Learning justifies learning.
学习的理由。
A teacher's confidence in the intrinsic worth of knowledge is fundamental to all instruction. Such deep-rooted belief makes a teacher able to relate knowledge to life, to all human experience.
在教学过程中，教师深谙知识的内在价值非常重要。 这种植根于对知识价值的信仰，能够让教师把知识和生活以及人类的经历紧密相连。
To students' typical questions,"Why do we have to learn this?What good is such knowledge?" the typical instrumental answers come to mind easily: "Because it's required by the school board." "Because you will do better on your listening exam.""Because you will need it later when you study economics."
面对学生常见的提问，“我们为什么要学习这些？学这些东西能有什么好处？”，官方回答是，“因为这是教学大纲要求的。”“为了你之后听力考试能考好。”“因为你以后学经济学的时候用的上。”
But the teacher with deep learning answers with conviction and authority more pertinently : "Because acquiring this knowledge is difficult. Beacuse you will feel triumphant when it no longer confuses you. Because you will enjoy what you can do with it. Because in learning it you may discover new perspectives on life, new ways of thinking. Because its possession will make you more alive than its alternative ,which is ignorance."
但是如果教师经过深思熟虑，回答会更加权威、更有针对性，也更有说服力。
“因为，掌握这些知识是艰难的。所以当这些问题不再困扰你时，你会获得满满的成就感。 你会非常享受自己使用这些知识的过程。在你学习的过程中，你会对人生有新的看法，你会发现不同的思考方式。当你拥有这些知识而不再忽略它们的时候，你会更加有生命力。”
（翻译：The elements of teaching ，James M。Banner，Jr.,Harold C.Cannon. ）
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