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As we help children get out into the world to do their learning there, we can get more of the world into the schools.
在我們幫助孩子們踏入外面的世界進行學習的時候，我們也可以讓外面的世界更多地進入校園。
Aside from their parents, most children never have any close contact with any adults except their teachers.
除了父母，大多數(shù)孩子從未與老師之外的成年人有過密切的接觸。
No wonder they have no idea what adult life or work is like.
難怪他們對成年人的生活或工作沒有任何概念。
We need to bring more people who are not full-time teachers into the schools.
我們需要將更多的全職老師以外的成年人請進學校。
In New York City, under the Teachers' and Writers' Collaborative, real writers come into the schools, read their work, and talk to the children about the problems of their craft.
在紐約，真正的作家在教師作家協(xié)會的努力下走進了學校，他們朗讀自己的作品，并與孩子們交流作品中的問題。
The children love it.
孩子們非常喜歡。
In another school, a practicing attorney comes in every month and talks to several classes about the law.
在另一所學校，一位執(zhí)業(yè)律師每月來一次，與多個班級的孩子探討法律。
Not the law as it is in books, but the law as he sees it and encounters it in his cases.
不是書本上的法律，而是在自己的案例中親眼目睹或者切身經(jīng)歷的法律。
And the children listen with intense interest.
孩子們聚精會神地聽著。
Here's something even easier: let children work together, help each other, learn from each other and each other's mistakes.
以下事情則更加容易：讓孩子們相互合作、相互幫助、相互學習，并相互學習對方的錯誤。
We now know from the experience of many schools that children are often the best teachers of other children.
現(xiàn)在，我們已經(jīng)從許多學校的經(jīng)驗中認識到，孩子們常常是彼此最好的老師。
What's more important, we know that when a fifth- or six-grader who has been having trouble with reading starts helping a first-grader, his own reading sharply improves.
更重要的是，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)當一個閱讀有障礙的五年級或六年級學生開始幫助一個一年級學生，他自身的閱讀能力也會顯著提高。
A number of schools are beginning to use what some call "paired learning".
許多學校正在開始實行一些人所謂的“配對學習”。
This means that you let children form partnerships with other children, do their work even including their tests together and share whatever marks or results this work gets, just like grown-ups in the real world.
這意味著讓孩子們建立伙伴關系，一起完成甚至包括考試在內(nèi)的任務，并共享任務的成績或成果，一切就像現(xiàn)實世界中的成年人一樣。
It seems to work.
這種辦法似乎很有效。
