People also need to acquire the competence to cope with various situations and cooperate with others in teams.
7) How can pupils and students acquire the competence to work in teams?
To develop team skills, students should be provided with opportunities to involve themselves in work experience while they are still in education.
8) What is the aim of “learning to be”? How can the aim be achieved?
The aim of “learning to be” is the complete fulfillment of man. All people should receive an education that would equip them to develop an independent, critical way of thinking and exercising judgment.
9) As far as education is concerned, what society should we build in the 21st century?
We should build a learning society based on the acquisition, renewal and use of knowledge.
2 Read the following sentences carefully and discuss in pairs what the author intends to say in the following sentences.
1) This is precisely the case where education policies are concerned. (Para. 2)
The solution to any serious problem involves much consideration, cooperation and negotiation. It is exactly the same with educational policies, which can only be worked out through lots of discussions and negotiations.
2) Since knowledge is of multiple nature, any attempt to know everything becomes more and more pointless. (Para. 5)
There are so many different kinds of knowledge that it is increasingly meaningless and impossible to train students into specialists in all fields.
3) The future of industrial economies hinges on their ability to turn advances in knowledge into innovations that will generate new businesses and new jobs. (Para. 6)
The future of industrial economies depends critically on their ability to turn the development in knowledge into creative ideas, new methods or inventions. With creativity, new businesses and new jobs will be created.
4) None of the talents which are hidden like buried treasure in every person must be left untapped. (Para. 7)
The education one receives, which begins at birth and continues all through one’s life, should help develop and put into full play one’s potentials and talents.
Enhance Your Language Awareness Words in Action
Working with Words and Expressions
1 In the boxes below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete the following sentences with them. Change the form where necessary.
Text A peculiar preside rear specialize suffice
Text B associate combine emphasis illusion implement indispensable negotiate phase reconcile
1) I often associate summer with holidays. How I wish I could be on vacation next summer!
2) In college his major was biology, but now he specializes in the sale of computers.
3) Prejudice combined with ignorance destroys the hopes of many AIDS sufferers.
4) I think we should put as much emphasis on preventing diseases as we do on curing them.
5) The budget of the company scarcely suffices to pay the employees, let alone buy any new equipment.
6) The new heating system is in the trial phase of its operation; it’s due to be put into full operation next winter.
7) Having presided over the company for 30 years, he has witnessed all its ups and downs.
8) He has his own peculiar style of solving problems which you’ll soon get used to.
9) Now that both Julie and her husband have lost their jobs, how will they rear their sons and daughters?
10) The government says it will not negotiate with the terrorists; on the contrary it will fight back.
11) This guidebook is indispensable for travelers in this remote area of the country; they can’t go without it.
12) He finally realized that his idea of learning to read and write in English well in three months was just an illusion .
13) The committee’s suggestions sound reasonable, yet whether they can be
implemented remains a problem.
14) Workers usually demand high wages while the boss always seeks high profits — it’s almost impossible to reconcile these two aims.
2 In the boxes below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do you know how to use them in the proper context? Now
check for yourself by doing the blank-filling exercise. Change the form where necessary.
Text A average out have no business (doing) in essence see to it that stay out of
Text B bring about call for cry out for get … out of in accordance with in store lend itself to to this end try out
1) This is just our family matter. You’d better stay out of it.
2) We should try out all the tools before we can decide which best serves our purpose.
3) What does the future hold in store for kids who quit school at an early age?
4) Some novels quite readily lend themselves to adaptation (改编) as plays; others do not.
5) Instead of comforting her, what you said, in essence made her feel even worse.
6) He did not act in accordance with the orders that were given him; that’s why he was fired.