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发信人: meipeng(原来) 整理人: roy_young(2002-03-26 17:48:58), 站内信件 |
| the case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation.all high school gradutes ought to go,says conventional wisdom and stastical evidence,becuase college will help them earn more money,become "better" people,and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don't go.
but college has never been able to work its magic for everyone.and now that close to half our high school graduates are attending,those who don't fit the pattern are becoming more numerous,and more obvious.college graduates are selling shoes and driving taxies;college students interfere with each other's experiments and write false letters of recommendations in the intense completion for admission to graduate school.others find no stimulation in their studies,and drop out---often encouraged by college administrations. some observers say the fault is with young people themselves--they are spoiled and they are expecting too much.but that is condemnation of the students as a whole,and does not explain all campus unhappiness.others blame the state of the world,and they are partly right.we have been told that young people have to go to college because our economy can not absorb an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds.but disappointed gradutes are learning that it no longer absorb an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds,either. some adventuresome educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best,the proper,the only place for every young person after the completion of high school.we may have been looking at all those surveys and statistics upside down,it seems,and through the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences.perhaps college does not make people intelligent,ambitious,happy,liberal,or quick to learn things maybe it is just the other way around,and intelligent,ambitious,happy,liberal,quick-learning people are merely the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place.and perhaps all those successful college gradutes would have been successful whether they had gone or not.this is heresy to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a litte schooling is good,more has to be much better.but contrary evidence is beginning to mount up. ----  欢迎来我的主页
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