记者：吴晓霞

3月27日晚上7点，外院本学期第二场外教讲座在丽泽楼C209成功举办。本次讲座的主讲人是我院的外籍教师Mr.Landis Duffett，主题是“对人文主义教育究竟有什么好处的争论”。来自外国语学院13级的五十多名学生和其他的学院的二十多名学生参加了此次讲座。

首先，Mr.Landis Duffett给同学们阐释了不同的人由于在宗教、文化、教育等等因素的影响下，对于人文教育所持有的不同的观点。有些人表示人文教育的学习具有必要性，有些人却认为人文教育缺乏实用性。接着，他详细分析了当今美国佛罗里达洲对于人文教育的看法。Mr.Landis Duffett强调，美国是一个多元文化的国家，因此要想真正意义实现不同的的文化、宗教的统一化显然是不切实际的。基于自然科学的发展比人文科学的发展更具有现实意义的考虑，美国政府更加注重科学、技术、工程、数学等领域的教育。

此次讲座在介绍美国人文教育现状的同时，也引发了同学们对人文教育的关注与思考。

A Lecture: A Critical Analysis of Arguments for Humanities Education

By Wu Xiaoxia

At 7 p.m. on March 27th, Mr.Landis Duffett from the School of Foreign Languages held a lecture entitled: “what is it Good for ?”:A Critical Analysis of Arguments for Humanities Education in Lize C209. About seventy students from the SFL and other schools took part in the lecture.

At first, Mr. Landis Duffett pointed out that there was no consensus of opinion about the humanity education among people with different cultural, educational and religious background. Some people made a point of humanity education, while others considered it unpractical. Furthermore, Mr. Landis Duffett showed students how people in Florida, America looked at this problem. According to the speaker, the United States was a multi-cultural country and cultural oneness was obviously infeasible. Besides, the government added more value in the education of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics than in Humanity.

The lecture covered the current state of humanities education in America and also aroused students’ attention to humanities education.