English Intensive Reading 吉林大学远程教育学院
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			The PLEASURE OF LEARNING
			By Jerome K. Jerome
			As most schools are set up today, learning is compulsory. It is an Ought, even worse, a Must, enforced by regular hours and rigid discipline. (1) And the young sneer at the Oughts and resist the Musts with all their energy. (2)The feeling often lasts through a lifetime. For too many of us, learning appears to be a surrender of our own will to external direction,a sort of enslavement.(3)         This is a mistake. Learning is a natural pleasure, inborn and instinctive, (4)one of the essential pleasures of the human race. Watch a small child, at an age too young to have had any mental habits implanted by training.(5) Some delightful films made by the late Dr. Arnold Gesell of Yale University show little creatures who can barely talk investigating problems with all the zeal and excitement of explorers, making discoveries with the passion and absorption of dedicated scientists.(6) At the end of each successful investigation, there comes over each tiny face an expression of pure heart-felt pleasure.