YOU Life is tetris 文章解析小精灵的故事
手指带戒指的含义Who Are you and what are you doing here?
Mark Edmundson
It's been said that raising a child effectively takes a village: Well, as you may he noticed, our American village is not in very good shape. We've got guns, drugs, two wars, fanatical religions, a slime-bad popular culture, and some politicians who—a little restraint here—aren't what they might be. To merely survive in this American village and to win a place in the entering class has taken a lot of grit on your part. So, yes, congratulations to all.
Do not believe it. It is not true. If you want to get a real education in America you're going to he to fight—and I don't mean just fight against the drugs and the violence and against the slime-bad culture that is still going to surround you. I mean something a little more disturbing. To get an education, you're probably going to he to fight against the institution that you find yourlf in—no matter how prestigious it may be. (In fact, the more prestigious
the school, the more you'll probably he to push.) You can get a terrific education in America now, there are astonishing opportunities at almost every college, but the education will not be prented to you wrapped and bowed. To get it, you'll need to struggle and strive, to be strong, and occasionally even to piss off some admirable people.
What my father told me that evening was true in itlf, and it also contains the germ of an idea about what a university education should be. But apparently almost everyone el—students, teachers, and trustees and parents—es the matter much differently. They he it wrong.
In college, life is elwhere. Life is at parties, at clubs, in music, with friends, in sports. Life is what celebrities he. The idea that the cours you take should be the primary objective of going to college is tacitly considered absurd. In terms of their work, students live in the future and not the prent; they live with their prospects for success. If universities stopped issuing credentials, half of the clients would be gone by tomorrow morning, with the remainder following fast behind.
The students and the professors he made a deal: The students and the professors he made a deal: The students write their abstract, over-intellectualized essays; the professors grade the students for their capacity to be abstract and over-intellectual, and often genuinely art. For their essays can be brilliant, in a chilly way; they can also be clipped off the Internet, and often are. Whatever the ca, no one wants to invest too much in them—for life is elwhere. The professor s his energies for the profession, while the student s his for friends, social life, volunteer work, making connections, and getting in position to clasp hands on the true grail, the first job.
No one in this picture is evil; no one is criminally irresponsible. It's just that art people are prone to look into matters to e how they might go about buttering their toast. Then they butter their toast.
团结协作的谚语
What colleges generally want are well-rounded students, civic leaders, people who know what the system demands, how to keep matters light, not push too hard for an education or anything el; people who get their credentials and lee the professors alone to do their brilliant work, so they may ri and enhance the rankings of the university.
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In a culture where the major and determining values are monetary, what el could you do? How el would you live if not by getting all you can, succeeding all you can, making all you can?
All right, there's nothing wrong with this as far as it goes—after all, the student who writes a brilliant forty-page thesis in a hard week has learned more than a little about her inner resources. Maybe it will give her needed confidence in the future. But doesn't the content of the cours matter at all?
滑翔伞运动
On the evidence of this talk, no. Trying to figure out whether the stuff you're reading is true or fal and being open to hing your life changed is a fraught, controversial activity. Doing so requires energy from the professors. This kind of perspective-altering teaching and learning can cau the things which administras fear above all el: trouble, arguments, bad press, etc.
So, if you want an education, the odds aren't with you: The professors are off doing what they call their own work; the other students, who've doped out the way the place runs, ar
e busy leing the professors alone and getting themlves in position for bright and shining futures; the student-rvices people are trying to keep everyone content, offering plenty of entertainment and building another state-of-the-art workout facility every few months. The development office is already scanning you for future donations. The primary function of Yale University, it's recently been said, is to create prosperous alumni so as to enrich Yale University.图画用英语怎么说
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