Military1 Education

 

Broadcast: Jan 16, 2003
By Nancy Steinbach

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

We continue our series of reports about how foreign students can study at an American college or university. This week, we report about military education.

One American military college that welcomes foreign students is the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. It is often called V-M-I. The students are called cadets. One-thousand-three-hundred cadets are attending V-M-I this year.

V-M-I is a four-year military college for men and women. It considers the learning¹ of self-control to be an important part of a college education. At V-M-I, new cadets learn from older ones. One thing the older cadets teach is the honor² system. Cadets must not lie, cheat or steal. They also must not accept lying, cheating or stealing from any other cadet. Cadets who violate³ the honor system are expelled2.

Chuck Steenburgh is with the office of public affairs at V-M-I. He says international students come to V-M-I for the military environment. This year, forty-three men and women from seventeen foreign countries are attending V-M-I. They study business, engineering⁴, computer science, and other subjects. The cost is about twenty-four-thousand dollars a year.

Another American military college that welcomes foreign students is The Citadel⁵, in Charleston, South Carolina. It also accepts both men and women for a four-year program.

There are about one-thousand-nine-hundred undergraduate⁶ students at The Citadel. Public affairs officer Patricia McArver says the college offers a traditional military education. But, she says, only thirty-eight per cent of its graduates enter the military after graduation. She says international students attend The Citadel to study in a structured environment. This year, The Citadel has fifty-seven international students from twenty-seven countries. They are studying mainly business, science, computer science, mathematics and engineering.

It costs almost twenty-thousand dollars to attend The Citadel for the first year. After that, the cost drops to about sixteen-thousand dollars.

You can use a computer to get more information about these American military colleges on their Internet Web sites. V-M-I抯 address is w-w-w dot v-m-i dot e-d-u.(www.vmi.edu)

The Citadel can be found at w-w-w dot c-i-t-a-d-e-l dot e-d-u.(www.citadel.edu)

This V-O-A Special English Education Report was written by Nancy Steinbach.
1. military [5mIlItErI] adj. 军事的, 军用的
2. expel [Iks5pel] v. 驱逐, 开除, 排出, 发射

1 learning   

n.学问，学识，学习；动词learn的现在分词

参考例句：

• When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时，常会从车上掉下来。
• Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。

2 honor   

n.光荣；敬意；荣幸；vt.给…以荣誉；尊敬

参考例句：

• I take your visit as a great honor.您的来访是我莫大的光荣。
• It is a great honor to receive that prize.能拿到那个奖是无上的光荣。

3 violate   

vt.违反，违背，亵渎，侵犯，妨碍

参考例句：

• Those who violate traffic regulations should be punished.那些违反交通规定的人应该受处罚。
• Can they be allowed to violate rules and regulations at will?难道能容许他们随心所欲地破坏规章制度吗？

4 engineering   

n.工程，工程学，管理，操纵

参考例句：

• The science of engineering began as soon as man learned to use tools. 人类一学会使用工具,工程科学就开始了。
• It was the first great engineering works in the world. 这是世界上第一家大型的工程工厂。

5 citadel   

n.城堡；堡垒；避难所

参考例句：

• The citadel was solid.城堡是坚固的。
• This citadel is built on high ground for protecting the city.这座城堡建于高处是为保护城市。

6 undergraduate   

n.大学生，大学肆业生

参考例句：

• Mr. Stone spent his undergraduate days in Columbia University,majoring in economics.斯通先生在哥伦比亚大学度过了他四年的大学生活，主修经济学。
• During this time,they are called undergraduate students.在此期间，他们被称为大学本科生。