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For more than 40 years, a controlling insight in my educational philosophy has been the recognition that no one has ever been—no
For more than 40 years, a controlling insight in my educational philosophy has been the recognition that no one has ever been—no
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2010-11-27
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For more than 40 years, a controlling insight in my educational philosophy has been the recognition that no one has ever been—no one can be—educated in school or college.
(46)
That would be the case if our schools and colleges were at their very best, which they certainly are not, and even if the students were among the best and the brightest as well as conscientious in the application of their powers.
The reason is simply that youth itself—immaturity—is an unconquerable obstacle to becoming educated. Schooling is for the young. Education comes later, usually much later. (47)
The very best thing for our schools to do is to prepare the young for continued learning in later life by giving them the skills of learning and the love of it. Our schools and colleges are not doing that now, but that is what they should be doing.
(48)
To speak of an educated young person or of a wise young person, rich in the understanding of basic ideas and issues is as much a contradiction in terms as to speak of a round square.
The young can be prepared for education in the years to come, but only mature men and women can become educated, beginning the process of their 40s and 50s and reaching some amount of genuine insight, sound judgment and practical wisdom after they have turned 60.
This is what no high school or college graduates know or can understand. As a matter of fact, most of their teachers do not seem to know it. (49)
In their obsession with covering ground and in the way in which they test or examine their students, they certainly do not act as if they understood that they were only preparing their students for education in later life rather than trying to complete it within the realms of their institutions.
There is, of course, some truth in the ancient insight that awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom. But, remember, it is just the beginning. From there on one has to do something about it. (50)
And to do it intelligently one must know something of its muses and cures—why adults need education and what, if anything, they can do about it.
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答案
说某个受过教育的年轻人或聪明的年轻人对基本概念和问题富于理解力,这种说法就如同说一个圆形是四方的一样不相干。
解析
这个句子的句架是To speak of…,is as much a contradiction in terms as to speak of…,是一个同级比较。在前后两个部分中都用了"to speak of sb./sth.+形容词…"的结构,其中的形容词部分用作宾语的补足语。词汇方面,in terms "明确地,毫不含糊地"。round在这里用作名词,意为"圆形"。由于square也可用作名词,此处极易出错。根据上下文的结构,square在这里应为形容词,作round的补足语。
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