教師,是一個崇高的職業(yè)。因為教師是為社會培養(yǎng)人才的園丁,是人類靈魂的工程師。那么,當(dāng)一名老師又能給教師自己帶來什么呢?
Why I Teach
I teach because I like the pace of the academic calendar. June, July, and August offer an opportunity for reflection, research and writing.
I teach because teaching is a profession built on change. When the material is the same, I change — and, more important, my students change.
I teach because I like the freedom to make my own mistakes, to learn my own lessons, to stimulate myself and my students. As a teacher, I’m my own boss. If I want my freshmen to learn to write by creating their own textbook, who is to say I can’t? Such courses may be huge failures, but we can all learn from failures.
I teach because I like to ask questions that students must struggle to answer. The world is full of right answers to bad questions. While teaching, I sometimes find good questions.
So teaching gives me pace and variety, and challenge, and the opportunity to keep on learning①.
However, the most important reasons why I teach are that my students grow up and change in front of me. Some have become doctoral students with excellent success and found good jobs; some have become interested in the urban poor and served as civil rights lawyers; some have decided to finish high school and go to college.
But teaching offers something besides money and power: it offers love. Not only the love of learning and of books and ideas, but also the love that a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into a teacher’s life and begins to breathe. Perhaps love is the wrong word: magic might be better.
I teach because, being around people who are beginning to breathe, I occasionally find myself catching my breath with them.
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行文點評
文章第一段到第四段都采用了“I teach because...”的句型開頭,句式統(tǒng)一,在內(nèi)容上構(gòu)成了并列。每段的第一句即為該段的主題句,先指出自己想要當(dāng)老師的原因,接著再具體進(jìn)行解釋。在第五段中,作者用So概括了上述原因,再次重申“Why I Teach”,呼應(yīng)主題。第六段開頭借助“However”一詞的過渡,指出教書最重要的理由,和前文構(gòu)成了語義上的遞進(jìn)。文章最后一段還是用I teach because...結(jié)尾,與段首相呼應(yīng),使文章顯得有始有終。
好文妙譯
我為什么當(dāng)老師
我教書,是因為我喜愛學(xué)校日程的安排。六月、七月和八月這三個月的暑假提供了一個思考、研究和創(chuàng)作的機(jī)會。
我教書,是因為教學(xué)是建立在變化基礎(chǔ)上的職業(yè)。雖然教材還是原來的不變,但我自身卻變了,更重要的是,我的學(xué)生變了。
我教書,是因為我喜歡有讓自己犯錯的自由,喜歡自己吸取教訓(xùn)的自由,喜歡激勵自己和激勵學(xué)生的自由。作為教師,我可以自行做主。如果我想要求一年級學(xué)生通過自己編寫課本的方法來學(xué)習(xí)寫作,誰會說我不能那樣做呢?這樣的課程也許會徹底失敗,但我們都可以從失敗中獲得教益。
我教書,是因為我喜歡提出學(xué)生必須絞盡腦汁方能回答的問題。我們這個世界充滿了對付拙劣問題的正確答案。我在教學(xué)過程中,有時也發(fā)現(xiàn)了一些好的問題。所以說,教書讓生活變得有節(jié)奏、豐富多彩;教書向我提出了挑戰(zhàn),也給了我不斷學(xué)習(xí)的機(jī)會。
然而,我教書最重要的理由是,我的學(xué)生在我面前成長、發(fā)展、變化。有些學(xué)生成了成就斐然的博士,找到了好工作;有些對城市貧民發(fā)生了興趣,當(dāng)了維護(hù)公民權(quán)力的律師;有些決定讀完高中后繼續(xù)上大學(xué)。
教書還帶來了超越金錢和權(quán)力以外的東西:那便是愛。不僅是愛學(xué)習(xí)、愛書本、愛思想,還有老師對出類拔萃的學(xué)生的愛。這樣的學(xué)生走進(jìn)了老師的生活,開始成長起來。愛這個字也許用得不恰當(dāng),說是魔力也許更為貼切。
我教書,是因為與開始成長的學(xué)生朝夕相處打成一片,我偶爾發(fā)現(xiàn)自己也和他們一起開始成長了。
詞匯斟酌
calendar n. 日歷,月歷
stimulate vt.刺激,激勵
freshman n. 新生, 大學(xué)一年級學(xué)生
doctoral adj. 博士的
佳句臨摹
、佟咀⑨尅縦eep on (doing sth)繼續(xù)(做某事)
【臨摹】She kept on working although she was tired. 她累了,卻仍在繼續(xù)工作。
思如泉涌
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. 生活無目標(biāo),猶如航海無羅盤。
A burden of one’s choice is not felt. 愛挑的擔(dān)子不嫌重。
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