20xx年英语六级考试阅读理解技巧训练：教育、文化类.pdfVIP

20xx年英语六级考试阅读理解技巧

训练：教化、文化类

20xx年英语六级考试阅读理解技巧训练：教化、文化

类

教化、文化类

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Icameawayfrommyyearsofteachingonthe

collegeanduniversitylevelwithaconvictionthat

enactment扮（演角色），performance,dramatization

arethemostsuccessfulformsofteaching.Students

mustbeincorporated,made,sofaraspossible,an

integralpartofthelearningprocess.henotionthat

learningshouldhaveinitanelementofinspiredplay

wouldseemtothegreaterpartoftheacademic

establishmentmerelysilly,butthatisnonethelessthe

case.OfEzekielCheever,themostfamous

schoolmasteroftheMassachusettsBayColony,his

onetimestudentCottonMatherwrotethatheso

plannedhislessonsthathispupilscametoworkas

thoughtheycametoplay,andAlfredNorthWhitehead,

almostthreehundredyearslater,notedthatateacher

shouldmakehis/herstudentsgladtheywerethere.

Since,wearetold,80to90percentofall

instructioninthetypicaluniversityisbythelecture

method,weshouldgivecloseattentiontothisformof

education.hereis,Ithink,muchtruthinPatricia

NelsonLimericksobservationthatlecturingisan

unnaturalact,anactforwhichGoddidnotdesign

humans.Itisperfectlyallright,nowandthen,fora

humantobepossessedbytheurgetospeak,andto

speakwhileothersremainsilent.Buttodothis

regularly,onehourand15minutesatatime...forone

persontodragonwhileotherssitinsilence?...Idonot

believethatthisiswhattheCreator...designed

humanstodo.

hestrange,almostincomprehensiblefactisthat

manyprofessors,justastheyfeelobligedtowritedully,

believethattheyshouldlecturedully.oshow

enthusiasm