101、Technology creates more problems than it solves, and may threaten or damage the quality of life. ------------------------------ 102、The material progress and well-being of one country are necessarily connected to the material progress and well-being of all other countries. ------------------------------ 103、The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas---not to prepare them for a specific job. ------------------------------ 104、The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its heroines. ------------------------------ 105、Rituals and ceremonies help define a culture. Without them, societies or groups of people have a diminished sense of who they are. 106、The way people look, dress, and act reveals their attitudes and interests. You can tell much about a societys ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people. ------------------------------ 107、Progress is best made through discussion among people who have contrasting points of view. ------------------------------ 108、Most people choose a career on the basis of such pragmatic considerations as the needs of the economy, the relative ease of finding a job, and the salary they can expect to make. Hardly anyone is free to choose a career based on his or her natural talents or interest in a particular kind of work. |