Many consumers seem to have been influenced by stock-market swings, which investors now view as a necessary ingredient to a sustained boom.
①Americans today don’t place a very high value on intellect.
?、贠ur heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars.
?、跡ven our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education — not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge.
?、躍ymptoms of pervasive anti-intellectualism in our schools aren’t difficult to find.
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?、?論點(diǎn):總)今天的美國(guó)人并不十分重視智慧。
?、?具體:分1)我們的英雄是運(yùn)動(dòng)員、藝人和企業(yè)家,而不是學(xué)者。
?、?遞進(jìn):分2)甚至我們的學(xué)校也是我們送孩子去接受實(shí)用教育的地方——不是為了知識(shí)而去求學(xué)的地方。
④(并列:分3)在學(xué)校里,普遍存在的反智主義的情況并不難發(fā)現(xiàn)。