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Americans today don′t place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes,
entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to geta practical education--not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasiveanti-intellectualism in our schools aren′t difficult to fred.
"Schools have always been in a society where practical is more important than intellectual,"says education writer Diane Ravitch."Schools could be a counterbalance." Ravitch′s latest book,Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in ourschools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectualpursuits.
But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves themvulnerable to exploitation and control. Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideasand understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate in our democracy. Continuing alongthis path, says writer Earl Shorris, "We will become a second-rate country. We will have a less civilsociety."
"Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege," writes historian and professor RichardHofstadter in Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, a Pulitzer-Prize winning book on the roots ofanti-intellectualism in uspolitics, religion, and education. From the beginning of our history, saysHofstadter, our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism.
Practicality, common sense, and native intelligence have been considered more noble qualities thananything you could learn from a book.
Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling andrigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children: "We are shut up in schools and collegerecitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not kn
细节题。根据题干中的关键词定位到第一段。第三句话意为：即使学校也只是我们送孩子去接受实用教育，而不是让他们为了知识而去追求知识的地方。C项为此句中“to get apr a ctical education”的同义改写，因此为正确答案。A项在文中没有提及。B项与原文本意恰恰相反，家长希望的是更实际些的东西，而不是真正的知识。D项过度推断，原文只提到了追求知识，而没有提到所谓的追求智慧。
《义务教育数学课程标准（2011年版）》强调，课程内容要反映社会的需要、数学的特点，要符合学生的认知规律。课程内容的组织要重视过程，处理好（）的关系。
设α是某一方程组的解向量，k为某一常数，则kα也为该方程组的解向量。（ ）
案例：
在有理数运算的课堂教学片段中，某学生的板演如下：
针对该学生的解答，教师进行了如下教学：
师：请仔细检查你的演算过程，看是否正确无误？
生：好像正确吧。
请分析例题1、例题2中每一步运算的依据。（10分）
初中数学课程是一门国家课程，其主要内容包括课程目标、教学内容、教学过程和( )等
教师职业道德区别于其他职业道德的显著标志就是（ ）。
对高中数学的评价，下列说法错误的是( )。
