一篇关于学校与教育的素材，同时是issue行文的范例 [color=red][b]推荐[/b][/color]
今天开始准备托福，于是就开始做真题。结果发现9612北美阅读的第一个passage相当不错，给大家敲上来看看。（敲完才想起来可以去google搜一搜，结果果然有，晕倒~~鉴于我转敲的版本原文有不少的小错误，我还是一边敲一边琢磨着改的，索性最后还是把网络版本给copy过来算了。）btw，最近几天写教育或学习题材的相当少？anyway....here it comes，如果要写相关题材issue的话，绝对值得学习，不管是它的idea，还是行文线路。
http://www.chinashi.com/Article_Show.asp?ArticleID=500
It is commonly believed in United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The distinction between schooling and education implied by this remark is important.
Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no bounds. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or in the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of informal learning. The agents of education can range from a revered grandparent to the people debating politics on the radio, from a child to a distinguished scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain predictability, education quite often produces surprises. A chance conversation with a stranger may lead a person to discover how little is known of other religions. People are engaged in education from infancy on. Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive term. It is a lifelong process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be an integral part of one’s entire life.
Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at approximately the same time, take assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams, and so on. The slices of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an understanding of the working of government, have usually been limited by the boundaries of the subject being taught. For example, high school students know that there not likely to find out in their classes the truth about political problems in their communities or what the newest filmmakers are experimenting with. There are definite conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling.
这段passage的行文颇有issue的风格。个人认为，如果按照issue的标准，除了第二段应当在合适位置添加一些transition之外，其他部分都是相当精彩的辨析和论述，是相当优秀的一份参考资料。
其实各种资料都在我们的身边，只是要尽量灵敏的发觉和利用。也希望大家能够多多分享自己身边类似的素材呢。^_^ thaank you, mottled bamboo, for selecting such a proper tolfe essay as a gre issue composition.
I appreicated it in detail, the language and content is positively like a issue writing.
Thank you. 早就在背送文选里了
谢谢
这一篇也可以参考：看看人家怎么立论，怎么展开的
9708阅读的最后一篇Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire rarely offers original ideas. Instead it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false. Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd, Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science, A Modest proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley and people were aware of famine before Swift. It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression the satiric method that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.
Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder that they lived in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is sanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it. Soldiers rarely hold the ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfish service of humanity. Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them when they do not hear them expressed. 顶楼的文章也是 新东方背诵50篇中的第二篇！
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