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30 19世纪美国妇女教育运动先锋-玛莉·莱恩
DATE=4-1-01
TITLES=PEOPLE IN AMERICA #1815 - Mary Lyon
BYLINE=Vivian R. Bournazian
VOICE ONE:
I'm Steve Ember.
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Shirley Griffith. Every week at this time, we tell the story of someone important in the history of the United1 States. Today, we tell about Mary Lyon. She was a (1)leader in women's (2)education in the last century. (THEME)
VOICE ONE:
During the Nineteenth Century, women's education was not considered important in the United States.
(3)Supporters of (4)advanced education for women faced many problems. States did (5) require each town to provide a school for children, but teachers often were poorly prepared. Most young women were not able to continue on with their education in (6) private schools. If they did, they often were not taught much except the French (7) language, how to (8)sew clothing, and music.
Mary Lyon felt that women's education was (9)extremely important. Through her (10) lifelong2 work for education she became one of the most famous women in Nineteenth Century America. She believed that women were teachers both in the home and in the classroom. And, she believed that efforts to better educate young women also served God. If women were better educated3, she felt, they could teach in local schools throughout4 the United States and in foreign countries.
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VOICE TWO:
Mary Lyon was born in Buckland, (11)Massachusetts, in Seventeen-Ninety-Seven. Her father died when she was five years old. For Mary, hard work was a way of life. But she later remembered with great pleasure her childhood years in the home where she was born.
This is how she (12)described what she could see from that house on a hill: "The far-off mountains in all their (13)grandeur, and the deep valleys, and widely extended6 plains, and more than all, that little village below, containing only a very few white houses, but more than those young eyes had ever seen."
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At the age of four, Mary began walking to the nearest school several kilometers away. Later, she began spending three months at a time with friends and relatives so she could (14) attend other area schools. She helped clean and cook to pay for her stay.
When Mary was thirteen, her mother re-married and moved to another town. Mary was left to care for her older brother who worked on the family farm. He paid her a dollar a week. She saved it to pay for her education. Mary's love of learning7 was so strong that she worked and saved her small amount of pay so she could go to school for another few months.
Mary began her first teaching8 job at a one-room local school-teaching children for the summer. She was seventeen years old. She was paid seventy-five cents a week. She also was given meals and a place to live.
Mary Lyon was not a very successful teacher at first. She did not have much control over her students. She always was ready to laugh with them. Yet she soon won their parents' (15) respect with her skills.
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VOICE TWO:
When Mary Lyon was twenty years old, she began a long period of study and teaching. A new (16)private school opened in the village of Ashfield, Massachusetts. It was called Sanderson Academy9. Mary really wanted to attend. She sold book (17)coverings she had made. And she used everything she had saved from her pay as a teacher. This was enough for her to begin attending Sanderson Academy.
At Sanderson, Mary began to study more difficult subjects. These included science, history and Latin10. A friend who went to school with Mary wrote of her "gaining knowledge by (18)handfuls." It is said that Mary memorized a complete book about the Latin language in three days. Mary later wrote it was at Sanderson that she received the base of her education.
VOICE ONE:
After a year at Sanderson Academy, Mary decided11 that her handwriting was not good enough to be read clearly. She was a twenty-one-year-old woman. But she went to the local public school and sat among the children so she could learn better writing skills.
In Eighteen-Twenty-One, Mary Lyon went to another private school where she was taught by Reverend Joseph Emerson. Mary said he talked to women "as if they had brains." She praised his equal treatment of men and women when it came to educating them.
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Three years later, Mary Lyon opened a school for young women in the village of Buckland. She called it the Buckland Female12 Seminary. Classes were held in a room on the third floor of a house.
Mary's students praised her teaching. She proposed13 new ways of teaching, including holding discussion14 groups where students exchange ideas.
Mary said it was while teaching at Buckland that she first thought of founding a private school open to daughters of farmers and skilled15 workers. She wanted education, not profits, to be the most important thing about the school. At that time, schools of higher learning usually were supported by people interested in profits from their investment16.
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In Eighteen-Twenty-Eight, Mary became sick with (19)typhoid fever. When her health improved, she decided to leave Buckland, the school she had started. She joined a close friend, Zillah Grant17, who had begun another private school, Ipswich Female Seminary.
At Ipswich, Mary taught and (20)was responsible18 for one-hundred-thirty students. It was one of the best schools at the time. But it lacked (21)financial support. Mary said the lack of support was because of "good men's fear of greatness in women." Zillah Grant and Mary Lyon urged19 that Ipswich be provided20 buildings so that the school might become (22)permanent21. However, their appeal failed.
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VOICE TWO:
Mary resigned22 from Ipswich. She helped to organize another private school for women, Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts. It opened in Eighteen Thirty-Five.
She also began to raise money for her dream of a permanent, non-profit school for the higher education of women. This school would own its own property23. It would be guided by an (23)independent group of directors24. Its finances25 would be the (24) responsibility26 of the (25) directors, not of (26) investors27 seeking (27) profit. The school would not depend on any one person to (28) continue. And, the students would share in cleaning and cooking to keep costs down.
VOICE ONE:
Mary Lyon got a (29) committee28 of advisers29 to help her in planning and building the school. She collected the first thousand dollars for the school from women in and around the (30) town of Ipswich. At one point, she even lent the committee some of her own money. She did not earn any money until she became head of the new school.
Mary Lyon opened Mount5 Holyoke (31) Seminary for Women in Eighteen-Thirty-Seven. It was in the town of South Hadley, Massachusetts. She had risen more than twelve- thousand dollars. It was enough to build a five-story building. Four teachers and the first class of eighty young women lived and studied in the building when the school opened. By the next year, the number of students had increased to one- hundred- sixteen. Mary knew the importance of what had been established -- the first (32) independent school for the higher education of women.
VOICE TWO:
The school continued to grow. More students began to attend. The size of the building was increased. And, all of the students were (33) required to study for four years instead of three. Mary Lyon was head of the school for almost twelve years. She died in Eighteen-Forty-Nine. She was fifty-two years old. She left behind a school of higher education for women. It had no debt30. And it had (34) support for the future provided by thousands of dollars in gifts.
In Eighteen-Ninety-Three, under a state law, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary became a college. Mount Holyoke College was the first college to offer women the same kind of education as was offered to men.
VOICE ONE:
People who have studied Mary Lyon say she was not fighting a (35) battle of (36) equality31 between men and women. Yet she knew she wanted more for women. Her efforts led to the (37) spread of higher education for women in the United States. (38)Historians say she was the strongest (39)influence on the education of American young people during the middle of the nineteenth (40)century. Her influence lasted as the many students from Mary Lyon's schools went out to teach others.
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VOICE TWO:
This Special English program was written by Vivian Bournazian. I'm Shirley Griffith
VOICE ONE:
And I'm Steve Ember. Join us again next week at this same time for another People in American program on the Voice of America.
注释:
(1) leader[5li:d[]n.领导;领袖
(2) education[7edjU5keiF[n]n.教育;教导
(3. supporter[s[5pC:t[]n.支持者, 赡养者, 拥护者
(4. advanced[[d5va:nst]adj.在前面的,高等的
(5. require[ri5kwai[]v.需要
(6. private [5praivit]adj.私人的;属于个人的
(7. language [5lONgwidV]n.语言, 术语,
(8. sew [sju:]v.缝合(布、皮、纸);缝制(衣服等)
(9. extremely[iks5tremili]ad.极端地,非常地
(10. lifelong[5laiflCN]a.终身的;毕生的
(11. Massachusetts[mOs[5tFU:sits]n.马萨诸塞
(12. Describe[dis5skraib]v.描述;描绘
(13. grandeur [5grOndV[]n.庄严,伟大
(14. attend [[5tend]v.注意;留意 出席;到场
(15. respect[ris5pekt]v.尊重,关心,注意
(16. private[5praivit]a.私人的,秘密的
(17. covering[5kQv[riN]n.覆盖物
(18. handful[hOndful]n.少数,一把
(19. typhoid[5taifCid]n.伤寒
(20. was responsible for对…负责任
(21. financial[fai5nOnF[l]a.财政的,金融的
(22. permanent[5p[:m[n[nt]a.永久的,固定的
(23. independent [indi5pend[nt]a.独立的,自主的
(24. responsibility [ris7pCns[5biliti]n.责任;职责
(25. director[di5rekt[]n.指导者;领导者;主持人 董事
(26. investor [In5vest[]n投资者
(27. profit [5prRfit]n利润
(28. continue[k[n5tinjU:]v.继续;使继续;连续;使连续;延
(29. committee[k[5miti]n.委员会
30. town [taun]n.城镇,市镇;市民
31. Seminary [5semin[ri]n.神学院
32. independent [indi5pend[nt]adj.独立的;自立的
33. required [ ri5kwi[d ]adj.必需的
34. support [s[5pR:t]v.支撑;托住
35. battle [5bOtl]n.战役;争斗
36. equality [i5kwCliti]n.同等;平等
37. spread [spred]v.(常与out连用)张开;伸展
38. historian [his5tC:ri[n]n.历史学家
39. influence [5influ[ns]n影响力,权利
40. century [5sentFuri]n.世纪;百年
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