Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions from 43 to 50.
It is commonly believed in the United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The distinction between schooling and education implied by this remark is important.
Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no bounds. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or on the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of informal learning. The agents of education can range from a revered grandparent to the people debating politics on the radio, from a child to a distinguished scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain predictability, education quite often produces surprises. A chance conversation with a stranger may lead a person to discover how little is known of other religions. People are engaged in education from infancy on. Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive term. It is a lifelong process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be an integral part of one's entire life.
Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at approximately the same time, take assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams, and so on. The slices of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an understanding of the workings of government, have usually been limited by the boundaries of the subject being taught. For example, high school students know that they are not likely to find out in their classes the truth about political problems in their communities or what the newest filmmakers are experimenting with. There are definite conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling.
What does the author probably mean by using the expression “children interrupt their education to go to school” in paragraph 1?
A. Going to several different schools is educationally beneficial.
B. School vacations interrupt the continuity of the school year.
C. Summer school makes the school year too long.
D. All of life is an education
Đáp án D
Tác giả có ý gì khi nói “trẻ em tạm ngừng sự học để đến trường” trong đoạn 1?
A. Đến nhiều trường khác nhau là có lợi về mặt giáo dục.
B. Các kì nghỉ của trường học làm gián đoạn năm học.
C. Học kì hè khiến năm học kéo quá dài.
D. Sự học là chuyện cả đời.
Đọc bài, ta sẽ thấy tác giả nói đến sự học như một khái niệm toàn diện và tổng quát, nó bao gồm học hỏi về mọi thứ, tuy nhiên việc đến trường lại là để học các môn học, với tầm hiểu biết giới hạn đối với một vài phương diện.
Đồng thời, tác giả cũng nói: “It is a lifelong process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be an integral part of one's entire life.” (Nó là một quá trình kéo dài, một quá trình bắt đầu rất lâu từ trước khi ta bắt đầu đi học, và nên là một phần không thể thiếu trong cả cuộc đời mỗi người.)
Có thể thấy, nói đến việc “trẻ em tạm ngừng sự học để đến trường” là ý nói việc đến trường chỉ là một phần nhỏ, còn sự học lại là chuyện cả đời.