美国青少年在本质上可能是浪漫主义者,但是他它们的心(和脑)每天都受到限制他们的想象力和智力的词语和形象的进攻。作为教师,我们须扭转这种局面,既让学生获得浪漫主义者无拘无束想象的感受,又获得古典主义者分析的能力。我认为,怎样教这些观点跟教什么同样重要。在我教英国作者课程内我应用于浪漫主义和古典主义这一组相对立观点时的方法既创造了探索的感受,又使学生在使用这些观 American adolescents may themselves be romantic in nature, but their hearts (and brains) are attacked every day by the words and images that limit their imagination and intelligence. As teachers, we need to reverse this situation by giving students the feeling of romantic imagination and the ability of the classicists to analyze them. I think how to teach these ideas is as important as what is taught. The method I used when I was teaching English authors to the opposite viewpoints of Romanticism and Classicism both created a sense of exploration and allowed students to use these concepts