俗語說：“三歲看大，七歲看老”，可以說幼兒園里的啟蒙教育對人的一生有著至關重要的影響作用，看看下面這篇文章吧，你會發現，很多被認為最能體現一個人素養的優雅習慣原來都是在幼兒園里形成的。
Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work some every day.
Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK . Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology and politics and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
NoteKindregarten: n. 幼兒園sandbox: n. 沙箱, 沙盒
nursery: n. 托兒所flush: vt. 沖洗,此處意指便后沖水
nap: n. (白天)小睡, 打盹hamster: n. 東歐或亞洲產的大頰的鼠類
sanitation: n. 衛生, 衛生設施sane: a. 健全的
Questions:
1. What will happen if we put a white mice in the plastic cup according to the author?
2. We can learn from the passage that the world will be better if all of us_____.
The answers of last week are:
1. acute appendicitis
2. disdain.
3. AL’s son.
