| Do you like to eat the cultural fast food? | |
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| Apr 9, 2007 02:57 |   |
 | Have you ever watched the hot broadcasted Baijia Forum on CCTV. In this programme, many college professors have become 'super stars' , due to their excellent lecturing skills and profound academic achievements. In their lectures, many literacy classics were delivered in a plain and approachable way, which have made the audience easy to understand the originally complex meaning. I consider it a perfect way to spread Chinese culture, but why is there so many scholars criticized that it has polluted the purity of academy. |
| Apr 9, 2007 03:58 | #1 |
| Haha, maybe some of them are jealous of them. |
| Apr 9, 2007 04:54 | #2 |
| Jealous,good word to apply here.^_^ |
| Apr 9, 2007 11:59 | #3 |
| Cause, they are try to be a "long nose", not pure Chinese. |
| Apr 9, 2007 19:07 | #4 |
| It is excellent that they should do this. Too much academic work uses a language style others don't know, when plainer language could explain it just as well. Often academic and intellectual ideas are quite simple once they have been worked out, so why not popularise them for the masses? It seems a very socialist thing to do: in my experience the mental ability of the 'common people' is not much different from that of the academics and the wealthy The main issue is that they have not had the opportunity to train their minds - typically because they came from poor families. If 'cultural fast food' helps fill the gap, GREAT! |
| Apr 9, 2007 21:59 | #5 |
| Sharif, what on earth are you talking about? Who's trying to be a "long nose" instead of pure Chinese? This issue is purely Chinese. I'm inclined to suspect some people are jealous of others' success here, too, and I agree that popularising the classics and education can only be a good thing. |
| Apr 9, 2007 22:24 | #6 |
| Chris, Agree with your 2nd para. But it's not a teaching class rather a fun class. |
| Apr 11, 2007 10:41 | #7 |
| Jealousy is one explanation....but giving them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they are just purists. I believe most here would agree that reading any classic in the original language conveys the meaning more accurately than the translation. To apault's point, one of the key functions of specialized education is to make changing a light bulb the equivalent of brain surgery. I see that phenomena within my own field in which I am a recognized expert. I look at the new books on protocol analysis and I do not recognize language used to discuss technical points I taught 15 years ago. Unfortunately, the subject matter was not simplified - it was made more complex and obscure. That is especially intriguing because the engineering specifications wrapped around the technology have not changed in the least and the spec represents the source document. I see nothing wrong with simplifying subject matter, so long as the simplification ultimately leads the student to the source material. |
| Apr 11, 2007 16:47 | #8 |
| Not everyone needs to become an expert, not everyone who watches 'cultural fast foods' are students. Many will just enjoy being enlightened. Fantastic ( especially as China is still suffering its history where learning was supressed) |
| Apr 11, 2007 19:57 | #9 |
| I don't like any fast food. |
| Apr 12, 2007 05:02 | #10 |
| I have watched that program. How to say, I think it is a not very platform for those scholors to express their own ideas on the same one thing. On the other hand, audiences also have right to hold their own opinions no matter what is the scholors' lectures. |
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