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国旗下的演讲 | Be curious and Keep searching 保持好奇，不断探索

发布者：深圳市博纳学校 2021-10-18 09:50:01

国旗下的演讲，

在博纳是一项传统。

我们通过这种演讲的方式，

老师和学生们各自分享和表达，

可能是对世界的看法，

也可能是对自己成长的感受。

既关注远方，关注国际，关注宏大的想象。

也聚焦周围，聚焦自己，

聚焦每一点成长和变化。

在国旗下，

是一个散发能量、知识和思想的磁场。

本周一升旗仪式上，

物理老师郑越 Jack

在国旗下鼓励孩子们要“Be curious and Keep searching 保持好奇，不断探索”。

郑越 Jack

暨南大学硕士，毕业于国家级重点学科；本科期间绩点4.0+全优保送研究生，两次国家奖学金获得者，于CSSCI核心期刊发表论文数篇，超过七年AP、A level教学经验，教授学生AP满分率超80%，善于化繁为简，帮助学生对核心知识点逐个击破。

Good morning. Today, I want to talk about some of the conversations that I had with my students. A few weeks ago in one of my class, a student said：“ I don't know why my parents will have such a kid like me, I am such a loser.” And that's not the first time that I heard him saying that he was a loser. I don't know what he really thinks of himself. But I think what he meant was that，everybody was so much better than him. And a few days ago, One of my other students asked me：“why is my classmate so much smarter than me. Not only is my classmate good at math and English, he is also excellent in sports. Is that because he is smarter than me and I will never, ever be better than him in any possible way?” And I always hear some students say ：“I'm dumb, why don't I just give up trying altogether? What's the point of learning since all those students are just so much smarter than me?”

大家早上好！今天我想谈一谈我和我的学生之间发生的一些对话。几个星期以前，我的班上的一个学生说：“我不知道为什么我的父母会有一个像我这样的孩子，我真是一个失败者。”我曾不止一次听到他说过上面的话。我不知道他对自己真实的认识是怎样的。但是我想他要表达的意思是大部分人都远远比他优秀。

几天前，我的另外一个学生问我，他说：“为什么我的同学都比我聪明的多。他们不仅仅数学和英语都非常优秀，也非常擅长体育运动。那是因为他们比我聪明？或许我即使通过任何方法，也永远不会比他做的更好。”

同时，我经常听到一些同学说因为我很笨，我为什么不干脆全部放弃呢？既然那些同学都远远比我聪明，我学习还有什么意义呢？

You know I think intelligence is a real thing. I really dont want to argue against that. But I first want to talk about someone else. I wanna talk about Ivy Deng, who went to UC Berkeley last year from our school. When I first met her, She was not among the most intelligent students, I believe that she had a Toefl score just slightly over 80. And I know another student who has Toefl score of 117 at grade 8. It's very easy to draw the conclusion on intelligence if that's what you're looking at. But how did we know which students will achieve more in the future? How can anybody tell which students will be more successful? Ivy eventually got to 110 and went to Berkeley. How can we know what kind of contribution that she might have in a few decades? And you know, Everybody in the US has better English than I do. Should I believe that everyone in US, even those who lives in the street, is smarter than me? At least some of the skills does not depend on intelligence. You environment matters, your daily activities matters, your motivations and your will power ,absolutely, matters, a lot.

我认为智力的差异是确实存在的。我对此并没有不同的见解，我想谈论另外一个学生的例子。我要说的是邓骞（Ivy Deng），她在去年从博纳毕业去了加州伯克利。我第一次见到她的时候，她并不在最优秀的学生之列，我知道她的托福仅仅是80分多一点，我知道另外一个学生，在8年级时候就取得了托福117分的成绩。你可以很容易得出她两在智力上的高低，如果仅仅是从你所看到的（托福成绩）的话。

但是，我们怎么知道哪一个学生在将来会取得更大的成就？谁可以说他们谁会取得更大的成功？邓骞（Ivy Deng）最后取得了110分的托福成绩，然后去了加州伯克利。同样，我们也不知道几十年以后，她会取得怎样的成就。

正如你所知，每一个在美国的人英语一定比我好，那我是否就应该这样认为：每一个在美国的人，即使是流落街头的人，都比我更聪明呢？至少，在一些技能上并不依赖智力，它跟你周围的环境相关，跟你日常的活动有关。你的动力和毅力，毫无疑问更加至关重要。

Somebody might say that what if I tried and then I fail. Then everybody will be laughing at me because I tried and I achieve nothing. Actually, I sometimes will have this kind of conversation with myself. You don’t know how many times I told myself I was just bad at public speech, that I would get nervous and fail. And by the end of the day, everybody will be laughing at me. But the truth is, nobody even care. The only consequence that I fail is that there is no consequence at all. Nobody remember what I said the other day. Nobody will remember how many times you take the Toefl test and how badly you fail. just pay more money to ETS. But If you always argue for your limitations, saying that you will fail, then you will be able to keep those limitations. Why would you want to keep them?

有些人可能会说，如果我尝试了，结果失败了，那么每一个人都会笑话我，因为我尝试了却一无所获。事实上，我经常也会用同样的问题反问我自己。你不会知道，我曾经无数次的告诉我自己，如果让我做公共演讲，我会因为非常紧张而失败，然后每个人在一整天都会笑话我，但结果是，其实并没有人在乎。我的失败没有带来任何后果。一天过后，没有人会记得我讲过什么。

没有人会记得你参加过多少次托福考试，你考的有多糟糕，你仅仅只是付了更多的考试费而已。但是，如果你总是为自己的不足而辩护，说你会失败，那么你无法摆脱这些不足和局限，又有谁愿意一直带着这些不足呢？

At last, I want to talk about another thing about myself recently. You know, on the other day I listened to an audio book when i was driving and one of the author is called Elizabeth Gilbert. she used to read her own book to the audience. As I listen to her book in the car, I couldn't help thinking that her voice was so wonderful, it is so comforting and so insightful. I didn't even know that English could be so good to hear. So I listened the very same book several more times.I think I could sometimes even act in the way as she suggested. If my objective is to learn English, I probably would have learned every single word in this book. What I mean is, sometimes we need to find out a way to game the system. Find something you love and everything will not be so difficult. And I think it is our innate ability to find something we like. Pay attention to your class, Be curious and Keep searching. Thank you.

最后，我想谈一谈另外一件最近发生在我身上的事情。前几天，我在开车时听了一本有声读物，这本书的作者之一叫伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特，她曾经对着听众读自己的书。当我在车上听她的书时，我情不自禁的想她的声音真是太棒了，它令我感到安慰又充满见地。在此之前，我甚至不知道原来英语可以这么好听。因此，我对同一本书又听了好几遍。我认为，我在将来某一天可以像她说的那样去做。如果我的目标是学习英语，我可能已经学会了这本书中的每一个单词。