双-泛读-School-091206.ppt

School and Education Unit Two John Ruskin The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things. Works: Modern Painters Academy Notes The Seven Lamps of Architecture The Stones of Venice Quotations The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. Elbert Hubbard Part of teaching is helping students learn to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable Bill Moyers Paraphrase 1.When people think of the word education, they think of a pupil as a sort of animate sausage casing. 2. But genuine education…is not inserting the stuffings of information into a person, but rather eliciting knowledge from him; it is the drawing out of what is in the mind. 3. Look into your own selves, and find the sparks of truth that God has put into every heart, and that only you can kindle to flame. Paraphrase 4. …because the principles and axioms of geometry are already in his mind, waiting to be called out. 5. So many of the discussions and controversies about the contents of education are futile and inconclusive… 6. He was being so stuffed with miscellaneous facts, with such an indigestible mass of material, that he had no time (and was given no encouragement) to draw on his own resources, to use his own mind for analyzing and synthesizing and evaluating this material Paraphrase 7. Education, to have any meaning beyond the purpose of creating well-informed dunces, must elicit from the pupil what is latent in every human being – the rules of reason, the inner knowledge of what is proper for men to be and do. 8. Pupils are more like oysters than sausages…There are pearls in each of us, if only we knew how to cultivate them with ardor and persistence. Meno Meno SOCRATES: Tell me, boy, is not this our square of four feet? (ABCD.) You understand?BOY: Yes.SOCRATES: Now we can add another equal to it like this? (BCEF.)BOY: Yes.SOCRATES: And a third here, equal to each o