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Is College Worth It? 应该上大学吗?

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Todd: So Marianne, we"re talking about education. And things are changing. Society is changing as it always is. But these days, you can pretty much learn anything on your own. And there is a new debate going around that colleges no longer serve the purpose that it used to. That basically, you can just learn what you want to learn without going to college. What do you think about that?

托德：玛丽安，我们来谈谈教育。情况正在发生改变。社会像往常一样在发生变化。现在，你可以自学。现在有种新的说法，认为大学不再像以前那样发挥作用。基本上来说，不上大学你也可以学到你想学到的知识。你怎么看?

Marianne: Yes, that"s a very good question. I really love this possibility of having access to knowledge just by yourself without having to attend a college for example. It"s a great chance for everyone to have access to this knowledge. So I can think it"s a good thing. But I don"t know why. I"m kind of skeptical because I think at some point, you have to have a time where you can exchange with a teacher or at least with other people who have the same knowledge as you. Because if you never, if you don"t have this time and space where you can debate about what you learned, then there is no increase of the level of thinking. Like because you need to debate about things to learn more or maybe to correct things. It"s like the Wikipedia, right. Like it"s a contributive dictionary or – encyclopedia. But everybody is writing in this page. And sometimes you see some updates but you don"t know why, for example, someone made the change because you don"t have the space where you can debate about is this wrong or correct about like the information that was uploaded was wrong or correct. And if you just see the correction but you couldn"t debate about this, then you cannot understand. So I think for me, having a time and a space where you can debate is very important. And this is a place and the time that college can offer, for example, debate between teachers or debate between students about some topics.

玛丽安：对，这是个很好的问题，我非常喜欢这种可能性，不用上大学也可以接触到知识。对所有人来说，这是能接触到知识的大好机会。所以我认为这是件好事，不过我说不清楚原因。其实我有点怀疑，因为我认为你需要同老师或者同和你拥有同样知识的人交流。如果不进行交流，不对所学的知识进行讨论，那你的思想水平就不会提高。你要进行讨论，才能学习更多知识，还有纠正你的错误。以维基百科为例。维基百科是有帮助的词典或者说是百科全书。所有人都可以进行编辑。但是有时你看到那些更新的信息，却不知道原因，比如，有人进行了更改，可是因为你没有讨论空间，不能就这个信息是否正确进行讨论，不能纠正这个信息。如果你看到修正信息，可是你不能进行讨论，那你就不会明白。我认为，有时间和空间进行讨论非常重要。而这正是大学可以提供的，比如老师之间或是学生之间针对某个课题进行讨论。

Todd: Wow! Those are really good points. Yeah, I agree. You know, I"ve taught at university for a while. And I do see some of the points of being a self-learner and just basically getting what you want – getting the information you want online. But the problem is, when you go to university, you have that void or the vacuum really. And so, you"re going to fill that with all these different types of information. And you might see things that you aren"t – that you didn"t even know that you liked. And also, there"s that social element that"s really strong in college. I don"t think you"re going to find that anywhere else where you, you know, make friends, you make relationships that last your whole life. So I"m still a big believer of college but I can see that maybe we need to change the model to make them little bit better.

托德：哇哦!你提出的观点太棒了。我同意你的看法。我在大学任教过一段时间。我的确看到过一些自学者从网上获取他们需要的信息。但是，大学有那种真空时间。你可以通过查阅各种信息来填补这个时间。你可以了解你甚至都不知道自己是否喜欢的信息。另外，大学有浓厚的社交氛围。我认为，除了大学，你在其他任何地方都不会交到可以持续一生的朋友。所以，我依然是大学的坚定拥护者，不过我认为我们要改变模式使大学变得更好。

Marianne: Uh-hmm.

玛丽安：嗯。

Todd: Which brings us to another question: how do you think we can change college to make better? Like what are some changes we can make to college?

托德：这就引出了另一个问题：你认为我们怎么能把大学变得更好?我们应该怎样改变大学?

Marianne: Wow.

玛丽安：哇哦。

Todd: Like I have one idea. One idea I have is that we"re starting to see it a little bit with MOOCs but there"s no reason that you can"t take a class at any other university via video from your university. So example, if you go to UCLA, you can take art classes from Harvard or somewhere else. I think that would be really good if you can start doing that. So you"re not only limited to the professors on your campus.

托德：我有个想法。可以先从网络公开课开始，没有理由在大学不能通过视频来上课。举个例子，假设你在加州大学洛杉矶分校上学，你可以听哈佛大学或是其他大学的艺术课程。我认为这样开始很不错。这样就不会只能听到自己大学的教授讲课。

Marianne: Wow. Yes, that"s a great idea. Yes.

玛丽安：哇哦。这个想法很不错。

Todd: Anything that you, looking back, you wish you could have done differently at university?

托德：回想一下，有没有什么事是你希望在大学时能做得更好的?

Marianne: Well the big issue about university especially in the US is that it costs a lot of money. And so, if we could find ways to – because for example, you are talking about having access to a lot of content information for free actually – I mean, for free. Like you just have to pay your Internet connection and suddenly, you have access to a lot of knowledge. But when you go to college, it costs a lot of money. So this is a big issue actually. So if you could find a way to, financially speaking, like if we can find a way to make university more accessible to a wider audience, it could be nice. But I know it"s difficult because we have to pay teachers. We have to pay all the infrastructures about university, so it costs a lot of money. So I don"t have the solution right now but I think working on this like free education or cheaper education – I mean, cheaper in a way talking about the entrance fee, not losing the quality of education. Yeah. If we can work on this point.

玛丽安：大学，尤其是美国大学最大的问题就是学费太贵。希望我们能找到免费获取大量信息的方法。只需要连网就能获取大量知识。可是上大学要花很多钱。所以这是一个重大的问题。从经济角度来讲，如果能找到使更多人可以负担得起大学的方法，那就太好了。我知道这很难，因为我们还要付老师工资。我们要支付大学所有基础设施的费用，所以会耗费很多钱。我现在也没有解决方法，不过我想致力于义务教育或者更低廉的教育费用，比如减少学费，但是不损失教育质量。希望我们能致力于这方面。

Todd: Yeah. I totally agree.

托德：对，我完全同意你的观点。

Good Teacher / Bad Teacher 好老师和坏老师

Todd: So Marianne, we"re going to talk about education, and we"re going to talk about the qualities of a good and bad teacher. And I"m a teacher so this is important for me, so I"m going to be taking notes. What do you think makes a good teacher?

托德：玛丽安，我们来谈谈教育，重点讨论一下好老师和坏老师的特质。我是名老师，这对我来说非常重要，我要记笔记。你认为好老师的标准是什么?

Marianne: I have no idea. No, I"m kidding. Okay, so I have to remember like when I was in junior high school or high school for example, my good teachers, how were they. I think a good teacher has to be strict. Insisting sometimes because you can be lazy, or as a student it could be difficult to understand what the teacher is talking about. So the teacher really have to insist on very important things. And yes, the teacher has to be strict. But at the same time, the teacher-student relationship should be kind of equal or respectful. So the teach is not – of course, he is or she is superior because he has or she has knowledge. But it could be nice if the teacher can interact with the student. So if the student is able to give his opinion or her opinion about the subject the teacher is talking about, I think it"s nice. Because I think the teacher, his responsibility or her responsibility is to raise critical thinking of the student. So it"s very important this time of interaction of exchange between teachers and students. So yes, it could be my definition like the teacher being strict but at the same time being open to talk about subjects.

玛丽安：我不知道。我开个玩笑。我还记得我上初中还是高中时遇到的优秀老师。我认为好老师一定要很严格。而且还要坚持，因为学生可能很懒，或者很难理解老师的话。这时老师必须要求学生做一些非常重要的事情。老师一定要严格。不过同时，老师和学生的关系应该是平等的，是互相尊重的。虽然老师处于更高级别，因为老师在传授知识。但是如果老师能和学生良好互动的话会产生不错的效果。如果学生能对老师讲授的课程提出自己的看法，也会产生良好的效果。我认为老师的责任是培养学生的批判性思维。所以，老师和学生的互动和交流非常重要。我认为好老师就是既要严格，又可以接受学生对课程的意见。

Todd: All right. Those are some good points. But going back to being strict, can you be specific? Do you mean like making sure they do their home work.

托德：好。这是不错的观点。说回严格，你能具体解释一下吗?你的意思是老师要确保学生完成作业吗?

Marianne: Yes.

玛丽安：对。

Todd: Making sure they"re on time to class.

托德：确保学生按时上课。

Marianne: Yes. And punish them if they are late for example, like...

玛丽安：对。如果学生迟到，要接受处罚，比如……

Todd: Oh, punishment. Okay.

托德：哦，处罚。好。

Marianne: I mean, like say something like, you know, like you have an appointment. It"s very important. For example, you have English class at 2:00 so be here at 2:00 and not 2:05. So it"s very important because you have to show respect for the person who would deliver you content about English. And it"s very important because it helps you in your life to – even for yourself, for the student, it"s not only to show respect to teacher but it"s also for the student to – for him or her to be able to keep her schedule. It"s very important in life because otherwise you can spend your life being always late and not doing things on time. But if you are always behaving this way, then you can never build anything in life. So you have to have also for yourself some strict attitude or strict capacity or I don"t know how to say.

玛丽安：我的意思是说，这就像约定一样，非常重要。比如，英语课是2点开始，所以你要在2点到这里，而不应该在2点05分才来。这非常重要，因为你要向传授英语知识的那个人展现尊重。而且这对你的生活甚至你本人都有帮助，所以非常重要，作为学生，你不仅要向老师展现尊重，你还要能执行计划。这在生活中非常重要，除非你能一直过着可以随意迟到或不用准时的生活。但是，如果你要一直这样生活，那你一生将一事无成。你要有严谨的态度和严谨的能力，我也不知道应该如何说明。

Todd: No, that"s perfect. Sounds good. How about some bad things? Have you had some bad teachers in the past?

托德：你说得很好。听上去不错。那不好的特质呢?你以前有没有遇上过不好的老师?

Marianne: Yes. Like for example, a teacher who are just strict and that"s it, like there is no communication possible with them. It"s terrible. For example, I remember when I was in junior high school, I had an art teacher actually, she was our art teacher and nobody liked her. She was just terrible like a very strict woman and very angry every time we went to attend her class. And I remembered I was really terrified by her. And for me, she didn"t teach me anything. So this kind of strict attitude was not really helpful for me.

玛丽安：有。举个例子，有的老师非常严格，但是却没法沟通。这非常糟糕。我记得我上初中时，有一个艺术老师，她教我们艺术课程，但是没有学生喜欢她。她太糟糕了，她非常严格，我们每次上她的课，她都在生气。我记得当时我非常怕她。我认为，她什么都没有教我。这种严格的态度对我没有帮助。

Todd: Yeah. I like that. So strict but not too strict.

托德：嗯，我也喜欢这样，要严格，但不要过于严格。

Marianne: Yeah. Strict, it means in the sense that making the other responsible. Like an adult has to show teenagers that they will become future responsible adults, too. So they are not just like kids and you just don"t say to your kids for example, "Don"t eat this," and that"s it. If you can just say to your children, "Don"t eat this because you can be sick if you eat too much of this." Like you have to give them a reason or you have to make them responsible. They have to understand actually.

玛丽安：对。严格，在这种意义上来说就是教导他人负责。成年人应该告诉青年人，他们未来也会成为负责任的大人。他们不能只是向对孩子那样，不能跟孩子说：“不要吃这个”。你可以跟孩子说：“不要吃这个，如果你吃太多的话会生病的。”你要给他们理由，或让他们自己承担责任。他们一定要明白这一点。

Todd: No, I totally agree. Very, very good points.

托德：我完全同意你的观点。你说得非常好。

SoMe Love 网络恋爱

Todd: Hey, Marianne. So we"re talking about love and relationships in the modern era. So the question is do you think social media changes how people date?

托德：嘿，玛丽安。我们来谈谈现代爱情和恋情关系。你是否认为社交媒体改变了人们的约会模式?

Marianne: Yes, definitely. In the sense that, well, social media are actually changing the way we interact with each other. Not only talking about love but just even with your friends or colleagues. It just changes the way of how – or the way how people interact with each other. So for example, we have – I would say – well it"s a difficult question because social media can help you to connect with people you would have – with who you wouldn"t have any connection. But in the other hand, it can also kind of isolate you. Like because – well, if you use social media like you don"t have the human interaction. You are just facing you with your screen and you are just alone with your social media. You do not encounter someone for real. So I would say, sometimes it cannot help you to connect with other people, so to have a social life. It"s a product but I think it could work this way unfortunately. So you really have to be the own master on your social – you have to have the power on your social media to pass this line. Social media should not prevent you from having a social life. It should help you to socialize in a different way maybe. But don"t be like isolated or don"t just close yourself because it"s very easy to lose it. It"s just like social media reflects your – it"s like a mirror. It just reflects you. So for example, if you try to look for a partner or if you play with your social – not social identity but there is a way to say this like a computer or Internet identity. Now there is a new identity. So many – of course, like you play with this image. Like you upload photos you have chosen to upload. You upload content you have chosen to upload. So you show a different face on the social media. So it"s not really who you are. So it completely changed the way you interact with others because if you think that yourself you are like lying in a way or inventing this new face, then also other people invent new faces. So I think it changed completely the relationship you have with others.

玛丽安：当然了。社交媒体改变了我们同他人交流的方式。不只是和恋人，和朋友还有同事的交流方式也发生了改变。社交媒体改变了我们彼此交流的方式。举例来说，我认为这是个很难回答的问题，因为社交媒体可以帮助你同此前没有任何关系的人联系。但是另一方面，社交媒体也会使你孤立。因为你只使用社交媒体，而没有人际互动。你一直在盯着屏幕，只用社交媒体和他人交流。但是在现实生活中和他人没有沟通。在和他人联系方面，有时社交媒体不会提供帮助，不能帮你享受社交生活。很不幸，我认为这是社交媒体这种产物的弊端。你一定要做自己社交生活的主宰，你要控制社交媒体。社交媒体不应该妨碍你的社交生活。而是应该用另一种方式帮助你进行社交活动。社交媒体不应该令你孤立，不要封闭自己，因为你很可能会失去生活。社交媒体能反映出你的情况，就像一面镜子一样。它可以反映出你的情况。举个例子，你可能试图通过社交媒体找伴侣，你在玩弄你的……不能说是社会身份，应该是电脑或是网络身份。你创造了一个全新的身份。你在玩弄图片。你选择照片上传。你选择你要上传的内容。你在社交媒体上以另一个面孔出现。那并不是真正的你。所以说，社交媒体完全改变了我们和他人的交流方式，如果你可以躺在沙发上创造出一个新面孔，那其他人也可以。所以我认为，社交媒体完全改变了我们和他人的关系。

Todd: Yeah. That"s so true. I agree with you. One thing I think that"s kind of weird is for example, you become friends with somebody and you know that they"re married. And then you"ll follow them over, let"s say, four or five years but you don"t have contact with them everyday. And then I"ll notice that person never mentions their spouse on their social media profile. Never. And it makes you wonder sometimes, are they still together because you never see photos of the person. You only see photos of the individual. And me personally, I think that"s kind of strange. What do you feel about that? Do you feel like if you"re in a relationship, your social media account can be just you and only you? Or should it include your...

托德：对，没错。我同意你的观点。我认为奇怪的是，你会和已婚的人成为朋友。你们可能会持续联系四五年的时间，不过你们不是每天都联系。然后你会发现，对方的社交媒体介绍上从来没有出现过他们的配偶。你会想知道，他们是否还在一起，因为你从来没有见过对方配偶的照片。你只看过对方的照片。我个人认为这非常奇怪。你是什么看法?在你看来，在恋爱关系中，你的社交媒体账号是只有你的信息?还是也应该包括你的……

Marianne: That"s a good question. Yes.

玛丽安：这是个好问题。嗯。

Todd: Your other person.

托德：你的伴侣的信息。

Marianne: Yes. That"s a very good question actually. Yes, because for example – your partner for example, he or she, like you are not allowed sometimes to upload photo of him or her. So how do you, yes, how do you decide like what kind of content. And it"s the same question for your children for example. Many people upload photo of their babies, newborn babies. So it"s very cute but nobody asks them are they okay with like having their photos on your social media? So yes, it"s a good question. In my case, well I use social media only for my work purpose, my job, or I just upload some events. So it"s very like – it"s more a platform where I exchange some information. And I don"t talk too much about my private life. So I avoid this question about like uploading some content that concern my family or my partners or my children if I have some, so.

玛丽安：这是一个非常好的问题。有时可能你的伴侣不允许你上传他或她的照片。要怎么决定社交媒体上发布的内容?对孩子来说也是一样。许多人会上传自己新生儿的照片。孩子们非常可爱，可是没有人征求过这些孩子的意见，他们的照片是否可以放到社交媒体上?这是一个好问题。就我来说，我只在工作时使用社交媒体，我上传的都是一些活动信息。对我来说社交媒体更像是一个交换信息的平台。我不会在上面谈太多和私生活有关的事情。我会避免上传与我的家庭、父母或孩子(如果我有孩子的话)有关的内容。

Todd: Yeah. I guess, it"s a tricky issue really, isn"t it?

托德：好。这是一个棘手的问题，对吧?

Marianne: Yes.

玛丽安：对。

Todd: Anyway, thanks, Marianne.

托德：总之，谢谢你，玛丽安。

Marianne: Thank you.

玛丽安：谢谢。

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