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1、Unit 8 Coping with an Educational Problem,Background Information About the author: Benjamin Stein Fable UCLA Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations Iwo Jima,Reading Activities Text Analysis Language Study Learning Strategy Discussion Questions Further Development Writing Quiz,Preview Questions,Do you thi
2、nk there are differences between American education and Chinese education? What are they? According to your ideas, what is the big problem in American education? One of the current trends in higher education is the move away from liberal, broad-based education to education that is vocational or job-
3、oriented. What is your opinion of the general tendency? What do you think education can offer to human beings? Can you imagine how a man makes a living without education?,Background Information,Benjamin Stein Benjamin J. Stein was born November 25, 1944 in Washington, D.C. He grew up in Silver Sprin
4、g, Maryland which is located about 10 miles north of Washington D.C.,He graduated from Columbia University in 1966 with honors in economics, and in 1970 he graduated from Yale Law School where he was elected valedictorian of his class by his classmates. Stein has worked as a poverty lawyer and a tri
5、al lawyer in the field of trade regulation at the Federal Trade Commission. In 1973 and 1974, he was a speech writer and lawyer for Richard Nixon and then for Gerald Ford.,Stein has also been a columnist and writer for many news publications including The Wall Street Journal, Barrons, and The Washin
6、gton Post among others. Stein is also credited for having written and published over 16 books. Despite having a resume that boasts a gamut of lofty professions and part-time endeavors, Stein didnt achieve his official celebrity status until his part as the boring teacher in the 1986 movie Ferris Bue
7、llers Day Off. Since 1997 he has been a popular fixture on cable tvs Comedy Central as the host of the game show “Win Ben Steins Money.“,His works:,Can America Survive (2004) Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings, 9th Edition (1999) Building Technology: Mechanical and Electrical Systems,
8、 2nd Edition (1997) Yes, You Can Be A Successful, Income Investor : Reaching for Yield in Todays Market (2006) Yes, You Can Still Retire Comfortably! (2005) Yes, You Can Time the Market! (2004) How to Ruin Your Love Life (2003),Fable is a tale often featuring animal characters, told to illustrate a
9、specific moral point, and it often ends with a proverb reinforcing that point。The Elements of a Fable include animal characters with human qualities, setting and situation, problem, resolution and moral or lesson.,Now read the following Aesops fable to learn the features of fable,The Fox and the Goa
10、t Illustrated by Jeremy Hollister,By an unlucky chance a Fox fell into a deep well from which he could not get out. A Goat passed shortly afterwards, and asked the Fox what he was doing down there. “Oh, have you not heard?“ said the Fox; “there is going to be a great drought, so I jumped down here i
11、n order to be sure to have water by me. Why dont you come down too?“,The Goat thought well of this advice, and jumped down into the well. But the Fox immediately jumped on her back, and by putting his foot on her long horns managed to jump up to the edge of the well. “Good-bye, friend,“ said the Fox
12、. Remember next time.,Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties!,The Dove and the Ant,An Ant, going to a river to drink, fell in, and was carried along in the stream. A Dove pitied her condition, and threw into the river a small bough, by means of which the Ant gained the shore. The Ant afterw
13、ard, seeing a man with a fowling-piece aiming at the Dove, stung him in the foot sharply, and made him miss his aim, and so saved the Doves life. “Little friends may prove great friends.“,UCLA,University of California at Los Angeles, the largest of the eight branches of the University of California.
14、 It was established in 1919 and how has about 35,000 students. UCLA is known for its film studies.,School colors,UCLAs colors are blue and gold. Blue symbolizes the ocean, and local wildflowers. Yellow reflects the Golden State, the California poppy and sunsets. Of course, the shades have changed ov
15、er the years. The blue, for example, has varied from powder to sky to royal.,Mascot,The grizzly bear was chosen in 1925 as the official mascot for the Southern Branch of the University of California, as UCLA was known then. (Originally, UCLA students were “Cubs” a nod to the schools fledgling status
16、 that didnt sit well for long.),However, when UCLA entered the Pacific Coast Conference in 1929, fellow conference member University of Montana already had the grizzly moniker. Meanwhile, UC Berkeley was using Bears and Bruins, and it was decided UCLA would take Bruins.,UCLAs earliest mascots were live bears. During the late 1930s, the animals entertained the home crowd at the football stadium. A variety of names were given to the bears, but Joe Bruin is the one that stuck.
