Have you ever been taught something in school that was completely incorrect?
你是否在学校里学过一些完全错误的东西?
Andrew Guillot, Director - Maple International / Maple Prefab
Updated Mar 17, 2018
枫木国际/枫木预制件总监Andrew Guillot
Oh dear…
We will call this teacher Ms. N. She was my primary school teacher for first grade.
我们叫这位老师N女士。她是我小学一年级的老师。
Let me give you a little background first… Although I was very young and I never went to kindergarten or pre-k, I was able to read and write fairly well early on. I was a pretty well-rounded kid; my parents split up early on in my life and my father and I had moved to Hong Kong almost immediately after that. He was a skydiver and we travelled a lot due to that; he only worked six months of the year, so by the time that I was ready to go to school I had already filled up a few passports and was pretty knowledgable about different cultures and food, especially the Asian cultures. However, my mother wanted me to go to public school back in Canada, so off I go; however, I go straight into first grade without having gone to pre-k or kindergarten, so the kids were a little older than me (1–2 years).
让我先给你们介绍一下背景知识……虽然我很年轻，从来没有上过幼儿园或学前班，但我很早就能读写自如。我是一个非常全面的孩子;我的父母在我很小的时候就分开了，在那之后我和父亲几乎立刻就搬到了香港。他是一名跳伞运动员，因此我们经常旅行;他一年只工作6个月，所以当我准备上学的时候，我已经填好了几本护照，对不同的文化和食物非常了解，尤其是亚洲文化。然而，我妈妈想让我回加拿大上公立学校，所以我就去了;然而，我直接进入一年级，没有上过学前教育或幼儿园，所以孩子们比我大一点(1-2岁)。
So, you must be thinking where is this story going — well, one or two months into school our teacher decides to teach us a little about China, the history, the culture and the food..(my mother had failed to mentioned to her that I grew up abroad…in China.) So Ms. N brings out an uncooked bowl of rice, exactly like this one.
所以，你一定在想这个故事的走向——嗯，上学一两个月后，我们的老师决定教我们一些关于中国、历史、文化和食物的知识。(我母亲没有告诉她我是在国外……在中国长大的。)所以女士。N拿出一碗生米饭，就像这碗一样。
And then proceeds to hand all the students who were around in a circle some chopsticks.
然后继续递给所有围成一圈的学生一些筷子。
Ms N: "So kids, do you think you could eat this rice with these chopsticks?"
老师:“孩子们，你们觉得能用筷子夹米饭吗?”
教室里所有的孩子……除了我:“不可能!...
I'm sitting there in total silence… as she passes the bowl around to every kid and lets them have a go at picking up one grain of rice at a time.
她把碗递给每个孩子，让他们试着一次捡起一粒米。
Ms N: "you guys should feel grateful that you live on this side of the planet because kids in China have to eat this every day using only chopsticks because spoons, forks, and knives haven't made their way to that side of the world yet..."
N女士:“你们应该感谢你们生活在地球的这一边，因为中国的孩子每天只能用筷子吃这个，因为勺子、叉子和刀子还没有到达地球的那一边……”
... I BURST out laughing… I stand up, take the bowl of rice from one of my fellow classmates, grab my chopsticks, pick up a grain of rice perfectly and tell her that this rice is uncooked, that people in China are much more advanced than we are, that she was spreading china phobia and that I would never take anything she says for granted again.
…我大笑起来……我站起来,把碗米饭从我的一个同班同学,抓住我的筷子,拿起一粒米完美,告诉她这饭是生的,人们在中国比我们更先进,她被感染了中国恐惧症,我不会再把她说的东西视为理所当然。
The whole classroom was shocked, and no one said a word.
整个教室都惊呆了，没有人说话。
Ms N: "why would you know anything about China? Go sit outside! Actually you're going straight to the principal for disturbing my class and being so rude!"
N女士问:“你为什么对中国这么了解?”去到外面坐!这句话的意思是:“你这样打断我的课，又这样没有礼貌，你应该直接去找校长。”
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Long story short, my mum left work, came to pick me up, told the principal that I very well knew what I was talking about and that her teacher was ignorant, that she wanted me to change teachers and that she would be talking with the school board about what was taught in class.
长话短说,我妈妈离开了工作,来接我,告诉校长,我知道我在说什么,她的老师是无知,她想换老师,她会与学校董事会谈论在N女士课堂上教的东西。
And this my kids, is how I schooled a teacher and proved her wrong all in the course of five minutes.
这就是我的童年，如何教育一位老师并在五分钟内证明她是错的。
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