Lesson One Text of us.learning appears to be a surrender of our own will to external direction,a sort of enslavement.(3 This is a mistake.Learning is a natural pleasure. inborn and instinctive.(4one of the essential pleasures of the human race.Watch a small child.at an age too young to have had any mental habits implanted by training.(5 Some delightful films made by the late Dr Arnold Gesell of Yale University show little creatures who can barely talk investigating problems with all the zeal and excitement of 第一课课文
of us, learning appears to be a surrender of our own will to external direction,a sort of enslavement.(3) This is a mistake. Learning is a natural pleasure, inborn and instinctive, (4)one of the essential pleasures of the human race. Watch a small child, at an age too young to have had any mental habits implanted by training.(5) Some delightful films made by the late Dr. Arnold Gesell of Yale University show little creatures who can barely talk investigating problems with all the zeal and excitement of Lesson One Text 第一课 课文
Lesson One Text explorers,making discoveries with the passion and absorption ofdedicated scientists.(6 At the end of each successful investigation,there comes over each tiny face an expression of pure heart-felt pleasure. When Archimedes discovered the principle of specific gravity by observing his own displacement of water in a bathtub,he leaped out with delight,shouting,"Eureka,Eureka!" ("I have found it,I have found it!") The instinct which prompted his outburst,and the joy of its gratification. 第一课谋
explorers, making discoveries with the passion and absorption of dedicated scientists.(6) At the end of each successful investigation, there comes over each tiny face an expression of pure heart-felt pleasure. When Archimedes discovered the principle of specific gravity by observing his own displacement of water in a bathtub, he leaped out with delight, shouting, "Eureka,Eureka!” ("I have found it, I have found it!") The instinct which prompted his outburst, and the joy of its gratification, Lesson One Text 第一课 课文
Lesson One Text are possessed by all children.7 But if the pleasure of learning is universal,why are there so many dull,incurious people in the world?It is because they were made dull.by bad teaching,by isolation.by surrender to routine,sometimes,too,by the pressure of hard work and poverty,or by the toxin ofriches,with all their ephemeral and trivial delights.(8 With luck,resolution(9 and guidance,however,the human mind can survive 10)not only poverty but even wealth. This pleasure is not confined (11 to 第一课课文
are possessed by all children.(7) But if the pleasure of learning is universal, why are there so many dull, incurious people in the world? It is because they were made dull, by bad teaching, by isolation, by surrender to routine, sometimes, too ,by the pressure of hard work and poverty, or by the toxin of riches, with all their ephemeral and trivial delights. (8)With luck,resolution(9) and guidance, however, the human mind can survive(10) not only poverty but even wealth. This pleasure is not confined (11) to Lesson One Text 第一课 课文
Lesson One Text learning from textbooks,which are too often tedious(12). but it does include learning from hooks.Sometimes, when I stand in a big library like the Library of Congress,or Butler Library at Columbia,and gaze round me at the millions of hooks,I feel a sober,earnest delight hard to convey except(13)by a metaphor.These are not lumps of lifeless paper but minds alive in the shelves.(14 From each of them goes out its own voice.as inaudible as the streams of sound conveyed by electric waves beyond the range of our hearing. 第 课课文
learning from textbooks,which are too often tedious(12). but it does include learning from hooks. Sometimes, when I stand in a big library like the Library of Congress, or Butler Library at Columbia, and gaze round me at the millions of hooks, I feel a sober, earnest delight hard to convey except(13) by a metaphor. These are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive in the shelves.(14) From each of them goes out its own voice, as inaudible as the streams of sound conveyed by electric waves beyond the range of our hearing, Lesson One Text 第一课 课文
Lesson One Text and just as the touch of a button on our stereo will fill the room with music,so by opening one of these volumes,one can call into range a voice far distant in time and space,and hear it speaking,mind to mind heart to heart.(5 But,far beyond books,learning means keeping the mind open and active to receive all kinds of experience.One of the best- informed men I ever knew was a cowboy who rarely read a newspaper and never a book,but who had ridden many thousands of miles through one of the western states.He knew his state 第一课课文
and just as the touch of a button on our stereo will fill the room with music, so by opening one of these volumes, one can call into range a voice far distant in time and space,and hear it speaking,mind to mind,heart to heart.(15) But,far beyond books,learning means keeping the mind open and active to receive all kinds of experience. One of the bestinformed men I ever knew was a cowboy who rarely read a newspaper and never a book, but who had ridden many thousands of miles through one of the western states.He knew his state Lesson One Text 第一课 课文