Issue Practice 7

Issue: We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own; disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning.


With retrospections to growth and progress of everybody in our everyday life, we will discover that learning is indispensable, as it fill wits and thoughts to our life. It can not be denied that we learn a lot from educations in all kinds of schools, while, practically, learning from others is always playing a significant role in out life, on account of its bringing fruitful precious knowledge that we cannot even learn in school. We learn from our parents, brothers and sisters, friends and fellows, as well as opponents and dissenters.

It is obvious that people always tend to learn from people who share similar views, as identical views enable us to hold an appreciation and a sense of commonality to each other, which can bring us and confidence and full communication, from which we can exchange mutual viewpoints and obtain more knowledge and ideas, and broaden our horizons, with joy. At the same time, we can also gain spiritual support and get help when necessary. One of the most representative examples is the case of Marx and Engels, both of whom are renowned economists and philosophers. It is that they shared similar ideas and showed great appreciation to each other that encouraged Engels to supply long-last financial aid to Marx and communicate mutually and actively, the result of which gave birth to Marxism.

However, mere learning from people who share views with us could never manage to enable one get enough, but for the help provided by opponents and dissenters. Different viewpoints and ideas prevent us from living in the narrow world and provide us with new aspects of thinking and broaden our horizons. They also do a favor in discovering our mistakes and wrong behaviors, which, as a matter of fact, supply us with a space of reviewing our own minds and thoughts that are helpful. When ideas come to a collision, there always emerge new way of thinking. That is exactly why discussions and debates came into being—we need to reveal the nature of things, and discussions are just competent.

To sum up, it’s from those who we share views with that we are improved, while those who we contradict views with that we get chances to avoid a dead-end or narrower paths of thoughts.
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