失当的美国精英教育被遗忘的荒地

2014-09-24 17:41:04来源：可可英语

　　This summer, The New Republic published the mostread article in that magazine’s history. It was anessay by William Deresiewicz, drawn from his newbook, “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of theAmerican Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life.”

　　今年夏天，《新共和》(The New Republic)发表了创刊以来的最热门文章。此文节选自威廉·德雷谢维奇(WilliamDeresiewicz)的新书：《优秀的绵羊：失当的美国精英教育以及如何拥有富于意义的人生》(Excellent Sheep: TheMiseducation of the American Elite and the Way to aMeaningful Life)。

　　Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone isborn with a mind, he writes, but it is only through introspection, observation, connecting thehead and the heart, making meaning of experience and finding an organizing purpose that youbuild a unique individual self.

　　德雷谢维奇提出了一个有关如何从青春期步入成年的观点。他写道，每个人生来都有一副头脑，但只有通过内省、观察，把理智与情感结合起来，从经验中探寻意义，找到一个总体性的目标，才能形成独特和个性化的自我。

　　This process, he argues, often begins in college, the interval of freedom when a person is awayfrom both family and career. During that interval, the young person can throw himself withreckless abandon at other people and learn from them.

　　他说，这个过程通常开始于大学时期，这是人生中的一段自由时光，既没有家庭负担，也没有事业上的牵绊。在这段时间，年轻人可以不顾后果、无拘无束地接触他人，并向他们学习。

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