英语散文:幼儿园对我一生的重要影响

 

俗语说：“三岁看大，七岁看老”，可以说幼儿园里的启蒙教育对人的一生有着至关重要的影响作用，看看下面这篇文章吧，你会发现，很多被认为最能体现一个人素养的优雅习惯原来都是在幼儿园里形成的。

Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.

These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work some every day.

Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup - they all die. So do we.

And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK . Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology and politics and sane living.

Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Note

Kindregarten: n. 幼儿园　　　　　sandbox: n. 沙箱, 沙盒　　
nursery: n. 托儿所　　　　　　　　flush: vt.  冲洗,此处意指便后冲水　　　
nap: n. (白天)小睡, 打盹　　　　　hamster: n. 东欧或亚洲产的大颊的鼠类　　
sanitation: n. 卫生, 卫生设施　　　sane: a. 健全的

Questions:
1. What will happen if we put a white mice in the plastic cup according to the author?
2. We can learn from the passage that the world will be better if all of us_____.

The answers of last week are:
1. acute appendicitis
2. disdain.
3. AL's son.