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大学是延续人类文明逃脱死亡的一种方式, 是人类与时间和死亡的抗争。 美国现在接受高等
教育的人口比例比历史上任何一个文明社会都要高, 但是现在许多阻力聚到了一起产生了一
种前所未有的焦虑。 大学教育是否被高估了, 我只能说这是个谜。 大学教育已变成一场升学
主义的竞争, 高等教育学生家长都会被昂贵的学费震惊, 现如今, 接受和完成大学课程相较
于我那个年代,已经难了许多。
The United States has managed to provide a post-secondary education to a larger percentage of
its population than any society in history. But a lot of forces are converging at present moment to
create anxiety.
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“ college overrated? I ’ saying it ’a myth. ”“’e a race of credentialism. ”“has college
e too expensive? ”“think it ’going to turn into the foreclosure situation. ”Every parent
who tries to pay for their child ’education is feeling sticker shock, and access pletion of
college are more challenging in our time.
在所有暗藏于美国经济的定时炸弹里, 助学贷款债务已经高达一万亿, 我们或许会见证一系
列如海啸般的助学贷款违约事件,高等教育行业里充斥着诸多问题,对学生和家长们来说,
他们渴望知道当学生毕业之时,他们是否可以学到有用的技能,以至于有人愿意雇佣他们,
这种想法是很正常的。
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There are problems in all the sectors in higher education, and it ’a perfectly fair expectation for
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students and their families to want to know when they leave college, they gonna have some skills
that somebody ’ going to be willing pensate them for. But there is an apocalyptic
dimension to this as well. And that is the idea that the very concept of the institution of higher
learning is about to be broken.
谈到教育, 一些巨大的社会因素迫使人们只是一味的效仿别人, 而从不思考自己为什么这么
做,大学被打着以创造更好未来的名义被抬到了过高的位置, 但在过去的几十年
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