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For Which Way Shall We Be Headed
----Culture Smart or Science Intelligent
Over the past few thousand years of human history, many a conflict between culture and science had been taking place.And it was these conflicts that had long been debated: Which, on earth, should be counted as the superior one, culture or science? Up to present, the two of them haven’t yet reached a compromise.So now the problem we’re still facing is, for which way shall we be headed, the cultural one or the scientific one?
Dating back to the Ancient Society, deniably speaking, the cultural atmosphere then was quite strong.Our ancestors then were quite smart, they created different kinds of language, Chinese, English, French, and so on, which had helped human being greatly in stepping into the Cultural Age; they created the notes and did the very first piece of music, which was a milestone for the modern music; they created the rough but important laws or rules or disciplines for the societies, some of which are still working today.Maybe we could say, our ancestors then had done everything to perfect culture, which surely, was good, but, not perfect.They should have paid equivalent attention to science, while they didn’t.As a consequence, the human society hadn’t been developing very fast for the past few thousand years.Let’s check out another instance, the discovery of the DNA Double-helix Structure.Imagine, if Crick and Watson were not cultivated but that sort of person who could only do scientific experiments, who cared nothing but their personal benefits, who knew nothing about responsibility and morality, what would have happened? Maybe this significant discovery would have been a fatal disaster to all human being.But lucky enough, they were cultivated and moral, which led to a good result that had been benefiting all mankind from the day DNA was discovered.In which case, culture had played a very crucial part.
As far as I could tell, from an undergraduate’s angle, culture and science are the two invaluable parts that neither of them could be ignored.Just like peas and carrots, both of them are indispensable factors for the development of every singe country or society.And only by combining the two of them can we hope to be headed for a brighter future.
WELCOME TO 2009 CCTV CUP ENGLISH SPEAKING CONTEST
My appreciation.
Jack
