文學作品導讀 week 8－u10210102的部落格

1. 大學退學率不到3% 政大教授錢致榕:老師失職

畢業就是失業錢致榕：老師失職

2010/09/10

【記者李威儀／台北報導】

政大講座教授、美國約翰霍普金斯大學教授錢致榕昨天指出，目前大學教育的最大危機，是學生修課太多，讀書時間太少，加上老師「失職」管得鬆，97%的修課學生都能過關，質量控制完全喪失，造成就業市場人才難尋，學生畢業即面臨失業的情形。

錢致榕在政大以「念大學做什麼？」為題對大一新生演講時指出，他在美國任教數十年，美國大學每年淘汰約1/3以上大學生，但在台灣，政大、台大、清大等校學生因課業表現不佳而被淘汰的比率大約只有3%，不少私立大學更是0%，若非老師教得太好，就是在「質量控制」上嚴重失靈。

他說，學生每修一學分，理應花2到3小時自習，因此美國學生很少修超過15學分，但台灣學生選課動輒20、30學分，不可能有足夠自習時間，然而期末成績竟然還個個拿80、90分，代表老師「失職」，讓學生太好混，「教不嚴，師之惰」，現在就算大學畢業也找不到工作，正顯示教育品質出問題。

錢致榕批評，不少大學急功近利，例如台大花上千萬辦「領導學程」，帶學生去喜馬拉雅山做一星期志工，就期待能培養出「總統人才」，這種人才培育實在「太便宜」，他叮囑學生，能力靠累積，「所有短線的東西都不要碰。」

錢致榕並提醒在場450名政大新生，社會納稅資助國立大學生讀4年的平均花費，大約是每人100萬元，學生自然需要負起社會責任，「4年畢業後要自問，值不值這100萬？」如果不值，就「還錢來！」

2. attend + church/ school/ meeting

3. Grendel- John Gardner

Grendel is a 1971 novel by American author John Gardner. It is a retelling of part of the Old English poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. In the novel, Grendel is portrayed as an antihero. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and myth, and the nature of good and evil.

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John Gardner

John Champlin Gardner Jr. was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor. He is perhaps most noted for his novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.

模仿The Canterbury Tales (十日譚)

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer.

4. magn-

means big

magnificent- very good; excellent.

Cantebury Cathedral 英國國教派大本營

Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England. It forms part of a World Heritage Site.

5. -shire 部落遺蹟/ -bury 遺跡

New Hampshire

New Hampshire, a small New England state, is defined by its quaint towns and large expanses of wilderness. At its heart is the Lakes Region, encompassing island-filled Lake Winnipesaukee, a popular destination for canoeing, fishing and hiking. In the north, White Mountain National Forest is known for winter sports and Mt. Washington, the region’s highest peak, with a cog railway to its summit.

Salisbury

Salisbury is a medieval cathedral city in the southern English county of Wiltshire. It’s 9 miles south of the iconic prehistoric stone circle at Stonehenge, which stands on the grassland of Salisbury Plain. The city’s ornate 13th-century cathedral has a 123m spire, a working 14th-century clock and an original copy of the Magna Carta, a key document from 1215 A.D.

6. The wife of Bath Tales

The Wife of Bath's Tale(Middle English: the Tale of the Wyf of Bathe ) is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It provides insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and was probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her Prologue twice as long as her Tale. He also goes so far as to describe two sets of clothing for her in his General Prologue. She holds her own among the bickering pilgrims, and evidence in the manuscripts suggests that although she was first assigned a different, plainer tale—perhaps the one told by the Shipman—she received her present tale as her significance increased. She calls herself both Alyson and Alys in the prologue, but to confuse matters these are also the names of her 'gossib' (a close friend or gossip), whom she mentions several times, as well as many female characters throughout The Canterbury Tales.

7. modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the factors that shaped modernism were the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I. Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.

The Waste Land 荒原

The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot. It is widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central text in Modernist poetry.

8.Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art.

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

The Kiss

9. phallic 陽物崇拜形象

A phallus is a penis, especially when erect, an object that resembles a penis, or a mimetic image of an erect penis.

Any object that symbolically — or, more precisely, iconically — resembles a penis may also be referred to as a phallus; however, such objects are more often referred to as being phallic (as in "phallic symbol"). Such symbols often represent fertility and cultural implications that are associated with the male sexual organ, as well as the male orgasm.

10. Put oneself in somebody else's shoes/place/position. 易地而處

To allow oneself to see or experience something from someone else's point of view.

11. Perseus

In Greek mythology, Perseus, the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty of Danaans, was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles.

11. Icarus

In Greek mythology, Icarus is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. Often depicted in art, Icarus and his father attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax.