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Last week ,on a flight to Washington, I met a self-assured businessman who asked me about my profession when sitting himself co
Last week ,on a flight to Washington, I met a self-assured businessman who asked me about my profession when sitting himself co
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2011-03-01
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Last week ,on a flight to Washington, I met a self-assured businessman who asked me about my profession when sitting himself comfortably next to me. I told him that I am an educator, and for twelve years I have been trying to develop and promote critical thinking about learning in general education.
"That must be the most difficult task in the world ! "He thought for a moment. "Why do you do this?"
I talked about how I had started teaching geography. I told him about the struggles of being a headmaster. And then I told him what I have come to regard as my real turning-point experience.
It was back in 1984,when I visited what was known at the time as one of the most outstanding high schools on the Eastern seaboard. After two days there I was totally amazed. I had never met such a fine collection of young people, every one of them apparently confident, enthusiastic, sensitive and well able to manage their futures. I asked head of the school how this had been achieved and he smiled broadly. "We believe in functional literacy for all young people; that is, the ability to feel confident that you can handle the cballenges of modern society. That confidence comes when you know that you are able to manage your own learning and will be able to handle that throughout a lifetime. And that, "he concluded, "requires the highest possible skills in thinking, communicating, collaborating and decision-making."
"But, for goodness’ sake, those are just the skills I’m looking for among my employees," cried my companion. "That’s just what industry’s been trying to tell the academic world for years. Instead of listening, you continue to keep going a set of practices which are counter-productive to those very skills needed in employment. You teachers think that life is about working alone on some piece of academic research in an ivory tower far removed from the daily routines and the need to consult other people. You just don’t understand about working with confusion, nor do you accept the importance of use based on experience or even plain guesswork ! This is the real world. There are real issues. What are you or anyone else going to do about just that?"
We can infer from the passage that the businessman______.
选项
A、is critical of the way students are taught in schools
B、attaches great importance to work experience
C、thinks highly of the teaching profession
D、is not satisfied with the performance of his employees
答案
A
解析
此题考查文章主旨。从最后一段美国商人的第三句话Instead of listening,you continue to keep going a set of practices which are counter-productive to those very skills needed in employment.可以看出,商人批评美国的教学和科研脱离实际,培养不出社会所需要的人才,因此选[A]批评学校的教学方法,同时排除[C]。[B]与原文不符;[D]对他的雇员不满意,文中未提及。
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