新概念英語第四冊(含lrc文本)Lesson 33 Education

[ti:δ?] [by:https://www.lrc.com.cn] [00:03.03]Lesson 33 [00:05.06] Education [00:11.09]Why is education democratic in bookless tribal societies? [00:17.84]Education is one of the key words of our time. [00:21.62]A man without an education,many of us believe, [00:25.00]is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances, [00:28.94]deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities. [00:33.55]Convinced of the importance of education, [00:36.25]modern states 'invest'in institutions of learning to get back 'interest' [00:41.51]in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women [00:45.81]who are potential leaders. [00:48.35]Education,with its cycles of instruction so carefully worked out, [00:53.16]punctuated by textbooks--those purchasable wells of wisdom-- [00:58.45]what would civilization be like without its benefits? [01:02.69]So much is certain:that we would have doctors and preachers, [01:06.70]lawyers and defendants marriages and births-- [01:10.55]but our spiritual outlook would be different. [01:13.97]We would lay less stress on 'facts and figures'and more on a good memory, [01:19.14]on applied psychology,and on the capacity of a man to get along with his fellow-citizens [01:26.03]If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past [01:30.73]we would have the most democratic form of 'college' imaginable. [01:35.55]Among tribal people all knowledge inherited by tradition is shared by all; [01:41.60]it is taught to every member of the tribe [01:44.50]so that in this respect everybody is equally equipped for life. [01:50.68]It is the ideal condition of the 'equal start' [01:54.25]which only our most progressive forms of modern education try to regain. [01:59.57]In primitive cultures [02:01.05]the obligation to seek and to receive the traditional instruction is binding to all. [02:07.79]There are no'illiterates'-- [02:09.87]if the term can be applied to peoples without a script-- [02:12.94]while our own compulsory school attendance became law in Germany in 1642, [02:18.53]in France in 1806,and in England in 1876 [02:24.80]and is still nonexistent in a number of 'civilized' nations. [02:29.43]This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure that [02:34.13]all our children could share in the knowledge [02:36.81]accumulated by the 'happy few' during the past centuries. [02:41.99]Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means. [02:46.93]All are entitled to an equal start. [02:49.76]There is none of the hurry which,in our society, [02:53.65]often hampers the full development of a growing personality. [02:57.89]There,a child grows up under the everpresent attention of his parents; [03:03.07]therefore the jungles and the savannahs know of no 'juvenile delinquency'. [03:09.83]No necessity of making a living away from home results in neglect of children, [03:16.11]and no father [03:17.19]is confronted with his inability to 'buy' an education for his child

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