Thinking
Picture Description
Please describe the following pictures in detail and depict their symbolic meaning in your own words.
Goddess Venus
Rodin’s Thinker
Which grade of thinker will say the below?
I think so, because they all say so! It’s not true. What you said is self-contradictory. Look! I don’t care what everybody says. Here is the truth.
—Mao Zedong
“Learning without thought is labor lost. —Confucius
Part II About the Author
1. a British novelist and poet
2. winner of 1983 Nobel Prize in literature 3. masterpiece: Lord of the Flies (蝇王）（1954）
acquaintanceship n. acquaint v. (…with…) to come to know personally; to make familiar; to inform;
Examples: She has become merely a nodding acquaintance. Few of my acquaintances like kiwi. The guide has some acquaintance with Italian. He has a wide acquaintanceship among all sorts of people.
William Golding 1911—1993
6. having received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 1988
Part III Language Study
acquaintance
n. a. (CN) a person whom one knows b. (UN) knowledge or information about sth. or someone
mocking, satirical, cynical
moral, logical, truth-seeking
pБайду номын сангаасoportion
9/10
fewer
fewest
behavior
stampede, group together
consequence dangerous
withdraw, stick to truth, lag behind dare to lose
“We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.”
CONTENTS
Part One: Lead-in Part Two: About the Author Part Three: Language Study Part Four: Text Appreciation Part Five: Extension
Part I Lead-in
1. Picture Description 2. Discussion and Quotations on
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
—Socrates
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts.” —Benjamin Disraeli
“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summary
Grade-three Grade-two
Grade-one
nature
proportion
behavior
consequence
Summary of the three levels of thinking
Gradethree
Grade- Grade-
two
one
nature
prejudiced, ignorant, hypocritical
4. the features of Golding’s novel: the intrinsic cruelty of man
5. going to Oxford University (Brasenose College) in 1930, studying natural sciences and English language, later changing into literature
The Leopard
Discussion about thinking
1. Well-known classification:
Affective thinking Rational thinking
2. Explanation of thinking from the text proper
Grade-three thinking Grade-two thinking Grade-one thinking
destructive constructive & creative
Quotations on Thinking
“Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.”
—Edward de Bono