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| 图片取自 Eric's Choice - Three by Zoë Heller |
That night, she says, she remembered her brief interaction with Connolly and put a little note in her diary reminding herself to enquire about the possibility of rejigging his time-table. It was wrong, she felt, that the boy should be prevented from pursuing a subject - perhaps the only subject - for which he had aptitude. She wanted to help.
Such do-gooding fantasies are not uncommon in comprehensive schools these days. Many of the younger teachers harbour secret hopes of 'making a difference'. They hall all seen the American films in which lovely young women tame inner-city thugs with recitations of Dylan Thomas. They, too, want to conquer their little charges' hearts with poetry and compassion. When I was at teacher training college there was none of this sort things. My fellow students and I never thought of raising self-esteem or making dreams come true. Our expectations did not go beyond guiding our prospective pupils through the three Rs and providing them with some pointers on personal hygiene. Perhaps we were lacking in idealism. But then it strikes me as not coincidental that in the same period that pedagogical ambitions have become so inflated and grandiose, the standards of basic literacy and numeracy have radically declined. We might not have fretted much about our children's souls in the old days, but we did send them out knowing how to do long division.
Notes on a Scandal, p27~28
Zoë Heller
ISBN 978-0-141-03995-4
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完美的偏见必然傲慢
回复删除我常常感到疑惑，为什么？
喜欢独立思考的小孩，常被叫作怪胎。
喜欢发表意见的小孩，常被说是捣蛋。
喜欢躲在角落的小孩，常被说是孤僻。
喜欢站上舞台的小孩，常被说是爱现。
大人常常抱怨小孩让他们头痛，
但他们相信吗，他们也常让小孩头痛。
≪我不是完美小孩≫ 17页
几米 作品
ISBN 978-7-5110-1956-1
He sighed and shook his head. "No, I do not think that," he said, in a voice which was mine but deeper, somehow, and flatter. "I do not see a separation. I have lived with a human for only a few days, but I have seen violence and hypocrisy that runs through this species."
回复删除"Yes, but there is good in them. A lot of good."
"No. I don't see it. They can sit and watch dead human bodies on TV screens and feel nothing at all."
"That's how I saw it at first, but-"
"They can drive thirty miles every day and feel good about themselves for recycling a couple of empty jam jars. They can talk about peace being a good thing yet glorify war. They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children."
"Yes, there is a bad logic here, I agree with you, yet I truly believe-"
He wasn't listening. He stood up now, state at me with determined eyes as he paced the room and delivered his speech. "They believe God is always on their side, even if their side is at odds with the rest of their species. They have no way of coming to terms with what are, biologically, the most import events that happen to them - procreation and death. They pretend to know that money can't buy happiness, yet they would choose money every time. They celebrate mediocrity at every available opportunity and love to see other's misfortune. They have lived on this planet for over a hundred thousand generations and yet they still have no idea about who they really are or how they should really live. In fact, they know less now than they once did."
"You're right, but don't you think there is something beautiful in these contradictions, something mysterious?"
"No. No, I do not. What I think is that their violence will has helped them dominate the world and 'civilize' it, but now there is nowhere left for them to go, and so the human world has turned in on itself. It is a monster that feats on its own hands. And still they do not see the monster, or if they do, they do not see that they are inside it, molecules within the beast."
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The Humans, P248-249
Matt Haig
ISBN 978-0-85786-876-3