大学教导的意义和目标(国外英文资料).doc

大学教育的意义和目的(国外英文资料) The significance and purpose of university education This is a speech by Professor Andrew Abbott at the opening ceremony of University of Chicago The Universitys reputation and admission rate have an independent impact on students future income, but most of the income gap occurs within the University, that is, within a college graduate. The inner gap depends on personal factors such as talent, resources, grades, and expertise, where personal effort is critical. The real drivers of success and the causes of the income gap are occupations. Not so much a college education gives you a specific, professional knowledge, rather than a general skill that will benefit you throughout your life. In fact, a person after graduating from college, professional knowledge the study used in real life and work in very little, even a lot of people in the future work and the specialty did not have any contact, those books in five to ten years after graduation was almost forgotten, how much real success is not the key knowledge. However, for graduate school, work or entertainment -- a critical reading ability, make you clear exposition of the action plan in the complex; the necessary ability of writing ---- make you clarify your ideas to colleagues; independent thinking ability, help you avoid parroting; and the capacity for lifelong learning, make you relaxed in response to the changes in work and entertainment. As for the above statement, he is not sure whether it is due to college education or the inevitable manifestation of personal maturity and growth. After all, those who have been admitted to college have better personal qualifications. The phrase the purpose of education is very trite. There is no purpose in education, but the purpose of something else. The Enlightenment of education is to develop a good habit, to seek new meanings, to seek new connections, to complicate the experience and to make it richer and more durable. The aim of education is not to be p