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Several days ago, we talked about Wart
幾天之前 我們談論過沃特
We said one of his good qualities was that he was curious
我們說過他的美德之一就是充滿了好奇心
Always a good quality, gets you in trouble, too
通常你的美德也會給你帶來麻煩
I have a year old St Bernard and she's more like a cat,
我有只一歲的小貓叫圣伯納德
the way she behaves, she's way too curious
她的行為充滿了好奇
I think it's going to get her in trouble sometimes,
我想也正是因為她的好奇心有時會給她帶來麻煩
get her head stuck some place
她的腦袋經常會卡在什么地方
But Kay is not
但凱不是這樣的
Kay has never asked to be changed
沒人要求凱去改變
He likes the status quo
他喜歡現狀
He just likes how it is, he just wants to live his life and enjoy it
他只是喜歡這樣 他想過好自己的生活 并去享受它
He thinks he has it good
他覺得自己過的日子很好
We read the bottom of 89,
我們來看89頁下面
"Perhaps what is good for you, might be bad for him "
可能對你來說好的東西 對他而言并不好
"Besides, remember he has never asked to be turned into anything "
"另外 你要記住他從來沒想變成任何東西"
I think that it gets back, a lot of the stuff we read, to me,
我認為它回到了我們讀的東西
gets back to being a good parent
對我來說 回到了做個好家長
When people say, "Well, you have to treat all your children equally "
當人們說 "你得平等對待孩子們"
Treating you're children fairly is not treating them equally
公正地對待孩子們并不是平等地對待他們
You should treat all your children fairly
你得公正地對待他們
But people have different interests, they have different capabilities,
但每個人有不同的興趣 不同的能力
they have different desires
也有著不同的渴望
So, you can't treat them equally
所以你沒法平等地對待他們
You can appear to treat them equally
你只能表現出平等
I always remember my parents
我一直都記得我的父母
I was the youngest of four
我是四個孩子中最小的
My sister went to Wellesley
我姐姐上的是衛斯理學院
My oldest brother went to RPR, that's a little Polytechnic Institute,
我大哥以前在RPR讀書 那是個小型的理工學院
on a fourwide scholarship from Grumman Aircraft
他從格萊曼飛機公司獲得了四倍的獎學金
My next oldest brother only applied 2 places,
我最小的哥哥上過兩所大學
MIT and Rice and got into both And then went to Yale Law School
麻省理工學院和萊斯大學 之后進入耶魯法學院學習
So I was like, why try?
那我為什么想試試呢
Well, what's the point?
重點在哪兒
The tradition in our family was that, you got so much money,
我們家的傳統是 你拿到這么多錢
and this is before everybody got A's
但這是在每個人拿到最優秀的成績之前
I went into a highly selective undergraduate institution
我上了個一流的本科院校
I was in Phi Beta Kappa, which is the best honorary there is,
我是美國大學優等生榮譽學會的一員 這是最高的榮譽
Academic honorary
最高的學術榮譽
But the person with the top grade point in my class had a 3 6,
但我們班的最高分是36分
that was the top grade point
那是最高的分數了
What happened was, to make a long story short, is Vietnam came along
長話短說 接下來越南出現了
Vietnam had the effect of grade inflation because
越南有受到分數膨脹的影響因為
people didn't want to flow people out so they go get shot in Vietnam
人們不愿意人員外流 所以他們呆在越南
and once you have grade inflation, it's hard to put grades back
一旦你有分數膨脹 很難讓這些分數回到正常狀態
