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1、U6,Additional lnformation for the Teachers Reference,Text Matriculation Fixation,Warm-up Activities,Further Reading,Writing Skills,Additional Work,Warm-up Activities,Warm-up 1,In higher education, college and university rankings are listings of universities and liberal arts colleges in an order dete
2、rmined by any combination of factors. Rankings can be based on subjectively perceived “quality”, on some combination of empirical statistics, or on surveys of educators, scholars, students, prospective students, or others. University and college rankings can be based upon the following criteria: “ho
3、w well it performs as an engine of social mobility (ideally helping the poor to get rich rather than the very rich to get very, very rich)”,Warm-up Activities,Warm-up 2,b. “how well it does in fostering scientific and humanistic research” c. “how well it promotes an ethic of service to country”,1. J
4、oe Queenan Joe Queenan (born November 3, 1950) is a contemporary humorist, critic and author from Philadelphia who graduated from Saint Josephs University. He has written for numerous publications such as Spy Magazine, Movieline, The Guardian and the New York Times book review. Queenan describes him
5、self as a “Hatchet Man”. He has written several books including Balsamic Dreams, a scathing critique of the Baby Boomers, and Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon, a tour of low-brow American Pop Culture.,AIFTTR1.1,Additional lnformation for the Teachers Reference,AIFTTR1.2,2. prep school I
6、n North America, prep school is a private secondary school, typically charging high fees, designed to prepare students aged 14-18 for higher education at a university or college. In the UK, prep school is a private school designed to prepare pupils under 13 for entry into the fee-required public sch
7、ools that are the equivalent of the college/university prep schools in North America.,3. Princeton (University) Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. It is one of the eight universities that comprise the Ivy League. Originally founded i
8、n,AIFTTR1.3,1746 at Elizabeth, New Jersey as the College of New Jersey, it moved to Princeton in 1756 and was renamed “Princeton University” in 1896. Princeton was the fourth institution of higher education in the U.S. to conduct classes. The university, unlike most American universities that were f
9、ounded at the same time, did not have an official religious affiliation. At one time, it had close ties to the Presbyterian Church, but today it is nonsectarian and makes no religious demands of its students. The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Semina
10、ry, and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University.,AIFTTR1.4,4. matriculation Matriculation, in the broadest sense, means to be registered or added to a list, from the Latin matrix. The most common meaning, however, refers to the formal process of entering a university, or of becoming eligib
11、le to enter by acquiring the meeting prerequisites.,Text,Matriculation Fixation,Notes,Introduction to the Author and the Article,Phrases and Expressions,Exercises,Main Idea of the Text,Main Idea of the Text,Main Idea of the Text,Joe Queenans brief “Matriculation Fixation” is chiefly about parental o
12、bsessions with childrens educational paths. He claims that not every child needs to attend the most top level college and many people who have graduated from lesser known colleges, dropped out of college or not even attended college went on to live successful and fulfilling lives. In other words, th
13、ere are numerous examples that prove that there is not a strong link between personal success and the level of universities they choose to attend.,Introduction to the Author and the article,Introduction to the Author and the Article,Joe Queenan (1950) is an American critic and writer. Formerly an ed
14、itor at “Forbes” and “Spy”, Queenan has published many articles and stories in numerous publications such as “The New Republic,” “Time,” “Newsweek,” “Rolling Stone,” “People,” “Mens Health,” “Us,” “Cosmopolitan,” “Esquire,” “Vogue,” “Allure,” “New York Magazine,” and “George.” His major works includ
15、e The Unkindest Cut, If Youre Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be in Trouble and Imperial Caddy. This essay Matriculation Fixation is chosen from Best American Essays 2002. In this essay, Queenan fixes a cynical,Introduction to the Author and the article2,eye on American boomers obsession, who believ
16、e securing admission to a top-flight university will provide their children an irrevocable passport to success, guaranteeing a life of uninterrupted economic mirth. He claims that not every child needs to attend the most top level college in the world and many people who have attended lesser known c
17、olleges, dropped out of college or did not even attend college went on to live very successful and inspiring lives.,Part2_T1,Two years ago, I was languishing in the waiting room of a Philadelphia hospital when a complete stranger unexpectedly began telling me about his daughters college plans. As my
18、 79-year-old mother was recovering from major surgery that afternoon, I could not give him my complete and undivided attention. But as the briefing session wore on, I did manage to garner most of the relevant details.,Joe Queenan,Matriculation Fixation,Text,The girl, bright but not brilliant, had be
19、en accepted to a first-tier university without financial aid but had also been accepted to a local, second-echelon university where she was promised a free ride. Money being tight, with other college-bound children in the family queue, the man had persuaded his daughter to accept the second universi
20、tys offer. Now he was worried that she would one day rue this decision. Because she would be graduating from a less prestigious institution, fewer contacts would be made and fewer doors would be opened. Her degree would put her within striking distance of the yellow brick road, but not physically on
21、 the road itself. Did this make her father the spawn of Satan?,Part2_T2,I told him that I myself had graduated from a second-echelon Philadelphia university not unlike the one his daughter was entering, and had managed to carve out a nice little niche for myself. I told him that my college days had
22、been among the happiest of my life, that the sun never set without my thanking God for the illumination and inspiration provided by my talented,Part2_T3,As a man of the world accustomed to being told the most intimate details about complete stangers marriages, careers and hobbies, I had long ago acq
23、uired the requisite skills to mediate this crisis. I told the man that many of my high school chums had graduated from the second-tier university in question and had gone on to live rich, full lives.,Part2_T4,dedicated professors. Pressed for biographical data, I explained that I was a freelance wri
24、ter, ticked off a list of my credentials and said I was pretty happy with the way my career had turned out. The man had never heard of me, had never read anything Id written. Though he tried to feign interest in my pathetic curriculum vitae, I could see that he was devastated. By following an academ
25、ic path similar to mine, his daughter, who was also planning a career in journalism, was going to end up as big a failure as I.,I never did find out why he was visiting the hospital. I mention this incident because it illustrates the neurotic gabbiness that afflicts parents when it comes time to sen
26、d their children to college. I know whereof I speak. Next fall, my,Part2_T5,daughter goes to college. Three years later my son will follow suit. I will be sorry to see them go; over the years they have proved to be remarkably amusing. But every dark cloud has a silver lining. Once my children have l
27、eft the house, I will never again have to participate in a mind numbing discussion about where my children or my friends children or my neighbours children are going to college, and why. On this subject, I am completely tapped out. This lack of interest does not stem from pure selfishness or unalloy
28、ed contempt for other peoples offspring. Rather, I feel this way because I find almost all conversations about the college selection process to be banal, self-aggrandizing, self-flagellatory or punitive. Id rather talk about cribbage.,Part2_T6,The most infuriating conversation is the one where the p
29、arent clearly seeks a decisive, career-validating moment of emotional closure. Such individuals believe that securing admission to a top-flight university provides a child with an irrevocable passport to success, guaranteeing a life of uninterrupted economic mirth. Parents such as these upwardly mob
30、ile chuckleheads exude an almost Prussian belligerence when announcing their childrens destinations, congratulating themselves on a job well done, while issuing a sotto voce taunt to parents of the less gifted. For them, the hard part of child rearing is now over. Junior went to the right prep schoo
31、l, made the right friends, signed up for the right activities and is now headed for the right school. Now we can get the heck out of here and move to Tuscany.,Part2_T7,But in reality, life doesnt end at age 17. Or 21. In real life, some children get the finest educations but still become first-class
32、 screw-ups. My own profession is filled with people who went to the right school but ended up in the wrong career. (They should have been flacks; the phone ringing in the next room is not and never will be the Pulitzer committee.) Some of those boys and girls most likely to succeed are going to end
33、up on80 welfare or skid row. At which point theyll need parental input. Or cash. A parents responsibility doesnt end once the kids leave. A parents responsibility never ends. Thats why Nature gives you the job.,Part2_T8,A second, far more numerous class of obsessives consists of people who suddenly
34、realize that their Brand X children arent going to make the cut. Seventeen years of unread textbooks, unvisited museums and untaken A.P. Courses are now finally taking their toll, and those grandiose delivery-room dreams of Amherst, Bard and Duke are suddenly going up in smoke. Bashfully, shamefaced
35、ly, miserably, these parents now mumble the names of the glamourless institutions their progeny are skulking off to. Invariably, they are colleges you never heard of in towns no one wants to visit in states whose capitals only repeat winners on “Jeopardy” can name. The market has spoken, the glum pa
36、rental expressions seem to say. My child is an idiot.,But once again, reality has a way of upsetting the worst laid plans of mice and Mensa. Some kids are late bloomers. Some kids are better off in a less competitive environment. Lots of people achieve huge success in this society without a degree f
37、rom a prestigious university. Just because your child has failed to clear the first, or even the 20th, hurdle doesnt mean you should disown him. Matisse didnt get rolling until he was in his 40s. Bill Gates, David Geffen, Michael Dell, Graydon Carter and Madonna are all college dropouts. Ronald Reag
38、an attended tiny Eureka College, while Warren Buffet went to Football U in Lincoln, Neb. Despite what you may have read in F. Scott Fitzgerald (who dropped out of Princeton in 1917), life doesnt have just one act. There is often Act II. And Act V. Not to mention the sequels.,Part2_T9,Matriculation f
39、ixation reaches its dottiest form during the obligatory campus visit. Here it is never entirely clear what parents are looking for, particularly in high-profile institutions whose renown has in some way preceded them. During a recent visit to M.I.T., I watched the first seconds of an admissions offi
40、ce video poking fun at the universitys reputation as a nerd factory. While my wife and daughter watched the rest of the video, which assured applicants that M.I.T. nerds were hard to find, I took a stroll around the campus. I saw a lot of nerds. And I do not mean this as a criticism.,Part2_T10,Part2
41、_T11,Later that morning, a guide showed a bunch of us around campus. At one juncture, she pointed out a restaurant where students could grab a fast, inexpensive meal. “How much?” asked one high-strung mother. “About eight bucks,” she was told. The woman shuddered, noting that forking over for dinner
42、 every night could get pretty darned expensive. “Its going to cost you grand to send your kid to school here,” I interjected. “Dont start worrying about dinner prices.” Since that visit this fall, this incident has become an invaluable part of my repertory. Now, whenever I am dragooned into the 30,0
43、00th interminable conversation about the college,selection process I indicate that sedulous monitoring of on-campus restaurant prices should be a vital component of the winnowing procedure. People who hear me say things like this cant decide whether I am insensitive or ornery or flat-out dumb. Well,
44、 lets just put in this way: I was never M.I.T. material.,Part2_T12,Her degree would put her within striking distance of the yellow brick road but not physically on the road itself. Did this make her father the spawn of Satan?: Her college degree, because it was from a less well-known university, wou
45、ld give her the possibility of success, but not guarantee her success. Because her father persuaded her to accept the offer from the lower level college, does this mean that he is a bad man? On this subject, I am completely tapped out: I have talked about this subject so much that I am completely ex
46、hausted and have said all that can be said about it.,Notes,Part2_TA_Notes1,Part2_TA_Notes2,Id rather talk about cribbage: I would rather talk about any other subject than the selection of schools. . while issuing a sotto voce taunt to parents of the less gifted: When speaking about their childrens s
47、chooling, parents whose children have made it into world-class universities, oftentimes make a kind of challenge toward parents whose children are attending lesser known universities. Now we can get the heck out of here and move to Tuscany: Now that our child has gone off to school and made all the
48、right decisions in life, we can retire and move to Tuscany (a beautiful place to retire and live out your life).,Notes,Part2_TA_Notes3,In real life, some children get the finest education but still become first-class screw-ups: While some children may get a very high level education, they may still
49、become terrible people or make many mistakes in life. their Brand X children arent going to make the cut: their children are not going to make it into the university of their choice A.P. courses: Advanced Placement Courses. Usually they are offered in high school to give high school students a chance to earn college credit for advanced work they do while in high school.,Part2_TA_Notes4,Notes,. those grandiose delivery-room dreams of Amherst, Bard and Duke are suddenly going up in smoke: those dreams that parents had for their children of attend
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