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我在学校学到了什么？ 译者： kathy tree 原作者：Nytimes 发表时间：2011-04-01 由于教育预算而引发了人们对学校老师价值的讨论。教师的价值何在？教育的价值何在？作者从自己在学校的亲身经历出来，微言大义地阐释了自己所认为的一个教师所该发挥的价值：让孩子成长为一个有创造力的、能够全面实现自我的成年人。 What I Learned at School 我在学校学到了什么？ By MARIE MYUNG-OK LEE ?? Published: March 30, 2011 But how exactly do we measure the value of a teacher? 但我们如何才能确切地衡量一个教师的价值呢？ As a writer, I often receive feedback from readers I have never met. But the other day, I received a most unexpected message in response to one of my essays: 作为一个作家，我经常会收到一些从未谋面的读者给我的反馈。有一天，我收到了一个极为出乎我意料的反馈： “I am so proud of you and all you have accomplished. I shared your opinion from The L.A. Times with my family and reminisced about you as my student at Hibbing High School.” “我为你所成就的一切感到骄傲。我与我的家人分享你在洛杉矶时报上发表的种种观点，我还会回忆起你在希宾公立高中作为我学生时的样子。” It was signed Margaret Leibfried, who was my English teacher — a teacher who appeared at a critical juncture in my life and helped me believe that I could become a writer. 署名是玛格丽特.莱布弗里德：我中学时的英文老师，她出现在我人生的转折点上，是她让我相信我能够成为一个作家。 Thirty years ago, in Hibbing, a town in northern Minnesota that is home to the world’s largest open-pit iron mine, I entered high school as a bookish introvert made all the more shy because I was the school’s only nonwhite student. I always felt in danger of being swept away by a sea of statuesque blond athletes. By 10th grade, I’d developed a Quasimodo-like posture and crabwise walk, hoping to escape being teased as a “brain” or a “chink,” and then finding being ignored almost equally painful. I spent a lot of time alone, reading and scribbling stories. 30年前的希宾是密尼苏达州北部的一个小镇，是世界上最大的露天铁矿所在地。我上高中的时候书生气十足并且十分内向，因为是学校里唯一的非白人学生，我过的小心翼翼。我经常害怕自己会被学校里遍地都是的金发、轮廓清晰的运动员冲走。这样到10年级的时候，我已经学会了加西莫多般的姿势和螃蟹般的走路方式，为的是避免被嘲笑成“脑残”或“中国佬”。但同时我也发现被人忽略也是一样痛苦。于是，大部分时间我都是一个人，看看书或者胡乱涂写。 Ms. Leibfried taught American literature and composition grammar, which involved the usual — memorizing vocabulary and diagramming sentences — but also, thrillingly, reading novels. 莱布弗里德小姐教授的课程是美国文学和作文语法，除了一般的要求：背诵词汇和