新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第二册 unit8a_new

[06:42.55]education teaches us to see the connections between things,
[06:49.82]as well as to see beyond our immediate needs.
[06:55.19]Weekly we read of unions that went on strike for higher wages,
[07:02.75]only to drive their employer out of business.
[07:08.11]No company, no job. How shortsighted in the long run.
[07:15.67]But the most important argument for a broad education
[07:22.40]is that in studying the accumulated wisdom of the ages,
[07:28.45]we improve our moral sense.
[07:32.92]I saw a cartoon recently which depicts a group of businessmen
[07:40.15]looking puzzled as they sit around a conference table;
[07:45.84]one of them is talking on the intercom:
[07:50.77]"Miss Baxter," he says,
[07:54.84]"could you please send in someone who can distinguish right from wrong?"
[08:00.78]In the long run that's what education really ought to be about.
[08:07.44]I think it can be. My college roommate,
[08:13.81]now head of a large shipping company in New York,
[08:19.39]not surprisingly was a business major.
[08:24.43]But he also hosted a classical music show
[08:30.30]on the college's FM station
[08:34.87]and listened to Wagner as he studied his accounting.
[08:40.74]That's the way it should be.
[08:44.70]Oscar Wilde had it right when he said we ought to give our ability
[08:51.97]to our work but our genius to our lives.
[08:57.84]Let's hope our educators answer students' cries for career education
[09:05.80]but at the same time let's ensure
[09:10.44]that students are prepared for the day when they realize
[09:16.20]their shortsightedness. There's a lot more to life