mythgirl推荐合辑：4篇经典辩辞+大学的概念+论出版自由 [color=red]推荐[

paisleyUID: 64183

这个是原创吗？

如果不是，mythgirl麻烦你注明作者和出处好吗？

好文章哩，多谢多谢！

tomatoeggsUID: 82073

谁说，我们不喜欢啦。你所作的努力，我们每个人都记在心里哪。只不过可能有些人觉得有点难，不敢贸然回帖罢啦！tomatoeggs在此再次谢谢mythgirl的友情支持，并鼓励您继续坚持下去，下一次，本人一定奉陪到底。angei，paisley,你说是吧？？？

tomatoeggsUID: 82073

to mythgirl, 另外，能否请您帮我们看看指导指导其他考友的作文，非常感谢。因为我们作文实在太缺少像你这样的高手了。呵呵

SMMUID: 106624

这种文章对于理科的我来说有点太难了。我想了想，决定不在这上下太多功夫。毕竟我还得以科学（专业）安身立命，毕竟我的时间精力很有限（还工作着呢），今后也不可能靠英语写作为主业。我决定好好学学基本的英语写作（这是必须的），毕竟实用的科技英语和日常生活英语这些英语写作ABC对俺这个大学才开始学英语的人（全靠自学哎）来说还是半生不熟的呢。

不过还是很感谢各位的努力，相信其他条件比俺好的人还是会从中受益的。其实有时间我还是好好看的呢。

mythgirlUID: 60287

我已经加上作者了
出处嘛，sorry阿，我有一本小集子
都是摘录的这种思辨文章
所以不晓得原出处是哪里

mythgirlUID: 60287

The Idea of a University
John Henry, Cardinal Newman
I protest to you, gentlemen, that if I had to choose between a so-called university which dispensed with residence and tutorial superintendence, and giave its degrees to any person who passed an examinationin a wide range of subjects, and a university which had no professors or examinations at all, but merely brought a number of young men together for three or four years, and then sent them away as the University of Oxford is said to have done some sixty years since, if I were asked which of these two methods was the better discipline of the intellect- I do not say which is morally the better, for it is plain that compulsory study must be a good and idleness an intolerable mischief-but if I must determine which of the two courses was themore successful in trainning, molding, enlarging the mind, which sent out men the more fitted for their secular duties, which produced btter public men, men of the world, men whose names would descend to posterity, I have no hesitation in giving the preference to that university which did nothing, over that which exacted of its members an qcquaintance with every science under the sun
When a multitude of young persons, keen, open-hearted, sympathetic, and observant, as young persons are, come together and freely mix with each other, they are sure to learn one from another, even if there be no one to teach them; the conversation of all is a series of lectures to each, and they gain for themselves new ideas and views, fresh matter of thought, and distinct principles for judging and acting, day by day. An infant has to learn the meaning of the information which its senses convey to it, and this seems to be its employment. It fancies all that the eye presents to it to be close to it, till it actually learns the contrary, and thus by practice does it ascertain the relations and uses of those first elements of knowledge which are necessary for its animal existence. A parallel teaching is necessary for our social being, and it is secured by a large school or a college, and this effect may be fairly called in its own department of an enlargement of mind. here then is a real teaching, whatever be its standards and principles, true or false; and it at least tends towards cultivation of the intellect; it at least recognizes that knowledge is something more than a sort of passive receptionof scraps and details; it is a something, and it does a something, which never will issue from the most strenuous efforts of a set of teachers, with no mutual sympathies and no interommunion, of a set of examiners with no opinion which they dare  profess, and with no common principles, who are teaching or questioning a set of youths who do not know them, and do not know each other, on a large number of subjects, different in kind, and connected by no wide philosophy, three times a week, or three times a year, or once in three years, in chill lecture-rooms or on apompous anniversary.
How much more profitable for the independent mind, after the mere rudiments of education, the range through a library at random, taking down books as they meet him, and pursuing the trains of thought which his mother with suggests! How much healthier to wander into the fields, and there with the exiled prince to find"tongues in the trees, books in the running brooks!" [/SIZE]

angeikimUID: 4857

谢谢谢谢:)

另外：大家来讨论一下这个文章吧，这个范围是占了GRE WRITING中比较大的一个比重的

paisleyUID: 64183

我的感觉，如果要讨论大学的职能，是不是从它的历史谈起比较好。以前讲究的贵族式的教育，因为原本就是对贵族提供的一种高等教育，目的在于培养“绅士”，而非“专家”或者“匠人”。 OXFORD就是典型代表。

而随着商品经济日益繁荣，世俗化的普遍扩散，大学不再是奢侈品了。它的功能，也就发生了变化。

lily_changUID: 50566

好好读读这篇文章吧.每个GTER都值得去思索一下,你们现在的大学为你们创造和提供了什么，我们到底欠缺的是什么.在我个人看来,为什么中国的很多大学，包括大部分90%以上的重点大学也只是让人感觉一个TRAINING SCHOOL吧.在一个人对于生活和社会,自我都没有全面了解之时,何以谈在个人学术研究上有所造诣.

angeikimUID: 4857

在精华区里面有相关的文章。。
个人认为大学是educate 的地方，给你人生目标的地方
至于学术等到是其他附带得来的东西咯。。:p

另：同意作者的观点。
而且大学里面最重要的还是要学会要质疑权威， to question authority.