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Let me tell you one of the earliest disasters in my career as a teacher. It was January of 1940 and I was fresh out of graduate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City. Part of the student body was a beanpole with hair on top who came into my class, sat down, folded his arms, and looked at me as if to say All right, teach me something. Two weeks later we started Hamlet. Three weeks later he came into my office with his hands on his hips. Look, he said, I came here to be a pharmacist. Why do I have to read this stuff? And not having a book of his own to point to, he pointed to mine which was lying on the desk. 我刚当教师时有过几次失败的经历，让我给你们讲一讲其中的一次。1940年1月，我研究生刚毕业，在堪萨斯城大学任教的第一学期，有一个长得瘦高、就像上头有毛的豆角架竹竿一样的男生来到我的课堂，坐下之后双手交叉放在胸前看着我，好像在说：“好了，教我吧。”两星期后，我们学习《哈姆雷特》。三星期后他双手叉腰走进我的办公室，自己没带课本，却指着放在书桌上我的课本说：“你看，我来这儿是想成为一名药剂师，为什么必段读这东西？” New as I was to the faculty, I could have told this specimen a number of things. I could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at the end of his course meant to reach for a scroll that read Bachelor of Science. It would not read: Qualified Pill-Grinding Technician. It would certify that he had specialized in pharmacy, but it would further certify that he had been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history. That is to say, he had not entered a technical training school but a university and in universities students enroll for both training and education. 尽管我是新教师，但我还能给他讲出很多道理。我本来可以向他指出，他考入的不是制药技工培训学校，而是大学；在完成学业后可获得写有理学学士的毕业证书，而不是写着“合格的磨药工”的证书。这证书不仅将证明他专修药业，而且还将证明他曾经接触过一些人类历史进程中积淀下来的思想。也就是说，他所在的不是技能培训学校，而是大学，大学里学生既要得到训练又要接受教育。I could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasnt going to be around long enough for it to matter. 我本该把这些道理都讲给他，但很显然他在校的时间不会很长，知不知道这些道理无所谓。Nevertheless, I was young and I had a high sense of duty and I tried to put it this way: For the rest of your life, I said, your days are going to average out to abou