speech on Education 关于教育的英文演讲

第一篇：speech on Education 关于教育的英文演讲

Speech 1 Good morning, everyone!This week, we are going to learn a new topic——the Aims of Education.Differ from Whitehead’s idea;I think the aim of education is to help people form a lifelong learning consciousness.In my eyes, education is not an end, but a means to an end.In other words, we do not educate children only for teaching them knowledge but to help them form a lifelong learning consciousness.We can see that, as education appeared, the aim of it has always been a hot topic to human beings, especially the great thinkers.Their ideas towards the aim of education reflect the educational changes in human society.That is to say the aim of education is not static.In ancient Greek, Aristotle thought that “Education must aim at the development of the full potentialities of each man”.Later, it developed into the idea of training young people to be well-educated gentlemen or citizens in Henry Newman’s work The Idea of a University.3 As the society develops, the aim of education has taken in new meanings and implications-----to educate and train people to be all-roundly cultivated persons.To achieve this goal, one has to spend his whole life to learn.However, in the usual case people just spend some years on study in schools or universities.After they leave school, they seldom pick up books.Now the government is advocating building a “learning society”.It provides people chances to do some continuous learning in other schools besides the formal ones, like night schools.4 In fact, the idea that education should be throughout a person’s life has been existing for a long time.In China, it can be traced further back to “the Analects of Confucius”.Confucius said, “If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come be without great faults”.This indicates his idea of lifelong learning.Besides, some famous western philosophers also held the idea that individual education should be a continuous process.For example, the great thinker Aristotle claimed that “Education is the best provision for the journey to old age”.These claims above show that those great educators take education as a long term task.5 Unfortunately, the time that people spend in schools or universities is limited, so is the knowledge they can learn in the formal schooling.As a result, it is significant for teacher to promote learner autonomy and guide students to form a lifelong learning consciousness in school.But usually people do not take it serious until they leave school.I would like to take my elder cousin as an example.6 My elder cousin went to a professional school after he graduated from high school.One year later, he became a workman in a factory.He was satisfied with the job and stopped learning.Yet as time goes by, now he feels that the task is beginning to exceed his ability.This is not a single case happen to those “graduates”.7 Nowadays, more and more people realize this problem and start to take some measures to solve it.In order to get a higher degree, people take some courses on the Internet or go to night schools to do their further study.Such being the case, why not help people build up their consciousness of lifelong learning when they are still in school? Thus they can do some preparation and try their best to create opportunities for further study even after they leave school.To conclude, the aim of education ought to educate people to consider education as a continuous process and form this consciousness in school so that people can receive any kind of education in any time or anywhere to adapt to the development of society.

第二篇：speechonEducation关于教育的英文演讲

the Aims of Education Good morning, everyone!This week, we are going to learn a new topic——the Aims of Education.Differ from Whitehead’s idea;I think the aim of education is to help people form a lifelong learning consciousness.In my eyes, education is not an end, but a means to an end.In other words, we do not educate children only for teaching them knowledge but to help them form a lifelong learning consciousness.As the society develops, the aim of education has taken in new meanings and implications-----to educate and train people to be all-roundly cultivated persons.To achieve this goal, one has to spend his whole life to learn.However, in the usual case people just spend some years on study in schools or universities.After they leave school, they seldom pick up books.Now the government is advocating building a “learning society”.It provides people chances to do some continuous learning in other schools besides the formal ones, like night schools.In fact, the idea that education should be throughout a person’s life has been existing for a long time.In China, it can be traced further back to “the Analects of Confucius”.Confucius said, “If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come be without great faults”.This indicates his idea of lifelong learning.Besides, some famous western philosophers also held the idea that individual education should be a continuous process.For example,the great thinker Aristotle claimed that “Education is the best provision for the journey to old age”.These claims above show that those great educators take education as a long term task.My elder cousin went to a professional school after he graduated from high school.One year later, he became a workman in a factory.He was satisfied with the job and stopped learning.Yet as time goes by, now he feels that the task is beginning to exceed his ability.This is not a single case happen to those “graduates”.Nowadays, more and more people realize this problem and start to take some measures to solve it.In order to get a higher degree, people take some courses on the Internet or go to night schools to do their further study.Such being the case, why not help people build up their consciousness of lifelong learning when they are still in school? Thus they can do some preparation and try their best to create opportunities for further study even after they leave school.To conclude, the aim of education ought to educate people to consider education as a continuous process and form this consciousness in school so that people canreceive any kind of education in any time or anywhere to adapt to the development of society.

第三篇：英文演讲,如何提高教育

A total of 48 schools in central and eastern China who aim to upgrade their designated

learning institution status passed the preliminary evaluation by the Ministry of Education, the complete list of names released to the public on December 29.As outlined by the ministry, in order for a learning institution to be considered for university status in China, standards include having over 100 professors, over 8,000 enrolled undergrads, at least 10 different masters degree programs, as well as specific credential requirements for instructors and number of national awards.Liu Shaohuai, secretary of the Party committee at Yunnan University in Kunming, Yunann Province, was quoted by the Kunming-based Chuncheng Evening News as explaining that a school upgrade, such as from a college to university, helps in improving its education strength and quality, as well as strengthening its reputation and influence.However, it is still unclear that name changes are effective or how stringently the standards are upheld by the Ministry, amounting to nothing more than repackaging the same institution to attract students and increased government funding.Do you see the upgrade process as effective in improving its quality of education or merely a form of marketing?

Song Jun

A first-year sociology graduate student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan

Being awarded a status change is key for schools looking to improve their reputation.Because most high school students prefer having the word “university” over “college” when they apply, a name change will boost enrollment.If enrollment goes up, the school will be able to employ better teachers, thus improving its reputation.Liu Ting

A business administration senior at China University of Petroleum, Beijing

A school's strength doesn't depend on what its name is.Take Massachusetts Institute of Technology for example.It doesn't have the word “university” in its name, but it is still a prestigious institution sought after by many students all over the world.Wang Qi

Associate professor at Hebei Normal University

The process involved in getting an upgrade is positive to the school's development, because as a “university”, the school has to improve their campus, courses and faculty in order to do so.Prof.Wang

at China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing

Changing from a “college” into “university” in title gives others an impression that the school has been improved.But the strength of a school lies in its education quality, not its name.Some schools especially add eye-catching words such as “finance and economics” or “politics and law” to their names, but whether this is reflecting any actual change is questionable.The education department should tighten up their evaluation of schools applying for an upgrade As China outperformed the rest of the world economically during the financial crisis,optimism about the country's progress soared--and self-satisfaction has followed.I worry that as a result the country's internal push for reforms has stalled.That's not good, for China's apparent strengths mask some serious underlying weaknesses.The area in which China needs reform most is education.Richard Levin, the president of Yale University, predicts that within 25 years several Chinese universities will be ranked among the world's top 10 and compete with Ivy League schools.Is there a reason for such a prediction, or is Levin just trying to scare his alumni into donating more to stay competitive?

Sure, there have been improvements, but not nearly on the scale Levin implies.China's professors and the research they do are indeed becoming world-class.The government earmarks 1.5% of gross domestic product for spending on higher education, and it has made it a specific goal to recruit some of the world's top minds by building world-class laboratories and giving them very generous funding.Many of my classmates from

Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have been actively recruited, and some of them are now professors at Peking University and China's other top universities.To get the Chinese version of tenure, professors must get published in world-class journals in English;publication in Chinese journals doesn't count.These are all encouraging signs.They are the first thrust toward a Chinese institution cracking the world's top tier.However, an educational system can't become great on the merits of a few faculty

members who were mostly trained abroad and their research, awards and patents.It has

to be equipping students with the thinking skills that will allow them to compete with

graduates anywhere in the world and create the next Google(GOOGpeople)or Apple(AAPLpeople).By that measure, China's universities aren't succeeding.Too many multinational corporations can't find enough highly skilled white-collar workers in the country.In

interviews my firm, the China Market Research Group, conducts every year with senior executives at foreign companies in China, we hear a common complaint that younger workers just don't think analytically enough, despite being intelligent and earnest.It's incredible, when you consider that the number of university graduates has risen from 1 million a year a decade ago to more than 6 million this year.Former U.S.assistant secretary of education Chester Finn recently wrote in TheWall

Street Journal that the average Chinese college applicant has spent 30% more time in the classroom than his American counterpart--and that's not including considerable time in enrichment classes after school and on weekends.Finn cites that figure as something the U.S.should emulate.I could not disagree more.The amount of time in class is not the issue;the quality of that time is, and there the Chinese education system is lacking.Here are the three areas where reform should be concentrated:

First, students should be allowed to apply to colleges and then choose their majors later on, based on their interests.Currently they have to apply when they are 18 years old for a specific major at a specific school, the way Ph.D.students apply to postgraduate

programs in the U.S., and then they study that subject alone for four years.If they don't get accepted by their chosen academic department, they don't get in to the university.The result is that they try to game the system, applying for the major they think will get them into their university of choice rather than the one that actually interests them.The way curricula are designed, they rarely get to take electives, so they develop is no

multidisciplinary depth.Many students realize before long that they don't want to study biology or accounting after all, but they find they have no choice.This is a big reason there has been a recent boom in private training schools for young professionals.Second, universities need to work more closely with companies like Microsoft(MSFTpeople)and Intel(INTCpeople)to develop curricula and work-study programs.They need to become less theoretical and more practical in their aspirations.Not all students can become great thinkers, but all students need to learn how to earn money and support themselves.Colleges can do more to help with that by beefing up their career departments, aiding students in presenting themselves to prospective employers and forging better relationships with businesses.Finally, China's universities should make more effort to teach students to think critically.Too much learning is done by rote, and by taking in lectures and reading assignments with little or no discussion.Too many classes are graded solely on the basis of large multiple-choice exams, and there is little classroom interaction.Chinese graduate students need to spend more time teaching, with proper preparation, to improve the quality of instruction at the university level.A better trained corps of teaching fellows could lighten professors' loads and cut down class sizes significantly.That would make possible classroom discussions, allowing students to form their own thoughts and debate them.Chinese universities can't simply recruit their way to international prominence.They need to do far more to train their students to think, or their graduates will continue to fall short of employers' expectations--and China's own competitiveness on the world stage will suffer, too.Shaun Rein is the founder and managing director of the China Market Research Group, a strategic market intelligence firm.He writes for Forbes on leadership, marketing and China.

第四篇：英文演讲--教育与未来

Hello everybody!How is everybody doing today? I know that for many of us, this year is the first year of graduate study.Maybe some of you are wishing it was still summer and you could have stayed in bed just a little bit longer this morning.I know that feeling.But I’m here today because I want to talk with you about our education and future.We can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools in the world--and none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities.That’s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education.This isn’t just important for your own life and your own future.What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country.The future of China depends on you.What you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.So We need every single one of you to develop your talents and your skills and your intellect.Maybe Some of you don’t have those advantages.But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life--what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have--none of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school.There is no excuse for not trying.You know, Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.No one’s written your destiny for you, because here in China, you write your own destiny.You make your own future.J.K.Rowling--who wrote Harry Potter--her first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally published.Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.He lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career.But he once said, “I have failed over and over and over again in my life.And that’s why I succeed.”

The story of China isn’t about people who quit when things got tough.It’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best.So I expect all of you to get serious this year.I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do.So don’t let your family down or your country down.Most of all, don’t let yourself down.Make us all proud.Thank you very much, everybody.God bless you.

第五篇：英文演讲

Ladies and Gentlemen, Good afternoon!I’m very glad to stand here and give you a speech.Hello!I wonder whether everybody knows the meaning of these two words of “energy-conservation ” and “ low carbon ”? I assume as a matter of course and know.Does “energy-conservation” save the energy? Does “low carbon” reduce carbon emission? Yes, it is really simple.We often chat about them.But, do you really understand them? Have they really taken root on your bottom of heart deeply?

Once, the Earth mother left our rich energy to cause us to be jubilant, sighed on Earth's energy inexhaustible, inexhaustible, now, the newest statistics indicated, the petroleum will dry up after 60 years, the coal also might supply the humanity to use for 250 years;Once, developed first, the environment question the situation which neglected is often occurred, now, the sustainable development, was together harmoniously with the nature the biggest topic.Not difficult to see, the environment question in is taken unceasingly by the people.For all this, the environment question was still stern, the energy conservation reduced the platoon, the low-carbon lives imminently.At the Copenhagen climate congress, this affects the human destiny the question slowly to be unable to reach the agreement actually.In the life, is driving the great displacement automobile, purchases including the fluorine air conditioning, the refrigerator, including the phosphorus laundry powder, turns on the air conditioning the low temperature also one side to bind in the summer the quilt, the daylight lamp is being long all night clearly, water cock water drop sound day and night not rest......These influence environment phenomenon common occurrence.This is rebels with ours position.American President Kennedy has said: Do not have to ask the country can

make any for us, must ask first oneself can make any for the country.The low-carbon life needs everybody to participation!

The low-carbon life first is one kind of life manner.So long as wants, each person may be able to achieve!The electricity saving, saves gas and oil, the solar terms, saving water, the tree-planting, makes use of waste, by step generation of vehicle......The intravenous drip, in life each aspect, all may choose the low-carbon life the manner.The low-carbon life is also representing one kind healthily, the more natural life style.Little eats counter-season food, the generation by works as season food;Little uses the disposable product, the generation by the duplicated things;Little rides an overhead traveling crane, little sits one time the elevator, the generation rides the bicycle, crawls the staircase, while falls the low-carbon withdrawal, we will have a healthier body and mind.We believed, so long as everybody works as one, participation together, humanity's tomorrow certainly will be able to be happier!Schoolmates, today, your low-carbon?

老师们、同学们：

大家好！不知大家是否知道“节能”和“低碳”这两个词的意思？我想当然知道。“节能”不就是节约能源吗？“低碳”不就是降低碳排放量吗？是啊，的确简单。我们经常把它们挂在嘴边。可是，你真的理解它们吗？它们真的深深扎根在你的心底了吗？

曾经，地球母亲留给我们丰富的能源使我们兴高采烈，感叹地球上的能源取之不尽，用之不竭，现在，最新统计表明，石油将在60年后枯竭，煤还可以供人类使用250年；曾经，物资、能源的浪费多么猖獗，现在，“节约光荣，浪费可耻”成了新一代的口头禅；曾经，“发展第一”，环境问题被忽视的情况时常发生，现在，可持续发展，与大自然和谐相处成了最大的课题。不难看出，环境问题在不断被人们重视。

尽管如此，环境问题仍然严峻，节能减排、低碳生活迫在眉睫。在哥本哈根气候大会上，这一影响人类命运的问题却迟迟无法达成协议。在生活中，开着大排量汽车，购买含氟空调、冰箱，含磷洗衣粉，夏天把空调开着低温还一边裹着被子，日光灯彻夜长明，水龙头滴水声日夜不息......，这些影响环境的现象屡见不鲜。这是与我们的主张所悖逆的。

如果整个社会是大海，每个人就是一滴水，大海的污染，影响着每一滴水，也需要每一滴水努力帮助净化污染。美国总统肯尼迪说过：“不要问国家能为我们做些什么，先要问自己能为国家做些什么。”低碳生活需要人人参与！