B2-U9 Confessions of a Miseducated Man.ppt

1、1,Unit 9,2,Questions / Activities,Check-on Preview,Objectives,Warming up,Confessions of a Miseducated Man,3,Questions / Activities,What is a confession? a formal statement that youve done sth. wrong or illegal; a private statement to a priest about the bad things youve done,4,miseducated Educated in

2、 and graduated from Columbia University Teachers College; Editor of Saturday Review for 35 yrs; Lifelong concerns including world peace, world governance, justice, human freedom, health, etc.; Proponent of world federalism and world government; Traveled extensively in Europe and Asia and then publis

3、hed Who Speaks for Man? in 1953;,11,What is world federalism?,This is the essence of world federalism: to seek to invest legal and political authority in world institutions to deal with problems which can only be treated at the global level . World Federalism means having democratically accountable

4、political institutions to deal with issues at the most appropriate level, according to the principle of subsidiarity, e.g. Thus local decisions should be taken at local level, national decisions at national level, and global decisions at global level. (http:/www.ucl.ac.uk/ucfbiac/World%20Federalism.

5、htm),Background,12,世界联邦主义,世界联邦主义是理想主义学派的一种解决国际冲突的模式。这种模式认为，要促进国际社会的合作与和谐，就必须自愿地拆除国家主权的藩篱，按照联邦与民主的原则，实现政府权力的集中化。换言之，世界各国应通过法律程序，在全球层面上建立一个世界政府。这个政府可以降低乃至消除战争，促进人类的幸福。 (,13,In the book, Cousins expanded his arguments for world federalism and for a world no longer based on the supremacy of nationalism

6、and other superficial differences as follows:,“The new education must be less concerned with sophistication than compassion. It must recognize the hazards of tribalism. It must teach man the most difficult lesson of allto look at someone anywhere in the world and be able to see the image of himself.

7、 The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. ” Cf. Para. 7,14,And he continued,“With such an education and with such self-understanding, it is possible that some nation or people may come forward with the vita

8、l inspiration that men need no less than food. Leadership on this higher level does not require mountains of gold or thundering propaganda. It is concerned with human destiny. Human destiny is the issue. People will respond.” Cf. Para. 11,15,He concluded the book with:,“War is an invention of the hu

9、man mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.”,16,Text Analysis,Confessions of a Miseducated Man,17,Structure,Part I (para.1-4),In what way I was miseducated.,Why this education was inadequate.,What kind of education we need.,What this new education may bring about.,Part II (paras.5-7),Par

10、t III (paras.8-10),Part IV (paras.11),18,Part I: Main Idea,What kind of test does the author suggest? What marks the differences between the world in 1850 and the world now? Why is “Asia and Africa” the best place to apply the test? What does the authors education teach him? Give examples. Why does

11、he say that his education “protected me against surprise”? What does the education fail to teach him? Do you agree with him? What time doe it possibly refer to in “at a time” at the end of para.4?,19,Not that(para.3),Weve been happy together for half a centurynot that we never quarreled. I stopped a

12、nd picked you upnot that I was not afraid. We will not include the chapter on constitutional law in this textbook. Not that it is irrelevant. Its just too difficult for the students to understand. 她没买那件外套，并不是不喜欢，而是觉得太贵了。 She did not buy the coatnot that she did not like it. She just felt that it was

13、 too expensive.,20,Part I: Sentence Paraphrase 1,In short, my education protected me against surprise. (para.3) Paraphrasing: In a word, the education I had had taught me enough about the differences among people so that I wouldnt feel surprised at what I saw, no matter how different they might be.,

14、21,to protectagainst(para.3),to keep sb./sth. safe against / from Kids should be protected from all that violence. Its skin protects it against predators. Take these vitamins to protect against minor infections. 我们已做好了一切准备以防营地被偷袭。 Weve done all the preparations to protect the base against surprise a

15、ttacks.,22,Part I: Sentence Paraphrase 2,But what my education failed to do was to teach me that the principal significance of such differences was that they were largely without significance. (para.4) Paraphrasing: The education I had did not teach me to see the fact that the main meaning of recogn

16、izing such differences was that they were not meaningful in a great measure (if compared with the meaning of understanding the similarities).,23,all but(para.4),almost completely Their screams all but drowned out the music. I all but got attacked by the two timber wolves when Maheegun came to my res

17、cue. 我们差一点儿就输掉了比赛。 We all but lost the game.,24,to wipe out(para.4),to destroy, remove, get rid of sth. Completely Half the population was wiped out by plague. The heat has wiped me out. (informal, to make sb. feel extremely tired/exhausted) Compare: The price will wipe the smile off his face. In a

18、few years this species could be wiped off the face of the earth.,25,Part I: Sentence Paraphrase 3,My education had by-passed the similarities. (para.4) Paraphrasing: The education I had had did not teach me/avoided dealing with the similarities among peoples.,26,Part I: Words That Bess did not work

19、to save for her old age really concerned Lottie. 2. If a story/book/report concerns sb./sth., it is about them This essay concerns (is about) how the author thinks of his education in the past years.,44,Many people are concerning themselves with environmental problems. (becoming involved) Ross is ne

20、ver particularly concerned about what other people think of him. (worried) The officials seem to be far more concerned with getting selected than with making people feel satisfied with their work. (meaning “believing sth is important”; Notice: this concerned with should never be used before a noun),

21、Related phrasal verbs:,45,Part IV: Main Idea,Para. 11 What does “some nation or people” possibly refer to in the text? What sort of “leadership” is the author talking about?,46,to come forward (with/as/to do sth.)(para.11),to offer yourself for a job, election, etc. More women are coming forward as candidates than even before. 我们需要更多的志愿者提供帮助。 We need more volunteers to come forward to help. A girl has come forward with (offer help to sb. who needs or has