Very nice Xiang Liu, No one could have replied Miao's question in a better way. Its always enlightening to hear from you. Keep writing, dear friend.
Good night. Sleep well. *"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people."* *"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."* - Conficius regards anu On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Xiang Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Indeed, you have freedom not to learn English, so do I. > > To be fair, the English world has a great appeal for its glaring > information. If we want to know the state of the art in certain field, > we can be always rewarded for your English skill. > It is also the reason for you to learn J2EE. > > So, the problem is not why we should learn English, but why we should > spend much so time learning Chinese-style politics over and over again > with the absolutely same content for a very very long duration. It's > just like a hypnotism. > > The problem is not English or Chinese. In fact, most people like me > are not familiar to English, but also not familiar to Chinese > tradition. It is the result of overflowing of pragmatism. All we > learned and obtained is knowledge, but knowledge is not all. We have > lose the spirit of our culture. Our ancients seem to have a better > understanding than us. Their "Major Published Works" ;-) emphasize the > importance of "be a perfect man" and even despise the techniques and > tricks, which are considered to be harm to one's spirit. We are the > productions under our "marvelous" education system with one aim -- you > may acquire lots of knowledge but you should not have your own idea > towards the life or the world because those are danger for the rule of > fool ruler who promise us a happiness future. We all live in the > illusion of future. > > -- Just a practice... sincerely welcome to point out any grammar error. > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:15 PM, zilong miao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Yes > > but why we'd learn English ? > > I often think about it ! > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "English Learner's Cafe" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/english_learners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
