Reflection #5

That is not a good idea to let the students to study in an environment that is full of ads. What do students do in the school? They come for their education, not for to know the names of products that belong the companies which have supported the school. Except the knowledge, the ads are the most possible things that the student can touch in school. Those companies got the right to put ads in the school area as they have supported the school financial, which can say, by their way, benefits for the education of the students. Then, here comes my question: who is benefiting whom by this situation really, and who gets more benefit? The companies benefit the students, or the students benefit those companies? Or they just use each other to get the benefits they want? Hard to tell.

Reflection #4

In the essay of George F. Will that we have read this week, I thought a lot. Especially the last words he has in the essay: “Cherry Garcia. It’s a choice.” Not only in the part of using the energy in our earth, but also the other parts of our life, we always face many choices and we have to make many decisions—we have to choose some from the many. We want the best things for us, so we always want to make the best choice to let us to meet the gold. But in fact, in my opinion, we do not always make the right decision to do the beat of us. We all know what is good for us, and we always can say about the “right” way to reach the best, but to reach the best is not happen so often. We know how to do, but the temptations are too many so that we are kind of lost and don’t know what to do. Knowing something is easier than talking about something; talking about something is easier than putting something into actions.

Reflection #3

I think the purpose we go to the college is being taught and getting some kind of knowledge, not being indoctrinated with some kind of believing. We come to the college, and then we get the knowledge. We use the knowledge to think about the world which we are living in; then we find out the believing that we want to be in. So, for me, the teachers should not indoctrinate the ideas they have to us; they can tell, but not to make us to believe those points of views. What we need from the teachers are the ways of studying, the senses of knowing something, the direction of finding out our believing. As being college students, we don’t really need the teachers to tell us what to do and how to do for everything. You may believe what the teacher tells you when you were in the high school, but as a college student, I think we have to learn about doubting things. We are in the age that we have to think more about things than to accept things. That said, in a classroom, the teacher should know what to teach the student is the best, and the students should clear about their needs and choose the parts which are good for them.

Reflection #2

In Wednesday’s class, we had a discussion of the freedom of speech in the college. In my opinion, we should take the freedom of speech under the rules that the college request the students to obey. We have the freedom of speech, but that doesn’t mean we can say anything we want to say. Something just can’t be spoken out as they are not the language we can use in the class. Although different people have their different opinion of the same thing, we should think about the others before we speak out something. Without thinking, we may say something that is hurting the others or against the rules about speech in the college. For me, the freedom of speech is basing on the thoughts we have already taken; so I think it’s really important that to think before to say something.