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Unit 1 Unit 1 Text A Another School Year— What For? John Ciardi I Introduction 1 Background When young students graduate from high school, many of them may decide to go to a technical school to learn a useful trade, whereas many others may want to go to college to continue their education. But what difference is there between these two choices? Why do many young people go to college or university? What are these extra years at school for? Young people do not always know the answers. And these are the questions addressed by Professor Ciardi in this essay based on the speech he gave in an orientation to freshmen. In this essay, Professor Ciardi started by making a distinction between job training and education. Job training is important and is the purpose why many choose to go to technical schools. But for colleges and universities there is something else other than job training. Students must be exposed to ideas generated by mankind in history. Therefore, education is not just training. Training helps young people to learn technical skills with which they can make a living, while education teaches them how to live. Training can be measured by its money 1 教师用书 现代大学英语 精读2 value whereas education makes young people worthy, well-rounded human beings. To put it in another way, training is mainly conce