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What is happening in the United States today is truly astonishing. In a society that prides itself on its preference for facts o
What is happening in the United States today is truly astonishing. In a society that prides itself on its preference for facts o
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2017-11-28
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What is happening in the United States today is truly astonishing. In a society that prides itself on its preference for facts over hearsay, on its openness to research, and on its respect for "expert" opinion, parents, educators, administrators, and legislators are ignoring the facts, the research, and the expert opinion about how young children learn and how best to teach them.
All across the country, educational programs intended for school-aged children are being appropriated for the education of young children. In some states (for example, New York, Connecticut, and Illinois) educational administrators are advocating that children enter school at age four. Many kindergarten programs have become full-day kindergartens, and nursery-school programs have become pre-kindergartens. Moreover, many of these kindergartens have introduced curricula, including work papers, once reserved for first-grade children. And in books addressed to parents a number of writers are encouraging parents to teach infants and young children reading, math, and science.
When we instruct children in academic subjects, or in swimming, gymnastics, or ballet, at too early an age, we miseducate them; we put them at risk for short-term stress and long-term personality damage for no useful purpose. There is no evidence that such early instruction has lasting benefits, and considerable evidence that it can do lasting harm.
Why, then, are we engaging in such unhealthy practices on so vast a scale? Like all social phenomena, the contemporary miseducation of large numbers of infants and young children derives from the coming together of multiple and complex social forces that both generate and justify these practices. One thing is sure: miseducation does not grow out of established knowledge about what is good pedagogy for infants and young children. Rather, the reasons must be sought in the changing values, size, structure, and style of American families, in the residue of the 1960s efforts to ensure equality of education for all groups, and in the new status, competitive, and computer pressures experienced by parents and educators in the eighties.
While miseducation has always been with us — we have always had pushy parents — today it has become a societal norm. If we do not wake up to the potential danger of these harmful practices, we may do serious damage to a large segment of the next generation.
Which of the following best sums up the arguments of the text?
选项
A、Education and misdeucation.
B、Parents and education.
C、Kindergartens, nurseries and schools in the US.
D、Health of US education.
答案
D
解析
文章主旨题。第一段提出美国现今一种令人吃惊的现象:家长、教育家、管理者和立法者忽视事实和研究,忽视专家对于孩子如何学习和教育孩子最佳方式的意见。第二段指出这种现象就是过早对儿童进行教育。第三、四段指出过早教育儿童的危害和其产生的根源。最后一段作者提出了危害下一代的忧虑。综合全文来看,作者通篇在讲美国教育的一种不健康的现状,故答案为[D]项。
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