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美国对高等教育的最大贡献是服务社会的理念。富裕家庭的子弟，要通过参与基层社会来完成自己的精英教育。从“二战”以来，几乎每二十年，美国的高等教育就对精英子弟提出新的挑战，逼着他们不断地适应，无法故步自封。 美国精英家庭的孩子，不少十三四岁就开始计划上大学，十五六岁就开始周游世界，到贫穷的发展中国家锻炼，成为全球社会的一个积极参与者。虽然贫富分化、教育资源分布不均的问题还远没有得到解决，但是，许多富家子弟为了上大学参与了这些暑期和“空缺年”的课程，改变了自己对世界的看法，了解了不同阶层人们的生活。结果，他们没有变成势利的特权阶层，而是成为有责任感的社会精英。

Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games - games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. She no longer considered Dave a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an 'it'. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and smelly, and when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dog's bowl. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare played out behind closed doors. But throughout Dave kept alive dreams of finding a family to love him. This book covers the early years of his life and is an affecting an inspirational book of the horrors of child abuse and the steadfast determination of one child to survive.