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Another School Year – What For? ;;What do you think is the purpose of school education? ;;Background;Background; Audience College freshmen Style colloquial; familiar (by way of using direct speech) first humorous, mildly sarcastic (by way of using metaphor); later serious and earnest;Another School Year ;;Questions (para 1);1. Let me tell you one of the earliest disasters in my career as a teacher.;2. I was fresh out of graduate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City.;3. 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. ;3. 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. ;4. Two weeks later we started Hamlet.;5. Three weeks later he came into my office with his hands on his hips. “look,” he said, “I came here to be a pharmacist. Why do I have to read this stuff?” ;5. Three weeks later he came into my office with his hands on his hips. “look,” he said, “I came here to be a pharmacist. Why do I have to read this stuff?” ;Questions (para.2-3);6. New as I was to the faculty, I could have told this specimen a number of things. ;6. New as I was to the faculty, I could have told this specimen a number of things. ;6. New as I was to the faculty, I could have told this specimen a number of things. ;7. I could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at the end of his course meant to reach for a scroll that read Bachelor of Science. ;7. I could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at the end of his course meant to reach for a scroll that read Bachelor of Science. It would not read: Qualified Pill-Grinding Technician.;7. I could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-me