園丁頌歌
園丁頌歌
老師:請聽我說.....
感謝您沒使學習變成勞作而成為一種歡樂；
感謝您讓我明白自身的價值；
感謝您幫助我發現了自己的專長
而且讓我把事情做得更好；
感謝您幫我驅走我對不理解事物
的恐懼一一一而且說服我
去透徹地理解它們；
感謝您成為一個我能永遠信賴的人
在生活中遇到麻煩便會去求助的人。
thank you for making learning not a job but a joy.
thank you for making me feel valuable.
thank you for helping me to discover what i do best -
and to do it even better.
thank you for taking away the fear of things i could
not understand - and persuading me that
i understood them after all .
thank you for being someone i can always trust -
and turn to when life gets difficult.
要想變得聰明就像聰明人要變得遲緩一樣艱難。
感謝您理解我們所有人，
給我們時間并且時時關注著我們的需要。
it’s hard to be clever as to be a little slow.
thank you for understanding all of us
and giving us the time and care each of us needs .
感謝您
讓我相信
我能成為
超過自己期望的人。
thank you for
persuading me that
i was better than
i suspected .
好老師能說服她們的學生，
學習并不是一種負擔，一種干擾，一種自由的
剝奪;而是一種興奮，是獲得一把通向他們
從不知道的更大的自由天地的鑰匙
good teachers can persuade their students that
learning is not an imposition ,an interference, a theft
of freedom - but an excitement , and the key to a
greater freedom than they have ever known.
全班和老師都沉浸在歡樂的氣氛中
那是因為剛剛解決了一道難題。
空氣中充滿了沁人心脾的溫馨。
您教會我們用自己的頭腦大膽探索��
去尋找去發現，讓生活充滿驚喜
a class and a teacher who have just defeated a
difficult problem beam at each other in delight.
the air is full of invisible hugging.
you have taught us to have adventures in our heads -
to search and discover, to live with amazement.
有些老師讓通過考試獲得好成績
成為學習的唯一理由。
感謝您使我們明白學習也能夠
變得樂趣無窮。
some teachers make passing exams and getting good
grades the only reason for learning.
thank you for showing us that it can be fun
一個好老師在你悲傷時，
會理解你的心情。
即使你沒吐露片言只字。
還讓你知道，
只要你愿意，
能把一切向她傾訴。
a good teacher knows when you
are very sad .
even if you haven’t said anything at all.
and lets you know you can tell her
all about it.
if you want to .
一個好老師記得自己也曾是個孩子��
因此理解全班孩子的
恐懼，悲哀，
激動和歡樂。
如果一個老師真正關心她的同學，
她的關心便會沐及全班。
a good teacher remembers being small -
and understands the terrors and
the sadnesses, the excitements and the joys
of the children in the class.
if teacher really cares for her class ,
it spreads .
人們時常傷害他人，
因為他們不明白
這種傷害是什么感覺。
您卻把受傷害人們的感情
對我們細細解釋。
people often hurt other people
because they don’t understand
what it feels like .
you explained to us just how the
other people feel .
善于處理一切
你就會更熱愛生活。
這是您說的，
千真萬確.
become good at anything and
you will love life more.
that’s what you said.
and it’s true.
謝謝您讓我們明白我們能從失敗中
汲取教訓，在困難中發現力量，
在最黑暗的日子里找到愛和仁慈；
謝謝您還給了我們勇氣去開動
我們的腦子同時要我們襟懷坦蕩……
決不畏懼。難題；
謝謝您讓我們明白如何堅持自己
認為正確的……哪怕這時我們實際上
兩腿嗦嗦直抖。
thank you for showing us that we can learn from
failure, discover strength in difficulties, find love and kindness in our darkest days.
thank you for giving us the courage to use our
minds as well and as honestly as we can…
and never be afraid to question.
thank you for showing us how to stand firm for
what we believe right… even when we are
shaking in our shoes.
不管外面是多么喧囂;我們都知道
在您的教室里我們會發現規律，公正和一次
學習的機會。
還有寬容。
歡笑。激動。
whatever chaos reigned outside – we knew
we’d find order , justice and a chance to learn
inside your classroom.
and tolerance.
and laughter. and excitement.
暴力和貪婪的映像將我們團團圍住。
它們在拼命捶門。
但我們在這兒非常安全。
在這塊小小的空間我們學會相互尊重
思考，學習，捉摸和創造
images of violence and of greed engulf us.
they hammer at the door.
but here we are safe.
in this small space we learn to value one another
to think ,to learn, to wonder and create.
您將美放入我的手中。
那就是我的開端。
您，我的老師，給我教誨，想象，見識，
由此營造起我的一生。
不管我在建造什么，您總是幫助我壘好基礎。
you put beauty into my hand.
and that was my beginning.
you, as my teacher, gave me words, images, ideas
from which to build my life.
whatever i build, you helped to lay the foundations.
在一個愉快學習的課堂上有一種令人
悠然陶醉的感覺。我們得到了這種感。覺。
there’s sort of buzz in a happy, learning
classroom. and we have it.
您從不硬逼我們去面對一個未經探索的問題��
不管是地理，歷史，
電腦，代數還是詩歌。或者是真正的花崗巖。
您指給我們踩腳點和抓手點。您仔細地
引導我們讓我們在攀登時感到
絕對的安全。當我們終于攀到頂峰時，
您跟我們一起為勝利和光輝的前景歡呼雀躍.
you never shoved us up an unexplored rock face –
whether it was geography, history,
computer studies, algebra or poetry. or real granite.
you showed us the toeholds and finger holds. you
carefully guided us and made us feel absolutely safe,
as we climbed.
and when we finally reached the top,
you rejoiced with us at the view and the victory.
一個好老師為最悲哀的人們
做出了最好的工作。
就像在喂養小蝌蚪
或者在澆灌小花��
a good teacher gives the best job –
like feeding the tadpoles
or watering the plants –
to the saddest person.
當您授課的每個細枝末節
已經給遺忘之際，熱情，勇氣，
還有仁慈卻會永遠保留。
when every detail of what you taught has
been forgotten, enthusiasm, encouragement and
kindness will remain.
感謝您從不冷嘲熱諷
孩子眼中感到迷惑茫然的事情。
thank you for never being sarcastic –
the thing that baffles and bewilders a child
您將丑陋和貪婪驅走;足以使我們
有勇氣挺身面對它們。
您讓我們看到慈藹，耐心，
勇氣，毅然的力量。
您給了我們生活的機會。
you hold ugliness and greed off – long enough for
us to gather strength to stand against them.
you show us the power of kindness,
of patience, of courage, of dedication.
you give us the chance to live.
我會
永遠永遠
把您
記在心懷。
i will
remember you
always
and always.
一個好老師能幫助我們塑造
我們生活的一部分，
不管時光有多么艱難。
a good teacher can help us make
something of our lives,
however bad times are.
半夜里，老師不會因夢見
氣勢洶洶的惡狼而驚醒。
他們只會夢見自己所有的授課筆記
都掉在了公共汽車上。
teachers do not wake in the night form a dream of
pursuing wolves, wild-eyed and desperate.
they dream they have left all the
school projects on a bus.
人們期待著老師去教育好那些令父母，
醫生，一兩個精神病專家或是
一大批社會工作者大失所望的孩子。
他們通常被稿紙這些孩子需要的只是
一個正常的課堂環境。
a teacher is expected to deal with children that
have defeated their parents, their doctor,
a psychiatrist or two and a gaggle of social workers.
they are usually told that all that’s needed is
a normal classroom environment.
孩子在嘗試時，一個好老師總是殷切關注著
即使成果是那么微不足道。
總讓孩子明白老師已經看到了他的成績。
a good teacher notices when a child is trying –
even if the results are minute.
and shows she’s seen the change.
一個好老師注意讓每個孩子在有趣的工作中都有
機會一試��在枯燥乏味的事上也同樣如此。
a good teacher sees that everyone gets a turn
at the interesting jobs
and at the grotty ones.
一個好老師會認真批閱一頁
信手涂鴉的作業并辨認出
你想說些什么。
她不去重寫這篇作業。
她只是巧妙地一改
便讓通篇文字各得其所。
a good teacher can look at a page of writing that
looks like tangled knitting and figure out
what you’re trying to say.
she doesn’t rewrite it.
she just gives it a sort of shake –
and it all falls into place.
在您告訴我們什么是智慧美好以及
聰明，什么是思想家制造家和夢想家��
這是些改變世界的人們的時候��您總是
提醒我們他們也曾是孩子，需要
學習每一樣東西。
您的教誨給了我們嘗試的勇氣。
when you told us about the wise and the good and
the clever, the thinkers and makers and dreamers –
people who changed the world – you always
reminded us that they were children once and
had everything to learn.
it gave us the heart to try.
一個問題，一個發現，一種體驗
令全班同學著迷，整個班級就像一支節日煙火
在滿天星斗中歡快地綻放！
a class bewitched by a problem, a discovery,
an experience , fizzes lide a firework and
celebrates in stars!
一個老師了解生活的一切，包括孩子
熟悉的一切，并把這些事塑成
通往知識和成熟的步步臺階。
a teacher takes the everyday things of life,
the things a child knows, and fashions them
into stepping stones of knowledge and growth.
您教導我們的最重要一點
是人們都需要互相幫助。
the most important thing
you have taught us
is that we all need one another.
您教導我們美德應付出代價取得。
每個人面臨的抉擇知識準備付出多少。
you taught us that excellence costs.
everyone has to decide just how much they are
prepared to pay.
您讓我們相信，偉大的科學家和偉大的
藝術家也曾跟我們一樣年幼無知，也曾犯過
許多錯誤，也陷入迷惘。
you assured us that the great scientist and the great
artist were once as little as we are and made
mistakes and got confused.
學校是為世界設立的一個考場，而一個老師
能做的就是盡力幫助我們通過每場考試。
老師盡了力，他們盡了自己最大的努力。
我們，最后得到了自由急于展翅飛翔，
客氣而自負地說聲再見離開了學校。
卻不知道您已成為我們永遠的一部分。
school is a trial run for the world and a teacher
can only do so much to help us through it.
but teachers try. they do their best.
and we, free at last and eager to be off, say goodbye
with kindly arrogance and walk away .
not knowing that you are a part of us forever.
一個優秀的老師會讓你明白你獨自能夠
做到什么份上;而同其他人一起
你又能做多少。
a good teacher shows you how much you can do
on your own – and how much more you can do
working with others.
是您循循善誘讓我們明白
生活能像一張紙那么輕薄平淡;
也可以像大海一樣深邃
像天空一樣遼闊。
我們必須作出抉擇。
you were the one who explained that
a life can be as
thin and flat as paper –
or deep as the ocean and as
high as the sky.
we have to choose.