Unit 14 Five Traits of the Educated Man综合教程一

Unit 14 Five Traits of the Educated Man

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Reading aloud Read the following sentences aloud, paying special attention to incomplete plosion. A plosive which has no audible release is put in the brackets. 1. ... but after all, that amoun(t) nee(d) no(t) be so very great in any one field. 2. The qui(t)e shocking slovenliness and vulgarity of much of the spoken English ... proves beyon(d) doub(t) that years of attendance upon schools and colleges that are though(t) to be respectable have produce(d) no impression.

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3. There are certain things that gentlemen do no(t) do, and they do no(t) do them simply because they are ba(d) manners. 4. They do not rea(d) those works of prose and poetry which have become classic because they reveal power and habit of reflection and induce tha(t) power and habit in others.

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Cultural information 1. Quote Robert Frost: You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

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2. Education Education in the largest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an inpidual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another.

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Teachers in educational institutions direct the education of students and might draw on many subjects, including reading, writing, mathematics, science and history, etc. This process is sometimes called schooling when referring to the education of teaching only a certain subject, usually as professors at institutions of higher learning. There is also education in fields for those who want specific vocational skills, such as those required to be a pilot. In addition, there is an array of education possible at the informal level, such as in museums and libraries, with the Internet and in life experience. Many non-traditional education options are now available and will continue to evolve.

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Audiovisual supplements Watch a video clip and answer the following questions. 1. What do you learn about Mike Oher from the video? It s clear that Mike Oher hasn t accept the adequate education before, because he just can write down his name. And he is from a poor family, judging from his dressing. 2. What is your understanding towards education?

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Teacher:

Class, this is Mike Oher, and he’s new here so I expect you all to make him feel welcome. Mike, just take any empty seat … This is

a quiz based on the information you learned last year in your science curriculum. Don’t worry. It’s not gonna be graded. I just wanna see how much information we need to hit again. Just answer whatever you know.

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[Bell rings] Teacher: Thank you.

[Students leave] Can I leave now? Mike:Teacher: Yeah … Take your book.

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Main idea 1. What is this text concerned with?

The text is concerned with the five traits of an educated man.

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2. Summarize briefly the five traits of an educated man expounded in the text.

*Correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue *Refined and gentle manners *The power and habit of reflection *The power of growth *Possession of efficiency

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Structural analysis 1. Work out the structure of the text by completing the table. Paragraph(s) 1 Event It raises the question directly related to the topic of the essay: the relationship between learning and education. It expounds the five key traits of an educated man respectively.

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Paragraph(s) 7

Event The writer stresses that given these five traits, one possesses the outline or framework of an educated man, and that the outline may be filled in by whatever knowledge, ability, or skill that one is in possession of.

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2. How are the paragraphs that comprise the body of the essay organized and developed? These paragraphs are all organized and developed by the deductive method.

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Five Traits of the Educated Man Nicholas Murray Butler 1 A question often asked is: “What are the marks of an educated man?” It is plain that one may gain no inconsiderable body of learning in some special field of knowledge without at the same time acquiring those habits and traits which are the marks of an educated gentleman. A reasonable amount of learning must of course accompany an education, but, after all, that amount need not be so very great in any one field. An education will make its mark and find its evidences in certain traits, characteristics, and capacities which have to be acquired by patient endeavor, by following good examples, and by receiving wise discipline and sound instruction.

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2 These traits or characteristics may be variously described and classified, but among them are five that should always stand out clearly enough to be seen by all men. The first of these is correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue. The quite shocking slovenliness and vulgarity of much of the spoken English, as well as not a little of the written English, which one hears and sees, proves beyond doubt that years of attendance upon schools and colleges that are thought to be respectable have produced no impression. When one hears English well spoken, with pure diction, correct pronunciation, and an almost

unconscious choice of the right word, he recognizes it at once. How much easier he finds it to imitate English of the other sort!

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A second and indispensable trait of the educated 3 man is refined and gentle manners, which are themselves the expression of fixed habits of thought and action. “Manners make the man,” wrote William of Wykeham over his gates at Winchester and at Oxford. He pointed to a great truth. When manners are superficial, artificial, and forced, no matter what their form, they are bad manners. When, however, they are the natural expression of fixed habits of thought and action, and when they reveal a refined and cultivated nature,

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they are good manners. There are certain things that gentlemen do not do, and they do not do them simply because they are bad manners. The gentleman instinctively knows the difference between those things which he may and should do and those things which he may not and should not do. 4 A third trait of the educated man is the power and habit of reflection. Human beings for the most part live wholly on the surface of life. They do not look beneath the surface or far beyond the present moment and that part of the future which is quickly to follow it.

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