Think about the way we were taught during primary school and the other stages of fundamental education.
What have you been taught? Take English course for instance.
This is apparently a brand new area for most of us when they first start to learn such type of subject—— a second language.
But, how did we usually been lead to approach it?
The way like some nowadays well-organized subjects, i.e., physics or math?
No.
We never had a chance to get the first impression that Language, like any other subjects we were going to start, had it's original basic qualities and is with rules supported, like the theroms to math.
The fact is that, we were never told about some basic concepts about languages, wchich lead to endless effort and concerning about some certain obsecure phenomenona that emerged in the later study.
Like first of all, without previous concepts about versatile languages, for children in most parts of China, especially for those who grow up from a pure single-language environment, the knowledege about languages themselve could be vital.
Just imagine this, a little curious Chinese boy in an elemantary school, simply spend time on wondering the curious pronounciations of a certain English word, and trying to match it with a word in Chinese. And by doing so, not only he felt it amusing, but also a way of acquring.?
But what will happen next? It's ?cute to do so, but will the boy successfully develop the right concept of a different language while he grew elder? Will he figure out that certain phenomenona are just some special characteristics of a language and in terms of viewing them involves a certain way called linguistic?
No, there will generate tons of misunderstandings about languages, and even a large part of them came from the teacher's distracting, reckless explanation.
This universal ignorance about language and other humanity subjects as parts of science, did make lots of barriers for us single-language speaker. Because of this, rather less people of us view language in a more serious and systematical way—— they were simply taught randomly. What the teachers thought about them, is exact the way they were taught. As for weather the teachers themselves got enough education so that they can view these subjects in a scientific, "mature" way, was ignored.?
But what's the influence, or, results? One problem is that, the little boy we mentioned could possibly feel upset about English, since he can't explain all the intricate relations in this new language with his little tricks, and will probabaly give up.
And two, is that there exists so less people treating linguist and other humanity subjects as solid science. Because they were never taught that way.
All of us were aware that subjects like physics and math could lead to some super amazing roket science, but seldom would people have the impression that humanity subjects are actually rather practical in our daliy life.
However, in fact, these subjects are more directly related to the phenomenona we talk all day long—— the social phenomenona, the way our emotion changes and the change of our mind condition—— lots of daily issues can be viewed under the instructions of humanity SCIENCE. Like, knowing a little about practical phycology won't hurt, and may also make you more reasonable when you confronting a hardship. Knowing the fact maybe better than to blame yourself or others blindly. And under this cirrcumstance, one just cought less troubles by using this technique of phycology.
And having a little knowledge about history and social science may also give you a more clear mind about the facade of daily matters you saw.
In short, humanity and other science should be considered practical tools of one's life, rather than any kind of way to get fortune or fame. However, once lost its original aim, the ending will be rather different, too.
