英语PK台 第254期:国际名校校长谈教育核心价值观

 　　Track one

　　I am not sure you can put a price on education

　　I am an educator – I started my life as a teacher and I still consider myself to be a teacher

　　Education is a life changing experience

　　You can get into the cost-benefit aspect of what the fees are for a programme

　　I teach the first major course on our MBA – ‘Decision Making under Uncertainty’

　　I ask the students “Why are you here?”

　　Are you looking for something where there is a definite cost-benefit relationship?

　　Or are you looking for a way to change the way you think and see the world?

　　If it is the latter – then Welcome!

　　Education, particularly postgraduate¹ education is designed to make you re-evaluate how you see the world

　　In terms of the cost, the elite² US business schools are very expensive

　　Whether you get value for money is not something for me to comment on

　　In a Glasgow context³ students get an exceptionally⁴ good education for what is a fair market price

　　With for example, the business schools, one of the major factors is developing your connections

　　The people you are mixing with are going to be future leaders, future entrepreneurs⁵

　　It is a very good stepping stone to get connections

　　We sat in the reception (at an alumni event) and you could see a collection of young Chinese graduates from the Business School

　　If I could wind the clock forward twenty years I would have a high expectation that they would be at the top of their various professions.

　　Questions

　　1.How is education described?

　　2.What do some people consider when looking at a university course?

　　3.What should they really be looking at?

　　4.Apart from a good degree what can studying at a business school give the students?

　　5.Who are the people there likely to become?

　　Track two

　　That exposure⁶ and if you can continue that exposure through alumni networks it is a fabulous⁷ resource

　　Teaching⁸ is one thing – it changes your mind-set but the networks you develop as a consequence of being at Glasgow is phenomenal

　　At the Alumni Award, one person said his parents could have bought a house, could have bought a car for him

　　Instead they sent him to university

　　And that was a far better investment⁹ because the other things would have been worthless¹⁰ today

　　I do not think you can put a price on a good education

　　We pride ourselves on being an elite university that isn’t elitist

　　We take in students from a wide variety of backgrounds

　　We try to support them because we know that the value of a good education is not about how much you can earn but how much you can contribute to society

　　How much you can contribute to your friends and colleagues

　　How many opportunities beyond money making that a good education provides

　　We have been doing that since 1451 – we want to continue doing it for another 500/600 years

　　Everything we do in the University is seen as a legacy¹¹

　　We are not just providing an education for people today

　　We are providing the platform for education for people tomorrow –for next year – and the next ten years – and next fifty years and so on

　　It is wonderful working with students in creating hope and opportunity

　　And hopefully lots of contribution to society and the economy in return for the education that they get

　　Questions

　　1.What is a fabulous resource?

　　2.What is a beneficial investment for the future?

　　3.What is a value of education?

　　4.When was the University of Glasgow funded?

　　5.What is seen as a legacy for the future?

1 postgraduate   

adj.大学毕业后的，大学研究院的；n.研究生

参考例句：

• I didn't put down that I had postgraduate degree.我没有写上我有硕士学位。
• After college,Mary hopes to do postgraduate work in law school.大学毕业后， 玛丽想在法学院从事研究工作。

2 elite   

n.精英阶层；实力集团；adj.杰出的，卓越的

参考例句：

• The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
• We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。

3 context   

n.背景，环境，上下文，语境

参考例句：

• You can always tell the meaning of a word from its context.你常可以从上下文中猜出词义来。
• This sentence does not seem to connect with the context.这个句子似乎与上下文脱节。

4 exceptionally   

ad.异常地

参考例句：

• The weather, even for January, was exceptionally cold. 这种天气即使在一月份也算得上非常寒冷。
• An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night. 昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。

5 entrepreneurs   

企业家( entrepreneur的名词复数 )； 主办人

参考例句：

• He is one of the entrepreneurs of the concert. 他是这场音乐会的主办人之一。
• Entrepreneurs are free to develop their businesses. 企业家们可以任意发展自己的企业。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件

6 exposure   

n.暴露，面临；揭露，揭发；曝光

参考例句：

• After only a short exposure to sunlight he began to turn red.他在阳光下只晒了一会儿，皮肤就开始变红了。
• I threatened them with public exposure.我扬言要公开揭发他们。

7 fabulous   

adj.极好的；极为巨大的；寓言中的，传说中的

参考例句：

• We had a fabulous time at the party.我们在晚会上玩得很痛快。
• This is a fabulous sum of money.这是一笔巨款。

8 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

9 investment   

n.投资，投资额；(时间、精力等的)投入

参考例句：

• It took two years before I recouped my investment.我用了两年时间才收回投资。
• The success of the project pivots on investment from abroad.这个工程的成功主要依靠外来投资。

10 worthless   

adj.无价值的，无用的，可鄙的

参考例句：

• Don't read worthless books.不要读没有用的书。
• He was worthless as a painter.他作为画家一事无成。

11 legacy   

n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西

参考例句：

• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。