McDonald's 創始人談教育

剛看完 McDonald's 創始人 Ray Kroc的自傳。他談到他的慈善捐贈和教育問題時說的一段話很有意思，摘錄如下：

「有一個事業我是決不出錢支持的：大學。全國的一些最著名的院校來向我募捐，但我告訴他們：除非他們把錢用來辦職業學校，否則休想從我這裡拿到一分錢。在我們的大學里，有多少年輕人人文科學了很多，但是對於如何謀生卻幾乎一無所知。飽學之士太多，販夫走卒太少。我一這麼說話，教育界的人士就拉長了臉，指責我「反知識分子」。這話有失偏頗。我是「反偽知識分子。」 教育界多的就是這種人。我決不反對教育，但對我的教育理念最好的詮釋，就是 McDonald's 自辦的漢堡包大學和漢堡包高中。職業教育 ----- 這才是這個國家需要的。多少年輕人走出大學校門，對於如何干好一份工作、或當大廚、或做家務活一無所知，因此感到抬不起頭來。也難怪！他們首先應該學一門手藝，學會如何養活自己，學會享受工作。然後，如果他們渴求受到高等教育，他們可以去上夜校。

在McDonald's，這條道路上的成功範例比比皆是。。。。。。」


這種話，中國搞教育的人們更該多看看，多想想。

英文原文：

... One thing I flatly refuse to give money to is the support of any college. I』ve been wooed by some of the finest universities in the land, but I tell them they will not get a cent from me unless they put in a trade school. Our colleges are crowded with young people who are learning a lot about liberal arts and little about earning a living. There are too many baccalaureates and too few butchers. Educators get long faces when I talk like this and accuse me of anti-intellectual. That』s not quite right. I』m anti-phony-intellectual, and that』s what too many of them are. I』m definitely not anti-education. But my philosophy about what education should be is best expressed right in McDonald』s own Hamburger University and Hamburger High. Career education, that』s what this country needs. Many young people emerge from college unprepared to hold down a steady job or to cook or do housework, and it makes them depressed. No wonder! They should train for a career, learn how to support themselves and how to enjoy work first. Then if they have a thirst for advanced learning, they can go to night school.

We have thousands of success stories in McDonald』s that followed exactly that pattern….