,Confessions of a Miseducated Man,Norman Cousins,Confessions of a Miseducated Man,Unit 9,Questions / Activities,Check-on Preview,Objectives,W,B,T,R,Half a Day,Unit 1,Warming up,Warming up,What is a confession? -a formal statement that youve done sth.wrong or illegal; -a private statement to a priest about the bad things youve done;,miseducated & uneducated,An uneducated person is one who has received no formal school education while a miseducated person is one who has received formal education but is educated in a wrong way. Cf. Ex-1 about mis- on p.320,Did you well predict the topic of the essay? Why/not? What would you see as the biggest difference among human beings, language, religion, or political /ideological system? What about their most important similarity? Do you agree if some people say that globalization is the strategy of cultural differences?,In pairs, discuss & prepare to respond,What does the author want to say in the essay? Can you pick out the sentence(s) you think best express(es) his idea? According to the author, what is the most important similarity among human beings? Do you agree with him on that? And what are those superficial differences? Is it true that there are more similarities than differences in human beings? What are the basic lessons of a new education? What is the importance of such a new education? to be continued,(cont.),How would you relate the issue of this essay to that of Another School YearWhat For? and The Green Banana? Can you see any significance in proposing such an issue now?,Background,Culture Tips,Author,Half a Day,Unit 1,Genre,Time,B,W,T,R,Norman Cousins,1915-1990,Background,Author,Some of his life history possibly related to the essay,Born in New Jersey, 1915 ,Background,Author,What is world federalism?,World Federalism means having democratically accountable political institutions to deal with issues at the most appropriate level, according to the principle of subsidiary.,Background,Author,In the book, Cousins expanded his arguments for world federalism and for a world no longer based on the supremacy of nationalism and other superficial differences as follows:,“The new education must be less concerned with sophistication than compassion. It must recognize the hazards of tribalism. It must teach man the most difficult lesson of allto look at someone anywhere in the world and be able to see the image of himself. The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. ” Cf. para.7,Background,Author,And he continued,“ With such an education and with such self-understanding, it is possible that some nation or people may come forward with the vital inspiration that men need no less than food. Leadership on this higher level does not require mountains of gold or thundering propaganda. It is concerned with human destiny. Human destiny is the issue. People will respond.” Cf. para. 11,Background,Author,He concluded the book with:,“ War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.”,Background,Author,Unit 9,Text Analysis,T,W,B,R,Confessions of a Miseducated Man,Organization of the text,Part 1 (para.1) Part 2 (paras.2-6) Part 3 (paras.7-11),Introduction: what Im going to say in the article; Awareness of my education being inadequate for a new time ,Detailed Analysis,part II In pairs, work on the questions for comprehension What kind of test does the author suggest? What marks the differences between the world in 1850 and the world now? Why is Asia and Africa the best place to apply the test? What does the authors education teach him? Give examples. Why does he say that his education protected me against surprise? What does the education fail to teach him? Do you agree with him on that? What time doe it possibly refer to in at a time at the end of para.4? What is the idea in the first sentence of para.5? What are the things I had to forget in para.5 ? When was possibly only a few years ago? What does an education in differences of references possibly mean?,Detailed Analysis,paraphrasing,In short, my education protected me against surprise. (para.3) In a word, the education I had had taught me enough about the differences among peoples so that I wouldnt feel surprised at what I saw however different they might be.,Detailed Analysis,paraphrasing,But what my education failed to do was to teach me that the principal significance of such differences was that they were largely without significance. (para.4) The education I had did not teach me to see the fact that the main meaning of recognizing such differences was that they were not meaningful in a great measure (if compared with the meaning of understanding the similarities).,paraphrasing,My education had by-passed the similarities. (para.4) The education I had had did not teach me/avoided dealing with the similarities among peoples.,paraphrasing,It was the mark of a rounde