跟读练习: What's Education For? - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Everyone agrees that education is hugely important.
所有人都认同教育极其重要。
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The thing is, we're not particularly sure what we want from it.
问题是,我们并不太确定自己想从中得到什么。
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The aim of education should be to prepare us for the challenges of adult life.
教育的目标应该是让我们为成年生活的挑战做好准备。
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Yet from this perspective, it's clear that schools fail all but a tiny portion of their students.
然而从这个角度来看,很明显,除了极少数学生之外,学校对其他所有学生都是失败的。
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Whether in highly academic private schools or in deprived government-run ones,
无论是在学术水平极高的私立学校,还是在条件匮乏的公立学校,
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trouble dealing with life's challenges remains very widespread indeed.
面对生活中的挑战时感到难以应对的情况确实仍然非常普遍。
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Human ingenuity, energy, goodwill and talent is being lost on an industrial scale.
人类的创造力、精力、善意和才华正以工业级的规模被浪费掉。
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To get more ambitious about education doesn't necessarily mean spending more money,
在教育方面有更高的追求并不一定意味着要投入更多资金。
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building more schools, employing more teachers or making exams more difficult.
新建更多学校、聘用更多教师,或是提高考试难度。
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Rather, it should mean focusing more on the real purpose of education.
相反,它应该意味着更加关注教育的真正目的。
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There are two fundamental tasks it should help us with.
它应该能帮助我们完成两项基本任务。
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Working and sustaining good relationships.
经营并维系良好的人际关系。
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In order to address these needs,
为了满足这些需求,
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a future national curriculum might specify that the following subjects be studied.
未来的国家课程可能会明确规定需要学习以下科目。
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Firstly, capitalism.
首先是资本主义。
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A conspiracy of silence exists around the economic system we live within.
我们所处的经济体系周围存在着一种心照不宣的沉默共谋。
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We find it hard to change its bad sides or defend its strengths because we simply don't fully understand how it works.
我们发现很难改变它的缺点,也很难维护它的优点,因为我们根本没有完全理解它的运作方式。
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A subject like maths should be geared to teaching its number one utility for 99% of the population.
像数学这样的学科,其教学方向应当面向绝大多数人,服务于99%人群最核心的实用需求。
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Dealing with money.
处理金钱相关事务。
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Such classes would demystify the global economy by teaching students the importance of the means of production and how profits are made.
这类课程将向学生讲解生产资料的重要性以及利润的产生方式,从而揭开全球经济的神秘面纱。
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The role of cash flow,
现金流的作用
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HR, leadership, marketing and competition would also be studied.
还将研究人力资源、领导力、市场营销和竞争等方面。
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In a perfect school system you'd also then study a really big second subject yourself.
在一个理想的教育体系中,你还会自主学习一门非常重要的第二学科。
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Young students would be introduced to the idea that we humans are extremely prone to misunderstanding ourselves.
年轻学生将会了解到这样一个观点:我们人类极其容易误解自己。
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They would be taken through the concepts of delusion,
他们将了解妄想的相关概念。
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defensiveness, projection and denial in everyday life.
日常生活中的防御心理、投射与否认。
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Individual tutors would be on hand to help students draw personality maps with particular attention paid to their neuroses and fears.
个别辅导老师会在场协助学生绘制人格图谱,并特别关注他们的神经症与恐惧心理。
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Doing this would ensure that students learn a lot about how complex they truly are
这样做将确保学生充分了解它们实际上有多复杂。
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and what types of people they would be best suited to hang out with.
以及他们最适合和什么样的人交往。
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A crucial unit would be devoted to career self-knowledge.
一个至关重要的单元将专门用于职业自我认知。
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What job are you best suited to?
你最适合做什么工作?
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Students would spend three hours a week exploring what they might do with their futures.
学生们每周会花三个小时探索自己未来可能从事的方向。
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Then one would study relationships.
接下来就会研究各种关系。
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Being intensely aware of the social and individual cost of every unhappy relationship,
深刻意识到每一段不和睦的关系给社会和个人带来的代价,
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an ideal education system would emphasize the acquisition of skills that help people to live better together.
理想的教育体系会着重培养能帮助人们更好地共处的技能。
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There would be units on kindness and forgiveness,
课程中会有关于善良和宽恕的单元,
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as well as on anxiety reduction techniques.
以及关于焦虑缓解技巧的内容。
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In this educational utopia, it wouldn't only be children who would go to school,
在这个教育乌托邦里,去上学的不只是孩子。
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but adults as well.
也包括成年人。
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Schooling would be for life.
教育将贯穿人的一生。
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Education wouldn't just be taking place in classrooms.
教育将不再仅仅发生在课堂之内。
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Media and the arts would be made to maximize their teaching potential
媒体与艺术领域将被充分调动,以最大化其教育潜力。
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and help to teach people what they actually need to learn.
并帮助人们学习他们真正需要掌握的知识。
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We're so hung up on the challenges of running a massive education system,
我们过于纠结于运营一个庞大教育体系所面临的种种挑战,
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we're failing to pinpoint the real source of its problems.
我们一直未能找出其问题的真正根源。
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These aren't primarily about money, salaries or discipline.
这些问题的核心并非金钱、薪资或纪律。
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These are really only a consequence of a more fundamental problem.
这些实际上只是一个更根本问题所导致的结果。
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Right now, and with no one quite meaning for this to happen,
眼下,虽然谁也没料到会发生这种情况,
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we've simply got the wrong curriculum.
我们的课程设置根本就不对。
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