236 Students Become More Materialistic
236 学生们变得更加功利
According to a survey, which was based on responses of over one hundred and eighty eight thousand students. today's traditional age college freshmen are more mateialistic and less altruistic than anytime in the seventeen years of the poll.
历时17年对188,000名大学新生所作的一项调查研究表明，当今的大学新生与过去任何时候的新生都更重视物质享受，更加自私。
Last suprising of the hard times the students major of the objective is to be financially well-off less important than ever is developing a meaningful philosophing life. it follows then that today the most populor course is not literature or history but accounting.
不足为奇的是，在困难时期，学生的主要目标是“要在经济上达到富有，而探求一种有意义的人生哲学比任何时候都显得无足轻重。”无独有偶，现在最受欢迎的课程往往不是文学或者历史，而是会计。
Interest in teaching, social sevice and the altruistic fields is at a low. on the other hand, in rome business programs, engineering and computer sicience is way up.
学生对于教学，社会服务和其他“利他”领域的兴趣都普遍偏低。另一方面，选修商业课程，工程学和计算机科学的人数却不断飙升。
That's no surprise either. a friend of mine, a sales representative for a medical company was making twice the salary of her colleague structors her first year on the job, even before she completed her two year associate degree.
同样不足为奇的是，我的一位朋友（是一家化工公司的销售代表）工作第一年所赚的薪水就是她大学老师的两倍……而当时，她甚至连两年的副学士（专科）课程都还没有完成。
While it's true that we all need a career. it is equally true that our civilization has accumulated an incrediable amount of knowledge in fields far amoved from our own. and we are better for our understanding of these other contributions be they scientific or artistic. it is equally true that in study the diversity with the others we learn how to think, more important perhaps education teaches us to see the connections between these as well as to see beyond our inmediate needs.
确实，我们都需要一份职业。同样，在一些与我们的职业相去甚远的领域中，我们的文明也的确积累了相当可观的知识，而且我们也能更好地理解来自于这些其他领域的知识，无论是科学的还是艺术的。而且，在学习他人的各种不同的智慧时，我们能学习怎样思考。也许更重要的是，教育不仅能教我们看到直接需求之外的事物，而且还能让我们发现事物之间的各种联系。
weakly we read of unions who went on strike for higer wage only to drive their employer out of business, no company no job. how shortsighted in a long run.
每周我们都能读到那些关于工会为争取更高薪金而罢工的文章，结果却导致了他们雇主的破产。公司没有了，工作也就没有了。从长远的角度来看，他们的目光是多么短浅！
But the most important argument for a broad education is in study of the accumulating within the ages we improve our moral sense. i saw a cartoon recently which shows a group of businessmen looking puzzeled as they sit around a conference table, one of them is talking on the intercome mr baster he says could you send someone who can distinguish right from wrong.
但是，接受全面教育的最重要的理由是：在常年积累智慧的同时，我们提高了我们的是非感。我最近看过一则漫画：一群商人围坐在会议桌旁，一脸的茫然。其中的一位正在通过对讲机说话，他说：“芭克斯特小姐．你能不能请一位能分辨是非的人进来？”
Form the a long term point of view that's what education really are to above.
从长远的角度来看，这也正是教育所应该实现的。