[美国媒体]美国教育之死

美国教育之死 [美国媒体]

The Death Of Education In America

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Trump! Mueller! Collusion!

特朗普！缪勒！相互勾结！

I know: who cares about the education of our kids as the redacted Mueller Report dominates the airwaves on CNN, MSNBC, and similar cable “news” networks?

我知道：在CNN、MSNBC和类似的有线“新闻”网络的广播节目中，谁关心我们孩子的教育呢？

Nowadays, education in America is about training for a vocation, at least for some. It’s about learning for the sake of earning, i.e. developing so-called marketable skills that end (one hopes) in a respectable paycheck. At Penn College, I was encouraged to meet my students “at their point of need.” I was told they were my “customers” and I was their “provider.” Education, in sum, was transactional rather than transformational. Keep students in class (and paying tuition) and pray you can inspire them to see that the humanities are something more than “filler” to their schedules — and their lives.

现在，美国的教育是为了职业培训，至少对一些人来说是这样。这是为了挣钱而学习，即培养所谓的适销技能，最终（人们希望）获得可观的薪水。在宾夕法尼亚大学，我被鼓励“在学生需要的时候”与他们见面。有人告诉我，他们是我的“客户”，我是他们的“提供者”。总之，教育是交易性的，而不是变革性的。让学生继续上课（并支付学费），并祈祷你能激励他们看到人文学科不仅仅是他们日程和生活的“填充物”。

As a college professor, I was lucky. I taught five classes a semester (a typical teaching load at community colleges), often in two or three subjects. Class sizes averaged 25-30 students, so I got to know some of my students; I had the equivalent of tenure, with good pay and decent benefits, unlike the adjunct professors of today who suffer from low pay and few if any benefits. I liked my students and tried to challenge and inspire them to the best of my ability.

作为一名大学教授，我很幸运。我每学期教五节课（社区大学的典型教学负荷），通常分为两到三门课。班级人数平均为25-30名学生，所以我认识了一些学生；我有相当的任期，薪水高，福利也不错，不像今天的兼职教授，他们工资低，而且几乎没有福利。我喜欢我的学生，并尽我所能去挑战和激励他们。

All this is a preface to Belle Chesler’s stunning article at TomDispatch.com, “Making American Schools Less Great Again: A Lesson in Educational Nihilism on a Grand Scale.” A high school visual arts teacher, Chesler writes from the heart about the chronic underfunding of education and how it is constricting democracy in America. Here she talks about the frustrations of classes that are simply too big to teach:

所有这些都是贝尔·切斯勒在tomcatch.com上发表的一篇令人惊叹的文章的序言，“让美国学校不再那么伟大：大规模的教育虚无主义课程。”切斯勒是一位高中视觉艺术教师，他发自内心地写道，教育的长期资金不足以及它如何限制美国的皿煮。在这里，她谈到了那些太大而不能教的课程的挫折：

[Class sizes grew so large] I couldn’t remember my students’ names, was unable to keep up with the usual grading and assessments we’re supposed to do, and was overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. Worst of all, I was unable to provide the emotional support I normally try to give my students. I couldn’t listen because there wasn’t time.

[班级规模越来越大]我记不起学生的名字，跟不上我们通常要做的评分和评估，压力和焦虑让我不知所措。最糟糕的是，我无法提供通常试图给予学生的情感支持。我听不到，因为没有时间。

The truth of the matter is that a society that refuses to adequately invest in the education of its children is refusing to invest in the future. Think of it as nihilism on a grand scale.

事实是，一个拒绝对其子女的教育进行充分投资的社会拒绝对未来进行投资。可以把它想象成一个大范围的虚无主义。

Perhaps Trump does have some relevance to this article after all: “I love the poorly educated,” sayeth Trump. Who says Trump always lies?

也许特朗普确实与这篇文章有一些关联：“我爱受教育程度低的人，”特朗普说。谁说特朗普总是撒谎？评论翻译原创翻译：龙腾网 http://www.ltaaa.com 翻译：czf0829 转载请注明出

The real problem these days is entitled lard *** teachers, doling out busy work to kids so they can get back to Facebook or Pinterest on their ******* phone. Teachers are an abhorrent waste of money and benefits these days, and I swear I've heard them bitch about how hard their jobs are and how they work so many hours, for ***** sake.

现在真正的问题是“猪油老师”，给孩子们分配繁忙的工作，这样他们就可以回到Facebook或Pinterest上了。老师们都在浪费金钱和福利，我发誓我这些天听到他们抱怨他们的工作有多辛苦，他们工作了那么多小时。

It's quite the opposite, we vastly *overvalue* education, or at least what passes for such in our public schools.

恰恰相反，我们大大高估了教育的价值，或者至少在我们的公立学校里，什么是教育的价值。

We have a corrupt political system. They make laws that kill the middle class.

我们有腐败的政治制度。他们制定法律杀死中产阶级。

You know, what they did to President Trump should have angered you to the point of impeaching those that would foist such FILTH on the nation as a whole. Your KIDS, your spouses. You had to live with a sick media repeating this filth like a mantra for two or more years and you had to PAY for that. 

你知道，他们对特朗普总统的所作所为应该激怒你，让你弹劾那些将这种污秽强加给整个国家的人。你的孩子，你的配偶。你必须和一个病态的媒体一起生活，像一个咒语一样重复这个污秽的话，持续两年或两年以上，你必须为此付出代价。

Aren't there people paid to oversee the debacle in education? Or do they just hand it all off to a lawyer?

难道没有人付钱监督教育的崩溃吗？或者他们只是把一切交给律师？

The overseers are the ones creating the mess.

监工是制造混乱的人。

Defund the Dept of Education.

解除教育部的职务。

When the American Library Association hosts a screed against 'whiteness' by an MIT Librarian that is straight out of 1930s NAZI Germany, you know something has gone horribly, horribly wrong in our educational system all the way to the top.

当美国图书馆协会主办了麻省理工学院图书馆员发起的一场针对“白度”的宣传活动时，你知道，我们的教育体系一路走到了顶峰，出现了可怕的错误。

MIT has some strange agendas. They could use some new top leadership, but the risk is that the new people would be even worse than the current ones.

麻省理工有一些奇怪的计划。他们可能会使用一些新的高层领导，但风险是新的人会比现在的人更糟糕。

Can you imagine if there was a just a teaching principal and a part time secretary in the school that you suggest?In my local public sty there are 155 administrators that never teach. 

你能想象，如果你建议的学校里只有一位校长和一位兼职秘书吗？在我当地的公共场所，有155名管理人员从未教书

I had an accountant run the numbers on reopening an abandoned public school after I had put them together.I could have hired the best non tenured college instructors with degrees up the wazoo at double their current pay and benefits that were far better than what they had.I needed 200 kids versus the 350 that were there before.All of the HVAC and the roof and the building would be paid off in less than five years. The profit would be 75,000 per year only if I charged half of the per inmate cost of the public school system.

我让一位会计整理了我把一所废弃的公立学校重新开学的数据。我本可以雇佣最好的非终身大学教师，他们的工资和福利比现在高出一倍，而且比现在好得多。我只需要200个孩子而不是以前的350个。所有的空调、屋顶和建筑将在不到五年的时间内付清。如果我只收取公立学校系统每名学生一半的费用，每年的利润将是75000英镑。

Its inflation of education. The rare (revered) high school diploma of 1905, is a piece of toilet paper today. 

教育的膨胀。1905年罕见的（受人尊敬的）高中文凭今天是一张卫生纸。

More money isn't the answer.

更多的钱不是答案。

Public schools are a massive waste of money. With technology they are no longer necessary. Shut down all public schools. You can't save the world but you may be able to save yourself and your family. Start by opting out of public schools of indoctrination.

公立学校是一种巨大的浪费。有了技术，他们就不再需要了。关闭所有公立学校。你不能拯救这个世界，但你可以拯救你自己和你的家人。从选择离开公立教育学校开始。

2 things.changes should have been made almost 40 years ago now when elementary school kids entered middle school not knowing basic math, reading or writing. without those basic skills the rest of education is pointless.teachers have a lot of power to change things and they didn't. they strike for more pay and benefits not changes in education then they have the nerve to blame their customers for their failure. can you imagine a doctor, lawyer or a plumber blaming the customer.the other issue is the usa already spends more per student with the most expensive colleges than any other country in the world with the worst results. the money is obviously being spent in the wrong places. is that much admin really needed? no!

2件事。40年前，当小学生进入中学时，他们不知道基本的数学、阅读或写作，现在应该已经做出了改变。没有这些基本技能，其余的教育是毫无意义的。教师有很大的权力去改变事情，但他们没有。他们争取更多的工资和福利，而不是教育的改变，那么他们就有勇气为他们的失败责备他们的顾客。你能想象医生、律师或管道工会责备顾客吗？另一个问题是，美国每个学生在最昂贵的大学上的花费已经超过世界上任何一个成绩最差的国家。钱显然花在了错误的地方。真的需要这么多管理人员吗？不！

got a time machine?

有时间机器吗？

Schools' admin is reputed to chew up the lion's share of the overspent schools' budgets.

学校的行政管理部门被认为是在削减学校预算中占最大比例的一部分。

It scares me how the leftist havens have frightened the children over climate change without letting them have a God to cling to. Do you realize this means they have no hope?

左派的避风港让孩子们害怕气候变化，却不让他们有上帝可以依靠，这让我很害怕。你知道这意味着他们没有希望吗？

Ivy league schools are light years wide of their goals to produce genuinely enlightened students - but have become very profitable credential mills.

常春藤联盟学校的目标是培养真正开明的学生，但已经成为有利可图的认证工厂。

We've spent the last 40 years dumbing down education and making schools centers for progressive indoctrination. 

在过去的40年里，我们一直在减少教育，使学校成为渐进式灌输的中心。

"...Underfunding of education..."Right off the bat a blathering leftist lie. In this state (WA) the average school gets a minimum of $15,000 per year per student. The average class size is about 18 students. That is $270,000 per year to run one class. And that's not enough? Every single year, for my entire life, the union school teachers go on strike, screaming and bawling that there are too many students in each class!I taught graduate level classes at a major university in engineering that were several times that size. But public school teachers are constantly bawling that they are not paid enough, the classes are too large, and they are just the most abused people on planet earth.

“…教育经费不足…”一个彻头彻尾的左翼谎言。在这个州（华盛顿州），平均每个学生每年至少能得到15000美元。平均班级人数约为18名学生。一个班每年27万美元。这还不够？在我的一生每一年中，联合学校的老师们都会罢工、大喊大叫，说每个班的学生太多了！我在一所工程专业的大学里教研究生水平的课程，规模是这个数字的几倍。但公立学校的老师经常抱怨他们的工资不够，班级太大，他们是地球上最受虐待的人。

No need for thinking! Public schools repeatedly train students to bubble the "One Right Answer" on a scan-tron testing form.

不需要思考！公立学校反复训练学生在扫描电子测试表格上圈选“一个正确答案”。

If they could bubble that right answer most of the time and get 600/800 on the SATs, I'd be happy enough with their education. But in fact they do not learn which answer is right to bubble.

如果他们能在大多数时间里给出正确的答案，并在SAT考试中获得600/800分，我会对他们的教育感到满意。但事实上，他们不知道哪个答案是正确的。

Always love to hear articles about the travails of being a Teacher.The Hours, the Heartbreak, Have to buy my own supplies, the low pay, etc.Where I live, Teacher's starting salary opens at 40-45K...

总是喜欢听关于当老师的艰辛的文章，耗时间，操心，不得不自己买东西，低薪等。在我住的地方，老师的起薪是40-45K…

Teaching is a profession that requires education, skill and experience. Teachers work long hours, deal with problem parents, problem students and an administration that demands success on standardized tests. If we want educated kids, we will have to pay teachers a living wage.

教学是一项需要教育、技能和经验的职业。教师工作时间长，处理有问题的家长、有问题的学生，以及要求在标准化考试中取得成功的管理部门。如果我们想要受教育的孩子，我们就得付给老师生活费。

Used to be, a lot of smart women taught in public schools. Now they're lawyers, doctors, engineers, accountants. Not saying that's bad, but it take the schools out of the sweetspot they used to be in.

过去，很多聪明的女人在公立学校教书。现在他们是律师、医生、工程师、会计师。不是说这很糟糕，但这让学校丢失了过去的优势。

American education doesn't have a funding problem, it has an administrative problem. Schools are poorly run not poorly funded. 

美国教育没有资金问题，它有管理问题。学校经营不善，不是资金不足。

And students are poorly taught...

学生们的教育很差…

The USA spends more per student than every other country in the world except Switzerland. For the last 30 years, we have pumped in billions only to see no improvement in math, science and reading scores. I'm not sure what Belle Chesler has in mind when she claims that there is an underfunding problem.

除瑞士外，美国每个学生的花费比世界上其他国家都多。在过去的30年里，我们投入了数十亿美元，结果发现数学、科学和阅读成绩没有任何提高。当贝尔·切斯勒声称资金不足时，我不知道她心里想的是什么。

The spending for education per student for most states is at least 9,000 per year with some reaching into the high teens. Connecticut, DC, Mass are 16,000 plus per student.And this include illegals.

在大多数州，每个学生每年的教育支出至少为9000美元，有些甚至达到了十几岁。康涅狄格州，哥伦比亚特区，每名学生超过16000美元。其中包括非法移民。

those who cant teach, become politicians

那些不能教书的人会成为政治家。

We homeschool for zero cost to taxpayers. We also pay every year to fund the government indoctrination centers called "public schools."

我们在家上学对纳税人来说是零成本的。我们每年还为政府教育中心“公立学校”提供资金。

Education died in the US when it was made compulsory.

美国的教育在强制实施的时候就停止了。

As the WSJ discovered in the '90s, it pretty much died when the teachers unionized -- that's when costs went up -- including the lifetime costs of union government pensions and health care -- and grade performance went down.

正如《华尔街日报》在上世纪90年代发现的那样，当教师联合会——也就是成本上升的时候——包括工会政府养老金和医疗保健的终身成本——以及成绩下降的时候，它几乎就死了。

I disagree.It died when the government took it over and forced children to attend their indoctrination facilities to learn obedience in the late 19th century.

我不同意。当19世纪晚期政府接管它并强迫孩子们去他们的教导设施学习服从时，它就死了。

When this person says education is underfunded in the US, is this person taking the outrageous teacher pensions into account???

当这个人说美国的教育经费不足时，这个人是否考虑到了令人愤怒的教师养老金？？？？

Private schools have to conform to the same standardized tests as public schools.Meaning they have to teach the same propaganda.

私立学校必须遵守与公立学校相同的标准化考试。这意味着他们必须教授同样的内容。

Since the Reagan years, the public schools have been under attack from the right and increasingly under funded. The public school buildings are crumbling, the teachers are seriously underpaid, and the curriculum is limited. A dumbed down population is a population that cannot think critically, ask relevant questions, or organize a rebellion. The US is rapidly approaching the status of a 3rd world country , with a population that is unprepared to meet the challenges we are facing. However, the 1% has an education that is equal to the best educated people in the world. The rest of us have been left behind. We are being groomed for service jobs that do not require critical thinking skills. Gone are the days when Americans read the classics, studied geometry because it helped a student learn how to think, and were encouraged to become a scientist, so that the US could beat the Russians to the moon or find a cure for cancer. Capitalism does not require a "well rounded person", only a worker who will work for low pay.

自里根时代以来，公立学校受到右翼分子的攻击，资金越来越不足。公立学校的建筑正在倒塌，教师的工资严重不足，课程也很有限。弱小人口是指不能批判性思考、提出相关问题的人口。美国正迅速接近第三世界国家的地位，其人口对我们所面临的挑战毫无准备。然而，1%的人的教育水平与世界上受教育程度最高的人相当。我们其余的人都被抛在后面了。我们正在为不需要批判性思维技能的服务工作进行培训。美国人阅读经典著作，学习几何学的日子已经一去不复返了，因为它帮助学生学习如何思考，并且被鼓励成为一名科学家，这样美国就可以在月球上打败俄罗斯人，或者找到治疗癌症的方法。而资本主义不需要一个“全面的人”，只需要一个低工资的工人。

I agree we should not be supporting those here illegally. I also believe teachers unions are extortionist.

我同意我们不应该非法支持这里的人。我也相信教师工会是敲诈者。

My son, a just turned 21 year old student at a Tech College here in Texas, was hired for a summer internship by one of the super major (Top 5) oil companies as a Instrumentation and Electronics (I&E) Tech. Will be in Los Angeles, 7 weeks, $30 an hour, $2k per month housing stipend, $3k for travel to and from college address. He still has 3+ semesters to go. Is guaranteed employment upon graduation if he impresses his mentor/supervisor at $55 per hour. He went a year and one summer session at "normal" college, then told the wife and I that he hated it. 

我的儿子刚满21岁，就读于德克萨斯州的一所技术学院，他被一家石油巨头（前5强）雇佣，作为仪器和电子（I&E）技术的暑期实习。他将在洛杉矶工作，7周，每小时30美元，每月2千美元的住房津贴，3千美元的往返大学地址。他还有3个学期要上。如果他给他的导师/主管留下每小时55美元的印象，他就有保证在毕业后就业。他在“普通”大学上了一年又一个暑假，然后告诉我和妻子，他讨厌这样。

Education spending isn't education. People in every other country in the world spend less money per pupil on education and are able to educate the students.

教育支出不是教育。世界上每一个国家的人在教育上花费的钱都更少，而且能够教育学生。

Education System was hijacked, just like Media, Justice, Army, Food Distribution, Markets, Monetary System, Banking and a few other thing I forgot to mention.

教育系统被劫持了，就像媒体、司法、军队、食品分配、市场、货币系统、银行和其他一些我忘记提的事情。

Class size in my elementary school was up to 30. Now it's low 20's. The mentoring was that we were expected to get our work done. I am a bit suspicious of teachers who claim to teach "critical thinking". Costs are spiraling out of control, while at the same time student debt is spiraling out of control, and nobody even talks about the parent debt at much higher interest rates. Teaching critical thinking might be nice when there's all the time and money in the world. Now, it's success to get them a damn job that's suitable for them, whether it's trades or academic, and they can spend their lives thinking critically.

我小学的班级人数是30人。现在不到20人了。指导是我们应该完成我们的工作。我有点怀疑那些自称教“批判性思维”的老师。成本正在失控，同时学生债务也在失控，甚至没有人谈论高利率的家长债务。当世界上有很多时间和金钱的时候，教授批判性思维可能是件好事。现在，让他们找到一份适合他们的工作是成功的，无论是贸易还是学术，他们可以用一生的时间批判性思考。

Get your kid a good and fairly cheap telescope and teach the urchin the heavens. Then if you can afford it get the creeps a fairly cheap video microscope. The optical ones are better, but cost is a consideration.

给你的孩子买一个好的便宜的望远镜，教他看天。如果你能负担得起的话，那就买一台相当便宜的显微镜。光学的比较好，但要考虑成本。

And the internet and instant access with palm puzzies (the so called cell phone that isnt a phone at all) isnt helping the education system either. They dont have to think or learn by mistakes anymore. All they do is googoo everything or watch how its done on youtube or text their friends for the answer. Anything banks, corporations, tv or the goobermint tells you is good for you, is most likely bad for you.

互联网和掌上电脑的即时接入（所谓的手机根本不是电话）也对教育系统没有帮助。他们不必再经历错误来思考或学习。他们所做的一切都是谷歌，或是在YouTube上观看，或是给朋友发短信寻求答案。任何银行、公司、电视台或谷歌网站告诉你的对你有利的事情，都很可能对你不利。

Because a truly educated populace, that can critically think and deduce information for themselves would be capable of uncovering the lies and deceit purported by the media, government, and central bankers.

因为一个真正受过教育的民众，能够批判性地思考和推断自己的信息，将能够揭露媒体、政府和中央银行家所宣称的谎言和欺骗。

The USA education system needs to be ripped from the control of corrupt teachers unions and criminal elected representatives.

美国教育体系需要从腐败的教师工会和选举代表的控制中剥离出来。