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I was astounded at what I read. Almost every student wrote something about "the way we started class each day." While they did learn valuable things about our history and our government, they felt that sharing good news at the beginning of every class taught them something even more valuable: to look for the good and to celebrate it with others.
我所讀到的讓我大吃一驚。幾乎每個學(xué)生都寫到了“我們每天開始上課的方式?！彪m然他們的確學(xué)到了有關(guān)我國歷史和我國政府的寶貴知識，但他們感覺到在每堂課的開始分享好消息教給他們的東西更為可貴：尋找好的一面，和別人一起慶祝。
In my last year of teaching, 2000- 2001, I ran into a former student I'd taught more than twenty years prior. One of the first things she asked was, "Do you still start class by sharing good news?" After telling her that I couldn't imagine not starting class that way, she said, "That was such a great way to start learning. I was glad I was in your first period, because it usually put me in a good mood for the rest of the day. But what it really taught us was to focus on the positive in life instead of the negative. I got in the habit of doing that, so now I always have something good to talk about."
在我教學(xué)生涯的最后一年，2000—2001,我碰到一個以前的學(xué)生，大概是二十多年前教過的吧。她問的第一件事情就是：“你還在上課開始時分享好消息嗎？”我告訴她，我簡直沒法想象不用這種方式開始課程，然后她說：“那可真是開始學(xué)習(xí)的好方法。我很高興第一節(jié)課就是上你的課，因為那通常會使我一整天都心情愉快。這實際上教會了我們要關(guān)注生活中的積極一面而不是消極的一面。我已經(jīng)養(yǎng)成了這么做的習(xí)慣，所以我總是有好事可以談?wù)??！?/div>
Over the years I've heard and read countless similar comments from former students. This small bit of "good finding" for a few minutes each day had an enormous and everlasting influence on many lives, including my own.
多年來，我從以前的學(xué)生那兒聽到、讀到無數(shù)類似的評論。這種每天花幾分鐘來“發(fā)現(xiàn)美好”的小活動，對很多人的生活都有巨大而持久的影響，包括我自己。
