Babylon+OPE+Yunji


 * Heading**: Yunji L, F block
 * Question**: Do you agree that the vast and quick learning of knowledge is necessarily a negative thing?
 * Title**: Time and Position


 * Learning the knowledge “fast” is not a negative thing. It is more advantageous for society to develop, and have easier life. But learning the knowledge faster or slower doesn’t really matter. The thing that really matters in knowledge is how well people can use it.** In the story, //By the Waters of Babylon// by Stephen Vincent Benet used John to show his message. He went to the place called, “Place of the Gods” which is strictly forbidden, and saw the place was ruined. It had better technological advantage than other region but they got destroyed faster. When John came back from forbidden place his father told him, “In the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.” Father warned him to keep secret about what John experienced and learned. It seems like father talks quick learning of knowledge is a negative thing. But actually he means the time doesn’t matter, we need to use that knowledge wisely. The learning knowledge is same as eating, chewing, digesting food. Since the people from “Place of the Gods” didn’t complete this process, so it got ruined by fast knowledge. In this day, technology developed very faster than old days. However danger also increases too, because the society can use that knowledge to make nuclear bombs for destroy the world, use for crime, wars. Therefore, quick learning of knowledge is not necessarily a negative thing but it needs time to think and then use that knowledge wisely. Place knowledge with the right time in the right position.