背誦為王第四冊第23課
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夜校
周一到周五的每天晚上，在曼哈頓的格林威治村都會(huì)出現(xiàn)一股反常的交通高峰。當(dāng)普通的紐約人都在下班往家里趕的時(shí)候，幾千人卻涌入了“社會(huì)研究新學(xué)?！彼诘娜F(xiàn)代化的大廈里。這所學(xué)校已經(jīng)有54年的歷史了，是一所頗有名聲的大學(xué)，但是這所學(xué)校的學(xué)生并不關(guān)心積累學(xué)分或者拿到學(xué)位，他們也不是有著紅撲撲臉蛋的年輕人。一名典型的“新學(xué)校”學(xué)生是有工作的成人，為了拓寬自己的智力或職業(yè)視野，他們報(bào)名參加了社會(huì)學(xué)、計(jì)算機(jī)編程、創(chuàng)造性編織等各種課程?！拔铱刹幌胱屛业拇竽X在我工作的時(shí)候睡著了”，一位報(bào)名參加了心理學(xué)課程的年輕的銀行職員說。
“新學(xué)?！碑?dāng)今仍然是全美國唯一一所主要從事成人教育的、有資格授予學(xué)位的大學(xué)。因此，它可以說是引領(lǐng)著未來的教學(xué)潮流。美國教育考試服務(wù)中心最近的報(bào)告顯示，有將近八千萬的成年美國人希望或者需要參加繼續(xù)教育，但是他們中只有不到一半的人做得到。過去十年間，“新學(xué)校”的入學(xué)人數(shù)翻了一番，這也反映了人們對學(xué)習(xí)的渴望。學(xué)校這學(xué)期開設(shè)了8785門課程，13000名學(xué)生每人參加一門或多門課程，有80%的學(xué)生上的是夜校課程。
Lesson23 Night School
Each weekday evening, a reverse rush hour takes place in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. While the average New Yorker is trudging home from their job, a few thousand others are piling into the three modern buildings that house the New School for Social Research. The 54-year-old institution is a full-fledged university, but most of its students are not concerned with accumulation credits or earning degrees. Nor are they apple-cheeked youngsters: a typical New School student is the wage-earning adult who has signed up for a course in anything from sociology to computer programming to creative knitting in an effort to broaden his intellectual or occupational horizons. "I don't want my mind to fall asleep while I have to work," says a young banker who has signed up for a course in psychology.
The New School today remains the only degree-granting university in the nation devoted primarily to the education of adults. As such, it may well be riding the pedagogical wave of the future. Recently, the Educational Testing Service reported that nearly 80 million adult Americans want or need continuing education, but that less than half of them are getting it.
Reflecting this thirst for learning, enrolment at the New School has doubled in the past decade, and of the 13,000 students taking one or more of its 8,875 courses this semester, more than 80 per cent attend evening classes.
trudge 跋涉
pedagogical 教育學(xué)的, 教學(xué)法的
Each weekday evening, a reverse rush hour takes place in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. While the average New Yorker is trudging home from their job, a few thousand others are piling into the three modern buildings that house the New School for Social Research. The 54-year-old institution is a full-fledged university, but most of its students are not concerned with accumulation credits or earning degrees. Nor are they apple-cheeked youngsters: a typical New School student is the wage-earning adult who has signed up for a course in anything from sociology to computer programming to creative knitting in an effort to broaden his intellectual or occupational horizons. "I don't want my mind to fall asleep while I have to work," says a young banker who has signed up for a course in psychology.
The New School today remains the only degree-granting university in the nation devoted primarily to the education of adults. As such, it may well be riding the pedagogical wave of the future. Recently, the Educational Testing Service reported that nearly 80 million adult Americans want or need continuing education, but that less than half of them are getting it.
Reflecting this thirst for learning, enrolment at the New School has doubled in the past decade, and of the 13,000 students taking one or more of its 8,875 courses this semester, more than 80 per cent attend evening classes.
trudge 跋涉
pedagogical 教育學(xué)的, 教學(xué)法的
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