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There once was a famous professor, who always wrote the numbers 2 and 4 on the blackboard at the first course to his new students, and asked the students“what is the answer.”
曾经有一位著名的教授,每次给新生上第一堂课时,他总是在黑板上写下2和4这两个数字,然后问学生答案是什么。
Every time when he asked this question, some of his students said 6 is the key while some others held that 2 is more proper and some of them chose 8 as the answer. Moreover, there were still others who were just sitting at their seats without a word.
每次当他问这个问题时,一些学生说答案是6,而另一些人认为2才是更好的答案,还有一些人觉得是8。此外,也有一些人只是坐在座位上一言不发。
But at the time that the students were discussing the issues , the professor always sighed and said to the students, “It is no use for you to debate because all of you did not focus the key point:what exactly the question is asked about.
但在学生们热烈讨论的时候,教授总会叹着气,对学生们说:“你们这样争辩是没用的,因为你们都没有找到关键之处,那就是我要问的是什么问题。
Were those two numbers being required to be added, subtracted or to do some other calculations? Without what the question is exactly about, how can you make a right response?”
我是让你们把这两个数字相加、相减,还是要做其他计算?不知道问题问的究竟是什么,你们怎么能做出正确的回答呢?”
找到正确的问题比知道问题的答案更重要。
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