In the past few years, I’ve taught nonfiction writing to undergraduates and
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问答题【2014年真题】（2014上）In the past few years, I’ve taught nonfiction writing to undergraduates and graduate students at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia's School of Journalism. Each semester I hope, and fear, that I will have nothing to teach my students because they already know how to write.And each semester I discover, again, that they don't.
The teaching of the humanities has fallen on hard times. So says a new report on the state of the humanities by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and so says the experience of nearly everyone who teaches at a college or university. Undergraduates will tell you that they're under pressure -from their parents, from the burden of debt they incur,from society at large - to choose majors they believe will lead as directly as possible to good jobs. Too often, that means skipping the humanities.
In other words, there is a new and narrowing vocational emphasis in the way students and their parents think about what to study in college.
There is a certain literal-mindedness in the recent shift away from the humanities. It suggests a number of things.
First，the rush to make education pay off presupposes that only the most immediately applicable skills are worth acquiring. Second, the humanities often do a bad job of explaining why the humanities matter. Third, the humanities often do a bad job of teaching the humanities.
What many undergraduates do not know - and what so many of their professors have been unable to tell them-is how valuable the most fundamental gift of the humanities will turn out to be. That gift is dear thinking，clear writing and a lifelong engagement with literature.
Maybe it takes some living to find out this truth. Whenever I teach older students,whether they're undergraduates,graduate students or junior faculty,I find a vivid, pressing sense of how much they need the skill they didn't acquire earlier in life. They don't call that skill the humanities. They don't call it literature. They call it writing-the ability to distribute their thinking in the kinds of sentences that have a merit,even a literary merit，of their own.
Writing well used to be a fundamental principle of the humanities, as essential as the knowledge of mathematics and statistics in the sciences. But writing well isn't merely a utilitarian skill. It is about developing a rational grace and energy in your conversation with the world around you.
The teaching of the humanities has fallen on hard times. So says a new report on the state of the humanities by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and so says the experience of nearly everyone who teaches at a college or university. Undergraduates will tell you that they're under pressure -from their parents, from the burden of debt they incur,from society at large - to choose majors they believe will lead as directly as possible to good jobs. Too often, that means skipping the humanities.
In other words, there is a new and narrowing vocational emphasis in the way students and their parents think about what to study in college.
There is a certain literal-mindedness in the recent shift away from the humanities. It suggests a number of things.
First，the rush to make education pay off presupposes that only the most immediately applicable skills are worth acquiring. Second, the humanities often do a bad job of explaining why the humanities matter. Third, the humanities often do a bad job of teaching the humanities.
What many undergraduates do not know - and what so many of their professors have been unable to tell them-is how valuable the most fundamental gift of the humanities will turn out to be. That gift is dear thinking，clear writing and a lifelong engagement with literature.
Maybe it takes some living to find out this truth. Whenever I teach older students,whether they're undergraduates,graduate students or junior faculty,I find a vivid, pressing sense of how much they need the skill they didn't acquire earlier in life. They don't call that skill the humanities. They don't call it literature. They call it writing-the ability to distribute their thinking in the kinds of sentences that have a merit,even a literary merit，of their own.
Writing well used to be a fundamental principle of the humanities, as essential as the knowledge of mathematics and statistics in the sciences. But writing well isn't merely a utilitarian skill. It is about developing a rational grace and energy in your conversation with the world around you.
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