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Exhausted
2008-04-27 12:21:38
There is nothing more than "exhausted" to express what i have felt until yesterday. i just took the proficiency test in gdufs yesterday, on which i have spent 7 full days for pretest preparation. i know that knowlege needs time to be acquired, "My English is just ok with 30 years' learning." Said Mr Wang.(one of my respectable teachers).To some extent, it reveals the quality of being modest of Chinese people, but it does tell us the true essence on study and life.
i am not quite sure my performance during the test, it seems to be lack of time for me to complete all the examination questions, especially for the part of the comprehensive reading. i believe, however, i have got something new and improved although it was only a little.
"Follow you passion and success will follow you." The reason why i like this proverb is that it will make me feel energetic every time when i encounter troubles. i cross my hands for good luck and wish to get a perfect ending for my study.
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To Much Education is Dangerous?
2008-04-14 12:56:12
To Much Education is Dangerous?
It is widely believed that the more education we obtain the more opportunities we may gain to succeed. However, some people argue that it will only bring about uncomfortable feelings if they have redundant education. Which may be somewhat reasonable, but the advantages of attaining more knowledge far outweigh its disadvantages.
It may be true that people will feel disappointed if knowledge acquired will not be functional in their jobs. Their motivation to learn something new will probably be reduced. Consequently, they will become less interested in their jobs. Though, we should never be pessimistic since few joys cover all lines of business, and few people find a practical use on all knowledge they have achieved. Therefore, what we have to do is try to working hard and being involved in the field selected.
As an old saying goes: “Knowledge is a treasure.” Education plays an essential role during the development of our society. It not only enriches our knowledge but also broadens our horizons. As our world changes everyday with great progresses, we need to be educated as much as possible to be in step with the times. Otherwise, we will be falling behind and be bound to failure.
Less education is a real danger for people, while much education is favorable. Chances always favor the minds that are well prepared. What we need to concern about is how to equip ourselves with as much education as we can within the limited lives.
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What I Have Lived for - Bertrand Russell
2008-04-07 13:15:15
The following article from Bertrand Russell impressed on me.Let's enjoy...
What I Have Lived For
The Introduction of Bertrand Russell's autobiography
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness-that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what-at last-I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.Love and knowledge, so far as they are possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth! Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain makes a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I can not, and I too suffer.This has been my life, I have found it worth living, and I would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.