文档介绍:Passage (每题7分,总共70分)
I reckon I can do A level chem. in four terms. Four terms flat out, mind. We have to go really fast. We have tests twice a week, but we get results. For instance, last year I got an open at Pembroke, Cambridge, and an exhibition at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and then I got half-a-dozen places. I've got 14 places in the last two years and then these opens I do pretty well; my results are all right. The way we teach, we teach for results. I want the passes, the schools, and all those things. Tests all the time, and scrub the teaching methods, forget about the educational side. Yes, it is like that; not altogether of course, but there are two ways, aren’t there? There's the one way I teach, and there’s another way. Well, let me give you an instance: if a boy asks a question it might raise some interesting matters. Now, the other way you'd waste the whole period and follow up those matters and that's all right. But that's not our way. We've got no time for any questions or anything that leads off the syllabus. You've got to get through it. I like teaching our A stream boys but you should see our C stream! They're shocking, absolutely shocking. I don't like teaching them at all, and I don't know what it can be like in the secondary modern schools. I'm not made out for missionary teaching. What I want now is a head of department in a really good school, and then