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Since science and technology are becoming more and more essential to modern society, schools should devote more time to teaching science and technology and less to teaching the arts and humanities.
disagree (1) science and technology are used by human, if do not use well, then it will be a disaster (2) arts and humanities can help people to develop science and technology (3) arts and humanities can boost science and technology
agree (1) science and technology can help people create arts (2) science and technology can give more formal(?) to arts
Since science and technology are becoming more and more essential to modern society, schools should devote more time to teaching science and technology and less to teaching the arts and humanities.
What is the correct way to handle the relationship between teaching science and technology and teaching the arts and humanities? The author thinks that because science and technology are becoming more essential to modern society, teaching science and technology can outweigh teaching the arts and humanities. In the following, i will present some reasonings on this topic and provide my viewpoint in the end.
In the first place, as we know, technologies are used by human. If advanced technology are controlled by an people with evil intentions, it would become more a convenient vehicle to commit crimes than an enabling tool to accomplish deeds. For example, when the nuclear bomb was created, the creator was dismayed because he thought that the awful weapon is too detrimental to the human and that he should have not created it. We can not stop the science and technology from moving on and from developing weapons that are more effective in killing people, but we can purify a human's heart. We can teach human what's is love and how to love. Those tasks can be met though arts and humanities. From this point, the arts and humanities should never be underestimated and the school should never treat them as less important than science and technology.
In the second place, arts and humanities can help people to develop science and technology. To develop science and technology is a boring job and need much patience. Few men or women can bear the hard task, and people doing research job are always under great pressure. However, if people are always in those physical context, they will miss the inspiration which is the key to discoveries in science and technology. People need to relax, and arts can help them. For example, Einstein is a good violinist. Playing violin can help a person relax his nervous brain, and, once relaxed, people feel recharged. So arts can help people to develop science and technology. They are necessary to explore and expand science and technology.
In the third place, arts and humanities can boost science and technology. It sounds like a paradox. But if you think more deeply, you will take this point seriously. At first, we should acknowledge that human needs boost science and technology. For example, human want to save time in travel. Therefore, the plane, the train, the car and other transportation technologies are developed to satisfy human's craving for fast travel. Human want to know the outer space. Thus, Harbor telescope, International Space Station, satellite, spaceship and related navigation technologies are developed. The transportation technology is an extension of human's legs. The navigation technology is an expansion of human's eyes and minds. All technology are some sort of expansion of human's capacities to explore the world. (写到这里写 不下去了)
However, science and technology also have many merits. On the one hand, they can help people create arts. For example, internet can disseminate many arts forms such as songs, dances, stories, and so on to remote places and different cultures. Internet helps people to maintain a full-of-art life. People can have stimulation and then help them to create new arts. On the other hand, science and technology can give people many supports to create arts. For example, when watching the movie The Transformers, people can get high visual impact from watching it. However, if digital technology were not available, people could not have seen such an exciting movie.
All in all, the art and science support each other so much. We can not put one over the other. The most sensible way is to give them equal importance. |
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