There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.

  • -- Jonathan Kozol 乔纳森·考泽尔

最近关于课程改革和教科书修订方面取得进展的讨论如此之多,以致于教学领域以外的人很少了解我们大多数小学教材仍然有多差。

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I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

从一开始我就很幸运。我发现,只要你本质上是善良的——只要你对别人不坏——人们就会给你很多做自己的空间,因为做自己就是诚实。这就是人们想看到的。

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

仅仅理解或看清是不够的。未来将在人类活动的舞台上由那些愿意把自己的身心投入到这项任务中的人来塑造。

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

科学的永恒功绩在于,它通过对人的思想采取行动,克服了人在自身和自然面前的不安全感。

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

我不再试图去理解我为什么要这样做。我只知道我需要这么做。

You could not even pay anyone to say something bad about Bill.

你甚至不能付钱给任何人说比尔的坏话。

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

人类喜欢探索,这就是科学的种子。