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Education or selection?

 

是「因材施教」？還是「優才施教」？英國和香港，原來都面對相似的教育煩惱。
 

The entire education system should be reshaped to better assist social mobility rather than a narrow focus on academic selection.

 

social mobility 社會流動性

 

mobile 靈活的
(adjective 形容詞)

 

例子：I’m still very mobile.

 

a mobile society = 流動性強的社會，指人們容易轉換工作／居所／社會階級

 

The decline of steady jobs in industry for school leavers and the expansion of higher education as the pre-eminent route to well-paid jobs has meant that the academic performance of your secondary school matters more than ever.

 

pre-eminent 卓越的
(adjective 形容詞)

 

例子：He has been the pre-eminent political figure in the country.

 

The prime minister said a move to create more grammar schools heralded “a future in which Britain’s education system shifts decisively to support ordinary working-class families”.

 

herald 預示…的來臨
(verb 動詞 / noun 名詞)

 

例子：to herald the new age   宣告新時代的到來

 

It is the urgent need to get your child into the schools that get them into the prestigious universities that has led to the parental arms race which eventually feeds through into higher house prices around the primary schools that feed the secondary schools that feed the universities.

 

arms race 軍備競賽
 

The government is expected to announce measures to avoid new grammar schools being disproportionately colonised by children from better-off backgrounds.

 

better-off
(adjective 形容詞)

 

1. 更富裕的

例子：I was better off ten years ago. 我十年前比較有錢。

 

2. 如果… 會更好

例子：You’d have been better off apologizing. 如果你願意道歉會更好。

 

   
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