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
Sometimes you have to travel very far to gain perspective on things in your own country. Recently, I taught a UNICEF-sponsored c
Sometimes you have to travel very far to gain perspective on things in your own country. Recently, I taught a UNICEF-sponsored c
admin
2010-11-29
64
问题
Sometimes you have to travel very far to gain perspective on things in your own country. Recently, I taught a UNICEF-sponsored course in Malang, Indonesia, on educational innovation. My audience consisted of teachers, administrators, teacher trainers, and high-ranking officials from the Indonesian Ministry of Education. Unlike in the United States, the public school system in Indonesia, as in many other countries, is run by a centralized ministry. Not only does this government department develop the curriculum for schools, it also employs curriculum officers who write the textbooks for the curriculum areas. Thus, the powerful Indonesian Ministry of Education controls essentially all aspects of education in the country.
During my presentation about schools that have sustained meaningful innovation in the United States, I noticed a rising buzz coming from the audience. The people’s expressions of concern and the emotion in their voices was clear, but it wasn’t until their questions were translated that I understood the reason for this agitation. Their comments went something like this: "Tell us, Steve, why your country is moving in the direction of more and more tests for your children? Our system has been doing that for years and we have decided to move to a freer, more creative process. We invite people like you to help us untangle ourselves from all of that testing and the centralized control that goes with it. What is going on in America anyway?"
Maybe it was the heat of the equatorial climate; maybe it was my own temperature rising from anxiety. Whatever the source, I started to feel quite feverish, and it was at this point that the metaphor of the flu popped into my mind. I told my Indonesian colleagues that in the United States, we periodically fall victim to a kind of "educational flu." When we are overtaken in the international education arena (in the recent Programme for International Student Assessment, the United States ranked 15th out of 32 countries surveyed), our politicians and educational administrators get feverish. They start to manufacture lots of standardized tests and devise very severe consequences for students and teachers when test results do not meet expectations. Like a rising fever, these steps are a clear indication that we are coming down with our educational flu. Brilliant or not, this
analogy
was enough to get me through that difficult point in my lecture.
The next day, things got worse. Again, like one falling victim to the flu, I began to feel out of step with the rest of the world. I picked up a regional newspaper and found that Thailand was also moving away from a hierarchical system and standardized tests and toward a more creative education program for children. When I came home, I read that a similar move is taking shape in China where inventiveness, not the traditional national test, is moving to center stage. Thus, I was confronted with a real paradox: Some of the Asian societies well known for rigid bureaucracies are looking for ways to break free, while my country, renowned for its creativity and supposedly child-centered approach to education, is busily sewing itself into a thick hide of conformity and control. Why are the different cultures moving in such opposite directions?
The word "analogy" in Paragraph 3 can be best replaced by______.
选项
A、saying
B、flu
C、fever
D、metaphor
答案
D
解析
词汇题。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/gk1K777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Contrarytopopularbelief,"fallingstars"arenotstarsatall,butaremeteors,solidbodiesthattravelthroughspace.
Contrarytopopularbelief,"fallingstars"arenotstarsatall,butaremeteors,solidbodiesthattravelthroughspace.
Contrarytopopularbelief,"fallingstars"arenotstarsatall,butaremeteors,solidbodiesthattravelthroughspace.
Contrarytopopularbelief,"fallingstars"arenotstarsatall,butaremeteors,solidbodiesthattravelthroughspace.
TheInternetbeganinthe1960sasasmallnetworkofacademicandgovernmentcomputersprimarilyinvolvedinresearchforthe
TheofficiallogooftheInformationAwarenessOffice,thePentagon’ssecretivenewterrorist-detectionexperiment,isn’tsubtle
TheofficiallogooftheInformationAwarenessOffice,thePentagon’ssecretivenewterrorist-detectionexperiment,isn’tsubtle
随机试题
试述张力性气胸的诊断要点和治疗原则。
女,16岁。月经周期7~9d/20~25d。本次月经期10余天未止.量多,测基础体温单相型。其首要的治疗是
某B股最后交易日的收盘价为0.800美元/股,每股红利为0.005美元,股权登记日收盘价为0.799美元/股,则该股除息报价为()元/股。
距今约()万年以前,岭南出现了早期古人(马坝人)。
泉州的南音被誉为“中国古典音乐的明珠”、“中国音乐历史的活化石”。()
政府信息是指行政机关在履行职责过程中制作或者获取的,以一定形式记录、保存的信息。下列关于政府信息公开的说法错误的是()。
下列关于城市环境的污染效应对应关系的说法中,不正确的是()。
把下面的六个图形分为两类,使每一类图形都有各自的共同特征或规律,分类正确的一项是()。
1979年3月30日,邓小平在理论工作务虚会上作了题为《坚持四项基本原则》的讲话,首次提出“四项基本原则”这一概念。这就是:坚持社会主义道路,坚持人民民主专政,坚持共产党的领导,坚持马克思列宁主义、毛泽东思想。这四项基本原则
Theroughguidetomarketingsuccessusedtobethatyougotwhatyoupaidfor.Nolonger.Whiletraditional"paid"media—suc
最新回复
(
0
)