Unit 4 9~17
When read the ninth paragraph, I couldn’t understand the meaning of the words “precaution and irresistible”, so I turn to the online dictionary for help. “Precaution” is a noun and it means “an action which is done to prevent something unpleasant or dangerous happening.” And the word “because too pleasant, attractive or strong.” So I could understand the meaning of this paragraph. But why they think to peek at each other’s tests to be irresistible? In my opinion, if they peek at each other’s tests, they will get high marks, without working hard. In other words, they do not pay will be rewarded. It is an irresistlible irresistible thing to the students.
When I read the paragraph tenth ten, I wanted to know what attitude make makes the parents and teachers encourage the youngest to cheat. In the next two paragraphs, I found out the answers. No one seems much bothered about cheating in youngest, they think it is too common and too much a part of nature, it is unimportant, they also do it when they are young. And even the most outspoken opppnents of cheating are less critical of youngest who cheat. I think cheating is not a Human Nature, if the parents teached taught the children to become an honest child when they started to understand the word world and set a good example when they were growing up, the outspoken opponents of cheating should firm conviction, deal with the youngest who cheat seriously. The youngest who cheat will become more and more fewer, they will live in an honest environment, it will becom a virtuous circle.
When read the thirteenth paragraph, I was puzzled by the word “conceptual”, so I looked it up in dictionary. It is an adjective, means “based on ideas or principles”. I think the Stanley R. liberty’s speak could explan explain the useless about make crib sheets and peeking. Because if we have the open-book exams, the question will have different answers, and everyone has different ideas, it without unique solutions. If students cheating in the exams, they will be found out, because they have the same answer.
In the fifteenth paragraph, I couldn’t understand the meaning of the word “pedagogical”, I found the meaning in the dictionary. It is an adjective, it means “of or concerning teaching methods”. From this paragraph, we could see that the scholars want to find the science test, it make students don’t want to cheat, develop a good habit and become an honest person.
In the last two paragraphs, the authou author wants to point out that the fundamental solution is in the family. The parents should not regard tests as the only way to measure students. They should never look down on them when they get low marks, it is the most important thing.
