前言
每周一篇，持续更新，目前还没想到更好的方式去展现，我认为TED的演讲不仅让我们对不同的行业、观点有了新的认识，里面的英文演讲稿还是一个很不错的学习案例，所以整理一下，所以暂时先这样写着，一件事只要自己认为是对的，就坚持下去，人生不可能没有遗憾，只能通过自己的努力让遗憾减少。
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正文
六一儿童节，刚好是2018年前半年的结束，刚好看到这个关于教育的话题挺好，就放进来了。
这篇演讲讲的是一个老师对自己教育事业的热爱，老师的工作不只是教会孩子课本上的知识，更多的是爱孩子，鼓励孩子，让孩子充满自信，让孩子学会思考。
作为一名教育者，首先要爱自己的职业，爱身边那一群可爱的孩子，而不仅仅是简单的上课下课的关系，，老师总喜欢学习好的学生，喜欢干净漂亮的学生，喜欢听话的学生，似乎这些构成了好学生的标准，但是我们的社会真的需要的是那个听话的好学生吗？ 不，我们现在需要的是一个敢于挑战，充满自信，喜欢思考的人。
我一个同事是新疆的，她告诉我说，她刚到中原地区上学感觉好不适应，天天抄袭同学的作业，连标点符号都不改的，之前自己在新疆上学的时候，老师留的作业，会写到就写，不会写的就写不会写，可是到了这边，不会也要装作自己会的样子。。我听到之后很惊讶，居然不会写的作业可以写不会写就可以了，因为在我们这里，抄作业好像是一件很正常的事情，不会写又必须按时交作业。不会问你会不会，只要按时按量交过来，完成任务就可以了。我问，那有没有作业全写不会写的，她说，没有啊，总有你会的呀。。对啊，当孩子足够坦诚去面对问题的时候，自身的自觉性反而更高了。
记得上初中那会，写完课后习题，和练习册上的作业后，还必须写作业上交，这个作业就是简单的抄写课本，，有几次问老师，我们练过之后都已经会了，为什么还要抄课本呀，能不能不写了，老师说，不行，学校要检查的。。当我们把大部分时间都用来抄课本，抄作业的时候，不用思考去做一些重复性的劳动时，思维就会退化，每天都在退步，渐渐地失去学习的兴趣。而这种思维一旦固化就很难改变。为了交作业而写作业、抄作业，他们会认为我就是不会，别人做的就是对的，只有对的才不会被点名批评，，所以遇到问题，看都不看，直接心里想的我不会。这时，老师的鼓励会给这些孩子提供莫大的帮助，要让每一个孩子知道自己可以成为自己喜欢的人，自己能做到自己喜欢的样子，这样，当他们去做的时候才有可能成为一个优秀的人。
每一个孩子都需要一个冠军，是去赢得自己对自己的认可，自身的自信，成为自己心里的冠军。
演讲原文
I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse, on the way to the schoolhouse, or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse.
Both my parents were educators, my maternal grandparents were educators,
and for the past 40 years I've done the same thing. And so, needless to say,over those years,
I've had a chance to look at education reform from a lot of perspectives.
Some of those reforms have been good.some of them have been not so good.
And we know why kids drop put. we know why kids don't learn.
It's either poverty,low attendance, negative peer influences.
We know why. But one of things that we never discuss or we really discuss is the value and importance of human connection relationships.
Jams Comer(美国著名儿童精神科医师）says that no significant learning can occur without a siginificant relationship.
George Washington Carver(美国著名教育家)says all learning is understanding relationships.
Everyone in this room has been affected by a teacher or an adult .
For years,I have watched people teach,I have looked at the best and I've look at some of the worst.
A colleague said to me on time, "They don't play me to like the kids. They pay me to teach a lesson. The kids should learn it, I should teach it,They should learn it. Case closed.
" Well, I said to her, "You know, kids don't learn from people they don't like."
She said,"That's just a bunch of hooey."(一派胡言)。
And I said to her, "Well,your year is going to be long and arduous,dear."
Needless to say it was.
Some people think that you can either have it in you to build a relationship or you don't.
I think Stephen Covey(美国教育家） had the right idea.
He said you ought to just throw in a few simple things. like seeking first to understand as opposed to being understood,
simple things like apologizing. you ever thought about that? Tell a kid you're sorry, they're in shock.
I taught a lesson once on rations. I'm not real good with math, but I was working on it. And I got back and looked at that teacher edition, I'd taught the whole lesson wrong. So I came back to class the next day,and I said, "Look ，guys,I need to apologize. I taught the whole lesson wrong, I'm so sorry." They said,"That's okay, Ms.Pierson. You were so excited,we just let you go."
I have had classes that were so low, so academically deficient that I cried.
I wondered, how an I going to take this group in nine months from where they are to where they need to be?
And it was difficult. It was awfully hard.
How do raise the self-esteem of a child and his academic achievement at the same time?
One year I came up with a bright idea. I told all my students, "You were chosen to be in my class Because I am the best teacher and you are the best students, they put us all together so we could show everybody else how to do it." One of the students said, "Really?" I said , "Really , We have to show the other classes how to do it,so when we walk down the hall,people will notice us,so you can't make noise. you just have to struct."
And I gave them a saying to say。"I am somebody I was somebody when I came, I'll be a better somebody when I leave. I am powerful,and I am strong. I deserve the education that I get here. I have things to do,people impress,and places to go."
And they said , "yeah!"
you say it long enough,it starts to be a part of you.
And so---- I gave a quiz,20 questions.
A student missed 18. I put a "+2" on this his paper and a big smiley face. He said,"Ms Pierson,is this an F?"
I said ,"Yes." He said ,
"Then why'd you put a smiley face?"
I said,"Because you're on a roll. you got two right,you didn't miss them all."
I said, "And when we review this, won't you do better?"
He said,"Yes,ma'am,I can do better."
you see,
"-18"sucks all the life out of you.
"+2"said,"I amn't all bad"
For years I watched my mother take the time at recess to review, go on home visits in the afternoon, buy combs and brushes and peanut butter and crackers to put in her desk drawer for kids that needed to eat,and a washcloth and some soap for the kids who didn't smell so good。
see， it's hard to teach kids who stink.
And kids can be cruel.
And so she kept those things in her desk, and years later,after she retired, I watched some of those some kids come through and say to her,"you know ,MS.Walker, you made a difference in my life.you made it work for me.you made me feel like I was somebody when I knew,at the bottom, I wasn't. And I want you to just to see what l've become."
And when my mama died two years ago at 92, there were so many former students at her funeral.
it brought tears to my eyes,not because she was gone,but because she left a legacy of relationships that could never disappear.
Can we stand to have more relationships?
Absolutely.
Will you like all your children?
Of course not, And you know your toughest kids are never absent.
Never,you won't like them all, and the tough ones show up for a reason.
It's the connection,It's the relationships. And while you won't like them all, the key is,they can never,ever know it.
So teachers become great actors and great actresses,
and we come to work when we don't feel like it,
and we're listening to policy that doesn't make sense,
and we teach anyway.
we teach anyway,because that's what we do.
Teaching and learning should bring joy.
Hoe powerful would our world be if we had kids who were not afraid to take risks,
who where not afraid to think,
and who had a champion? Every child deserves a champion,
an adult who will never give up on them,who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best the they can possibly be.
Is this job tough? you betcha,Oh Gad ,you betcha,
But it is not impossible.
we can do this, we're educators.
we're born to make a difference.
Thank you so much.
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