综合英语
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翻译及详?
Lesson One
Twelve Things l Wish They Taught at School
Carl Sagan
Learning Guide
俗话说:
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活到老,学到老?/p>
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人的一生就是不断学习、不断丰富和充实
自己的过程。青少年阶段,尤其是中学阶段,无疑是学习的最佳时期。中学教育的重点?/p>
放在什么地方?美国著名科学家和科普作家萨根批评中学只抓各个学科具体内容的做法,
他认为中学要注重对青少年的宏观教育,使他们建立起唯物的世界观和宇宙观?/p>
使他们能
够正确对待自己,关心周围的世?/p>
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人类生存的环境和自己的地球同胞?/p>
1 I attended junior and senior high school, public institutions in New York and
New Jersey, just after the Second World War. It seems a long time ago.
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The
facilities and the skills of the teachers were probably
well
above average
for the United
States at that time.
Since then, I've learned a great deal. One of the most important
things I've learned is how much there is to learn,
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and how much I don't
yet
know.
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Sometimes I think how grateful
I would be today if I had learned
more
back then
about
what really matters
.
In some respects
that education was
terribly
narrow
; the only
thing I ever heard in school about Napoleon was that the United States made the
Louisiana Purchase
from him.
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(On a planet where
some
95% of the inhabitants are
not Americans, the only history that was thought
worth teaching
was American
history. ) In spelling, grammar, the
fundamenta
ls of math, and other vital subjects, my
teachers did a
pretty
good job. But there's so much else I wish they'd taught us.