在哪一刻,你發(fā)自內(nèi)心地敬佩和感謝你的老師?

What did a teacher do that made you automatically gain respect for them?

在哪一刻，你發(fā)自內(nèi)心地敬佩和感謝你的老師?

I went to a small charter school for middle school. Our English/literature teacher was brand new to teaching, if I remember correctly she was only 22 which seemed odd at the time. She always did her best to be so cheerful and make learning fun. But the thing that truly solidified her spot as my favorite teacher was that for every student’s birthday she would give you a personalized mini notebook.

我中學在一所小型特許學校讀書。我們的英文文學老師是新來的，如果我沒記錯的話，她當時只有22歲，這在那時是不常見的。她總是很陽光，也盡力讓學習變得有趣。但真正讓她成為我最喜歡的老師的原因是，在每個學生的生日那天，她都會送給那個學生一個專屬的小筆記本。

It was just a simple small composition notebook but she had filled the first couple pages telling me how much she loved having me as a student, how far she knew I would go, and other affirmations. It seems small but as a 13 year old who had a crappy home life it made all the difference in how I acted the rest of the year.

這只是一個簡簡單單的筆記本，但她在前面幾頁寫滿了字，表達她對我的喜歡，告訴我她知道我會走多遠，以及其他一些肯定的話。這個本子很小，但對于一個生活在糟糕家庭的13歲孩子來說，它影響了我這一年剩下的時間里的表現(xiàn)。

Junior year of high school, English class. We were discussing a story we had read. One student (let's call him Carl,) made a point. The teacher was dismissive and basically said Carl was wrong.

高三的英語課上，我們在討論一個讀過的故事。一名學生(化名卡爾)提出了一個觀點。老師不以為然，大意就是說卡爾的觀點錯了。

The next day, after we took our seats the teacher said, "Before we begin, I was thinking about what Carl said yesterday. I was wrong to dismiss it so quickly. Let's take a look at that again."

第二天，我們就座后，這位老師說：“在我們開始之前，我在思考卡爾昨天說的話。我這么快就否定它是不對的。讓我們再看看這個觀點。”

He then went on to repeat Carl's point and initiate a conversation with the entire class. After the conversation, it became apparent Carl's point was indeed off base, but I was impressed the teacher publicly owned his mistake and went down the path he should have.

接著他復述了卡爾的觀點，并開始和全班同學討論。經(jīng)過一番討論，卡爾的觀點顯然是站不住腳的，但令我印象深刻的是，這位老師公開承認了自己的錯誤，做了他應該做的。

When I was in the 1st grade my mother gave me one of MANY really awful haircuts. The first day back at school afterward the kids picked on me horribly. So much that I ran out and hid. The principal found me and we went back to the classroom and he asked me to wait outside for a minute while he talked to the class. He then walked me to his office and bought me a Coke.

一年級的時候，媽媽給我剪了個非常丑的發(fā)型?；氐綄W校后的第一天，同學們狠狠地捉弄我，我跑出去藏了起來。校長找到了我，把我?guī)Щ亟淌?，他讓我在外面等一分鐘，先進去和全班同學講話。然后他帶我來到辦公室，給我買了一瓶可樂。

The next day - first thing in the morning - we had an assembly with the entire school and he walked up on stage with his head shaved completely bald and talked about bullying and the like.

第二天，早上一到學校我們就召開了一次全校大會，校長走上臺，他剃了個光頭。他說了霸凌以及相關的話題。

Some twenty years down the road he had retired and I ran into him at the local college. I shook his hand and said, "You probably don't remember me, but,"

大約二十年后，他退休了，我在當?shù)氐拇髮W里遇到了他。握手之后，我說，“你可能不記得我了，但是……”

"yes I do," he interrupted and said my name and the event.

“不，我記得你，”他打斷了我的話，說出了我的名字和那件事。

The man was and is a hero in my eyes.

對我來說，他過去是個英雄，現(xiàn)在也是。

When I was a kid we had to purchase these red punch cards to get lunch at school. Unfortunately we didn't have that much money so there were times where my punch card would run out and I wasn't able to eat for a while until we got enough money to repurchase another one. I had one teacher who noticed I wasn't eating every day and she would bring an extra sandwich and offer it to me whenever she saw that. I really didn't understand how kind that was when I was a kid but obviously as an adult that was such an amazing gesture of kindness.

在我小時候，我們在學校吃午飯要花錢買一個紅色的打孔卡。那時候我們沒什么錢，有時我的打孔卡用完了，還沒錢買新的，就會吃不上飯。有一位老師，她發(fā)現(xiàn)我不是每天都吃飯，她會多帶一個三明治，看到我沒吃就會給我。當時我還是個孩子，我還無法真正理解這個舉動包含的善意，但長大后，我不禁感嘆她是多么的善良。