新东方：新概念英语第四册mp3及课文讲解33 Lesson 33 Education教育 First listen and then answer the following question.听录音，然后回答以下问题。 Why is education democratic in bookless， tribal societies？ Education is one of the key words of our time. A man without an education， many of us believe， is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances， deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities. Convinced of the importance of education， modern states 'invest' in institutions of learning to get back 'interest' in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women who are potential leaders. Education， with its cycles of instruction so carefully worked out， punctuated by textbooks —— those purchasable wells of wisdom-what would civilization be like without its benefits？ So much is certain： that we would have doctors and preachers， lawyers and defendants， marriages and births —— but our spiritual outlook would be different. We would lay less stress on 'facts and figures' and more on a good memory， on applied psychology， and on the capacity of a man to get along with his fellow-citizens. If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the most democratic form of 'college' imaginable. Among tribal people all knowledge inherited by tradition is shared by all； it is taught to every member of the tribe so that in this respect everybody is equally equipped for life. It is the ideal condition of the 'equal start' which only our most progressive forms of modern education try to regain. In primitive cultures the obligation to seek and to receive the traditional instruction is binding to all. There are no 'illiterates' —— if the term can be applied to peoples without a script —— while our own compulsory school attendance became law in Germany in 1642， in France in 1806， and in England in 1876， and is still non-existent in a number of 'civilized' nations. This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the 'happy few' during the past centuries. Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means. All are entitled to an equal start. There is none of the hurry which， in our society， often hampers the full development of a growing personality. There， a child grows up under the ever-present attention of his parent； therefore the jungles and the savannahs know of no 'juvenile delinquency'. No necessity of making a living away from home results in neglect of children， and no father is confronted with his inability to 'buy' an education for his child. JULIUS E. LIPS The Origin of Things New words and expressions 生词和短语 adverse adj. purchasable adj.可买到的preacher n. 传教士defendant n. 被告outlook n. 视野capacity n. 能力democratic adj. 民主的tribal n. 部落的tribe n. 部落illiterate n. 文盲compulsory adj. 义务的deem v. 认为means n. 方法，手段，财产，资力hamper v. 妨碍savannah n. 大草原juvenile adj. 青少年delinquency n. 犯罪 参考译文 教育是我们这个时代的关键词之一。我们许多人都相信，一个没有受过教育的人，是逆境的牺牲品，被剥夺了20世纪的最优越的机会之一。现代国家深深懂得教育的重要性，对教育机构投资，收回的‘利息’便是培养出大批有知识的男女青年，这些人可能成为未来的栋梁。教育，以其教学周期如此精心地安排，并以教科书 —— 那些可以买到的智慧源泉 —— 予以强化，如果不受其惠，文明将会是个什么样子呢？ 至少，这些是可以肯定的：虽然我们还会有医生和牧师、律师和被告、婚姻和生育，但人们的精神面貌将是另一个样子。人们不会重视‘资料和数据’，而靠好记性、实用心理学与同伴相处的能力。如果我们的教育制度仿效没有书籍的古代教育，我们的学院将具有可以想象得出的最民主的形式了。在部落中，通过传统继承的知识为所有人共享，并传授给部落中的每一个成员。从这个意义上讲，人人受到的有关生活本领的教育是相等的。 这就是我们最进步的现代教育试图恢复的“平等起步”的理想状况。在原始文化中，寻求和接受传统教育的义务对全民都有约束力。因而没有“文盲”（如果这个字眼儿可以用于没有文字的民族的话）。而我们的义务教育成为法律在德国是在1642年，在法国是在1806年，在英国是在1876年。今天，在许多“文明”国家里，义务教育迄今尚未实行。这说明，经过了多么漫长的时间之后，我们才认识到，有必要确保我们的孩子享有多少个世纪以来由‘少数幸运者’所积累起来的知识。 荒凉地区的教育不是钱的问题，所有的人都享有平等起步的权利。那里没有我们今天社会中的匆忙生活，而匆忙的生活常常妨碍个性的全面发展。荒凉地区的孩子无时无刻不在父母关怀下成长。因此，丛林和荒凉地区不知道什么叫“青少年犯罪”。人们没有必要离家谋生，所以不会产生孩子无人管的问题，也不存在父亲无力为孩子支付教育费用而犯难的问题。 新东方：新概念英语第四册mp3及课文讲解33的延伸阅读——新概念英语学习方法手册 1、先整体听一遍课文。看看自己到底能听懂多少。 2、利用复读机复读功能，逐句播放，听一句，写一句，碰到不会的单词了就先空着。继续往下听写。整篇课文或者你拟定的几句话都听写完了，再结合上下文看看那些不会的单词能不能猜出来。 3、逐句回放那些空着单词的句子，试一试能不能写出来。如果还不行，就打开书对照的看一下。在这里，我倒是不主张钻牛角尖，恨不能一个不会的单词憋好几年才写出来。因为，有些单词确实我们不会，那么直接看一下书，就知道了，下次也可能在其他课文中还会遇到，这就等于是复习了，不要太死板了。其实，这次看了，未必下次你真的就会写。 4、把不会的单词，或者你认为含糊的单词去逐个的查词典，逐条的去看注解。 5、每天多听这些听写过的录音，最起码你要在今天听写新内容之前要默写一遍昨天听写过的。 6、看着中文注解写英文，联系中英互换。绝对有效。 7、如果你想练就口语，就要大声的去模仿朗读，最好能背读。 8、运用李阳的“一口气”训练你的伶牙俐齿，这个真是很管用，以后你会发现听任何英语都不会觉得语速快的。 |
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