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关于开展5.4读书活动的通知 2011年5月4日是“五四运动1919年5月4日在北京爆发的五四运动中国人民彻底的反对帝国主义、封建主义的爱国运动。五四运动是中国旧民主主义革命的结束和新民主主义革命的开端。五四运动从形式上是中国学生的爱国运动，但从整个社会背景社会发展来说，它的影响远远不止于此，除了波及中国思想文化，政治发展方向，社会经济潮流，教育，亦对中国共产党的发展产生了重要的作用五四运动FABLE OF THE LAZY TEENAGER》（见后面附件），要求各班参加过业余党校培训的积极分子、预备党员、党员以“青年、奋斗、责任”为主题写出读后感，各班团支书收齐本班电子版读后感于“劳动节”放假前发送到victor_42@ 03091 2011.4.9 附件 FABLE OF THE LAZY TEENAGER ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Benjamin Stein 一篇发人深省的文章 ? One day last fall, I ran out of file folders and went to the drugstore to buy more. I put a handful of folders on the counter and asked a teenage salesgirl how much they cost. I dont know, she answered. But its 12 cents each. I counted the folders. Twenty-three at 12 cents each, that makes $2.76 before tax, I said. You did that in your head? she asked in amazement. How can you do that? Its magic, I said. Really? she asked. No modestly educated adult can fail to be upset by such an experience. While our children seem better-natured than ever, they are so ignorant — and so ignorant of their ignorance — that they frighten me. In a class of 60 seniors at a private college where I recently taught, not one student could write a short paper without misspellings. Not one. But this is just a tiny slice of the problem. The ability to perform. even the simplest calculations is only a memory among many students I see, and their knowledge of world history or geography is nonexistent. Moreover, there is a chilling indifference about all this ignorance. The attitude was summed up by a friends bright, lazy 16-year-old son, who explained why he preferred not to go to U.C.L.A. I dont want to have to compete with Asians, he said. They work hard and know everything. In fact, this young man will have to compete with Asians whether he wants to or not. He cannot live forever on the financial, material and human capital accumulated by his ancestors. At some point soon, his intellectual laziness will seriously af