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When Tony Wagner, the Harvard education specialist, describes his job today, he says he’s " a translator between two hostile tribes"—the education world and the business world, the people who teach our kids and the people who give them jobs. Wagner's argument in his book Creating Innovators; The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World is that our K-I2 and college tracks are not consistently "adding the value and teaching the skills that matter most in the marketplace".
This is dangerous at a time when there is increasingly no such things as a high-wage, middle-skilled job—the thing that sustained the middle class in the last generation. Now, there is only a high-wage, high- skilled job. Every middle-class job today is being pulled up, out or down faster than ever. That is, it either requires more skill or can be done by more people around the world or is being buried—made obsolete— faster than ever. Which is why the goal of education today, argues Wagner, should not be to make every child "college ready" but '*innovation ready"—ready to add value to whatever they do.
That is a tall task. I tracked Wagner down and asked him to elaborate. "Today,” he said via e-mail, "because knowledge is available on every Internet-connected device, what you know matters far less than what you can do with what you know. The capacity to innovate—the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life—and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge. As one executive told me, we can teach new hires the content. And we will have to because it continues to change, but we can't teach them how to think—to ask the right questions—and to take initiative.'"
My generation had it easy. We got to "find" a job. But, more than ever, our kids will have to "invent" a job. Sure, the lucky ones will find their first job, but, given the pace of change today, even they will have to reinvent, re-engineer and reimagine that job much often than their parents if they want to advance in it.
"Finland is one of the most innovative economies in the world," Wagner said, "and it is the only coun¬try where students leave high school 1 innovation-ready'. They learn concepts and creativity more than facts, and have a choice of many electives—all with a shorter school day, little homework, and almost no testing. There are a growing number of ' reinvented1 colleges like the Olin College of Engineering, the M. I. T. Media Lab and the * D-school' Stanford where students learn to innovate."
1. In his book, Wagner argues that( ).
2. What does the "tall task" refer to in the third paragraph?
3. What is mainly expressed in Wagner's e-mail?
4. What is implied in the fourth paragraph?
5. What is the purpose of the last paragraph?

问题1选项
A.the education world are hostile to our kids
B.the business world are hostile to those seeking jobs
C.the business world are too demanding on the education world
D.the education world should teach what the marketplace demands
问题2选项
A.Sustaining the middle class.
B.Saving high-wage, middle-skilled jobs.
C.Shifting from "college ready" to "innovation ready".
D.Preventing middle-class jobs from becoming obsolete fast.
问题3选项
A.New hires should be taught the content rather than the ways of thinking.
B.Knowledge is more readily available on Internet-connected devices.
C.Academic knowledge is still the most important to teach.
D.Creativity and skills matter more than knowledge.
问题4选项
A.Jobs favor the lucky ones in every generation.
B.Jobs changed slowly in the author's generation.
C.The author’s generation led an easier life than their kids.
D.It was easy for the author’s generation to find their first jobs.
问题5选项
A.To orient future education.
B.To exemplify the necessary shift in education.
C.To draw a conclusion about the shift in education.
D.To criticize some colleges for their practices in education.
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