大学英语3Lecture Notes_U7课文翻译pdf打印版.pdfVIP

学 海 无 涯 Electronic Teaching Portfolio Book Three Unit Seven: Education Part I Get Started Section A Discussion ▇ Work in groups of threes or fours and discuss the following questions. 1. What is your idea of an ideal university life? 2. How does education improve your life? 3. Can you feel the impact of modern technology on teaching and learning in your university? ▆ Answers for reference: 1. Open. Some useful expressions: interesting, colorful and fruitful; opportunities to develop one’s character and build one’s career; means to access information resources… 2. Open. Some useful expressions: get to know oneself and the world; become cleverer, stronger and more independent; dispel ignorance… 3. Open. Some useful expressions: multimedia means of instruction; animated cartoons, audio and video clips, flashes, three dimension images, network learning… Section B Quotes ▇ Study the following quotes about education. Which quote(s) do you like best? Why? Malcolm Forbes ⊙Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. —Malcolm Forbes Interpretation: The purpose of education is to enable people to gain knowledge and broaden their minds. Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990): an American publisher and the third son of a Scottish immigrant who founded Forbes ( 《福布斯》) in 1917. He became publisher of the magazine on his father’s death (1954). Under his leadership, the publication became one of America’s most successful business magazines. Its annual list of the richest 400 people in America is one of the most widely quoted sources on the subject of wealth in the United States. Robert Maynard Hutchins ◎ The object of educat