What the Nation Expects!

• 作者: STEPHEN BOURNE
• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 数学
• 关键词: 期望 寄宿学校 英语教育
• 年，卷（期）: 2011,（3）
• 页码范围: 34
• 页数: 1页
• 分类号: O211.67

摘要

<正>IT was precisely 50 years ago that my parents put me,a skinny but carefree eight-year-old kid,aboard an aeroplane at Nairobi’s Embakasi Airport and sent me away to a boarding school in England.Unlike Rudyard Kipling,who was destined not to see his mother for f ive years after he had been sent from India for a dose of English schooling,I was reunited with my family at least once every year for the next 10 years.I was one of the lucky ones.