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布克·T·华盛顿:力争上游·摘录 117
布克·T·华盛顿《力争上游》· Up from Slavery · 领导
The students who came first seemed to be fond of memorizing long and complicated “rules” in grammar and mathematics, but had little thought or knowledge of applying these rules to their everyday affairs of their life. One subject which they liked to talk about, and tell me that they had mastered, in arithmetic, was “banking and discount,” but I soon found out that neither they nor almost any one in the neighbourhood in which they had lived had ever had a bank account. In registering the names of the students, I found that almost every one of them had one or more middle initials. When I asked what the “J” stood for, in the name of John J. Jones, it was explained to me that this was a part of his “entitles.” Most of the students wanted to get an education because they thought it would enable them to earn more money as school-teachers.
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定位:Excerpt 117 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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学生们起初喜欢背语法和数学里又长又复杂的“规则”,却几乎没想到也没能力把这些规则用到日常生活里。他们爱说已经掌握了算术中的“银行和贴现”,但我很快发现,他们和附近的人几乎从没开过银行账户。登记姓名时,我发现几乎每人都有一个或几个中间名首字母。我问约翰·J·琼斯里的“J”代表什么,他们解释说那是他“头衔”的一部分。多数学生想受教育,是因为觉得这能让他们当老师挣更多钱。
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布克·T·华盛顿在《超越奴役》中回忆创办塔斯基吉学院初期,描述刚入学的学生脱离实际的学习状况。
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你学过的哪个知识,其实你从未在真实生活里用过一次?
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