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Another School Year — What For?--John Ciardi


Let me tell you one of the earliest disasters in my career as a teacher. It was January of 1940 and I was fresh out of graduate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City. Part of the student body was a beanpole with hair on top who came into my class, sat down, folded his arms, and looked at me as if to say "All right, teach me something." Two weeks later we started Hamlet. Three weeks later he came into my office with his hands on his hips. "Look," he said, "I came here to be a pharmacist. Why do I have to read this stuff?" And not having a book of his own to point to, he pointed to mine which was lying on the desk.

New as I was to the faculty, I could have told this specimen a number of things. I could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at the end of his course meant to reach for a scroll that read Bachelor of Science. It would not read: Qualified Pill-Grinding Technician. It would certify that he had specialized in pharmacy, but it would further certify that he had been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history. That is to say, he had not entered a technical training school but a university and in universities students enroll for both training and education.

I could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasn't going to be around long enough for it to matter.
Nevertheless, I was young and I had a high sense of duty and I tried to put it this way: "For the rest of your life," I said, "your days are going to average out to about twenty-four hours. They will be a little shorter when you are in love, and a little longer when you are out of love, but the average will tend to hold. For eight of these hours, more or less, you will be asleep."

"Then for about eight hours of each working day you will, I hope, be usefully employed. Assume you have gone through pharmacy school — or engineering, or law school, or whatever — during those eight hours you will be using your professional skills. You will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspirin, that the bull doesn't jump the fence, or that your client doesn't go to the electric chair as a result of your incompetence. These are all useful pursuits.

They involve skills every man must respect, and they can all bring you basic satisfactions. Along with everything else, they will probably be what puts food on your table, supports your wife, and rears your children. They will be your income, and may it always suffice."

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grind [graind]

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vt. 磨,碾碎,擠壓,壓迫
vi. 磨得吱吱

 
nevertheless [.nevəðə'les]

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adv. 仍然,不過
conj. 然而,不過

 
professional [prə'feʃənl]

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adj. 職業的,專業的,專門的
n. 專業人

 
fence [fens]

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n. 柵欄,圍墻,擊劍術
n. 買賣贓物的人<

 
assume [ə'sju:m]

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vt. 假定,設想,承擔; (想當然的)認為

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technical ['teknikəl]

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adj. 技術的,工藝的

 
specialized ['speʃəlaizd]

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專門的 專科的

 
involve [in'vɔlv]

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vt. 包含,使陷入,使忙于,使卷入,牽涉

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incompetence [in'kɔmpitəns]

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n. 無能力,不合格,不能勝任

 
scroll [skrəul]

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n. 卷軸,目錄 v. 卷動

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