首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Americans today don’t place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not schola
Americans today don’t place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not schola
admin
2020-12-14
77
问题
Americans today don’t place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education—not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasive anti-intellectualism in our schools aren’t difficult to find.
"Schools have always been in a society where practice is more important than intellect", says education writer Diane Ravitch. "Schools could be a counterbalance". Ravitch’ s latest book, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits.
But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control. Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate in our democracy. Continuing along this path, says writer Earl Shorris, "We will become a second-rate country. We will have a less civil society".
"Intellect is resented as a form, of power or privilege", writes historian and Professor Richard Hofstadter in Anti-intellectualism in American Life, a Pulitzer Prize winning book on the roots of anti-intellectualism in U.S. politics, religion, and education. From the beginning of our history, says Hofstadter, our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism. Practicality, common sense, and native intelligence have been considered more noble qualities than anything you could learn from a book.
Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children, "We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing". Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn exemplified American anti-intellectualism. Its hero avoids being civilized—going to school and learning to read, so he can preserve his innate goodness.
Intellect, according to Hofstadter, is different from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantly admire. Intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of the mind.
Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, re-order, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines.
School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted. Hofstadter says our country’ s educational system is in the grips of people who "joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise".
According to the passage, Emerson is likely to be______.
选项
A、an opponent of environment protection
B、a pioneer of classical learning
C、an advocator of anti-intellectualism
D、a scholar at college
答案
C
解析
推断题。根据关键词“Emerson”定位于第五段第一句,“Ralph WaldoEmerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous booklearning put unnatural restraints on children.”他们认为学校和呆板的书本教育会抑制孩子的天性。所以,正确答案是C。他反对知识主义教育。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/c8P7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
ReformandMedicalCosts[A]Americansaredeeplyconcernedabouttherelentlessriseinhealthcarecostsandhealthinsurancep
Manycurrentdiscussionsofimmigrationissuestalkaboutimmigrantsingeneral,asiftheywereabstractpeopleinanabstract
A、Encouragingotherstofollowhiswrong-doingB、Stealingendangeredanimalsfromthezoo.C、Organisingpeopleagainsttheautho
A、Itissimilartohousingproblem.B、Itgetsbetterwhenonecitydevelops.C、Itiscausedbymoneyortechnology.D、Itrelates
A、Theirrelationshipswiththeprofessors.B、Theirfinancialaidpackages.C、Theirlightschoolload.D、Theirrichextracurricul
Peopleatthelowerendoftheincomescaletakemorepleasureintheirrelationshipsandenjoycaringforandconnectingwitho
Somemarriagesseemtocollapsesosuddenlythatyou’dneedacrystalballtopredicttheirdemise(灭亡).Inothercases,though,
Somemarriagesseemtocollapsesosuddenlythatyou’dneedacrystalballtopredicttheirdemise(灭亡).Inothercases,though,
Tosaythatthechildlearnsbyimitationandthatthewaytoteachistosetagoodexampleoversimplifies.Nochildimitatese
随机试题
A.阵发性右上腹绞痛,疼痛剧烈至弯腰翻滚,有排虫或吐虫史B.先在上腹部或脐周痛,后持续性右下腹痛,有固定压痛点及肌紧张,可有发热、呕吐C.突然间歇性腹痛哭闹,不久出现呕吐,6小时后出现血便,右上腹可摸到腊肠样包块D.脐周有间歇性钝痛,或轻或重,痛时喜
A、梅花鹿茸B、防风C、黄芩D、甘草濒临灭绝状态的稀有珍贵野生药材物种是
关于产业结构,下列描述错误的是()。
下列各项中,符合实质重于形式原则的是()。
甲与乙、丙成立普通合伙企业,甲被推举为合伙事务执行人,乙、丙授权甲在3万元以内的开支及30万元内的业务可以自行决定。根据合伙企业法律制度的规定,甲在任职期间实施的下列行为中,属于法律禁止或者无效的有()。
根据《公司法》的规定,下列人员中,不得担任公司董事的有( )。
下列不属于“八卦”的是()。
心理咨询师应该遵循()等普遍联系的观点。
嵌入式系统的调试方法中有一种使用驻留监控软件的调试方法。所谓驻留监控软件是一段固化在【77】ROM中的程序。它是一种成本较低的调试方法,不需要专门的硬件调试和【78】设备。
Severalanalogieshavebeenusedtoexplainhumanmemory,theconstructusedtocountforthewayoneexperiencesatonepoint
最新回复
(
0
)