马鞍山市2014高考英语阅读理解、动词短语精讲讲练（23）及答案
When your parents advise you to “get an education” in order to raise your income, they tell you only half the truth. What they really mean is to get just enough education to provide manpower for your society, but not so much that you prove an embarrassment(尴尬) to y our society.
Get a high school diploma, at least. Without that, you will be occupationally dead unless your name happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva Edison or Albert Einstein, and you can successfully dropout in primary school.
Get a college degree, if possible. With a B．A., you are on the launching pad(发射台). But now you have to put on the brakes(刹车). If you go for a master’s degree, make sure it is an M．B.A.
Do you know, for instance, that long－distance truck drivers earn more per year than full professors? Yes, the average 1977 salary for those truckers was $24,000 while the full professors managed to earn just $23,030.
A PhD is the highest degree you can get. Except for a few specialized fields such as physics or chemistry where the degree can quickly be turned to industrial or commercial purposes, if you work for such a degree in any other field, you will face a dark future. There are more PhDs unemployed or underemployed in the country than any other part of the world.
