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Pluto was re-classified as a dwarf planet
lest (p2):for fear that; in order to make sure that sth. will not happen
He hide behind the curtain lest the professor (should) see him.
Grade-two thinking: People can detect the contradictions of grade-three thinkers’ beliefs. They can see their ignorance, prejudice, hypocrisy and lack of logic, which gives them great delight and satisfies their ego.
Unit One: Thinking as a Hobby
Thinking
Hobby
William Golding (1911-1993), a remarkable British novelist, is never likely to be remembered for his social portraiture, which is not the essence of his work. He was a writer trained in a grand metaphysical Christianity who could address questions of good and evil in a corrupted and Godless age.
Lord of the Flies (1954)
The novel was one of the great novels of the Fifties, yet in no obvious sense was it a Fifties novel; one reviewer would find in Golding ‘a sullen distaste for the contemporary’. The novel was an ironic rewriting of the Victorian boys’ book tradition.
金星 According to International Astronomical Union in 2006 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, how many planets are in the solar system?
The eight planets now recognized by the IAU are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
The original story was R. M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island (1858), the story of a highly
resourceful group of British boys, led by Ralph Rover, who are shipwrecked on an isolated Pacific island, whose lives are threatened by savages but are rescued by a missionary.
Background
A good liberal arts education must include good training in logical and critical thinking.
You should play with ideas the way you play with balls.
Grade-two thinking had nothing constructive to offer. It destroys without the power to create. Therefore the satisfaction it brings the thinker is limited and does not last.
nothing but(p2): nothing except;only
His parents care nothing but his scores at school.
One was a lady wearing nothing but a bath towel.
Venus
In Roman mythology, Venus was the goddess of love and beauty. 【罗马神话】 维纳斯：爱情 和形体美的女神 In other cultures, she has a more sinister role particularly in Mayan mythology.
Grade-one thinking: People who set out to find the truth and get it.
TEXT ORGANIZATION
P1 -p15 Prelude/ Introduction P16-p24 Grade Three Thinking P25-p29 Grade Two Thinking P30-p35 Grade One Thinking
Three grades:
Grade-three thinking: was no thinking at all, but a combination of ignorance, prejudice and hypocrisy. Most people belonபைடு நூலகம் to this category (according to the author).
