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应对所有学生把高等教育宣扬为体验知识觉醒的机会,而不仅仅是提高赚钱能力的机会。一名12年级的学生写了一篇大学入学申请短文,谈及她想投身海洋学事业。就叫她伊莎贝拉吧。几个月前,我们午饭时间在我的课堂上校订了这篇文章。文章写得不错,但许多17岁的孩子都梦想与鲸鱼一起游泳。她的短文与众不同是由于另外一个原因:她的职业目标不是文章最突出的重点,只是表达个人陈述的手段,这让人感到惊讶,极少有人切实下工夫来这样撰写个人陈述。伊莎贝拉文章的要点与教育工作者过去常常用来激励她以及与她背景相同的人——其他来自低收入群体的少数族裔学生——的言论有关。她一直受到要把大学首先看作实现社会经济流动途径的劝诫。从小学开始,老师们就热情四溢地描述四年高等教育能够
Deal with higher education as a chance for all students to awaken to experience knowledge, not just opportunities to make money more profitable. A Year 12 student wrote an essay about college admissions about her willingness to work in oceanography. Just call her Isabella. A few months ago, we revisited this article in my class at lunch time. The article is well written, but many 17-year-olds dream of swimming with whales. Her essay is distinctive for another reason: her career goals are not the salient point of the essay but merely a way of expressing her personal statement, which surprises few who actually do their part to write personal statements. The main points of Isabella’s essay are related to the remarks that educators used to motivate her and her same background as other ethnic minority students from low-income groups. She has been subjected to the warning that universities should first of all be seen as ways to achieve socio-economic mobility. Since elementary school, teachers have enthusiastically described four years of higher education