哈佛校園生活情景對話：注重人文教育

哈佛大學，簡稱哈佛。坐落於美國馬薩諸塞州劍橋市，是一所享譽世界的私立研究型大學，是著名的常春藤盟校成員，被公認爲是當今世界最頂尖的高等教育機構之一。下面本站小編爲大家帶來關於哈佛校園生活情景對話，歡迎大家學習!

哈佛校園生活情景對話：注重人文教育

Han Meimei and Li Lei are still on the phone, talking about Harvard’s way of education.

H: Li, a question shot my brain just now, but I forgot it soon after you began to pour out your complaints.

H:李，剛纔有個問題在我腦子裏一閃而過，你一開始訴苦我就忘了。

L: Aren’t you a little too young for menopause?

L:你應該還沒到更年期吧?

H: What?

H:什麼?

L: Ha! Han, I confess I have a notoriously dry sense of humor.

L:哈!韓，我承認我的笑話很冷，衆所周知。

H: We’re a million miles away from the point.

H:我們離題十萬八千里了。

L: Fine, let’s get back on track. Do you remember your question now?

L:好啦，回到正題，你現在記得你的問題了嗎?

H： Yes. Are you still learning history in university? Isn’t it a subject in high school? Universities are supposed to train specialized talents.

H:嗯，你在大學裏還學歷史?那不是高中的課程嗎?大學 應該培養專業人才。

L: We have a field of concentration, but it’s not enough. You know what? Harvard has been promoting the development of “liberal arts education”.

L:我們有專業，但這不夠。你知道嗎,哈佛一直在推動“人 文敎育"的發展。

H: What’s that?

H:那是什麼?

L: An education whose aim is to cultivate people with balanced personalities. As the new Harvard president Faust said “ a university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future”.

L: 一種旨在培養人格和諧發展的教育。就像哈佛的新校長福斯特說的一樣，"大學不關乎未來幾個月的結果，也不關乎學生畢業時成爲什麼人。它關乎影響終生的學 問，一種傳承千年傳統的學問，一種創造未來的學問”。

H： Wow, your memory is amazing.

H:哇，你記憶力驚人啊。

L: These words are frequently citied.

L:這些話經常被人引用。

H: They’re really illuminating.

H:確實很有啓發性。

L： So at Harvard, we have to learn many courses that cover a variety of fields.

L:所以在哈佛，我們要學很多領域的課程。

H: That’s quite necessary. If we only specialize in one field, our horizons will become more and more narrow.

H:那很有必要。如果我們只專注一個領域，我們的視野就會變得越來越窄。

L: You bet! So Harvard offers an education that prepares students not for a career or something, but for their whole life.

L:說得對!所以哈佛的教育不是爲某個職業什麼的做準備，而是爲一生做準備的。

H: I think a lot of American colleges pay much attention to such a liberal education.

H:我想很多美國大學都很注重人文敎育吧。

L: Right. Every year, a criteria for ranking schools is “liberal arts college". Students who graduate from liberal arts colleges are like hot cakes for which most famous graduate schools battle.

L:對，每年學校排名的一項標準就是"人文大學_’。從這些人文大學畢業的學生會 成爲名牌研究生學校的搶手貨。

H: Really?

H:真的嗎?

L: Of course. It is the liberal education that ensures the high qualified education of most colleges and graduate schools.

L:當然，人文教育保證了很多大學和研究生學校的高教育質量。

H： I’ve heard of a lot stories telling that some students in China are not be admitted by any university, but they are enrolled by famous colleges in the U.S.,

H:我聽過很多學生在國內設有被任何大學錄取卻被美國知名大學錄取。

L: A Harvard education is not to produce bookworms, but a real person. Moreover, a Harvard education aims to produce useful people for the society. Therefore, in addition to the various subjects we learn at school, we are encouraged to go out of school and participate in social activities and social services.

L:哈佛教育不是培養書呆子，而是培養真正的人。另外，哈佛教育旨在爲社會鉉養 有用的人才。所以，除了在學校學習各種科目，學校還鼓勵我們走出學校，參加 社會活動和社會服務。

H: What do you often do?

H:你們都做什麼?

L： Such as going to the nursing home to tend elderly people, nursing patients at hospitals, helping new immigrants with immigration laws, or even being assistants of congressmen and senators.

L:比如去養老院照顧老人;到醫院看護病人;給新移民輔導移民法;甚至去紿議員 做助手。

H: But didn’t you say that Harvard worships truth rather than utility very much?

H:但你不是說哈佛崇尚真理，而不是追求功利嗎?

L: The purpose of these activities or services is to cultivate students' sense of responsibility, to let them know that they’re from society and have to go back to society. In China, we also advocate serving people, but we seldom put it into practice.

L：這些活動或服務的目的就是培養學生的責任感，讓他們知道他們來自社會，要回 歸社會。在中國，我們也提倡服務人民，但卻很少付諸實踐。

H: That’s ironic. I thought American people are selfish. It only turns out that I was wrong.

H:很諷刺啊，我以爲美國人很自私呢，看來我錯了。

L: We are often informed that some Chinese teenagers win the gold or silver medals in some international mathematics competitions. Where are they when they grow up? Do they become great scientists?

L：我們經常聽說某些中國青少車在某些國際數學比賽中得金獎、銀獎了，他們長大 後去哪了?成爲偉大的科學家了嗎?

H; You hit the nail on the head. Some students are only trained to be memory machines. But when they grow up, they’ll find they can hardly blend into society.

H:切中要害。一些學生被培養成記憶機器，但長大後卻發現自己很難融入社會。

L: That’s why a liberal education is so important.

L：這就是爲什麼人文教育這麼重要。