新视野大学英语3读写教学课件(第二版~)Unit3SectionA课文和翻译

Unit3 SectionA

The Hyde School operates on the principle that if you teach students the merit of such values as truth, courage, integrity, leadership, curiosity and concern, then academic achievement naturally follows. Hyde School foun der Joseph Gauld claims success with the program at the $18,000-a-year high school in Bath, Maine, which has received considerable publicity for its work with troubled youngsters.

"We don't see ourselves as a school for a type of kid," says Malcolm Gau ld, Joseph's son, who graduated from Hyde and is now headmaster. "We s ee ourselves as preparing kids for a way of life — by cultivating a compre hensive set of principles that can affect all kids."

Now, Joe Gauld is trying to spread his controversial Character First idea t o public, inner-city schools willing to use the tax dollars spent on the tradi tional program for the new approach. The first Hyde public school progra m opened in September 1992. Within months the program was suspended . Teachers protested the program's demands and the strain associated with more intense work.

This fall, the Hyde Foundation is scheduled to begin a preliminary public school program in Baltimore. Teachers will be trained to later work throu ghout the entire Baltimore system. Other US school managers are eyeing the program, too. Last fall, the Hyde Foundation opened a magnet progra m within a public high school in the suburbs of New Haven, Connecticut,

over parents' protests. The community feared the school would attract inn er-city minority and troubled students.

As in Maine the quest for truth is also widespread at the school in Connec ticut. In one English class, the 11 students spend the last five minutes in a n energetic exchange evaluating their class performance for the day on a 1-10 scale.

"I get a 10."

"I challenge that. You didn't do either your grammar or your spelling hom ework."

"OK, a seven."

"You ought to get a six."

"Wait, I put my best effort forth here."

"Yeah, but you didn't ask questions today."

Explaining his approach to education, Joe Gauld says the conventional e ducation system cannot be reformed. He notes "no amount of change" wit h the horse and carriage "will produce an automobile". The Hyde School assumes "every human being has a unique potential" that is based on char acter, not intelligence or wealth. Conscience and hard work are valued. S uccess is measured by growth, not academic achievement. Students are re quired to take responsibility for each other. To avoid the controversy of ot her character programs used in US schools, Gauld says the concept of doi ng your best has nothing to do with forcing the students to accept a partic