Unit 11 On ing a Better Student课文翻译综合教程三.doc

On ing a Better Student
(abridged)
Donna Farhi Schuster
1 As students we expect a great deal from our teachers. We expect them to be enthusiastic. We expect them reliable. We may even have expectations that they be endless repositories of skill and knowledge from which we may partake at will.
2 As a teacher I e to feel weighted by these expectations and have begun to see that it is really not possible to teach. All the words and theories and techniques are of no use to students who have yet to open themselves with receptivity and to take it upon themselves to practice. So in a sense I have given up trying to “teach,” for I’e to believe that the greatest thing I can offer my students is to help them learn how to find themselves through their own investigation.
3 Many e together to make a fine student. Find someone you think is extraordinary, and you will find many, if not all, of the following qualities. People who learn a great deal in what seems like a very short time embody these qualities.
4 Curiosity Such people are tremendously curious. The whole world is of interest to them, and they observe what others do not. Nobel Prize-winner physician Albert-yi put it well when he said, “Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.” With this es an “investigative spirit”; the learning is not so much the acquisition of inf