Toshkent davlat pedagogika universiteti ilmiy axborotlari 2020/1(22) issn 2181-9580

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analogizing, body thinking etc. (Root-Bernstein and Root-Bernstein, 1999) There are 
also the combination of creative thinking and critical thinking for productive 
thinking
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6. Conclusion
“Indeed while Western thought from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century 
(or, perhaps, to be exact, up to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914) was one 
of hope, a hope rooted in Prophetic and Greek-Roman thought, the last forty years 
have been years of increasing pessimism and hopelessness. The average person runs 
for shelter; he tries to escape from freedom and he seeks for security in the lap of the 
big state and the big corporation. If we are not able to emerge from this 
hopelessness, we may still go on for a time on the basis of our material strength, but 
in the long historical perspective the West will be condemned to physical or spiritual 
extinction.
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Living in the system of Western modernism, we are dizzy in the confusion of 
many technical terms. How can we live a given life well? What is the meaning and 
role of university? How can we live in harmony with the modern world of the West 
and our forgotten traditional life? 
The purpose of this article was to examine what BA students in university 
should do in the digital age. We reviewed the role of the university, the history of BA 
that has been born and evolved, the changes in educational content and methods, the 
competencies obtained through my own experience, and the proposed models for 
improving the competencies BA students. As a result, these are my thought to share 
together.
First of all, it is necessary to learn humanities so that we can think differently 
from others. When we learn BA through specific experiences and examples, it is 
important to know who we are and develop our own creative thoughts.
Secondly, it is important to have “a mature democratic citizenship that fulfills 
social responsibility”.
We need to think about the concept presented by the West from a global and 
diverse perspective, not from the Eurocentrism (USA included). It is also necessary 
to remind how to restore the distorted democratic life as big states and big companies 
are pursuing more profits with digital age and technology.
It is, therefore, essential to do what we like, or to live our life in a way that we 
like, so as not to be manipulated as the alienated mass.
Lastly, in order to be happy with the ordinary people who work and live, we 
have to think about the life of the community that we should work in society sooner 
or later after graduation. To do this, it is important to keep in mind that it is not a 
debate to win over others for a ‘winner dominating society’, but a sympathetic ability 
to discuss and live in harmony with others.
 
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Hurson, T. (2009). Think better-an innovator’s guide to productive thinking. McGraw-Hill. 
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Fromm, E. (1961). Marx’s concept of man. Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 

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