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Unit2 VI Dear Student, We the faculty take no pride in our educational achievements with you. We have prepared you for a world that does not exist, indeed, that must not exist. You have spent four years supposing that failure leaves no record. You have learned that when your work goes poorly, the painless solution is to drop out. But start now, in the world which you go, failure marks you. Confronting difficulty by quitting leaves you changed. Outside the college, quitters are no heroes. With us you could argue about why your errors were not errors, why mediocre work really was excellent, why you could take pride in routine and slipshod(不严谨的)presentation. Most of you, after all, can look back on honor grades for most of what you have done. So, here grades can have meant little in distinguishing the excellent from the ordinary. But tomorrow, in the world to which you go, you had best not defend errors but learn them. You will ill-advised to demand praise for that does not deserve it, and abuse those who do not give it. For years we created an altogether forgiving world, in which whatever slight effort you gave was all that was demanded. When you did not keep appointments, we made new ones. When your work came in beyond the deadline, we pretended not to care. Worse still, when you were boring, we acted as if you are interesting. When you were garrulous (喋喋不休的) and talked to hear yourselves talk, we listened as you were saying something important. When you were dull, we pretended you were smart. When you were predictable, imaginative and routine, we listened as if to new and wonderful things. And all this why? Inspite your fantasies, it was not even that we wanted to be liked by you. It was that we d