教育的不同功能

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教育能拓展思想，开阔视野；教育是发现我是谁，发现生命的意义，发现我可以在我的生命中做什么，发现我希望创造一个怎样的世界……

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Education isn't simply about achieving a“higher state of knowledge”; it's about equipping students with the tools they need to go out into the world and shape it for themselves.

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Schools cover many topics, and as you continue through our programs, more and more subjects open up to you. With all the possible topics available for students to learn, anyone can find their passion and do what they truly love!

Getting an education not only means learning skills like reading and writing, but also means gaining exposure to abstract concepts like teamwork, critical thinking and creativity. When you combine these two knowledge areas, you become an individual who is more likely to live a greater life than a less educated peer.

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Education brings up many environmental topics to students and encourages them to think about the ecosystems around them. Today this is becoming the most important issue to be aware of and education allows us to consume more responsibly and take action for the care of our planet.

Creative Philanthropy will introduce tools that cover environmental issues and what a student can do to improve their environmental impact at their schools and in their lives.

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Education's role in promoting world peace is no less important! Research shows that countries with secondary school enrollment rates (入学率) that are 10% above the international average have a 3% lower rate of engaging in a war. 4 And this holds true for all regions of the world, whether developed or developing. Uneducated people, on the other hand,are more likely to be persuaded by hate speech and be violent towards others.

5 If one extra year of school can

Reading Check

Fill in each blank with a proper sentence with the following sentences.

A. Education is a pretty investment.

B. Education is a step toward world peace.

C. Education reduces violence completely.

D. Education makes the world greener.

E. Education lets people take on responsibility.

F. Here is a list of how education could improve the world.

G. It has been shown that educated people are less likely to be violent.

Language Study

Ⅰ. Difficult sentence

With all the possible topics available for produce such concrete benefits, what will the world be like when universal education becomes a reality?students to learn, anyone can find their passion and do what they truly love! 有了所有可能的话题供同学们学习，任何人都可以找到他们所热爱的东西，做他们真正喜欢的事情！

【点石成金】本句运用了with复合结构，其结构为“with+名词+形容词+to do”，在句中补充说明背景情况，充当状语，在本句中充当条件状语。

Ⅱ. Useful expressions

equip sb with sth 给某人配备某物

gain exposure to 暴露于……

bring up 提出

be aware of 意识到

take action 采取行动

promote world peace 促进世界和平

engage in 参与

on the other hand 另一方面

主题应用·语库构建

Ⅰ. 热词积累

1. 教育意义

escape poverty-stricken lives 摆脱贫困生活

eliminate gender inequities 消除性别不平等

promote world peace 促进世界和平

foster global citizenship 培养全球公民

boost students' achievements 提高学生的成绩

provide an education for... 为……提供教育

stimulate economic growth 拉动经济增长

rise out of poverty 摆脱贫困

earn a living 谋生

take down barriers 拆除障碍物

be more tolerant to differences 更能包容差异

find your passion 找到你的激情

show leadership 展示领导能力

learn to socialize 学习进行社交活动

connect with the rest of the world 与世界其他地方建立联系

bring people with similar interests together 把有相似兴趣的人聚集在一起

improve child protection system 完善儿童保护制度

increase school attendance rates 提高学校的出勤率

increase the enrollment rate of children 提高儿童的入学率

2. 个人提升

develop students' problem-solving skills 培养学生解决问题的能力

shoulder responsibilities 承担责任

accelerate progress 加快进步

discover passions 发现热爱所在

gain skills and abilities 获得技术和能力

broaden the mind 开阔眼界

change outlook 改变看法

put these skills into action 将技能付诸行动

critical thinking 批判性思维

learn important social skills 学习重要的社交技能

innovative and effective solutions 创新和有效的解决方案

learning experience 学习经验

3. 其他

a well-educated mind 受过良好教育的人

a bachelor's degree 学士学位

educator 教育者

primary-aged children 小学入学适龄儿童

distance learning 远程教育

honor roll 荣誉榜

secondary school 中学

be out of school 辍学

job-training 职业培训

a non-profit organization 非营利性组织

provide undergraduate education 提供本科教育

teaching assistant 助教

tuition 学费

post-university 大学后的

Ⅱ. 美句背诵

学无止境

1. Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. 师傅领进门，修行靠个人。

2. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.Learn as if you were to live forever. 如同明日将死那样生活，如同永远不死那样求知。

3. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. 无聊的解药是好奇心，而好奇心却是无药可解。

4. Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read. 要掌握书，莫被书掌握；要为生而读，莫为读而生。

5. Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. 教育是一个逐步发现自己的无知的过程。

6. Mistakes are an essential part of education. 从错误中吸取教训是教育极为重要的一部分。

教育的重要性

1. Education is the foundation of national development in the long run. 百年大计， 教育为本。

2. Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. 与其不受教育，不如不生，因为无知是不幸的根源。

3. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. 所谓教育，就是一个人在忘掉学校所学后剩下的东西。

4. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. 教师的最高艺术是唤醒创造性表达和知识中的乐趣。

教育意义

1. If you are planning for a year, sow rice;if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.一年之计，莫如树谷；十年之计，莫如树木；百年之计，莫如树人。

2. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. 教育的全部目的是把镜子变成窗户。

3. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. 教育的作用是教一个人如何深入思考和批判性思考。

4. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education. 智慧加上个性，那才是真正教育的目标。

5. The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. 教育的目的在于能让青年人毕生进行自我教育。

6. Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. 教育不是注满一桶水，而是点燃一把火。

7. Example is always more efficacious than precept. 身教胜于言教。

8. Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. 读书使人充实，谈话使人敏捷，写作使人严谨。

9. Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study. 天然的能力犹如天然的植物，需要通过学习来精心修剪。

10. In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.我们并不是通过教育努力教会青年人谋生，而是教会他们创造生活。

11. The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. 教育的主要目的不是获取事实，而是要学会如何使事实具有生命力。

12. Histories make men wise; poets, witty;the mathematics,subtle;natural philosophy,deep;moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.读史使人明智，读诗使人灵秀，数学使人周密，自然哲学使人深刻，伦理学使人庄重，逻辑修辞之学使人善辩。

教育变革

1. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. 教育是你可以用来改变世界最强大的武器。

2. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. 对知识投资，收益最佳。

3. The highest result of education is tolerance. 教育的最高成果是宽容。

4. The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. 学习的

美妙之处在于，没有人能从你身上拿走它。

5. When you educate one person you can change a life; when you educate many you can change the world. 当你教育一个人时， 你可以改变一个人的生活；当你教育许多人时，你可以改变这个世界。

6. Education connects you with the stories,theories and accomplishments of faraway cultures and generations. It offers you a body of knowledge greater than you can ever gain on your own in one lifetime. 教育将你与遥远的文化和世世代代的故事、理论和成就联系起来，它为你提供了比你一生中所能获得的更多的知识。

7. Education opens a window to thought leaders near and far throughout history, and lets you understand the world in a deeper, more complex way. 教育为历史上远近的思想领袖打开了一扇窗，让你以一种更深刻、更复杂的方式理解这个世界。

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