现代大学英语精读2课文

Unit1Another School Year — What For Let me tell you one of the earliest disasters in my career as a

Unit1 Another School Year —What For Let me tell you one of the earliest disasters in my career as ateacher. It was January of 1940 and Iwas fresh out of graduate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City. Part of the student body was a beanpole with hair on top who came into my class, sat down, folded his arms, and looked at me as if to say "All right, teach me something." Two weeks later we started Hamlet. Three weeks later he came into my office with his hands on his hips. "Look," he said, "I came here to be apharmacist. Why do Ihave to read this stuff" And not having abook of his own to point to, he pointed to mine which was lying on the desk. New as Iwas to the faculty, Icould have told this specimen anumber of things. Icould have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in acollege and that at the end of his course meant to reach for ascroll that read Bachelor of Science. It would not read: Qualified Pill-Grinding Technician. It would certify that he had specialized in pharmacy, but it would further certify that he had been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history. That is to say, he had not entered atechnical training school but auniversity and in universities students enroll for both training and education. Icould have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasn't going to be around long enough for it to matter.