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才1月份呢。。。不急哈~~寒假时我们一定能理清思路的!!
草版不是说了现阶段打基础吗? 题库过第一遍时也主要是熟悉题目里的思路,标下读不懂的地方。

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干爸爹!!GPA要努力保增长,调结构!
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昨天停电了 什么事情都做不了
今天考试~
作业欠好多  补补补

楼上各位 泪奔~
fighting!fighting!fighting!
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01.07&08
只有保障单词了
comments还在进行当中~
昨天半夜爬起来背今天的考试复习
我撑不住了。
我们是休眠中的火山,是冬眠的眼镜蛇,或者说,是一颗定时炸弹,等待自己的最好时机。也许这个最好的时机还没有到来,所以只好继续等待着。在此之前,万万不可把自己看轻了。
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What Happens After Eat, Pray, Love? Fret, Mull, Marry By MARY POLS Wednesday, Jan. 06, 2010

Once upon a time in the annals of women's stories, getting married was the fairy-tale ending. These days, marital ambivalence rules the literary scene. December brought Julie Powell's new memoir, Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession (Little, Brown; 307 pages), in which the Julie & Julia author tells the sad, sordid tale of the recent years she spent butchering pigs, cows and her husband's heart. Meanwhile, in a New York Times Magazine story, writer Elizabeth Weil detailed her efforts to subject her "perfect union" to every kind of therapeutic scrutiny available in Northern California. Her goal of complete marital introspection — needed or otherwise — inspired heated holiday-party conversations and terror at the thought of the memoir to follow, as well as giving single women everywhere a new appreciation of their unburdened ring fingers. (See the 100 best novels of all time.)

Elizabeth Gilbert does these reluctant wives one better. The author of Eat, Pray, Love returns with Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (Viking; 285 pages), in which she is a vehemently (forcibly) wary second-time bride, due to be dragged down the aisle by Uncle Sam's immigration henchmen, who will otherwise toss her beloved, Brazilian-born "Felipe," as she calls the older man she met in the last section of EPL, out of the U.S. for good. They hadn't planned to marry. Like Gilbert, Felipe had endured a hard divorce, and they were content to be "lifers" together. But a helpful Homeland Security officer prescribes marriage as the only certain way out of Felipe's immigration dilemma, and the couple agree that they love each other enough to do it. (See a Q&A with Elizabeth Gilbert.)

Gilbert cites statistics, scientific studies and her painful experience with her first marriage — the impetus for the worldwide spiritual ramble of EPL — as her reasons for not wanting to tie the knot. She demonstrates how the institution threatens her independence and the well-being of many women.Her fears hold up even when she's considering union with a man who loves her, excuses her memoirist tendencies and has been known to tell her that the curves of her body "look like sand dunes."

But whereas in Eat, Pray, Love the journey was what mattered, the end of Committed is, as of page 18, a foregone conclusion. As Gilbert puts it, she and her lover are "sentenced to marry." This makes the book a supreme act of navel-gazing (navel: the central point), even for a memoir. While the legal complexities are being worked out, the two kill time by traveling together. Along the way, Gilbert, ever the good journalist, gathers string on marriage and love from various sources, including the humble Hmong(越南苗族\自称赫蒙”) women of North Vietnam, seagulls, a humble frog-farming family in Laos and her humble 96-year-old Grandma Maude back in Minnesota. (Gilbert practices humility with vigor, even when sweetly patronizing Third World cultures.) Her process is exhaustive, and the results are exhausting, though some of her points are astute (having or showing shrewdness and perspicacity). This slog through one woman's relationship angst (a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity) feels, in the end, like much ado about nothing.

Gilbert is a highly conversational writer — a blessing if you are in the memoir business. Four years after its publication, Eat, Pray, Love remains on the New York Times best-seller list, giving its author a chance, with the likely sales of this new book, to become the Malcolm Gladwell of soul-searching. Gilbert left her loyalists believing that a year of spiritual questing would end with peace, love and the address of the best pizzeria in Naples. There could be no doubt that her readers wanted more. She and Felipe had gone off into the sunset; could she now describe the rosy glow? (See the top 10 fiction books of 2009.)

But Committed — and to a certain extent, Powell's Cleaving — demonstrates the curse of the conversational writer. I confess to having found EPL tedious at times and to struggling with the fortuitous arrival of true love at the end of Gilbert's year of self-discovery. (In Committed, she pokes fun at herself, quoting her sister Catherine's response to her gushy e-mails from Bali: "Yeah, I was planning to go to a tropical island this weekend with my Brazilian lover, too ... but then there was all that traffic.") There was no denying, however, that she was a vibrant (pulsating with life, vigor, or activity) woman on a cool adventure, with stories to tell. The pressure to return to that fertile ground must have been enormous. Just as she was sentenced to marrying, she was sentenced to sequel writing. (See questions and answers about retirement.)

Committed gives us a woman trapped in a command performance she's too smart not to be dubious about.
She seems self-conscious about the need to remain everyone's best friend, littering her prose with chirpy asides ("Listen, I want to make it clear here that I am not intrinsically against passion. Mercy, no!") and cutesy (self-consciously or excessively cute) interjections ("Just a little free advice there, from your Auntie Liz"). Then there are the apologies for anything that might offend. Her eloquent defense of gay marriage, for instance, is diminished by this chatty advisory: "You see where I'm heading with this, right? Or rather, you see where history is heading with this? What I mean to say is, you won't be surprised, will you, if I now take a few minutes to discuss the subject of same-sex marriage?"

Gilbert also repeats, incessantly, information she's already conveyed, whether it be the vastness of the belly of a pregnant woman she's dining with or the details of a coat — wine-colored, with a fur collar — once owned by her grandmother. (We hear about its beauty four times in three pages.) There are useful insights into the dilemma of modern marriage here, but the overall effect of the heavily padded Committed is like that of being called, over and over, by a friend who wants to talk your ear off about her impending nuptials.
Only instead of debating the floral arrangements, she's wondering, Should I really be taking the leap? Halfway through Committed, I wanted to put the phone down and walk away, leaving Gilbert to figure it out on her own.



How to Butcher a Marriage

It would be much harder to hang up on Powell. She makes no apologies and no effort to be likable in Cleaving, a ghastly work of revelation without enough self-reflection. Soon after wrapping up (
to bring to a usually successful conclusion)

Julie & Julia
, Powell began cheating on the kindly Eric, that husband who dutifully ate her butter-soaked Julia Child meals for a year. Her lover and S&M partner was Damian, a former college fling with "Mick Jagger lips, and a weak chin." I am saddened that I have a clearer vision of Damian's masturbatory (excessively self-absorbed or self-indulgent) methods than of his actual appeal, and sadder still at the mental images Powell provides of herself tied up, awaiting his next "R-owwr." (Since when is talking like Austin Powers sexy?) This recipe for marital disaster comes with scattered recipes you'd hesitate to trust, given the horrific disorder of Powell's upstairs kitchen. (See the top 10 nonfiction books of 2009.)

Cleaving is, however, a much livelier book than Committed, in the way that your narcissistic pal is more riveting than your earnest, loyal girlfriend. Powell's interest in butchery is genuine, and the passages set during her internship at Fleisher's, an upstate New York butcher shop, bristle with clarity. That's not to say the intended metaphor — that as she learns to butcher, she's also exploring the anatomy of her tumultuous love life — is clear or convincing, largely because her journey feels so incomplete.

What is fascinating is the impact of previous writing successes on these pages. In one heartbreakingly venal passage, Powell thrills at Damian's audacity in pretending to be Eric for an eager reader who recognizes her on the street. The honesty of the admission doesn't cleanse the implied disrespect for those — from the real Eric to her fans — who adore her. Powell was also sentenced to sequel, although her amply demonstrated lack of humility suggests she was happier to comply than Gilbert. But when she runs out of story — the Fleisher's internship complete — she copies earlier Gilbert, setting forth on a haphazard journey around the world. Her "Eat, Sulk, Stew" wraps up with a return to the husband she belittled and betrayed. Now here is a marriage to be debated. Maybe one of Weil's therapists could lend a hand.

Both books feel rushed into print. Cleaving begs for better boundaries and structure; the ladylike Committed is too confined to feel truly intimate. Gilbert overshares only in the department of exclamation points, and if you want to know what life postsunset is like, be advised: she takes us only to the altar. But these two writers share more than just marital ambivalence. It may be difficult to work up sympathy for best-selling authors who end up portrayed on the big screen by the likes of Amy Adams and Julia Roberts. (EPL the movie is scheduled for release this year.) Yet these women have been caged by the expectations of voracious publishers and readers. Their escape methods are different — Powell appears to be chewing her own leg off, Gilbert gently boring her captors into letting her go — but it's hard not to empathize with someone in a trap, even one built on success.

Julie Powell (born 20 April 1973) is an American author known for the book Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen.

Elizabeth M. Gilbert(born July 18, 1969) is an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, biographer and memoirist.

Malcolm Gladwell (born September 3, 1963) is an American-based journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He is best known as the author of the bestseller The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.


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I have to confess that it’s a brilliant introduced article that I spend a lot of time to get it, which it’s not quite well now. But I do know a little massage about those two people showed in it before I read this book. Julie Powell, who writes the book of Julie and Julia, then, made it a movie, and Elizabeth Gilbert, who gave a speech which I’ve seen before about the creativity, who wrote a book named Eat, Pray, Love which is mentioned in this article, also impressed me very much.
Ad my poor understanding about this article which focuses on the introduction of Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession Eat, Pray, Love, discussing about marriage for women, which is an interesting issue for my saying. I don’t know much about the marriage situation in the western countries for women except the high rate of divorcing. And I don’t understand what is in the women’s sensitive inside of age thirty and above. What I do know is that both Julie Powell and Elizabeth Gilbert are brilliant though this article’s author says their work seem rush into print. The brilliant I appreciate is the courage they both have on the half of women to explore and write down the feeling of love and marriage.
I think the comments come from the author is a little harsh but a good one. Anyway, all those things mentioned in it are interested me, even the book written by Mr. Gladwell.
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基本任务~
got some triflings.
soon get over it!
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哈哈
考完啦考完啦
诶 其实也没怎么兴奋 淋了场雨 貌似要生病的样子 疲惫得没有力气
基本任务就没什么好说的啦 巨长的comment还没finish完整 请允许我先睡个觉吧 虚脱了
好好学习好好学习好好学习
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01.12.
READING:

Illiberal politics
America's unjust sex laws

Aug 6th 2009
From The Economist print edition

an ever harsher approach is doing more harm than good, but it is being copied around the world

IT IS an oft-told story, but it does not get any less horrific on repetition. Fifteen years ago, a
paedophile(
BrE pedophile AmE
n [C] someone who is sexually attracted to children
) enticed seven-year-old Megan Kanka into his home in New Jersey by offering to show her a puppy. He then raped her, killed her and dumped her body in a nearby park. The murderer, who had recently moved into the house across the street from his victim, had twice before been convicted of sexually assaulting a child. Yet Megan’s parents had no idea of this. Had they known he was a sex offender, they would have told their daughter to stay away from him.

In their grief, the parents started a petition, demanding that families should be told if a sexual predator moves nearby. Hundreds of thousands signed it. In no time at all, lawmakers in New Jersey granted their wish. And before long, “Megan’s laws” had spread to every American state.
America’s sex-offender laws are the strictest of
any rich democracy. Convicted rapists and child-molesters are given long prison sentences.

When released,
they are put on sex-offender registries. In most states this means that their names, photographs and addresses are published online, so that fearful parents can check whether a child-molester lives nearby. Under the Adam Walsh Act of 2006, another law named after a murdered child, all states will soon be obliged to make their sex-offender registries public. Such rules are extremely popular. Most parents will support any law that promises to keep their children safe. Other countries are following America’s example, either importing Megan’s laws or increasing penalties: after two little girls were murdered by a school caretaker, Britain has imposed multiple conditions on who can visit schools.

Which makes it all the more important to ask whether America’s approach is the right one. In fact its sex-offender laws have grown self-defeatingly harsh (see article). They have been driven by a ratchet effect. Individual American politicians have great latitude to propose new laws. Stricter curbs on paedophiles win votes. And to sound severe, such curbs must be stronger than the laws in place, which in turn were proposed by politicians who wished to appear tough themselves. Few politicians dare to vote against such laws, because if they do, the attack ads practically write themselves.

A whole Wyoming of offenders
In all, 674,000 Americans are on sex-offender registries—more than the population of Vermont, North Dakota or Wyoming. The number keeps growing
partly because in several states registration is for life and partly because registries are not confined to the sort of murderer who ensnared Megan Kanka. According to Human Rights Watch, at least five states require registration for people who visit prostitutes, 29 require it for consensual sex between young teenagers and 32 require it for indecent exposure. Some prosecutors are now stretching the definition of “distributing child pornography” to include teens who text half-naked photos of themselves to their friends.

How dangerous are the people on the registries? A state review of one sample in Georgia found that two-thirds of them
posed little risk. For example, Janet Allison was found guilty of being “party to the crime of child molestation” because she let her 15-year-old daughter have sex with a boyfriend. The young couple later married. But Ms Allison will spend the rest of her life publicly branded as a sex offender.
Several other countries have sex-offender registries, but these are typically held by the police and are hard to view. In America it takes only seconds to find out about a sex offender: some states have a “click to print” icon on their websites so that concerned citizens can put up posters with the offender’s
mugshot on trees near his home. Small wonder most sex offenders report being harassed. A few have been murdered. Many are fired because someone at work has Googled them.

Registration is often just the start. Sometimes sex offenders are barred from living near places where children congregate. In Georgia no sex offender may live or work within 1,000 feet (300 metres) of a school, church, park, skating rink or swimming pool. In Miami an exclusion zone of 2,500 feet has helped create a camp of homeless offenders under a bridge.

Make the punishment fit the crime
There are three main arguments for reform. First, it is unfair to impose harsh penalties for small offences. Perhaps a third of American teenagers have sex before they are legally allowed to, and
a staggering number have shared revealing photographs with each other. This is unwise, but hardly a reason for the law to ruin their lives. Second, America’s sex laws often punish not only the offender, but also his family. If a man who once slept with his 15-year-old girlfriend is barred (
marked by or divided off by bars especially:having alternate bands of different color) for ever from taking his own children to a playground, those children suffer.
Third, harsh laws often do little to protect the innocent. The police complain that having so many petty sex offenders on registries makes it hard to keep track of the truly dangerous ones. Cash that might be spent on treating sex offenders—which sometimes works—is spent on huge indiscriminate registries.
Public registers drive serious offenders underground, which makes them harder to track and more likely to reoffend. And registers give parents a false sense of security: most sex offenders are never even reported, let alone convicted.

It would not be hard to redesign America’s sex laws. Instead of lumping all sex offenders together on the same list for life, states should assess each person individually and include only real threats. Instead of posting everything on the internet, names could be held by the police, who would share them only with those, such as a school, who need to know.
(How!) Laws that bar sex offenders from living in so many places should be repealed, because there is no evidence that they protect anyone: a predator can always travel. (why!) The money that a repeal saves could help pay for monitoring compulsive molesters more intrusively—through ankle bracelets and the like. (how again!)

In America it may take years to unpick this. However practical and just the case for reform, it must overcome political cowardice, the tabloid media and parents’ understandable fears. Other countries, though, have no excuse for committing the same error. Sensible sex laws are better than vengeful ones.

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14165460&source=login_payBarrier

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17"There are two types of laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and, even more importantly, to disobey and resist unjust laws."

174"Laws should not be rigid or fixed. Instead, they should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places."



Mug shot
A mug shot (mugshot or head shot) is a photographic portrait taken immediately after one is arrested. Most mug shots are two-part, with one side-view photo, and one front-view.
Commonly, the accused is asked to hold a card with their name, the date, and other information on it. The purpose of the mug shot is to allow law enforcement to have a photographic record of all arrested individuals to allow for identification by victims and other investigations.
The term derives from mug, an English slang term for face, dating from the 18th Century. Another source suggests the term comes from mug, as in grimace, because early subjects would try to reduce their mugshot's value for later identification by grimacing or otherwise twisting their facial muscles (mugging).

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As the first glance of the article, the human rights problem hits my mind. While American government is criticizing Chinese human rights problem, why don’t they just think about theirs? From my view, it is a problem concerned about human rights, too. Yes, everyone is created equal. People make mistakes in their whole history. Some are forgiven, some are forbidden. The meaning of law is not just keeping a ruled society only since people are the elementals of it, improving them should be the job of law also. Like what the author says when talking about the disadvantage, people, especially parents, would be over feared by misjudging the true dangers of the sex-offends for protecting their children.
Imaged that, when you made a mistake, maybe just a tiny one, and anyone can google you, then abandon you to some degree, what do you think you can survive without going crazy or making same even more serious mistake? I do know that sex-offend is not just a small violation, however, I agree with the author that the way we put them the labels should changed. Keep some of them protected, give some of them another chance. Is not that a part of what law’s goal?
This article remind me of T-bag, who shows in the prison break. When he finally persuaded himself let go of the guy, who turns out to be a spy, he got a fatal beat. I do remember the desperate in his eyes. Before that picture, I don’t like him at all for his disgusted. It touched me long enough that I thought he deserved relieving his soul.
That impressed me much.
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Education: The Great EvasionMonday, May. 19, 1952

Modern U.S. educators are always trying to define the "aims" of education. But to a swelling chorus of critics, the definitions have a hollow sound. Last week, in an eloquent little book called Faith and Education (Abingdon-Cokesbury, $2), one of Manhattan's leading Protestant clergymen told why. The Rev. George A. Buttrick. longtime (25 years) pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, believes that modern education is nothing more than one gigantic evasion.

"We are told," says Dr. Buttrick, quoting Harvard's James Bryant Conant, "that education is preparation for the 'good life,' but neither the word 'good' nor the word 'life' is given any content. Or we are told [by John S. Brubacher] that the 'general aim' of education 'is only that of pupil growth.' But what kind of 'growth'? . . . Or we are told [by William Heard Kilpatrick] that education must assume 'increasing responsibility for participation in projecting ideas of social change.' But again we must ask: What kind of change and in what direction? . . ."

Cash & Gadgets.
These questions, says Dr. Buttrick, the educators do not answer, for "recent education has almost deified an attitude of suspended judgment, blind to the fact that while suspended judgment may be possible in matters of opinion or unfinished scientific research, it is not possible on any deeper level of life. We may suspend judgment . . . about the cause of the sudden inroad of lamprey eels in Lake Michigan, but we cannot suspend judgment on whether to steal or be honest, or on whether man is a mechanism or a soul.


"The cult of 'objective study' likewise cannot stand scrutiny . . . The mockery is so complete that the whole foundation of our education must now be questioned. For education has assumed that human nature is a receptacle for 'facts,' and that this diet of facts will of itself somehow lead to knowledge, and that knowledge by an even more mysterious alchemy will then become wisdom . . . Education has pinned its faith to a fictitious 'progress,' blandly believing that man is a romantic creature destined to walk the road of evolution 'more and more unto the perfect day.' Every tenet (n (一个组织所坚信的)信念,信条)of this creed has been falsified: progress has become a rather nasty mixture of cash and gadgets, and the road of evolution has reached—Buchenwald!"

The Homeless.
The fact is that these "aims" of education are not aims but escapes; "the uneasiness that comes of letting major issues go by default has fallen like mildew on our schools." The real aim of education cannot be "different from the total purpose of life . . . The realm of education may be like a field within a farm: it may cultivate a special crop. But the crop must still serve the purpose of the whole farm."

The major question that education must face, in short, is God, for "if God is the sovereign fact of life, God is the sovereign fact for education . . . Education cannot live under any hermetic seal, but only under the countersign of man's nature and destiny. If God is, education must live under the acknowledgment of God."

In acknowledging God, says Dr. Buttrick, the educator cannot compromise with half measures; he cannot "be content to let the student add God as an extracurricular according to choice . . . the blasphemy which says of God: 'Season according to taste.' “What is needed leanings. In the U.S., educators became more & more absorbed with the equally radical ideas of Columbia's John Dewey. Even some of her own followers betrayed her: they transformed her doctrine of guided freedom into a doctrine of anarchy, and many educators turned away in disgust.

Though old and exiled, Maria Montessori continued to preach (to deliver a sermon). She wandered to Barcelona, where she had to be rescued by a British cruiser during the civil war. She went to India, where she was interned as an enemy alien. And she went to The Netherlands, where she set up a new training center. Wherever she went, her message was always the same. "You must fight for the rights of the child," she would exclaim, and hundreds of educators were still inspired to take up the cry.

Last week, in The Netherlands, Maria Montessori's own fight came to an end. She had helped to revolutionize a whole generation's concept of primary education, but at 81, she had no intention of stopping there. Her last words were directed to her adopted son Mario, who has gradually taken over her work: "What are you planning for the reform of the world?"

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lamprey (lămprē) n. pl. lampreys
Any of various primitive elongated freshwater or anadromous fishes of the family Petromyzontidae, characteristically having a jawless sucking mouth with rasping teeth. Also called lamper eel.

a diet of sth too much of an activity that you think is boring or has bad effects

布痕瓦尔德 [Buchenwald]  
纳粹德国所设置的最早和最大的集中营之一,在魏玛西北处山林中,1937年建立。在第二次世界大战期间关押约2万人,大部分人在附近工厂当奴工。这里虽然没有毒气室,但每月都有许多人死于疾病、毒打、营养不良,以及被处决。集中营的医务人员也利用犯人试验病毒的传染和疫苗的效果。党卫军司令官之妻伊尔萨·科赫(1906?1967)又称布痕瓦尔德的女巫,是臭名昭著的虐淫狂。参阅大屠杀(Holocaust)

蒙台梭利 [Montessori, Maria]  
(1870.8.31,意大利
安科纳附近的基亚拉瓦莱~1952.5.6,荷兰
诺德韦克安泽) 意大利教育家。曾获得医学学位(1894),并在一家医院为智力迟钝儿童工作,之后去罗马大学任教。1907年开办了第一所幼儿学校,在接下来的近40年间遍游欧洲、印度和美国,从事讲演、写作等工作,并成立了蒙台梭利学校。今天,单在美国和加拿大就有几百所这样的学校;它们主要从事学前教育,但有的学校也提供小学的6年基本教育。蒙台梭利体系认为孩子们有创造潜力、学习的动力和被作为独立个体对待的权利。它依靠教具来培养孩子手眼的协调性、自我指导能力以及对数学和文学基础,知识的敏感性。


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Picking this old article as our comment material may be impressed by the issue topic of raising children, besides issues about education are always interested me. Also, this topic is not going to end even nowadays, a mature period of time, relatively.
Speaking to education, I remember a series of articles argue about the meaning or the worth of paying high fare to the top private schools, such as Harvard, Princeton, or Stanford in United States. The values we consider about of education, I think, is lying between lives and living.
When we were kids, our parents told us to study hard for having a good or better life. True, in the mordent life, knowledge could stand for the fortune of materials. But there is a misunderstanding about the difference of knowledge and diploma. People think a person holding a higher diploma means he is a master in some certain area. Then more and more are pursuing the diplomas without paying attentions to their improving of practiced abilities. Tragedies happen since those under rules come out. At that point, it is not easy to say education can make our life better for somehow it is a burden actually.
Being a person who is labeled as scholar is not given by the education completely. Indeed, the whole society consist of scholars would be a horrible thing. If everyone is the supervisor, who is going to be the worker? From my point, this could not be the goal of education for the entire society.
Then, what is it? While I conclude those two points above, I only consider the values to individuals. We’d like to succeed through education, either to have a good material life or spiral one. But what’s the whole society to the education? Maybe it’s just a chance to progress, a chance with full of hopes in human nature, in civilization, even in the financial development. According to Montessori’s remarks, it is also a right for child. They deserve sharing the rights to have education, for that possibility, too.
我们是休眠中的火山,是冬眠的眼镜蛇,或者说,是一颗定时炸弹,等待自己的最好时机。也许这个最好的时机还没有到来,所以只好继续等待着。在此之前,万万不可把自己看轻了。
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我们是休眠中的火山,是冬眠的眼镜蛇,或者说,是一颗定时炸弹,等待自己的最好时机。也许这个最好的时机还没有到来,所以只好继续等待着。在此之前,万万不可把自己看轻了。
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