《柯南脫口秀》第61期:鼓勵(lì)廣識(shí)教育

there's been in your opinion a bit of an attack on a liberal education.Is that true? 你覺得有人攻擊文科教育 是這樣的嗎

President Obama himself said something recently.What is that he said? 奧巴馬總統(tǒng)本人最近說(shuō)了一些話 他說(shuō)了什么

He said,well you know,kids nowdays should stop majoring in subjects like art history. 他說(shuō) 如今的孩子們 應(yīng)該停止學(xué)習(xí)藝術(shù)史等課程

They could get much better jobs if they were to go into skilled trades. 如果他們學(xué)習(xí)技術(shù)性勞動(dòng)會(huì)找到更好的工作

There are governors in Florida,a lot of Republican governors,who are saying we're not going to fund any of these humanity majors. 佛羅里達(dá)州有些官員 很多共和黨的官員說(shuō)我們不會(huì)給人文專業(yè)資助

Who knows what they lead to.We want to fund stuff that gets you a job. 誰(shuí)知道它們會(huì)導(dǎo)致怎么樣 我們想資助能讓你找到工作的專業(yè)

There's this idea that the broad general education,that really is America's contribution. 大家有這么個(gè)想法 覺得廣識(shí)教育 這真的是美國(guó)獨(dú)特的貢獻(xiàn)

This is what American colleges do better than anybody else in the world.We have the best colleges in the world. 美國(guó)大學(xué)在這一點(diǎn)上比世界上其它的大學(xué)都更好 我們擁有世界上最棒的大學(xué)

The idea is we should abandon all of that and start becoming chinese.And I think that's a mistake. 他們的觀點(diǎn)是 我們?cè)摲艞壞且磺?開始模仿中國(guó)的做法 我覺得那是個(gè)錯(cuò)誤

If you want to study science and be an engineer,great. 如果你想學(xué)科學(xué) 成為工程師 那很棒

But the great thing about the Amercian education system is it really encouraged broad general training, 但是美國(guó)教育系統(tǒng)的優(yōu)秀之處 在于它十分鼓勵(lì)廣識(shí)教育

history,english,science and then you can go and specialize and do,you know go out into the workplace. 歷史 英語(yǔ) 科學(xué) 然后你可以進(jìn)行專業(yè)發(fā)展 去工作場(chǎng)所

I think you and I both had a liberal arts education.what did you major in?I majored in history. 我覺得我們都有過(guò)文科教育 你的專業(yè)是什么 歷史

As far as I understand,the legend has it,you majored at the Harvard and hung out and partied and wrote jokes, 據(jù)我所知 據(jù)傳言 你主修的是哈佛諷刺文社 你經(jīng)常出去玩 參加派對(duì) 寫笑話

But it's worked out all right for you,so I'm not going to criticize. 但你現(xiàn)在過(guò)得挺好 我就不批評(píng)你了