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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You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.

你付不出足够的钱让我当执法人员。他们的工作很难。你必须解决人们的问题,你必须照顾他们,你必须总是和坏人玩猫捉老鼠的游戏。我非常尊重他们。

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

当时我正在打橄榄球和其他英式学校的孩子们做的比赛,有一个比赛项目是赛跑,我以相当大的优势赢得了这些比赛。

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

我不相信那句老话:好事只会发生在耐心等待的人身上。我认为好事会降临到那些如此渴望得到某样东西而不能坐以待毙的人身上。

First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.

首先,你要明白我和其他人没什么不同。当我在唱片上听到自己的声音时,我非常讨厌自己的声音。我不能忍受我的声音。

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

当你阅读和理解一首诗,理解它丰富和正式的含义,那么你就掌握了一点混乱。

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

在太空中,没有什么比从摩天轮上看到的景色更有希望了。