首页
登录
职称英语
I had a teacher once who called his students "idiots" when they screwed up.
I had a teacher once who called his students "idiots" when they screwed up.
游客
2024-08-23
9
管理
问题
I had a teacher once who called his students "idiots" when they screwed up. He was our orchestra conductor, a fierce Ukrainian immigrant named Jerry Kupchynsky, and when someone played out of tune, he would stop the entire group to yell, "Who eez deaf in first violins?" He made us rehearse until our fingers almost bled. He corrected our wayward hands and arms by poking at us with a pencil.
Today, he’d be fired. But when he died a few years ago, he was celebrated: Forty years’ worth of former students and colleagues flew back to my New Jersey hometown from every corner of the country, old instruments in tow, to play a concert in his memory. I was among them, toting (携带) my long-neglected viola. When the curtain rose on our concert that day, we had formed a symphony orchestra the size of the New York Philharmonic.
I was stunned by the outpouring for the gruff old teacher we knew as Mr. K. But I was equally struck by the success of his former students. Some were musicians, but most had distinguished themselves in other fields, like law, academia and medicine. Research tells us that there is a positive correlation between music education and academic achievement. But that alone didn’t explain the belated surge of gratitude for a teacher who basically tortured us through adolescence.
We’re in the midst of a national wave of self-recrimination over the U. S. education system. Every day there is hand-wringing over our students falling behind the rest of the world. Fifteen-year-olds in the U. S. trail students in 12 other nations in science and 17 in math. An entire industry of books and consultants has grown up that capitalizes on our collective fear that American education is inadequate and asks what American educators are doing wrong.
Comparing Mr. K’s methods with the latest findings in fields from music to math to medicine leads to a single, startling conclusion: It’s time to revive old-fashioned education. Not just traditional but old-fashioned in the sense that so many of us knew as kids, with strict discipline and unyielding demands. Because here’s the thing: It works.
Now I’m not calling for abuse; I’d be the first to complain if a teacher called my kids names. But the latest evidence backs up my modest proposal. Studies have now shown, among other things, the benefits of moderate childhood stress; how praise kills kids’ self-esteem; and why grit is a better predictor of success than SAT scores.
All of which flies in the face of the kinder, gentler philosophy that has dominated American education over the past few decades. The conventional wisdom holds that teachers are supposed to tease knowledge out of students, rather than pound it into their heads. Projects and collaborative learning are applauded? traditional methods like lecturing and memorization—derided as "drill and kill"—are frowned upon, dismissed as a surefire way to suck young minds dry of creativity and motivation. But the conventional wisdom is wrong. [br] All of the following can be implied from Paragraph Four EXCEPT that________.
选项
A、the American students are falling behind the world in many fields
B、the current education system is under great criticism of the whole nation
C、the book industry has supplied American schools with money
D、many people doubt the inadequate education system in America
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3732093.html
相关试题推荐
Highschoolstudentsaregrumblingovertheirschoollunches—andsoarethei
Ihadateacheroncewhocalledhisstudents"idiots"whentheyscrewedup.
Ihadateacheroncewhocalledhisstudents"idiots"whentheyscrewedup.
DozensofstudentsattheUniversityofMarylandhavetoiledinthephysics
DozensofstudentsattheUniversityofMarylandhavetoiledinthephysics
Havinghadherasmyteacher,Icantellyouthatsheisan________forcewhopu
Incomparisonwiththelivesofotherpostgraduatestudents,thelifeofas
Incomparisonwiththelivesofotherpostgraduatestudents,thelifeofas
Incomparisonwiththelivesofotherpostgraduatestudents,thelifeofas
Incomparisonwiththelivesofotherpostgraduatestudents,thelifeofas
随机试题
Itiswell-knownthatelectricitycanbetransmittedfromwhereitisproducedt
[originaltext]M:Comein,Rose.Coffee?W:Thankyou,Jack.M:Howaboutthevi
WhichofthefollowingisNOTtrueforeachofthefivewinners?[br][original
太阳能供电组合式发光标志由底板、主动发光单元、壳体、逆反射材料、驱动控制电路、太
治疗闭经痰湿阻滞证,应首选( )。A.左归丸 B.右归丸 C.归肾丸 D
关于会计政策变更和会计估计变更,下列说法中正确的是()A.对于初次发生的
隔离开关机构箱内热继电器故障,导致电机不会启动,为危急缺陷。
当可行性研究报告中只提出了一个可行性方案时,银行评估人员应()。A:向企业了解是
下列选项中可以适用简易程序审理的有:() A.甲欠乙借款2万元,现甲不知去
男性,56岁。肝硬化患者,经常出现上消化道大出血,考虑存在食管胃底静脉曲张,想通
最新回复
(
0
)