英语智慧背囊12-为师之道
 音频下载[点击右键另存为][00:00.00]What Makes a Teacher 为师之道[00:04.63]It is customary for adults to forget how hard and dull and long school is. [00:11.85]The learning by memory of all the basic things one must know [00:15.45]is a most incredible and unending effort. [00:18.42]Learning to read is probably the most difficult [00:21.37]and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain [00:25.30]and if you don’t believe that, [00:26.95]watch an illiterate adult try to do it. [00:29.67]School is not easy and it is not for the most part very much fun, [00:34.29]but then, if you are very lucky, [00:36.46]you may find a real teacher. [00:38.43]Three real teachers in a lifetime is the very best of my luck. [00:43.36]My first was a science and math teacher in high school, [00:46.75]my second, a professor of creative writing at Stanford, [00:50.23]and my third was my friend and partner, Ed Ricketts. [00:54.30]I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist [00:57.68]and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. [01:01.62]It might even be the greatest of the arts [01:04.03]since the medium is the human mind and spirit. [01:06.86]My three had these things in common: [01:09.72]they all loved what they were doing. [01:11.79]They did not tell, [01:13.43]they catalyzed a burning desire to know. [01:16.05]Under their influence, [01:18.14]the horizons sprung wide and fear went away [01:21.08]and the unknown became knowledge. [01:23.39]But most important of all, the truth, [01:25.89]that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and precious. [01:29.41]I shall speak only of my first teacher [01:32.35]because in addition to the other things, [01:34.44]she brought discovery. [01:35.75]She aroused us to shouting, book-waving discussion. [01:39.35]She had the noisiest class in school and she didn’t even seem to know it. [01:43.95]We could never stick to the subject. [01:46.88]Our speculation ranged the world. [01:48.73]She breathed curiosity into us so that we brought in facts or truths [01:53.88]shielded in our hands like captured fireflies. [01:57.37]She was fired and perhaps rightly so, [02:00.20]for failing to teach fundamentals. [02:02.52]Such things must be learned. [02:04.82]But she left a passion in us for the pure knowable world [02:08.75]and she inflamed me with a curiosity which has never left. [02:12.24]I could not do simple arithmetic but through her [02:15.63]I sensed that abstract mathematics was very much like music. [02:19.80]When she was relieved, [02:21.91]a sadness came over us but the light did not go out. |
