Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:05:54 +0530
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [english_learners ] Re: The top TEN languages spoken in the world
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
regardsanu
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 !
>
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