One of the main purposes of American elite education, represented by ivy league schools such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton University, is to train future social leaders and masters. The previous article mentioned Ross Douthat, the youngest columnist in The New York Times, who graduated from Harvard University in 2002. He wrote a best-selling book about his alma mater, entitled "Direct Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class". Did Washington Post ever mention Yale students? Informal motto? : ? We go to school to study rule. ? This educational goal of cultivating future leaders is reflected in the adoption of famous private universities such as Ivy League in the United States? Liberal arts? In the education system, their undergraduate education has always been adhered to? Bachelor of arts? Not most public universities? Bachelor of Science? . Here? General education? Doesn't mean. Freedom? Choosing a variety of subjects means cultivating one in the classical era? Free man? The opposite of education naturally refers to the practicality of servants or slaves? Occupation? Training. This kind? Free man? The modern significance of liberal arts is the master of society and country, so the significance of elite education of liberal arts is very obvious. From this point of view, the liberal arts education of Ivy League has an obvious tendency to emphasize historical humanities and ignore the purpose. Make a living? what's up Practical? Science and engineering. At the beginning of last century, on the Ivy League campus? Going out? The young master of an undergraduate college was once looked down upon? Prostitute? Students from Harvard University's School of Applied Science and Technology once wanted to put their Lawrence Institute of Technology? A gift? Go to the future Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Although most of the undergraduate courses of these polytechnics were eventually merged into the regular undergraduate courses of liberal arts in various schools, this tradition of attaching importance to literature and neglecting reason still exists, which is also an important difference between elite education in the United States and famous universities in China, especially the liberal arts education in Ivy League places more emphasis on cultivating students' critical spirit and independent thinking ability. This is the cornerstone of western philosophy and culture from the Renaissance, the Enlightenment to the industrial revolution, and it is also a key for western culture to dominate the world for centuries. Under the western democratic system and tradition, be a successful social leader or not? Master? Must have excellent oral and written language skills. This is also the focus of Ivy League education and enrollment. American politicians often? Tell a story? Look at the bestsellers published long before Kennedy and Obama were elected presidents. Eloquence is the ability to speak and debate, which I will mention in other articles. This paper mainly discusses the cultivation of pen ability, that is, the ability of Chinese writing, which is reflected in the extreme attention paid to writing training in Ivy League liberal arts education. The best example in this respect was created by Columbia University at the beginning of last century? Great book project? As the basic reading materials and teaching materials of the whole undergraduate education, 100 has laid the foundation and influenced the modern western social culture, and it is still used by Yale, Colombia and others. General education? I used an undergraduate course. The compulsory course for all freshmen in Harvard University is English composition. The university spared no expense to hire a large number of teachers, and divided more than 600 freshmen into small classes with no more than a dozen students to teach this writing course in the form of counseling and discussion. After that, ten excellent compositions were selected from the whole school and published as the annual magazine of Harvard University. A major feature of the liberal arts education of the Ivy League elite is that many courses are offered, which is very important for modern people. Useless? Courses such as Plato, Shakespeare and Dickens. But in a deeper sense, these? Useless knowledge? But it is very useful. These? Upper-class knowledge? Often represents the cultural and philosophical foundation of western and American society, and is the future social leader? Learn to rule? It is necessary. Even conservative intellectuals claim that these courses? It is essential to cultivate citizens and safeguard our free system. . In the last article, Kevin Keegan, a pen star who was recently killed in a car accident, worked as a research assistant for a famous literary critic at Yale University for two years, specializing in Shakespeare and American literature. This paper was written by Keats, a great English poet, and discussed Keats' influence on Fitzgerald, a famous American writer in modern times. Her Yale teacher thought it could be officially published. The focus of elite education after enrollment is naturally one of the selection criteria for enrollment. Therefore, writing ability is an important part in the process of admission to Ivy League universities, and it is also the key difference between elite American universities and top universities in China that focus on science projects with high-intensity competition, which is particularly worthy of attention from students and parents in China and China. Let's take a look at the most common in America today. College entrance examination? SAT: the full score of three subjects is 2400, the reading and writing part for testing Chinese ability 1600, accounting for two thirds, and mathematics accounting for one third. It may be mentioned that the earliest origin of SAT was implemented by the Admissions Office of Harvard University in the last century. Preferential admission? Based on the principle of enrollment. Secondly, applying for American universities generally requires more than two entrance compositions. For Ivy League universities, the entrance composition is not only used to measure the writing and expression ability, but also a main source of information to evaluate the so-called personal quality. Therefore, some people in the industry regard personal composition as a very important part of the application materials of famous American universities. Because of this, not only many American high schools have set up special entrance composition writing courses, but there is even a huge? Gunner industry? Charging hundreds to thousands of dollars to write the entrance composition for high school graduates, which in turn proves that the entrance composition is indeed one of the keys to the admission process of American universities. How to write all kinds of introductions and successful entrance compositions? Excellent model essay? Selected works from all over the United States, student book fairs and town public libraries. Even on the shelves of the cooperative store of Harvard University (Coop), a guide such as "50 successful Harvard entrance compositions" is prominently displayed. Katherine Cohen, a senior Jewish consultant who advised on the admission strategy of prestigious schools, wrote a book on Ivy League strategy with less than 250 pages, and the composition part accounted for more than 50 pages, which also showed the importance of this matter. Writing is also an important field for top high school students to show their achievements in extracurricular activities. A few years ago, there was a sensational plagiarism of Harvard students' published novels in the United States. The origin is an Indian girl who immigrated to the United States with her doctoral parents in junior high school. In high school, she hired Cohen, a consultant from the above-mentioned prestigious schools, to help? Create? The youth literature consulting company hooks up, completes the theme and outline of a novel, and then sells the creative plan to the publishing house. This publishing contract has become an important capital for girls to enter Harvard smoothly. Only young writers who lack real life experience have it later? Creation? Plagiarism under pressure led to ruin. The increasingly fierce competition for Ivy League admission has greatly improved the evaluation criteria of extracurricular activities in the field of writing. For example, the editor-in-chief of the middle school newspaper, who used to be an excellent result in the resume of high school graduates, has now become an Asian student? Chen Tao? . This shows that middle school students should turn to outside school to seek opportunities and achievements in writing and publishing. There are various writing and composition competitions for middle school students in the United States, and many award-winning articles can be officially published. Particularly worth introducing is the American quarterly Concorde Review, which publishes excellent historical papers of middle school students. According to this quarterly, publishing papers on it is an important qualification for applying for an Ivy League school. Up to now, 92 of its young writers have gone to Harvard, 76 to Yale, 48 to Princeton, 26 to Stanford and so on. Generally speaking, for most middle school students, the biggest publishing opportunity is newspapers and magazines, except for the creative wizards who officially published or signed publishing contracts before the university. Such officially published media articles and works have considerable weight in the eyes of the Ivy League Admissions Office. When children were in high school, they published a controversial political commentary in the National Post of Canada based on their experiences and feelings of volunteering for congressional candidates. According to the communication with the admissions office staff, this is his ivy? Third? An important factor in the simultaneous admission of Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Literary writing really represents a tradition of western aristocratic elite education, and it is often a short item of China children trained by mathematical education. As I mentioned earlier, the top students in China who won the gold medal in the National Mathematical Olympiad and the silver medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad were rejected by Harvard University. His SAT English writing score is only 700 (out of 800), which is definitely a failure factor, representing many children in China? Pay more attention to reason than literature? The weakness of. Other abilities in mathematics, physics, chemistry and science? Dominate? China and Asians in American middle schools are often inferior to whites in liberal arts, especially their parents and families with poor English environment. With the deterioration of the education quality of American public school teachers, English writing is also a big weakness of American public middle school education, especially the private schools that adhere to the traditional aristocratic education. Preparatory school? Contrast. Since the seventh grade of junior high school affiliated to a local private kindergarten with a history of one hundred years, children have to be corrected two compositions word by word by English teachers every week. This is impossible in public schools. Teachers do well but not well. After entering high school, I met a playwright who graduated from Princeton. He is already very famous. He is studying for a doctorate in literature and working as an English teacher. I have compared two other China students with roughly the same level of intelligence. One went to private preschool education and the other went to public school? Key high school? As a result, there is a big gap between them in English writing. Private aristocratic middle schools in the United States have not only trained many famous writers in modern history, including Fitzgerald, Eliot, Salinger and edward ablee (the author of the famous drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf), but also trained political leaders with outstanding language skills, such as franklin roosevelt, Kennedy and Obama. Until recent years, the proportion of these private middle school graduates entering Ivy League schools is still several times higher than that of public schools, and Chinese writing education is one of the key factors. In a word, writing ability and achievement are important for China children and China students who are interested in Ivy League universities.