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School Year-What For? |
John Ciardi
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1. Read aloud Paragraphs 9—12.
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Ask each other questions about the text.
3. Discuss Items II and IV in Preclass Work.
4. Retell the professor's experience with that student back in 1940, covering the following points:
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1) Under what circumstances did the professor meet the student?
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2) What did the student look like? How did he behave?
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3) What was the course the professor offered? Was the student interested? What did he say to the professor one day?
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4) What kind of a teacher was the professor? Did he try hard to convince the student that he was wrong?
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5) Do you think the young student finally agreed with the teacher? |
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6) How do you think the story ended? |
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5. Discuss the following questions:
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1) Why did the professor draw a line between training and education? In what way are they different?
2) Are universities only for job training according to the professor? What else should a student strive for in a university?
3) Why did the professor talk about how people should spend the 24 hours in a day? Do you think it was a good argument?
4) How did the professor try to prove the importance of bookreading?
5) How would you respond if your brother or sister or your best friend declares that he/she is only interested in learning some job skill and therefore has no use for literature, politics, philosophy, history, art, music, etc.?
6) Discuss with or interview a classmate, find out his/her ideas, summarize them and report back briefly to the class: Is education for living or making a living?
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