The good mind is flexible原文和翻译

The good mind is flexible 优秀的头脑是灵活的 1 For many years we have talked about education in a changing society but have done littleto educate for uncertainty. Perhaps the best insurance we can offer for this uncertainty isthe presence of a good mind. To develop a good mind the student must learn how to learnand develop a taste for learning. The world of tomorrow needs flexible individuals,intelligently mobile individuals, individuals who can land on their feet when their jobsbecome technologically obsolete, individuals who can cope with the unexpected. 多年来,我们一直在讨论日新月异的社会中的教育问题,却没有采取切实行动来教育人们如何应对变化。或许面对变化,我们的最佳保障足拥有优秀的头脑。要培养优秀的头脑,学生需要掌握学习方法,培养学习兴趣。未来的世界需要适应能力强的人;需要其智慧类型为多面发展的人;需要那种当其所从事的工作技术上落伍时,依然能克服困境走向成功的人,需要能应对意外局面的人。 2 To educate for flexibility we must distinguish between training and education. To train isto emphasize fixed responded, to stress immediate goals to the neglect of long-termgrowth. to educate, however, is to foster limitless growth, lifelong learning, to develop thegood mind. 要培养灵活的头脑,我们需要区别什么是训练,什么是教育。训练注重培养一成不变的反应,注重短期目标而忽略长远发展。教育则旨在促进无限的成长,鼓励终生的学习,培养优秀的头脑。 1 3 Mark Twain's story about the cat is in order here. he said that a cat that jumps onto a hotstove will never jump on a hot stove again. Nor, he added, will she ever jump on a coldone. The cat can be trained but, contrary to what cat-lovers may say, cannot be educated. 这里刚好可以用上马克?吐温讲的猫的故事。他说跳到热火炉上的猫再也不会往热火炉上跳。他还补充说,这猫甚至再也不会往冷的炉子上跳。猫可以接受训练,不过,与爱猫人士的说法相反,猫是无法被教育的。 4 The person educated for flexibility will see the world in a fresh, inventive way. Such aperson is not chained to the immediate, the customary, the habitual, not dependent onsomeone else to plan the route and how to get there. such persons will chart their owncourse. 懂得应对变化的人看待世界的视角新颖、富有独创性。这样的人不会受到眼前利益、传统惯例、固定习惯等的束缚,他无需依赖外人为他设定路线,指明途径。这样的人懂得绘制自己的行程。 5 To develop the flexible person with the good mind we must favor those learningexperiences that have high transfer value to varied life situations, we must learn how toteach skill, attitudes, and concepts so that they not only meet current needs but can begeneralized to future needs as well. 为了培养具备优秀头脑和良好适应力的人,我们应该提倡那些能够适用于不同人生境遇、具有高“转移价值”的学习体验。我们必须学习如何传授技巧、态度和理念,使它们不仅可以满足目前的需要,还具有普适性,能够满足未来的需要。 6 Education for flexibility will certainly include guidance in the fine arts. If we acceptDewey's definition of art as "the intensification of the ordinary, "then the teacher's task isto help learners turn the commonplace into the creative. Mel Strawn of Antioch Collegedescribed this approach to learning as "a heightening of the individual's perceptualawareness, an intensification of his sense of form. he sees more and comprehends more ofwhat he sees. " 适应性教育无疑应该包含艺术教育。如果我们接受杜威的定义,认为艺术是“对平常事物的强化”,那么老师的职责应该是帮助学习者化平庸为独创。安条克学院的梅尔?斯特朗将这种学习的方法描述为“提升个人的感性意识,增强对形式的领悟力。接受这种教育的人会于其所见之外有更多发现,更多感悟。” 7 In Anne Morrow Lindbergh's book, Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead:Diaries and Letters1929-1932, she says that "an experience was not finished until it was written or shared inconversation. "she also makes the point that "truth that is locked up in the heart-or in adiary -is sterile. " it must be given back to life so that "the hour of lead "may betransformed or transmuted into the hour of gold. The good mind is a sharing mind. 安?莫罗?林德伯格在她的著作《黄金之时,领路之时,1929—1932年日记与信札》中说,“一次经历只有在写下来或对别人述说后才能算结束。”她还说,“深藏在心中或日记里的真理是没有结果的。”真理必须重返生活,“领路之时”才可能被转换成黄金之时。优秀的头脑是善于分享的头脑。 8 An inescapable element in education for flexibility is an attitude favorable to change.this is hard to develop, it requires faith in oneself and in the future. Insecure people dreadchange;they walk backwards into the future, clinging anxiously and defensively to thepast. 适应性教育一个不可忽视的要素是欣然接受变化的态度。这种态度不易培养。它需要人们对自我以及未来充满信心。缺乏安全感的人害怕变动。他们倒退着走向未来,焦虑而防卫性地牢牢抓紧过去。 9 Often such people think they don't amount to much. they do not accept themselves andconsequently do not accept others. thus they remain either negative or emotionallyimmature in their outlook toward the future. Lacking insight into their own feelings ofinadequacy and unimportance, they shrink their world to meager and manageableproportions. They may wish to be more flexible, more open-minded, but they do not feelup to it. 通常,这些人会认为自己微不足道。他们不接受∕相信自己,所以也不接受相信他人。他们展望未来时,要么态度消极,要么怀着幼稚的情感。他们无法洞察自身的欠缺感和自卑感,将自己的世界压缩到了便于掌控的狭小范围。他们或许希望能够为人更加灵活,思想更加开放,但是他们觉得自己力所不能及。 10 What can the school and college do to build an attitude more favorable to theunprejudiced examination of new ideas? Certainly they can and must develop theself-confidence of students, build them up with repeated success instead of constant failure.They can develop a group atmosphere friendly toward and supportive of change. Schoolsand colleges can help students admire what is admirable, become acquainted with heroicmen and women who changed the world. they can provide continuing guidance in how tobecome a genuine person, one who has faith in the future, who has a good mind of hisown. 学校和大学应该做些什么来培养积极的心态,使之能公正客观地评判新观点显然他们可以而且必须培养学生的自信心,用连续的成功而不是反复的失败来激励学生。他们可以营造一个适应变化、鼓励变化的集体氛围。学校和大学可以帮助学生学会欣赏卓越,了解改造世界的英雄人物。他们可以为学生提供长期的指导,教育他们成为真正的人,成为一个相信未来、拥有优秀头脑的人。 11 To meet the striking social changes of the future, continuing education is a necessity.Emerson put it this way :"the things taught in colleges and school are not an education, bura means of education. " and Seneca noted that, "you should keep on learning as long asyou're ignorant. " 12 the flexibly educated persons knows that today's fact may be tomorrow's fallacy. Heagrees with Alfred North Whitehead that, " knowledge does not keep any better than fish, " and accepts his warning against "the aimless accumulation of precise knowledge, inert andunutilized. " 13 the test of a modern society capable of meeting change with accelerated evolutioninstead of revolution does not lie in asking, " is everybody happy?" but rather, "