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A revolution is coming in the field of global education. Up to now, all leading universities have relied primarily on the deep W

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问题     A revolution is coming in the field of global education. Up to now, all leading universities have relied primarily on the deep Western pool of wisdom to provide both the method and content of their educational systems. This made sense. Western education created the most successful societies humankind has ever seen.
    Asia benefited from Western education even under colonial rule. When the imperialist Lord Macaulay was put in charge of education in British India, he called for English to be the language of instruction. He promised that Indians’ minds would begin to open when they read those English texts. The magic that Macaulay predicted did indeed happen: Western schooling opened Indian minds. The new, confident India of today owes its success at least in part to the influence of Western literature and learning.
    Now a second Asian cultural awakening is upon us. There is a growing realization that the world can learn a lot from, say, Chinese and Indian civilizations, in everything from poetry and philosophy to traditional medicine and strategic thinking. Paradoxically, leading Western institutions are ahead of their Asian counterparts in grasping this. Sadly, most Asian educators have not fully understood how much the world is changing. They are comfortable with the old paradigm of copying the West. But as Asian economies reach the same level as Western ones, this will no longer work. Asian universities will have to reinvent themselves, bringing together the best of Western and Asian learning.
    The degree of adaptation will vary from discipline to discipline. The Asian faculties of science, mathematics and engineering will teach the same curricula as Western universities, but they will have to stop viewing themselves merely as brain factories producing scientists and engineers in large amounts only for economic growth. Creativity and innovation will become more important. The explosive success of American universities stems at least in part from the fact that they are treated not merely as economic units but as the guardians of the souls of their people.
    In the field of social science， the challenges may be even greater. In the multi-civilizational world of the future, the prevailing assumption that all social-science theories are universally applicable and hence there is no need to study other cultures, religions or peoples will appear both strange and irrelevant.
    In advocating an open attitude to all cultures, the new Asian scholars may only be reviving an old Western ideal which declared that educated minds understood both their own cultures and the world. To succeed, Asian universities will have to cultivate equally strong traditions of freedom of spirit and inquiry that have been the hallmark of great American universities throughout the ages. If they can do that, they may even surpass their Western counterparts.
We may learn from Paragraph 4 that Asian universities are advised to .
选项 A、teach curricula different from their western counterpart
B、mass produce talents for economic reasons
C、help their students cultivate the innovative spirit
D、guard the souls of their students
答案C
解析 本题是细节题。根据第四段第二句和第三句提到的，“亚洲大学的科学、数学和工程学院将教授与西方大学相同的课程，但他们将不得不停止将自己视为仅仅为了经济增长而大量生产科学家和工程师的大脑工厂”与Creativity and innovation will become more important (创造力和创新将变得更加重要)可知，亚洲大学应该培养学生的创造力和创新精神，故答案选C。A项与原文第四段第二句The Asian faculties of science，mathematics and engineering will teach the same curricula as western universities说法相反，属于典型的正反混淆，故排除，D项干扰来自第四段末句，“守卫学生的心灵”是美国大学的做法，是重视学生创造力和创新精神的具体表现，但不是作者建议，属于无中生有，故排除。
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