我为什么当老师(Why I Teach) 我为什么当老师(Why I Teach)我为什么当老师(Why I Teach) 我教书，是因为我喜爱校历的步调。六月、七月和八月这三个月的暑 假提供了一个思考、研究和创作的机会。 我教书，是因为教学是建立在变化基础上的职业。虽然教材还 是原来的不变，但我自身却变了，更重要的是，我的学生变了。 我教书，是因为我喜欢有让自己犯错的自由，喜欢自己吸取教 训的自由，喜欢激励自己和激励学生的自由。作为教师，我可以自行 做主。如果我想要求一年级学生通过自己编写课本的方法来学习写 作，谁会说我不能那样做呢？这样的课程也许会彻底失败，但我们都 可以从失败中获得教益。 我教书，是因为我喜欢提出学生必须绞尽脑汁方能回答的问题。 我们这个世界充满了对付拙劣问题的正确答案。我在教学过程中，有 时也发现了一些好的问题。 所以说，教书让生活变得有节奏、丰富多彩；教书向我提出了 挑战，也给了我不断学习的机会。 然而，我教书最重要的理由是，我的学生在我面前成长、发展、 变化。有些学生成了成就斐然的博士，找到了好工作；有些对城市贫 民发生了兴趣，当了维护公民权力的律师；有些决定读完高中后继续 上大学。教书还带来了超越金钱和权力以外的东西：那便是爱。不仅是 爱学习、爱书本、爱思想，还有老师对出类拔萃的学生的爱。这样的 学生走进了老师i 的生活，开始成长起来。爱这个字也许用得不恰当， 说是魔力也许更为贴切。 英文译文： i teach because i like the pace of the academic cale ndar. june, july, and august offer an opport unity research and writi ng. i teach because teachi ng is a professi on built on cha nge. whe n the material is the same, i cha nge--a nd, more importa nt, my stude nts cha nge. i teach because i like the freedom to make my own mistakes, to lear n my own less ons, to stimulate myself and my stude nts. as a teacher, i'm my own boss. if i want my freshme n to lear n to write by creat ing their own textbook, who is to say i can' t? such courses may be huge failures, but we can all learn from failures. i teach because i like to ask questi ons that stude nts must struggle to answer. the world is full'of right answers to bad questi ons. while teachi ng, i sometimes find good questi ons. so teach ing gives me pace and variety, and challe nge,a nd the opport unity to keep on learni ng. however, the most importa nt reas ons why i teach are that my stude nts grow up and cha nge in front of me. some have become doctoral students with excellent success and found in the urban poor for reflecti on, good jobs; some have become interested 2 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/cc8b8625ba0d6c85ec3a87c24028915f804d84fe.html