The durian is the fruit of trees of the genus Durio belonging to the Malvaceae, a large family which includes hibiscus, okra, cotton, mallows and linden trees. Widely known and revered in Southeast Asia as the "King of Fruits," the fruit is distinctive for its large size, unique odour, and formidable thorn-covered husk. The fruit can grow up to 30 centimetres (12 in) long and 15 centimetres (6 in) in diameter, and typically weighs one to three kilograms (2 to 7 lbs). Its shape ranges from oblong to round, the colour of its husk green to brown, and its flesh pale-yellow to red, depending on the species. The hard outer husk is covered with sharp, prickly thorns while the edible flesh within emits a distinctive odour, which is regarded as either fragrant or overpowering and offensive. The odour of the ripe fruit is strong and penetrating even when the husk is intact. The flesh can be consumed at various stages of ripeness and is used to flavour a wide variety of savoury and sweet edibles in Southeast Asian cuisines. The seeds can also be eaten when cooked. Many consumers express preferences for specific cultivars, which fetch higher prices in the market.
June 2008 Archives
Many people argue that in order to improve educational quality, high school students are encouraged to make comments or even criticism on the teachers. Others think it will lead to loss of respect and discipline in the classroom. Discuss and give your opinion.
It is necessary to encourage students make comments to their teachers. Basically, teacher as an individual person, no doubtful have the limit of knowledge like other people. Discussion between teacher and student is rather important and meaningful. Each can benefit from other meanwhile increase the activity of students' mind.
As a student, inquire what he had learnt can improve their own thinking. That will be a great benefit for themselves especially in nowadays. No one can be as a superman know everything well. Otherwise, the speed of technology development sometimes run faster that light. So, It is impossible to achieve knowledge without update. Lets make a hypothesis, if our students obtain everything from teachers without any consideration, that may lead to a situation as totally 50 students in one class may have the same answer to a particular question. That is what we don't expect.
In the other side of teachers, they own the responsibility to teach their students not only how to study but also how to think. In my viewpoint, the latter will be more meaningful. Firstly, as I mentioned above, nowadays knowledge is updating all the time. To tell one what to do is not as good as to tell him how to do. A good method of thinking will benefit students themselves also that make more deeper sense.
Based on the statistics, most of schools around the whole world encouraging theirs students interact with teachers. So the former can be well supported.
