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Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more curious, less afraid of what he doesn't know,
幾乎所有小孩,第一天邁進學校大門的時候,對一切未知的事物都感到新鮮、好奇,毫不畏懼,
better at finding and figuring things out, more confident, resourceful, persistent and independent than he will ever be again in his schooling
他們善于發掘和塑造新的東西,更加自信、聰慧、耐心和獨立,但是可能在上學之后,甚至一輩子都回不到以前的那種狀態了,
or, unless he is very unusual and very lucky, for the rest of his life.
除非他非常特立獨行或者十分幸運。
Already, by paying close attention to and interacting with the world and people around him,
其實,孩子們早已經被身邊關注的人和世界所影響,
and without any school-type formal instruction,
這種影響并不是建立在學校標準教育模式下,
he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and abstract than anything he will be asked to do in school,
他就已經開始在無人教導的情況下克服了重重困難
or than any of his teachers has done for years.
甚至解決了老師困頓多年的問題。
He has solved the mystery of language.
通過觀察,
He has discovered it-babies don't even know that language exists-and he has found out how it works and learnt to use it appropriate.
他發現嬰兒們根本不知道語言的存在,并且發現了它是如何工作以及如何正確地使用它,因此他破解了語言之謎。
He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language,
通過探索,實驗,發掘自己語言里的語法模型,
by trying it out and seeing whether it works by gradually changing it and refining it until it does work.
并試著觀察是否在工作中將它逐步改變和提煉,最終獲得成功。
And while he has been doing this, he has been learning other things as well,
當然,在做這些事情的時候,他也學習著其他的知識,
including many of the concepts that the schools think only they can teach him,
包括許多學校認為只有在校園里才能學到的概念
and many that are more complicated than the ones they do try to teach him.
以及比他們所研究的更加復雜的東西教給他。
