经济学人:大学的未来
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现代教育的危机
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Stefan Collini
Cambridge
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Universities are in a paradoxical position. As Stefan Collini points out in this eloquent and impassioned book, these ancient institutions have never been so numerous or so important. They receive more public money than they ever did. They are lauded as the engines of economic growth and technological advance. And yet they are frequently defensive and troubled, harried by politicians and lacking a clear sense of purpose and direction.
Mr Collini, professor of English literature and intellectual history at the University of Cambridge, is eager to rebuild their confidence. Universities, he says, "provide a home for attempts to extend and deepen human understanding in ways which are, simultaneously, disciplined and illimitable." It is the side-effects of this activity that public debate has seized upon, the impact on the student's capacity for understanding, or on a country's development of new technologies. But these are not the core purpose of a university.大学正处于矛盾之境地。正如斯特凡•科里尼在这部论述清晰、慷慨激昂的作品中指出的那样，大学---这些古时的机构，如今数量之多，地位之高，前所未有。大学得到的公共资金比以往多；作为经济发展、科技进步的引擎，大学亦得到了颇多赞誉。但是，这些高等学府却屡屡拿出自卫的姿态，屡屡为政客烦扰，且屡屡缺乏目的性与方向感。
作为剑桥大学英国文学与思想史的教授，科里尼对于重建大学的自信表现出了极大的热忱。大学，他表示：“以一种克己、无极限的方式为拓展、深化人类智慧提供了一片土地。”而公众争论的焦点则是这种大学教育的副作用：对学生理解能力的影响及对国家新科技发展产生的影响。但诸如此类都不是大学的核心目的所在。
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