一件好的事情，比如…
第五段：一个好的教育确实应该可以给那些具有某些天赋的孩子一个机会，可是这并不能被滥用。而此同时，许多时候从国家的利益出发，教育也需服从于国家的利益，培养出更多的productive workers。
ps:今天有点那个，状态不太好，中间写得断断续续的，现在写完，一定要坚持啊！