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大学学位的七个好处

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教育纵横.|. 接受教育、获取学位的社会价值究竟是什么,《基督教科学箴言报》的这篇文章或许可以 给你 些启示。‘ 0 college degree pays ofI1 financially and intan— . 份来自美国大学委员会的 gibly for the graduate——and for society at 报告称,大学学位可使毕业 large ,says a report from the College Board .Here are 生乃至整个社会在经济或其他方面 7 top benefits: 1. Better—prepared kids Parents with advanced degrees are three times more likely to read to their kids every day than par— 获益。下面是其7大好处: 1. 为孩子提供更好的知识准备 与没有完成高中学业的父母相 比,有高等教育背景的父母每天读书 ents who haven’t finished high school,and twice as 给孩子听的可能性是前者的3倍,带 likely to participate in other educational activities like 孩子参观博物馆、图书馆等其他教育 visiting museums and libraries. The payoff7.Children of highly educated parents 活动的可能性是前者的两倍。 那好处呢?如果父母受过高等 are three times more likely to start school already 教育,孩子入学前就会字母表和数 knowing their alphabet and how to count to 20. 2. Fewer smokers 20以内的数的可能性也是前者的3 倍。 Between 1 998 and 2008,the smoking rate de— clined from 14 percent to 9 percent among college grads, while the rate for high school grads barely dropped,from 29 percent to 27 percent. 2. 吸烟者少 1998至2008年。大学毕业生 吸烟率从14%降至9%.而高中毕业 生降幅甚微,仅从29%降至27%。 拥有高等教育学位的人群中, Of people with advanced degrees, 70 percent never smoked,only 3 percent choose to keep smok— 70%的人从未吸过烟,仅3%的人选 ing,and the rest have quit or are trying to.Of people 择继续吸烟.余者已戒烟或正尝试 who didn’t finish high school,half have never 戒烟。未完成高中学业的人群中,有 @⑥00@⑨@匡响 06 响 3 1 教育纵横÷ smoked,a third have quit or are trying to,and 15 一半人从未吸过烟,三分之一的人 Dercent cho0se to maintain the habit. 已戒烟或正尝试戒烟,而15%的人 3. More exercise.1ess fat 选择保留吸烟习惯。 Those with more education are more likely to ex一 3. 注重运动,减少肥胖 ercise than th0se with lesS education.College—educat一 受教育越多可能就越注重运 ed adults are also less likely than others to be obese5 动。受过大学教育的成年人与其他 or to have obese children.These results hold for al1 人相比,自己和家中孩子肥胖的可 age groups. 能性都小。任何年龄层都如此。 4.Higher job satisfaction In 2008.about 60 percent of people who had at 4. 更高的工作满意度 2008年,约60%上过大学的 tended college—whether or not they’d completed a 人——不管是否获得学位——宣称 degree—reported that they were very satisfied with 他们对自己的工作很满意。而高中 their iobs.Onlv 50 peteent 0f high school graduates 毕业生和中学辍学者分别只有50% and 40 percent of high school dropouts6 could say the 和40%说满意。工作满意者说幸福 same.People with iob satisfaction were three times as 的可能性要比对工作不满意者大3 likely to say that they were very happy. 倍。 5. Better recession protection College graduates’employment rose 2 percent 5. 更能抵御经济危机 尽管面临严重经济危机,从 between the first quarter of 2007 and the first quarter 2007年第一季度到2010年第一季 0f 2010,despite the great recession.Every group with 度大学毕业生就业率反增长了2%。 lower educati0n levels saW employment numbels de一 而教育程度低的所有群体就业率都 cline.Those hardest hit Were those who hadn’t fin. 有所降低。受冲击最大的是没读完 ished high schoo1.One in 5 for them has lost a iob, 高中的人,他们每5人就有1人丢 c0mDared with 1 in 100 or hifgh school graduates and 掉工作,相比之下高中毕业生和受 those with some c0IIege education. 过大学教育的人失业率仅为1%。 6. More benefits.higher pensions7 Onlv haif of high school graduates have employ. 6. 福利更好,退休金更高 高中毕业生中只有一半人有雇 er-provided health insurance or pensi0n plans,but al一 主提供的健康保险或退休金,而几 most 70 percent 0f co11ege graduates d0.Also,while 乎70%的大学毕业生都有。此外,如 93 percent of COliege grads participate in employer- 果有“雇主配套退休金计划”,93% matching pensi0n plan8 if thev’re available,only 3 in 的大学毕业生可加入,没读完高中 4 0f those who didn’t complete high school do.mean. 的人只有四分之三可加入,这意味 ing that 1 in 4 pass up。essentiallv free money from 着每4人中就有1人会得不到基本 3 2 @⑥叩@ @匡 06 嗡 .1.教育纵横◆|. Dazed and Confused in Academi 学习环境的困惑 l Bv。v 记’s矗 mll何_晓/译注 l tly,Joe,a foreign English teacher in China, to me,“I feel dazed and disoriented;my stu— R 最 近。说:在华教英语的乔对我“我感到迷茫困惑,中 国学生根本不发言,我无法断定 dents here are unusually quiet.I can’t tell i±they un— derstand my lessons.’’His plight is not surprising.Many 他们能否听懂我的课。”他的困境  foreign ESL(English as a second language)instructors 不足为奇。第一次走进中国教室,often feel confused when they first step into a Chinese 许多英语外教常大惑不解。中国 classroom. Chinese ESL students are diferent because 学英语的学生的不同源于其心态 their mindset is not Western.This generates three po— tential English literacy challenges that separate them 非西方化。由此产生三种潜在的 英语文化挑战,使他们同外教格 格不入。这些障碍是:先文化和个 人知识、不同教育体制和教学理 from foreign instructors.These obstacles are:the influ— ence of prior culturl and personala knowledge,the im— pact of different educational systems and teaching 念以及独特的语言特点所造成的 philosophies and unique language characteristics due to 影响。这些语言特点是由英、汉语 linguistic degrees of difference between English and 言的语法、语义、构词,加之不同 Chinese——via grammar,semantics,word stuctrure,plus 的文学审美和组织逻辑之间的语 Notes:1.academia[I ̄eka'di:mjo】 学术界,学术环境。 2.plight[plait]困境。 3.mindset观念模式,心态。 their employer. 7. Increased earning potential 上由雇主免费提供的钱。 7.收入潜力强 人人都知道取得大学学位的花 Everyone knows the price of a college degree, but fewer know the price of not getting one:¥22,000 费,却很少有人知道没有它的代价: a year・ 每年损失2-2万美元。 2008年.有大学教育背景的人 In 2008,median earnings of college graduates 57万美元,比读完高 were¥55,700,which was¥2 1,900 more than the me— 平均收入为5.dian earnings of high school graduates who hadn’t attended college. . 中没上大学的人平均收入高2.19万 美元。 圈 From http://www.csmonitor.eom @⑥00@⑨@匡响 06 响 3 3 

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