No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

  • -- Jonathan Kozol 乔纳森·考泽尔

“不让一个孩子掉队”四年级的成绩不是学习成绩,而是测试成绩。这就是它们不能持久的原因。法律分散了人们对真正重要的事情的注意力。

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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

学习应该是一种快乐,充满了兴奋。这是人生最大的冒险;它是对高尚和有学问的人的思想的一次图文并茂的探索。

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.

很久以前,作为一名检察官,我学到的一件事是,如果没有对违法者的惩罚,要让他们遵守法律是很难的。

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

认识自己,是大家公认的最有用的学问;因此,给我们的第一课应该是关于这个问题的。

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

我工作的思辨部分是,这些特定的认知任务——分析性思维方式——与自然规律有关。

Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.

你为什么不把它放在头条:“他只和多丽丝做了三次!”“纠正了很多人的错误。

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

我对乐队的爱依然存在。它没有改变,也许这就是为什么这些天如此痛苦的原因。