背誦為王第四冊第58課
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A''等級幻滅
安妮格拉斯曾經(jīng)說過的，他沒有通過中學(xué)畢業(yè)考試是一件幸事，否則他就永遠(yuǎn)不可能取得現(xiàn)有的地位。不知道有多少其他偉人和名人們將所取得的成就歸功于他們在學(xué)業(yè)上的失敗。
60年代，我還是一名中學(xué)女生，那是一個認(rèn)為國家未來的富足寄托于年輕人的教育的時代：資金充裕，不斷有新的大學(xué)出現(xiàn)，教育神話的巨大誘惑使年輕人都追求學(xué)業(yè)上的成就。
3年后，我獲得了數(shù)學(xué)的頭等學(xué)位。好幾個月里，我面臨著研讀更高學(xué)位的壓力&&研究生越多，經(jīng)濟(jì)利益就會越多。我和我的研究生同學(xué)們絲毫不了解外面的世界，高枕無憂地認(rèn)為學(xué)業(yè)上再深造三年能增加我們在未來老板眼里的價值。于是我到了倫敦，開始攻讀博士學(xué)位。
在那里我第一次遇到了“成熟的學(xué)生”，他們十六歲就離開了學(xué)校，幾年后在技術(shù)學(xué)院參加了A&等級課程考試，然后上了大學(xué)。他們的專業(yè)是經(jīng)過深思熟慮后選擇的，他們更成熟，能在所修的課程中獲得大多數(shù)我們這樣的學(xué)生無法體會到的樂趣。
現(xiàn)在我已經(jīng)工作好幾年了，現(xiàn)實生活和我們在學(xué)校的環(huán)境下所期待的樣子完全不同。不過，現(xiàn)在做出改變已經(jīng)太晚了，醒悟并不能給我們帶來完全的再教育?；叵肫饋?，我真后悔當(dāng)年沒有讓我的A&等級課程考試不及格。
Lesson58 A-level Disillusionment
Anne Barrie's "Do We Over-educate Our Children?" reminded me that the German author Gunter Grass once said that failing his school leaving exams was a blessing without which he would never have achieved the position he now holds. I wonder how many other great men and women owe their success to having failed in their academic careers.
I was a schoolgirl in the 1960s - the time when it was believed that the future wealth of the country depended on the education of the young: money was plentiful, new universities sprang up and great myths evolved to lure young people into the academic life.
Three years later, I obtained a first-class degree in mathematics. For some months there had been pressure to try for a further degree - the more post-graduate students there are, the more financial benefits exist for us. My fellow postgraduates and I knew nothing of the outside world, and happily believed that academic life for another three years would enhance us in the eyes of future employers: and so I went to London and began work for a doctorate.
Here, for the first time, I came across "mature students" - people who had left school at 16 and, years later, taken A-levels at technical colleges and come to university. Having chosen their subject with great care, and being more mature, they found a joy in their courses unknown to most of us.
I have been working now for several years: life has been very different from what I had been led to expect. However, it is too late to change: the state of understanding will not pay to reeducate people completely. As I think back, I regret that I did not fail my A-levels.
disillusionment 幻滅, 覺醒
lure 引誘
doctorate 博士頭銜
Anne Barrie's "Do We Over-educate Our Children?" reminded me that the German author Gunter Grass once said that failing his school leaving exams was a blessing without which he would never have achieved the position he now holds. I wonder how many other great men and women owe their success to having failed in their academic careers.
I was a schoolgirl in the 1960s - the time when it was believed that the future wealth of the country depended on the education of the young: money was plentiful, new universities sprang up and great myths evolved to lure young people into the academic life.
Three years later, I obtained a first-class degree in mathematics. For some months there had been pressure to try for a further degree - the more post-graduate students there are, the more financial benefits exist for us. My fellow postgraduates and I knew nothing of the outside world, and happily believed that academic life for another three years would enhance us in the eyes of future employers: and so I went to London and began work for a doctorate.
Here, for the first time, I came across "mature students" - people who had left school at 16 and, years later, taken A-levels at technical colleges and come to university. Having chosen their subject with great care, and being more mature, they found a joy in their courses unknown to most of us.
I have been working now for several years: life has been very different from what I had been led to expect. However, it is too late to change: the state of understanding will not pay to reeducate people completely. As I think back, I regret that I did not fail my A-levels.
disillusionment 幻滅, 覺醒
lure 引誘
doctorate 博士頭銜
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