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中国考博辅导首选学校 北京工业大学考博英语阅读真题精解 With the extension of democratic rights in the first half of the nineteenth century and the ensuing decline of the Federalist establishment, a new conception of education began to emerge.Educationwasno longeraconfirmationofapreexistingstatus, but an instrument in the acquisition of higher status.For a new generationofupwardlymobile students,thegoalof educationwas not to prepare them to live comfortably in theworld intowhich they had been born, but to teach themnew virtues and skillsthatwould propel them intoadifferentandbetterworld.Educationbecame training;and thestudentwasno longerthegentlemaninwaiting,butthejourneyman apprentice for upward mobility.Geng duo yuan xiao wan zheng kao bo ying yu zhen ti ji qi jie xi qing lian xi quan guo mian fei zi xun dian hua: si ling ling liu liu ba liu jiu qi ba ,huo jia zi xun qq: qi qi er liu qi ba wu san qi. In the nineteenth century a college education began to be seen as a way to get ahead in the world.The founding of the land grant colleges opened the doors of higher education to poor but aspiring boys from non Anglo Saxon,working class and lower middle class backgrounds.The myth of the poor boy who worked his way through college to success drew millions of poor boys to the new campuses.And with this shift, education became more vocational: its object was the acquisition of practical skills and useful information. 中国考博辅导首选学校 For the gentleman in waiting, virtue consisted above all ingraceandstyle,indoingwellwhatwasappropriatetohisposition; educationwasmerelyawayofacquiringpolish.Andvicewasmanifested in gracelessness, awkwardness, in behaving inappropriately, discourteously, or ostentatiously.For the apprentice, however, virtue was evidenced in success through hard work.The requisite qualities of character were not grace or style, but drive, d