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"Surely", I suggested to Jim's teacher, "the course Jim got on with such low marks would be the sort of course that wouldn't be worth doing anyway."
“真的是這樣，”我和吉米的老師建議道，“吉米得分很低的課程就沒(méi)有必要再讀下去。”
"Not at all," the teacher insisted, and then named a string of universities I'd barely heard of, claiming they'd be perfect for Jim.
“這是不對(duì)的，”老師堅(jiān)持說(shuō)，然后拿出一系列我?guī)缀醵紱](méi)有聽(tīng)過(guò)的大學(xué)的列表給我看，說(shuō)這些學(xué)校都適合吉米。
It was at this point I realized how completely out of touch I was with the current educational thought.
此時(shí)此刻我感覺(jué)自己完全不了解現(xiàn)在的教育理念。
In the early 1980s when I was at school, a student with such poor grades as Jim's would never be considered university material.
20世紀(jì)80年代早期，我還是學(xué)生的時(shí)候，像吉米這樣成績(jī)差的學(xué)生會(huì)被視為不適合讀大學(xué)。
Since then the percentage of eligible population in Britain has risen from 14% to an astonishing 44%. The educational system is cramming even the most mediocre students into a degree curse.
從那時(shí)起，英國(guó)符合上大學(xué)的學(xué)生比例從14%上升到了44%。填鴨式的教育系統(tǒng)使得普通學(xué)生都可以繼續(xù)讀大學(xué)。
It affects the sort of the courses that universities offer: undemanding ones such as film studies and surfing; it affects the way universities advertise themselves—with student bar sizes and local clubs given priority over the quality of the courses.
這影響了大學(xué)教授的課程：要求不高的電影研究和沖浪；影響大學(xué)推銷自己的方式——學(xué)生酒吧大小和當(dāng)?shù)厣鐖F(tuán)的重要性高于課程質(zhì)量。
Another fact is that when I went to university, a degree still counted for something.
還有一個(gè)事實(shí)，我上大學(xué)時(shí)，學(xué)位還是有價(jià)值的。
These days, the degree is so devalued that you are far better off going straight into the job market than spending three years treading water, running up big debts.
而現(xiàn)在，學(xué)位已經(jīng)貶值，你還不如直接參加工作，而不是冒險(xiǎn)浪費(fèi)三年的時(shí)間，積累巨額債務(wù)。
Maybe it would be worth it if, as a result of his or her degree, your child would have a well-paid career.
上大學(xué)也許是值得的，因?yàn)樗蛘咚膶W(xué)歷，你的孩子能有一份高薪的職業(yè)。
But there are now too many graduates running after too few graduate obs, and employers are becoming suspicious of the value of degrees.
但是太多的畢業(yè)生沒(méi)有達(dá)到畢業(yè)的要求，雇主們開(kāi)始懷疑學(xué)位的價(jià)值。
