我需要勇气用英语怎么说（精品20篇）

星期六上午，刚吃过午饭，我和妈妈便驱车赶往南禅寺——参加小记者的公益卖报活动。一路上，我既好奇又紧张——这可是我第一次当“报童”啊! Saturday morning, just after lunch, my mother and I rushed to the Nanzen Temple -participated in the public welfare sales activities of the little reporter.Along the way, I am curious and nervous -this is the first time I have been a "rewarding child"!

来到集合点，一位记者叔叔抱来一大叠报纸，并交代了我们几句怎样和陌生人沟通的话，便让我们各自行动了。说干就干，我立即从中抽出五份报纸，在茫茫人海中寻找目标了。

来到人群中，我顿时迷茫了，人们从我身边擦肩而过，完全不顾我的存在。他们有的行色匆匆，边走边打电话;有的三五成群，聊着天;有的坐在台阶上晒太阳，玩游戏……我挠挠头，该从谁开始呢?嘴巴还在反复嘀咕着记者叔叔刚刚交代的话，心里越来越紧张。

我要说些什么呢?他们会买我的报纸吗?可当我看到手中那些沉甸甸的报纸，想起要给山区孩子献爱心时，终于鼓起勇气，对一位从我身旁经过的叔叔说：“叔叔，您好。您，您要……要买一份报纸吗?一元……”恐怕那声音只有我自己才能听到吧!还没等我说完，那位叔叔就回了一句：“不用，谢谢。”我的心里顿时凉了半截，心想：卖报这么难啊!如果这样下去，我是一份报纸也卖不出去的，还谈什么给山区孩子奉献爱心呢?

于是我又鼓起了勇气，清了清嗓门，重新振作精神，不断暗示自己：我一定行!于是我又换了个地方碰碰运气，四处张望，这时一对情侣迎面而来。我不顾一切，赶紧迎上去，仰起头说：“姐姐，你好!我是扬子晚报小记者，我们用卖报纸的钱，去捐献给山区的贫困儿童，您愿一出一份力吗?

一份报纸只要一块钱。”终于一口气说完了!我怀着既兴奋又忐忑的心情看着他们。“好，给我来两份吧。”说着那位大姐姐便从包里掏出两元钱给我，我立即把报纸递给她。耶，终于卖出去报纸了!我接过充满爱心的两元钱，飞快地跑到集合点，把它放进了捐募箱。我的眼前仿佛出现了，山区小朋友正拿着这两元钱在买文具呢!

卖报纸有时会收获一份爱心，有时也会四处碰壁，但我不放弃，找方法。活动结束的时候，虽然我没有把所有的报纸都卖完，但是通过这次活动，我锻炼了自己的勇气，也深刻地体会到了大家对山区儿童的关怀，更体会到了人们暖暖的爱心。

虽说失败乃成功之母，但要迈过失败这道坎，对于常人来说，需要能够承受失败所带来的巨大痛苦，需要有勇气在痛苦中总结经验和教训，需要有勇气去面对世人的热嘲冷讽，需要有勇气去坚定自己的意志和毅力，这样，才能一步一步走向成功。

偶有闲暇，回顾自己走过的五十年人生历程，事业虽然无成，但五十年的人生历程，每向前迈上一步，每一步都是艰辛，每一步都需要勇气。

孩提时代，几个小伙伴仅凭一盒火柴，一把烟火，便敢上山捣马蜂窝。有时，小伙伴们个个都被马蜂蜇得头青脸肿，好几天不能消散。现在想来，真是初生牛犊不怕虎，但正是这种不怕虎的稚嫩行为，培养了我们克服困难战胜困难的勇气。如果没有这种初生牛犊不怕虎的勇气，我们就无法品尝马蜂的美味，我们就无法有难以忘怀的童趣。

上世纪八十年代初，本人高中毕业第一次参加高考便榜上无名。失败的痛苦比马蜂蜇得更难受！但我不甘心，不甘心一辈子在农村修理地球，不甘心一辈子脸朝黄土背朝天！哪时的高考虽百里挑一，但凭着自己的决心和毅力，凭着不言败的勇气，经过两年的复读，终于考上师范大学。大学毕业时，第一次走上讲台，内心虽忐忑不安，但台下几十双求知的目光却给予了我勇气，这勇气让我在讲台上一站就是两年。

往事如烟，第一次恋爱，第一次跳槽，第一次写文章向报刊投稿，第一次写诗，第一次走上领导岗位。多少次的第一次，多少次的成功和泪水，都有勇气相伴！

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勇气到底是什么?这个问题困扰了我很长一段时间，是面对权威的敢于质疑?又或是别人有困难时的义无反顾?那节音乐课上，我终于豁然开朗，明白了什么才是真正的勇气。

那节课是自我介绍。他坐在第一排，几步就走上了讲台，平时的他不怎么讲话，大家不约而同地鼓起了掌，他拖沓着脚步走上讲台，似乎并不怎么乐意，刚走到就开始唱歌了：“团结就是力量，团结就是力量!”虽然只有短短的两句，但他的声音洪亮如钟，身体不大，却给人以强烈的冲击感。

当我们正准备为他鼓掌时，却看见他两步并作一步地跑回座位上，把头埋在臂弯内，轻声哭了起来，同时还用拳头不住地捶着桌面，那样子，像是陷入深渊却无法自拔，像是快被吞噬又无力逃脱，叫谁看了都有一种心痛的感觉。当时我心中尚有不解：不过是唱两句歌而已，至于吗?可是

后来，他的同桌告诉我那天中午他刚被老师批评了，本来就不怎么想唱歌的他唱了歌后情绪就爆发了。我真的很难想象，一个人刚经历了心灵的低谷，是如何做心理斗争，如何鼓起勇气支撑自己在众目睽睽之下做自己不擅长的事情的，如果是我的话，想必连站起来的勇气都不会有的罢。

而他本是个内向的人，遇到这样的事，连我这个外向的人都很难有勇气，可他却支持自己做了出来，那不是轻而易举的事，他可能为此甚至做了一下午的心理斗争才会做出上台的决定，这样勇敢的性格不正是我们所要学的吗?

现在回想起他站起来的那一个瞬间，心中也仍是思潮起伏、排山倒海，或许，那就是勇气，而他才真正叫做英雄罢。

他站起来的那个瞬间，我看到了汹涌澎湃的潮水，听见了激烈高昂的号音，那不是一个年仅十二三岁的孩子，而是喊着响亮冲锋号的千军万马，那是勇气，是刚强!

那一刻，我想，我似乎明白了什么是勇气。

最深沉的爱总在内心最深处，就像最美的钻石在地底最深处。

——题记

“这个家，我再也不回了！”她抓起书包，头也不回地冲出家门。

天色阴沉，暮色黯淡，夕阳的余光还在山边晕染着。凭什么？凭什么一张考卷就可以证明个人好坏？凭什么孩子一定要听父母的？难道是孩子就必须听家长的吗？这不公平！难道我就想考得一个不理想的成绩吗？我的娱乐又为什么一定是考试失利的原因？

与父母大吵一架，她弃门而出，埋怨、愤怒、不甘，夹杂在心底。她就这么一直走着，她也不知道她要去哪里，就只能漫无目的地走着。前方的路那么长，那么黑，她又该去哪里？路灯一盏盏次第亮起，昏黄的灯光在漫无边尽的黑夜里孤单地亮着，却显得一点没有温度。灯光吸引了一群群飞蛾，在灯前杂乱扑飞，让灯光细碎的洒在路上，斑斑驳驳。她走在灯下，守着颗以为碎掉的心，继续前行。第一次感到孤单，第一次这么害怕黑暗，好冷。

走着走着，她走进一个亭子里。亭外，一边是流去的江水，一边是前伸的道路。坐在亭子里，她听着江水无情的流淌声，此刻，这里只有一水一路，一亭一人。黑夜侵蚀着孤单的她，她想回家了。泪水一滴滴落下，顺着脸颊，头发粘在脸上，她抽噎着，却不敢哭。

“爸，妈，我想回家了。”

嘴里喃喃着，这时才发现，她根本就离不开父母，离不开家。起身，抱着书包，一步步向家的方向走去。此刻，不再是那个叛逆的少女，她褪去了青春期少女最后的铠甲，卸下后，只剩一颗急需温暖的心。眼前又朦胧一片，不争气的泪水又流下来。她本以为她足够坚强，结果却也是自己那自以为是的伪装，此时的她脆弱得不堪一击，眼前出现了一幕又一幕：

第一次骑自行车，摔在水泥地上，膝盖上破了好大一个口子，血汩汩的流，疼得厉害，哇哇大哭。妈妈很着急，紧皱的眉头，嗔怪着：“你这个笨孩子，怎么这么不小心！”给她处理伤口，手小心翼翼的摆弄着，生怕弄疼了她。

第一次走进学校，很害怕，就只牵着爸爸的大手，那双手的温度她记得那么清晰，那么温暖，保护着她幼小的心灵。这双大手如此宽大厚重，保护了她那么久。每一次，爸爸的大手把她抱起，她都感到无比安全。

她往回走着，走到小区楼下，躲在樟树下，远远望着家的方向，离家这么近，却不敢上前。她想回去，但却不知道怎么面对父母。只能躲在樟树下。“囡囡！”“囡囡！”这是爸爸妈妈的声音，转头，跑出去，一眼看见路灯下拿着手电筒的爸爸妈妈。妈妈哭得那么伤心，爸爸站在一旁，叉着腰，什么都说不出来。她跑出去，“妈！爸！”

她一头钻进妈妈的怀抱，再也止不住的悲情一涌而出，在妈妈肩头哭得一塌糊涂。到头来，她却只敢在父母的肩上大哭，只敢在父母怀里宣泄。“妈妈，我才发现你们多爱我。”“傻孩子，出去这么久，是不是饿了，家里的晚饭还没动过。可能凉了，回去妈妈给你热了吃。你怎么随便就离家出走呢？不知道妈妈会担心你吗？”她望着妈妈的脸，是随着泪水而花掉的脸庞。

又牵起爸爸的手，还是那样温暖的温度，暖到心里。三个人走在回家的路上，天上的星子照常闪着，夜变得不再那么黑了，因为心里都有一盏家里的灯在亮着。

晚上，她在日记本上写下了一段话：叛逆的少女卸去坚强倔强的外表，心里藏着的是对家的依恋。父母爱着我，虽然从来没有说过，但我知道；虽然会对我的成绩责骂，但我现在知道，爱，有时是不需要言说的。

合上日记本，她对着窗外一笑，青春的少女懂得了爱。明星闪动，在黑夜里让孤单的人儿知道，会有光一直照着他们。

生命是片辽阔草原，有许多路等你来走，只有有勇气的人，才会为自己选择一条合适的路;生命是大海中飘着的一只纸船，纸船上有一条鱼，如果这条鱼想自由，那么它将要要有足够勇气;生命是在森林中的一只小狼，母亲走了，它该怎么活?首先它要有勇气，要表现出一只狼那样威猛的气概;生命是冰天雪地中的一只小北极熊，它走失了，它将靠什么让纯嫩的自己坚强起来?是勇气!米歇潘曾说过一句话：“生命是一条艰险的峡谷，只有勇敢的人才能通过。”

不经历风雨怎么见彩虹?每个人都不能随随便便的成功。在生命的路上充满了坎坷，在生命的大海中拥有着风暴，只有有勇气的人才能走出那条坎坷的路，来到一条平坦的大路。只有有勇气的人才能在大海中劈波斩浪，奋勇前行，最后到达彼岸。

生命只有一次，我们要珍惜生命，决不让它白白流失拥有足够的勇气，让自己活的更加光彩有力!

每当我看到那些在风雨中昂首挺胸的花草,我会告诉自己:要好好珍惜生命,要像它们一样有勇气战胜困难,让生命充满光彩. 生命需要勇气作文树,砍断枝条还能再生;草,烧了...

在人的一生中，都会经历很多磨难，每个人都必须经历这些磨难才能够成长。没有捷径可走。经历人生的悲、欢、离、合后才能领悟到人生的道理。而经历这些磨难大家首先需要的就是勇气。

“同学们，这个星期就学到这，放学!”老师在讲台上宣布到，台下的同学都欢呼起来：“欧耶!放学咯!终于回家咯!”由于上初中后，同学们一个星期才回家一次，所以大家都非常想念父母的唠叨，想念家庭的温暖。终于熬到星期五了，大家都异常兴奋。渐渐的，同学们都走了，班里只剩我和班长了。糟糕了，怎么妈妈还不来啊!“小倩，怎么啦?还不走吗?我的家长来接我咯!我先走啦!你走最后记得关好门窗哦!”班长边说边收拾课本。已经迫不及待的想飞到她妈妈身边了。“恩，你先走吧!我等人。”我冷静的说到。其实心里早已经急得不成样了。滴答滴答。时间过得飞快，天空已经渐渐演变成橙色，太阳不见了。只有几朵云闲来无事在空中飘飘荡荡，我的妈呀!天黑了学校里会不会闹鬼啊!神呀，你可别吓我啊，我小小的心脏承受不起这么重大的打击。心里越想越慌，越想越忐忑。突然脑子闪过一个想法，对!问老师借手机打电话给妈妈不就得ok了么?心动不如行动!说干就干!手忙脚乱的收拾书包，关好门窗，抱着忐忑的心走到办公室里，语文老师呢?语文老师呢?目光匆匆扫过每一个角落。“同学，请问你找哪位老师啊?”身后的人向我肩膀上一搭，“啊!”吓得我尖叫一声。慢慢转过头“呼!”原来是语文老师，被吊起来的心顿时放了下来。“老师，我……”“恩?怎么啦?”“我……”“别紧张啊，有事慢慢说。”哎，怎么退缩了呢?说好的呢。说好要问老师借手机的啊!怎么办?难道又退缩么?我怎么这么没用啊!怎么办，怎么办?“你到底怎么啦?”老师问道，已经来到这一步了，难道又要退缩么?难道我一辈子都这么担小?反正已经来到了。死就死吧!呼，冷静点，别急，慢慢来。会成功的。“老师，我想问你借手机，打个电话给我妈妈。”在自己不断的鼓舞下，一股脑的说了出来。心开始噗通、噗通、噗通。狂跳。“哦。就这么简单?给!”老师从衣服的袋子里掏出手机，递到我的眼前。我打了一串熟悉的电话号码后，传来“嘟、嘟、嘟……”的声音。“喂，你好，请问你是哪位?”耳熟的声音传来。“妈妈，是我啦!你在哪?怎么还不来接我?”“哦，宝贝啊，妈妈在广州这边哦，现在还赶不回来，你还剩多少钱?”“恩?大概，40多吧。”“哦哦，够了，够了，你自个儿打的回去。就这样啦，开车呢，拜拜”“嘟嘟嘟……”我还没来得及反驳，妈妈就挂了电话。断了电话后我懵懵懂懂得站着。眼前陷入了黑洞，心一下子跌下了深渊。天啊!你没开玩笑吧!快来打救我吧!过了几分钟，清醒了过来，面对现实吧!但脑海里一次又一次地浮现出妈妈跟我说过的那则新闻。一名出租车司机贩卖女孩到西安等等，让妈妈来接吧!时间转眼而过，学校都快空无一人了。她该不会不来了吧?哎，我怎么办呢?怎么这么没用呢?走，去试试看去，我可以的。不知不觉间来到了乘坐出租车的地方。腿还在发抖，但也没办法啦!不来都来了!豁出去了!“那个，去岳埔多少钱?”“岳埔吗?上车吧!17”“恩。”慢慢的发现司机走的那条路是正确的，心也定了下来。

付过钱，蹦蹦跳跳地回家了。站在家门口，我再也压抑不住此时此刻我兴奋的心情。

经历了这些后，我懂了人生需要是勇气!你们认为呢?

儿时的天真而又无知。

如果说人生是五彩缤纷的那么青春必是其中最绚丽的一抹，如果说人生是动静交融的那么青春必是其中活力四射的一份。

每个人都拥有青春，青春很漫长，也很短暂，人生长河中，青春是一个分界线，如果没有掌握好，那么逆流将会把你冲进无底深渊。所以，要把掌握好和青春的约会，迎着逆流，勇往直前。

约会青春，需要勇气，约会青春，需要耐心。

当年，楚霸王项羽，青春的分界线前，毅然练武，走上了反秦的道路。年轻气盛，勇往直前，终于打败暴秦。感到这世界不能没有你

世界需要你青春，虽然你让许多人坠落深渊，但也有许多人战胜了使他成为一代豪杰。

错过的就不会再回来，时光不会倒流，和青春的约会只有一次，过去了就没有了青春年少时的热血，正如《老男孩》里唱的青春如同奔腾的江河，一去不回来不及告别，只留下麻木的没有了当年的热血。看那满天的飘落的花朵，最美丽的时候凋谢，有谁会记得，这世界他来过…

和青春有个约会。约会青春，人生的鸿沟前，不再犹豫，约会青春，正和学习拼杀，虽没有刀光剑影，但也寒气逼人，青春的感染下，不在迟疑，而是跃马挺刀，冲杀在习题中间，场场胜利，经常进步。

和青春有个约会。掌握好这一次约会。青春的指南针就会深深烙在心上，给迷路的指明了前进的方向。

青春，缄默让人冷静，低调让人佩服，这高调的世界里需要你来降温。

都说，和你约会是胜利的觉得呢?

记得3月8号妇女节那天，像往常一样上完晚自习回到家，家里静悄悄的轻轻的推开门，只看见妈妈不知什么时候已靠在沙发上睡着了寂静中，望着妈妈那熟悉而又略显苍老的脸，一条条皱纹在额头和眼角清晰可见，一根根青丝显得那么醒目。忽然觉得妈妈老了如今，十六岁了没有了贪玩的念头，没有了撒娇的毛病，更没有了耍酷的兴趣，因为，十六岁，多了一分成熟。

回想起过去那个不懂事的那个总让老妈操碎心的眼睛湿润了太幼!稚，太无知了

妈妈为了每天含辛茹苦，可我却不懂妈妈的心，甚至还和妈妈顶嘴。好想大声说：妈妈，对不起!初春的夜里仍让人感到寒意阵阵，迅速的跑到屋里拿了一条毯子盖在妈妈的身上。

也许是千百次努力挥之一去，无数次的失败让我迷茫。我在每次看着失败的同时也在仰望着这个世界，为什么命运总是那么的不公平，让拥有的多一些的人拥有更多。付出的一切的一切早已他可曾看到，我觉得我的人生活的好失败啊!

一直都在追赶，无数次的想放弃，却都没有狠下心。每次想放弃是总问问自己为什么走到这里，我不敢放弃，也没有放弃的权利。好像大海中寻找大陆的船，永远找不到家的方向。每次考试，总看着别人在哪里谈笑风生，只能自己默默为自己揪心。就感觉同样都是人，为什么人与人差别就那么大，为什么我每次的努力都失败。

渐渐地，我几乎都变得麻木了，或许那些扎进我心已经太多次了，早已感觉不到疼痛。我觉得不仅仅在学校，在家里，父母总是喋喋不休的谈论别人怎么样，总是故意在提醒我。我也是感觉做父母的太失败了，我也不愿意在一个不理解我的家庭之下生活一辈子，我也不想永远做那个配角。但没办法上天总是在磨难我。

经历了一个学期的高中生活，我也明白了些许。学习在很多时候就是一种方向的坚定，方法的坚持，行为的坚守，新鲜过后的持之以恒与反复不断的时间。路很长，走的也许会慢些，去掉浮躁敢以淡泊，用智慧和辛勤走在正确的道路上我们就一定能成功。

每次当我感到已经用尽全力的时候，我总会告诉自己再加把劲，就快成功了。上天或许在某些方面是公平的，当你想要得到一些东西，就要失去一些东西。我已经努力的在忘记，但是总有些东西是忘不掉的，因为真正的忘记是不需要努力的。

感谢那几个让我真正看清我自己的人，你们让我认识到了自我，让我有了拼搏下去，活下去的理由与勇气。把我从黑暗中拽了出来，我觉得我不会再去想放弃了，坚持下去，为了我的梦想，为了新安，为了高人一等。

我时常躺在草地上，看着微微西偏的太阳。想到我的一生似乎被某些东西在不知不觉中控制着。就好象这太阳，注定了东升西落，周而复始。

我喜欢平淡，但我不甘于平庸。我相信我的青春总有一天会燃烧起明亮的火焰，我在等待。

承认生活中的我并非一个强者。很多时候，我只会等待，却不知道自己去拼搏，去取得。我想：这可能是因为我太过于相信命运吧。亦或是我为了掩饰这种性格而选择相信命运的吧。我不知道……我就这样在糊里糊涂，不明不白中成长。

“爱情需要勇气，来抵抗流言蜚语……“但我没有。在这个世界，过早的喜欢上有个人似乎是一种错误，一种痛苦。对于没有勇气的我们来说，它注定是一场悲剧。

我经常独自一个人跑到我们曾经一起快乐过的地方，轻轻地散步，轻轻地感受那些遗留下来的气息。想着昔日的快乐，不知不觉间我已泪流满面。世事依旧，人世而非，佳人何处，流星难寻。我的心在泣血。

也许，我这辈子注定了忧郁。我是一个矛盾的人，时常因为某些原因做出一些莫名其妙的行为。尔后，就为这些行为造成的后果感到彻底的悔恨。尽管它们并不是很糟糕。但它们让我陷于痛苦与无助之中。我是一个长不大的孩子，很多事情，我还不知道怎么去处理。就好象，朋友送我一个青涩的苹果，我该怎么办这样的问题，我往往需要整个青春去思考。吃掉亦或是扔掉？我总是犹豫不决。吃掉往往会肚子疼，扔掉则会心痛。我害怕自己会后悔，于是在无法抉择中深尝痛苦的滋味。

很多事情，习惯了就好了。太阳已忍受的烈焰周而复始了五千多万年。那么，就让我忍受着我的痛苦，演绎完我平淡但不平庸的一生吧。

是啊！生活中处处需要勇气，勇气也无所不在。例如5、12汶川大地震，有许多已经脱离危险的人，却又鼓足勇气，重返那即将坍塌的大楼、围墙等危险区去救那些不曾相识的人，结果都是牺牲自己，救出了别人，这就是舍己为人的精神和勇气。

在这一次大地震中，有无数的伤者都被掩埋了但他们却凭着顽强的意志活了下来。是什么让他们活下来。是勇气！勇气让他们如此面对死神，是勇气让他们创造一个又一个生命奇迹：不吃不喝地度过了100多个小时，勇气，有多么大的力量呀！例如“可乐男”说了一句让人刻苦铭心的话“叔叔，我要喝可乐，冰冻的。”逗乐在场的所有人；“敬礼男”的一个个敬礼也体现出了人们的勇敢。也正是这种勇气，战神了死神。

在这场大灾难过后，有许许多多的同胞失去了家人，甚至孤苦伶仃，失去了亲人、朋友。一个个原本幸福美满的家庭变得支离破碎。近十多万幸存下来的灾区同胞们无家可归，只好生活在一个个小小的帐篷里，夏天很热，冬天很冷。面对生活上的勇气来解决，努力创造更好的明天。

所以说，生活需要勇气。

学了20课“花的勇气”，我似懂非懂的，常常在想，什么是勇气呢?只是在冷风冷雨中拔地而起的小花有勇气吗?那还有什么是勇气?我想不通!

星期五，妈妈对我说：“宝贝，你的头发长长了，该去剪剪了，好不好?”(要知道，我从小一直是留长发的)我想了想班里把头发剪短的女生，李卓然，吴雨涵等剪得也挺漂亮的，再想想每天要梳头，夏天到了，时间长了不洗头头上还会有异味，就答应了妈妈。

星期六，爸爸带我去理发，刚到理发店门口，我迈不动步子了，我想：“好不容易才长长的头发，被理发师三下两下就剪掉了，多可惜呀，再说了，我剪短发不好看那就更倒霉了。”想到这，我对爸爸说：“爸爸我不想剪头发了，行吗?”“那可不行，说话不能出尔反尔啊!”爸爸说。这时，我看到路边的小花，想到了20课“花的勇气”，心想：“小花都那么有勇气，我还怕剪头发吗!”说着，我就和爸爸走进了理发馆。

坐到椅子上，理发师三下两下剪出了一个发型，我闭着眼睛不敢看自己变成什么样子，爸爸说：‘睁开眼睛看看吧，挺好看的!我睁开眼一看，自己变成了另一个模样，还真不难看!

我想，我从不敢剪发，到走进理发馆，从敢看自己变成什么样子到睁开眼睛，这都是一种勇气吧!

啊，今天我“品尝”到了勇气滋味!

我们生活当中有许许多多的告别，每一个告别需要很大勇气才会成功。

往常我看见别人在与家人告别时，我的心里在想只不过是一个告别有那么难吗？为什么搞得一辈子见不到面的样子说半天话说不一句。我当时认为告别不是很容易，搞那么复杂干什么，说声再见就行啦！为何拖那么久？

在电视剧中看到，一个人他因为很好的机会要出国留学。他可以潇洒的跟父母说再见我会回来的，但是看见他整天心神不宁朋友给他鼓励他才有勇气把事情告诉父母。我想不清楚告别也需要勇气吗？

今天我终于明白电视剧中的那个人为什么那么难的去跟自己的父母告别，他需要鼓足了勇气才敢告诉父母跟父母告别。

原来真的很难。

上个暑假，爸爸妈妈突然跟我说叫我去山东跟哥哥在那一起读书。当时我认为他们应该是骗我的，怎么可能让我也离开他们去那么远的地方读书。去山东的时间越来越近了，我试着去跟他们告别。但是每次见到他们，话就被退回来了。

我的心里七上八下的，我不知道应该怎么安慰他们怎么说离开了他们让他们怎么样照顾自己。我很怕他们听到我的话伤心的流泪，我很怕他们看见我的告别生活过得不安稳我心里很怕很怕。

我没有勇气去告别，原来告别真的没那么简单真的需要勇气。

Students need enough sports and activities to do physical exercises and relax, but in some schools they are not given enough time to do outside activities. It’s harmful for students’ growth. Teachers ask students to spend most of their time on studies. But when they feel tired and bored, students can’t concentrate on studies. They are in bad health.

It’s necessary to give students enough time to do outside activities. After good relaxation and rest, studens will work harder.

Pay attention to students’ health and growth.

学生们需要足够的运动和活动来做体育锻炼和放松,但是一些学校没有给予足够的时间从事课外活动。对学生的成长是有害的。老师要求学生花费大量的时间在研究上。但当他们累了,烦了,学生就不能集中精力学习。他们的身体也不好。

有必要给学生足够的时间从事课外活动。休息好和放松后,学生会更加努力学习。

关注学生的健康和成长。

人生如此漫长，我们遭遇的事情有各式各样的，然而，每一件事我们都要有勇气去面对。

记得小时候，发生过这么一件事，那时，我读三年级。一天，我和我的同学小丽约好一起去书店看书，然后再一起去上学。

去到书店里，那儿的书多姿多彩，使人看不厌倦，就这样，我和同学小丽开始看起书来，谁知，我们越看越起劲，书本深深的把我们吸引住了。因此，我们耽误了去学校的时间，当我们发现时，已经快上课了，于是，我们俩便冲着往学校跑去，希望能赶得上。

跑着跑着，突然在半路上的街道冲出一位三、四岁的小妹妹，我们因为速度太猛了，把那小妹妹撞倒了。

那小妹妹“哇哇”大哭，我们把她扶了起来，亲切地对她说：“小朋友，别哭了，我们给你道歉。”可是，那小朋友还是哭个不停。我有些不耐烦了，便对小丽说：“小丽，我们还是快去学校了，不然的话就迟到了。”只见小丽毫不慌张，一边安慰着摔倒的小妹妹，一边应纸巾擦着小妹妹的眼泪。看着这种情形，我唯有再等下去。小丽从口袋里抽出几根棒棒糖，递给小妹妹说：“小妹妹，别哭别哭，姐姐请你吃糖。”果然，那小妹妹不哭了。

此时，我急忙地对小丽说：“可以了吧，她已经不哭了，我们可以去学校吧!”小丽回答：“恩。”虽然，小丽肯去学校了，但我从她眼神里可以看出，她还不放心这小妹妹。可另一边上课时间又渐渐逼近，使她两者不知如何下手。

就在这紧急的关头里，一位女士从远处朝我们这边走来，还喊着：“珊珊、珊珊……你在哪里啊?”“妈妈，我在这儿。”小妹妹嘶哑的回答到。那女士连忙跑过来，她看出了小妹妹摔倒的伤痕，便慌张问到：“你这是怎么啦?怎么膝盖都跌出血来了啊?”

从她们的对话中，我和小丽立刻知道那女士是小妹妹的妈妈。此时，我可慌了，我急忙对小丽说：“看，她妈妈来了，快逃，不然那小妹妹告诉她妈妈是我们把她撞成这样子，就掺啦!”小丽不慌不忙地回答：“没关系，要不然你先走了。”只见小丽理直气壮地走到那女士面前歉意的说：“对不起，阿姨，是我把你个女儿撞成这样的，”那女士看了看她女儿的伤不是很严重，摇了摇头，也没讲什么，转身就走去。而我，只是冷冷站在那里，像与这件事毫无关系的过路人。

看着她们母子的身影，我感到十分内疚后悔。

最后，虽然我们迟到了，但是，在我和小丽身上发生的这件事里，好比上了一节深刻的人生课程。

看，小丽这勇于承认错误的精神，是需要多大的勇气啊!

勇气可以使我们勇敢承认错误，我们都需要有这样的勇气。因此，我们需要勇气。

留不住岁月的脚步，留不住儿时的天真，我跟着时间慢慢长大。一路收获，一路成长……

还记得小时候跌倒的情景吗？

那天风和日丽，我在家门口玩耍，突然不小心摔了一跤，磕破了膝盖。妈妈闻讯赶来，看到是一块石头把我绊倒了。妈妈说：“坏石子，坏石子害得宝贝摔倒了”我扑哧一声笑了，“妈妈，石子又没有长脚。是我自己不小心摔倒的。”妈妈看了看，是呀，没有说什么。妈妈没有说什么，她只是抚摸着我的头笑了。我忍受着疼痛，鼓起勇气站起来。

成长，需要勇气。跌倒了要有勇气站起来，犯错误了要有勇于承担错误的勇气。

转眼间，我快小学毕业了。在人生前行的道路上，我们或许会遇到很多困难，不知所措。有勇气去面对，就要有勇气征服。不过没有彻底的失败，也没有完全的成功。一切还是需要一种坚持。

成长，需要勇气。成长的路上，充满挑战。我们是否能化险为夷？前方的路是未知的，或许黑暗，但我们要有勇气把握自己的人生，有勇气挑战自己。

成长，需要勇气。磕磕绊绊的经历会让我们的生活更加丰富多彩。

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留不住岁月的脚步，留不住儿时的童真，我跟着似水流年的岁月慢慢长大。一路收获，一路成长……

还记得小时候跌倒的情景吗?

那天风和日丽，我在家门口玩耍，突然不小心摔了一跤，磕破了膝盖。妈妈闻讯赶来，左看右看没有找到可以打骂的东西。妈妈说：“坏风儿，坏风儿害得宝贝摔跟头”我扑哧一声笑了，“妈妈，今天没有风。是我自己不小心摔倒的。”妈妈抬头看看天，是呀，天气闷热的连丝风都没有。妈妈没有说什么，她只是抚摸着我的头笑了。我忍受着疼痛，鼓起勇气站起来。

成长，需要勇气。跌倒了要有勇气站起来，犯错误了要有勇于承担错误的勇气。

转眼间，我快小学毕业了。在人生前行的路上，我们或许迷茫，不知所措。被一个个岔路口所迷惑，那将是对我们的考验。选择一条荆棘丛生崎岖不平的小路，还是选择一条通往光明之路的康庄大道?有勇气去选择，就要有勇气服输。不过没有彻底的失败，也没有完全的成功。一切还是需要一种坚持与坚强。我们还是要经过无数的黎明，无数的黑暗。但黎明之后是光明，黑暗之后是光明。

成长，需要勇气。面对挫折一笑而过，“一切都是瞬息，一切都将过去;而那过去了的，就会成为亲切的怀恋”

成长的路上，充满挑战，充满刺激与惊险。你是否能化险为夷?前方的路是未知的，或许黑暗，但我们不要为之放弃，有勇气把握自己的人生，有勇气挑战自己。

成长，需要勇气。磕磕绊绊的经历会让我们的阅历更加丰富精彩。

“勇气是在磨练中生长的。”莎士比亚曾经这样说过。我一向胆小如鼠，但这次磨练，我的勇气在心中悄无声息地诞生了。

记得在一个炎热的夏天，妈妈带我去游泳馆学习游泳。我站在高高的跳水台上往下看，吓得差点儿晕了过去。教练看着我那惊恐的样子，便让我从楼梯上爬下来。开始几日，我很快学会的划水。但我仍旧害怕跳水，于是整天练习划水。教练看在眼里，非常着急，想让我试着跳水。他几次三番劝我试着跳一次水，可我就是听不进，心里就是害怕。

突然有一天，教练把我叫去，告诉我今天必须要跳水。我心惊肉跳，心里就象打起了鼓，紧张得不行。我的心脏急促的跳动起来，“咚咚咚”密集的鼓点传遍我的全身。我的内心好似有天使和恶魔在争吵。天使大声说：“我们一定要听教练的话，学会跳水”；恶魔恶狠狠地叫道：“千万别跳，跳水非常可怕。”最后，我还是狠下心来，握紧拳头，咬紧牙关，闭上双眼，纵身一跳。双脚腾空而起，从高台上跳进了泳池。“噗通”一声，我掉进水里，如同一块大石头砸进水里，水花四溅。我脚下一滑，“哗”一声跌倒在水里。我情不自禁大叫起来，结果池水突然涌进我的嘴里。我好像非常口渴似的，大口灌着水，肚皮溜圆。我剧烈的咳嗽着，狼狈地爬出泳池。这时，我的耳边传来一阵掌声，抬头一看，原来是教练在鼓掌。他向我投来赞许的目光，让我勇气倍增。

我浑身好像充满力量，勇气悄然滋长。我不知疲倦，一遍遍的从高台跳下，砸进水里，浑然不知疲惫。不知练习了多少次，经过多少次跌倒和呛水，我终于学会了跳水。一份耕耘，一份收获，古人诚不我欺。

是的，凡事都需要勇气。只要生活充满勇气，困难就会迎刃而解。

朋友，勇气在那里？就在你的心底。当你面临困境的时候，记住“生活需要勇气”，你会找到你勇气，无穷的力量会从你的内心滋长，壮大，指引你战胜困难。

下面的材料旨在丰富学生在是非问题写作方面的思想和语言，考生在复习时可以先分类阅读这些篇章，然后尝试写相关方面的作文题。

对于素材中用黑体字的部分，特别建议你熟读，背诵，因为它们在语言和观点上都值得吸收。学习语言的人应该明白，表达能力和思想深度都靠日积月累，潜移默化。从某种意义上说，提高英语写作能力无捷径可走，你必须大段背诵英语文章才能逐渐形成语感和用英语进行表达的能力。这一关，没有任何人能代替你过。

因此，建议你下点苦功夫，把背单词的精神拿出来背诵文章。何况，并不是要求你背了之后永远牢记在心：你可以这个星期背，下个星期忘。这没有关系，相信你的大脑具有神奇的能力。背了工具箱里的文章后，你会惊讶的发现：I can think in English now！

1.?????? Proverbs

1. A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success.

2. The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s time.

3. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

4. The classroom--not the trench--is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

5. Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

6. It is the purpose of education to help us become autonomous, creative, inquiring people who have the will and intelligence to create our own destiny.

7. You see, real ongoing, lifelong education doesn’t answer questions; it provokes them.

8. People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

9.the most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

10. The essence of our efforts to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each as equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.

11. A great teacher never strives to explain his vision-he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

12. If you can read and don’, you are an illiterate by choice.

2. Damaging Research

A study by National Parent-Teacher Organization revealed that in the average American school, eighteen negatives are identified for every positive that is pointed out. The Wisconsin study revealed that when children enter the first grade, 80 percent of them feel pretty good themselves, but by the time they get to the sixth grade, only 10 percent of them have good self-images.

3. Education and Citizenship

An important aspect of education in the United States is the relationship between education and citizenship. Throughout its history this nation has emphasized public education as a means of transmitting democratic values, creating equality of opportunity, and preparing new generations of citizens to function in society. In addition, the schools have been expected to help shape society itself. During the 1950s, for example, efforts to combat racial segregation focused on the schools. Later, when the Soviet Union launched the first orbiting satellite, American schools and colleges came under intense pressure and were offered many incentives to improve their science and mathematics programs so that the nations would not fall behind the Soviet Union in scientific and technological capabilities.

Education is often viewed as a tool for solving social problems, especially social inequality. The schools, t is thought, can transform young people from vastly different backgrounds into competent, upwardly mobile adults. Yet these goals seem almost impossible to attain. In recent years, in fact, public education has been at the center of numerous controversies arising from the gap between the ideal and the reality. Part of the problem is that different groups in society have different have different expectations. Some feel that children should be taught basic job-related skills; still others believe education should not only prepare children to compete in society but also help them maintain their cultural identity (and, in the case of Hispanic children, their language). On the other hand, policymakers concerned with education emphasize the need to increase the level of student achievement and to improve parents in their children’s education.

Some reformers and critics have called attention to the need to link formal schooling with programs designed to address social problems. Sociologist Charles Moscos, for example, is a leader in the movement to expand programs like the Peace Corps, Vista, and Outward Bound into a system of voluntary national service. National service, as Moscos defines it, would entail “the full-time undertaking of public duties by young people whether as citizen soldiers or civilian servers-who are paid subsistence wages” and serve for at least one year. In return for this period of service, the volunteers would receive assistance in paying for college or other educational expenses.

Advocates of national service and school-to-work programs believe that education does not have to be confined to formal schooling. In devising strategies to provide opportunities for young people to serve their society, they emphasize the educational value of citizenship experiences gained outside the classroom. At this writing there is little indication that national service will become a new educational institution in the United States, although the concept is steadily gaining support among educators and social critics.

4. The Teacher’s Role

Given the undeniable importance of classroom experience, sociologists have done a considerable amount of research on what goes on in the classroom. Often they start from the premise that, along with the influence of peers, students’ experiences in the classroom are of central importance to their later development. One study examined the impact of a single first-grade teacher on her students’ subsequent adult status. The surprising results of this study have important implications. It is evident that good teachers can make a big difference in children’s lives, a fact that gives increased urgency to the need to improve the quality of primary-school teaching. The reforms carried out by educational leaders like James Comer suggest that when good teaching is combined with high levels of parental involvement the results can be even more dramatic.

Because the role of the teacher is to change the learner in some way, the teacher-student relationship is an important part of education. Sociologists have pointed out that this relationship is asymmetrical or unbalanced, with the teacher being in a position of authority and the student having little choice but to passively absorb the information provided by the teacher. In other words, in conventional classrooms there is little opportunity for the students to become actively involved in the learning process. On the other hand, students often develop strategies for undercutting the teacher’s authority: mentally withdrawing, interrupting, and the like. Hence, much current research assumes that students and teachers influence each other instead of assuming that the influence is always in a single direction.

5. Education Philosophy

For the past fifty years our schools have operated on the theories of John Dewey (1859-1953), an American educator and writer. Dewey believed hat the school’s job was to enhance the natural development of the growing child, rather than to pour information, for which the child had no context, into him or her. In the Dewey system, the child becomes the active agent in his own education, rather than a passive receptacle for facts.

Consequently, American schools are very enthusiastic about teaching “life skills” –logical thinking, analysis, creative problem--solving. The actual content of the lessons is secondary to the process, which is supposed to train the child to be able to handle whatever life may present, including all the unknowns of the future. Students and teachers both regard pure memorization as an uncreative and somewhat vulgar.

In addition to “life skills”, schools are assigned to solve the ever growing stoke of social problems. Racism, teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, drug use, reckless driving, and are just a few of the modern problems that have appeared on the school curriculum.

This all contributes to a high degree of social awareness in American youngsters.

6. Student Life

To the students, the most notable difference between elementary school and the higher levels is that in junior high they start “changing classes”. This means that rather than spending the day in one classroom, they switch classrooms to meet their different teachers. This gives them three or four minutes between classes in the hallways, where a great deal of the important social action of high school traditionally takes place. Students have lockers in these hallways, around which thy congregate.

Society in general does not take the business of studying very seriously. Schoolchildren have a great deal of free time, which they are encouraged to fill with extracurricular activities—sports, clubs, cheerleading, scouts—supposed to inculcate such qualities as leadership, sportsmanship, ability to organize, etc. those who don’t become engaged in such activities or have afterschool jobs have plenty of opportunity to “hang out”, listen to teenager music, and watch television.

Compared to other nations, American students do not have much homework. Studies also show that American parents have lower expectations for their children’s success in school than other nationalities do. (Historically, there has not been much correlation between American school success and success in later life.) “He’s just not a scholar”, the American parents might say, content that their son is on the swim team and doesn’t take drugs. (Some of the young do choose to study hard, for reason of their own, such as determining that the road to riches lies through Harvard Business School.)

What American schools do effectively teach is the competitive method. In innumerable ways children are pitted against each other—whether in classroom discussion, spelling bees, reading groups, or tests. Every classroom is expected to produce a scattering of A’s and F’s (teachers often grade A=excellent; B=good; C=average; D=poor; and F=failed). A teacher who gives all A’s looks too soft—so students are aware that they are competing for the limited number of top marks.

Foreign students sometimes don’t understand that copying from other people’s papers or from books is considered wrong and taken seriously. Here, it is important to show that you have done your own work and are displaying your own knowledge. It is more important than helping your friends to pass, whom we think do not deserve to pass unless they can provide their own answers. Group effort goes against the competitive grain, and American students do not study together as many Asians do. Many Asians in this country consider their group study habits a large contributor to their school success.

7. Adult Education

After complaining about many aspects of American life, a 40-year-old woman from Hong Kong concluded, “But where else could someone my age go back to school and get a degree in social work? Here you can change your whole life, start a new business, do what you really want to do.”

So at least to this person, school requirements weren’t inhibiting. And to millions of others, adult education is the path to a new career, or if not to a new career, to a new outlook. Schools generally encourage the older person who wants to start anew, and besides regular classes, schedule evening classes in special programs. Today there are so many people of retirement age in college that it is no longer remarkable.

8. Moral Relativism in American

Improving American education requires not doing new things but doing (and remembering) some good old things. At the time of our nation’s founding, Thomas Jefferson listed the requirements for a sound education in the Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia. In this landmark statement on American education, Jefferson wrote of the importance of education and writing, and of reading history, and geography. But he also emphasized the need “to instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests, and duties, as men and citizens.” Jefferson believed education should aim at the improvement of both one’s “morals” and “faculties”. That has been the dominant view of the aims of American education for over two centuries. But a number of changes, most of them unsound, have diverted schools from these great pursuits. And the story of the loss of the school’s original moral mission explains a great deal.

Starting in the early seventies, “values clarification” programs started turning up in schools all over America. According to this philosophy, the schools were not to take part in their time-honored task of transmitting sound moral values; rather, they were to allow the child to “clarify” his own values (which adults, including parents, had no “rights” to criticize). The “values clarification” movement didn’t clarify values; it clarified wants and desires. This form of moral relativism said, in effect, that no set of values was right or wrong; everybody had an equal right to his own values; and all values were subjective, relative, and personal. This destructive view took hold with a vengeance.

In 1985 The York Times published an article quoting New York area educators, in slavish devotion to this new view, proclaiming, “They deliberately avoid trying to tell students what is ethically right and wrong.” The article told of one counseling session involving fifteen high school juniors and seniors. In the course of that session a student concluded that a fellow student had been foolish to return one thousand dollars she found in a purse at school. According to the article, when the youngsters asked the counselor’s opinion, “He told them he believed the girl had done the right thing, but that, of course, he would not try to force his values on them. ‘If I come from the position of what is wrong,’ he explained, ‘then I’m not their counselor.’”

Once upon a time, a counselor offered counselor, and he knew that an adult does not form character in the young by taking a stance of neutrality toward questions of right and wrong or by merely offering “choices” or “options”.

In response to the belief that adults and educators should teach children sound morals, one can expect from some quarters indignant objections (I’ve heard one version of it expressed countless times over the years): “Who are you to say what’s important?” or “Whose standards and judgments do we use?”

The correct response, it seems to me, is, is we ready to do away with standards and judgments? Is anyone going to argue seriously that a life of cheating and swindling is as worthy as a life of honest, hard work? Is anyone (with the exception of some literature professors at our elite universities) going to argue seriously the intellectual corollary, that a Marvel comic book is as good as Macbeth? Unless we are willing to embrace some pretty silly position, we’ve got to admit the need for moral and intellectual standards. The problem is that some people tend to regard anyone who would pronounce a definitive judgment as an unsophisticated Philistine or a closed-minded “elitist” trying to impose his view on everybody else.

The truth of the real world is that without standards and judgments, there can be no progress. Unless we are prepared to say irrational things—that nothing can be proven more valuable than anything else or that everything is equally worthless—we must ask the normative question. It may come, as a surprise to those who fell that to be “progressive” is to be value-neutral. But as Matthew Amold said, “the world is forwarded by having its attention fixed on the best things” and if the world can’t decide what the best things are, at least to some degree, then it follows that progress, and character, is in trouble. We shouldn’t be reluctant to declare that some things, some lives, books, ideas, and values are better than others. It is the responsibility of the schools to teach these better things.

At one time, we weren’t so reluctant to teach them. In the mid-nineteenth century, a diverse, widespread group of crusaders began to work for the public support of what was then called the “common school”, the forerunner of the public school. They were to be charged with the mission of school felt that the nation could fulfill its destiny only if every new generation was taught these values together in a common institution.

The leaders of the common school movement were mainly citizens who were prominent in their communities—businessmen, ministers, local civic and government officials. These people saw the schools as upholders of standards of individual morality and small incubators of civic and personal virtue; the founders of the public schools had faith that public education could teach good moral and civic character from a common ground of American values.

But in the past quarter century or so, some of the so-called experts became experts of value neutrality, and moral education was increasingly left in their hands. The commonsense view of parents and the publicthat schools should reinforce rather than undermine the values of home, family, and country, was increasingly rejected.

There are those today still that claim we are now too diverse a nation, that we consist of too many competing convictions and interests to instill common values. They are wrong. Of course we are a diverse people. We have always been a diverse people. And as Madison wrote in FederalistNo.10, the competing, balancing interests of a diverse people can help ensure the survival of liberty. But there are values that all American citizens share and that we should want all American students to know and to make their own: honesty, fairness, self-discipline, fidelity to task, friends, and family, personal responsibility, love of country, and belief in the principles of liberty, equality, and the freedom to practice one’s faith. The explicit teaching of these values is the legacy of the common schools, and it is a legacy to which we must return.

9. Schools Should Teach Values

People often said, “Yes, we should teach these values, but how do we teach them?” this question deserves a candid response, one that isn’t given often enough. It is by exposing our children to good character and inviting its imitation that we will transmit to them a moral foundation. This happens when teachers and principals, by their words and actions, embody sound convictions. As Oxford’s Mary Warnock has written, “You cannot teach morality without being committed to morality yourself; and you cannot be committed to morality yourself without holding that some things are right and others wrong.” The theologian Martin Buber wrote that the educator is distinguished from all other influences “by his will to take part in the stamping of character and by his consciousness that he represents in the eyes of the growing person a certain selection of what is, the selection of what is ‘right’, of what should be.” It is in this will, Buber says, in this clear standing for something, that the “vocation as an educator finds its fundamental expression.”

There is no escaping the fact that young people need as example principals and teachers who know the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, and who themselves exemplify high moral purpose.

As Education Secretary, I visited a class at Waterbury Elementary School in Waterbury, Vermont, and asked the students, “Is this a good school?” They answered, “Yes, this is a good school.” I asked them, “Why?” Among other things, one eight-year-old said, “The principal Mr. Riegel, makes good rules and everybody obeys them.” So I said, “Give me an example.” And another answered, “You can’t climb on the pipes in the bathroom. We don’t climb on the pipes and the principal doesn’t either.”

This example is probably too simple to please a lot of people who want to make the topic of moral education difficult, but there is something profound in the answer of those children, something education should pay more attention to. You can’t expect children to take messages about rules or morality seriously unless they see adults taking those rules seriously in their day-to-day affairs. Certain must be said, certain limits lay down, and certain examples set. There is no other way.

We should also do a better job at curriculum selection. The research shows that most “values education” exercises and separate courses in “moral reasoning” tend not to affect children’s behavior; if anything, they may leave children morally adrift. Where to turn? I believe our literature and our history are a rich quarry of moral literacy. We should mine that quarry. Children should have at their disposal a stock of examples illustrating what we believe to be right and wrong, good and bad—examples illustrating what are morally right and wrong can indeed be known and that there is a difference.

What kind of stories, historical events, and famous lives am I talking about? If we want our children to know about honesty, we should teach them about Abe Lincoln walking three miles to return six cents and conversely, about Aesop’s shepherd boy who cried wolf if we want them to know about courage, we should teach them about Joan of Arc, Horatius at the bridge, and Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. If we want them to know about persistence in the face of adversity, they should know about the voyages of Columbus and the character of Washington during the Civil War. And our youngest should be told about the Little Engine That Could. If we want them to know about respect for the law, they should understand why Socrates told Crito: “No, I must submit to the decree of Athens.” If we want our children to respect the rights of others, they should read the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’ “Letter from Birmingham jail.” From the Bible they should know about Ruth’s loyalty to Naomi, Joseph’s forgiveness of his brothers, Jonathan’s friendship with David, the Good Samaritan’s kindness toward a stranger, and David’s cleverness and courage in facing Goliath.

These are only a few of the hundreds of examples we can call on. And we need not get into issues like nuclear war, abortion, creationism, or euthanasia. This may come as a disappointment to some people, but the fact is that the formation of character in young people is educationally a task different from, and prior to, the discussion of the great, difficult controversies of the day. First things come first. We should teach values the same way we teach other things: one step at a time. We should not use the fact that there are many difficult and controversial moral questions as an argument against basic instruction in the subject.

After all, we do not argue against teaching physics because laser physics is difficult, against teaching American history because there are heated disputes about the Founders’ intent. Every field has its complexities and its controversies. And every field has its basics, its fundamentals. So they are too with forming character and achieving moral literacy. As any parent knows, teaching character is a difficult task. But it is a crucial task, because we want our children to be healthy, happy, and successful but decent, strong, and good. None of this happens automatically; there is no genetic transmission of virtue. It takes the conscious, committed efforts of adults. It takes careful attention.

10. College Pressures

Mainly I try to remind that the road ahead is a long one and that it will have more unexpected turns than they think. There will be plenty of time to change jobs, change careers, change whole attitudes and approaches. They don not want to hear such liberating news. They want a map—right now – that they can follow unswervingly to career security, financial security, Social Security and, presumably, a prepaid grave.

What I wish for all students is some release from the clammy grip of the future. I wish them a chance to savor each segment of their education as an experience in itself and not as a grim preparation for the next step. I wish them the right to experiment, to trip and fall, to learn that defeat is as instructive as victory and is not the end of the world.

My wish, of course, is na?ve. One of the national gods venerated in our media—the million-dollar athlete, the wealthy executive—and glorified in our praise of possessions. In the presence of such a potent state religion, the young are growing up old.

I see four kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure. It is easy to look around for villains—to blame the colleges for charging too much money, the professors for assigning too much work, the parents for pushing their children too far, and the students for driving themselves too hard. But there are no villains: only victims.

“In the late 1960s.” one dean told me. “The typical question that I got from students was ‘Why is there so much suffering in the world’ or ‘how I can make a contribution?’ Today it’s ‘Do you think it would look better for getting into law school if I did a double major in history and political science, or just majored in one of them?’” many other deans confirmed this pattern. One said: “They are trying to find an edge—the intangible something that will look better on paper if two students are about equal.”

Note the emphasis on looking better. The transcript has become a sacred document, the passport to security. How one appears on paper is more important than how one appears in person. A is for Admirable and B is for Borderline, even though, in Yale’s official system of grading, A means “excellent” and B means “very good.” Today, looking very good is no longer good enough, especially for students who hope to go on to law school or medical school. They know that entrance into the better schools will be an entrance into the better law firms and better medical practices where they will make a lot of money. They also know that the odds are harsh. Yale Law School, for instance, matriculates 170students from an applicant pool of 3,700; Harvard enrolls 550 from a pool of 7,000.

It’s all very well for those of us who write letters of recommendation for our students to stress the qualities of humanity that will make them good lawyers or doctors. And it’s nice to think that admission officers are ready reading our letters and looking for the extra dimension of commitment or concern. Still, it would be hard for a student not to visualize these officers shuffling so many transcripts studded with As that they regard a B as positively shameful.

The pressure is almost as heavy on students who just want to graduate and get a job. Long gone are the days of the “gentleman’s C.” when students journeyed through college with a certain relaxation, sampling a wide variety of courses-music, art, philosophy, classics, anthropology, poetry, religion—that would send them out as liberally educated men and women. If I were an employer I would rather employ graduates who have this range and curiosity than those who narrowly pursued safe subjects and high grades. I know countless students whose inquiring minds exhilarate me. I like to hear the play of their ideas. I do not know if they are getting As or Cs, and I do not care. I also like them as people. The country needs them, and they will find satisfying jobs. I tell them to relax. They cannot.

Nor can I blame them. They live in a brutal economy. Tuition, room, and board at most private colleges now come to at least $7,000, not counting books and fees. This might seem to suggest that the colleges are getting rich. But they are equally battered by inflation. Tuition covers only 60 percent of what it costs to educate a student, and ordinarily the remainder comes from what college receives in endowments, grants, and gifts. Now, the remainder keeps being swallowed by the cruel costs—higher every year—of just opening the doors. Heating oil is up. Insurance is up. Postage is up. Health-premium costs are up. Everything is up. Deficits are up. We are witnessing in American the creation of a brotherhood of paupers—colleges, parents, and students, joined by the common bond of debt.

Today it is not unusual for a student, even if he works part time at college and full time during the summer, to accrue $5,000 in loans after four years—loans that he must start to repay within one year after graduation. Exhorted at commencement to go forth into the world, he is already behind as he goes forth. How could he not feel under pressure throughout college to prepare for this day of reckoning? I have used “he,” incidentally, only for brevity. Women at Yale are under no less pressure to justify their expensive education to themselves, their parents, and society. In fact, they are probably under more pressure. For although they leave college superbly equipped to bring fresh leadership to traditionally male jobs, society has not yet caught up with this fact.

Along with economic pressure goes parental pressure. Inevitably, the two are deeply intertwined.

I see many students taking pre-medical courses with joyless tenacity. They go off to their labs as if they were going to the dentist. It saddens me because I know tem in other corners of their life as cheerful people.

“Do you want to medical school?” I asked them.

“I guess so,” they say, without conviction, or “Not really.”

“Then why are you going?”

“Well, my parents want me to be a doctor. They are paying all this money and …”

Poor students, poor parents, they are caught in one of the oldest webs of love and duty and guilt. The parents mean will; they are trying to steer their sons and draughts toward a secure future. But the sons and daughter want to major in history or classics or philosophy—subjects with no “practical” value. Where’s the payoff on the humanities? It’s not easy to persuade such loving parents that the humanities do indeed pay off. The intellectual faculties developed by studying subjects like history and classics—an ability to synthesize and relate, to weigh cause and effect, to see events in perspective—are just the faculties that make creative leaders in business or almost any general field. Still, many fathers would rather put their money on courses that point toward specific profession—courses that are pre-law, pre-medical, pre-business, or, as I sometimes heard it put, “pre-rich.”

But the pressure on students is severe. They are truly torn. One part of them feels obliged to fulfill their parents’ expectations; after all, their parents are older and presumably wiser. Another part tells them that the expectations that are right for their parents are not right for them.

I know a student who wants to be an artist. She is very obviously an artist and will be a good one—she has already had several modest local exhibits. Meanwhile she is growing as a well-round person and taking humanistic subjects that will enrich the inner resources out of which her art will grow. But her father is strongly opposed. He thinks that an artist is a “dumb” thing to be. The student vacillates and tries to please everybody. She keeps up with her art somewhat furtively and takes some of the “dumb” courses her father wants her to take—at least they are dumb courses for her. She is a free spirit on a campus of tense students—no small achievement in it—and she deserves to follow her muse.

Peer pressure and self-induced pressure are also intertwined, and they begin almost at the beginning of freshman year.

“I had a freshman student I’ll call Linda,” one dean told me, “who came in and said she was under terrible pressure because her roommate, Barbara, was much brighter and studied all the time. I could not tell her that Barbara had come in two hours earlier to say the same thing about Linda.”

The story is almost funny—except that it is not. It is symptomatic of all the pressure put together. When every student thinks every other student is working harder and doing better, the only solution is to study harder still. I see students going off to the library every night after dinner and coming back when it closes at midnight. I wish they would sometimes forget about their peers and go to a movie. I hear the clacking of typewriters in the hours before dawn. I see the tension in their eyes when exams are approaching and papers are due: “Will I get everything done?”

Probably they won’t. They will get blocked. They will sleep. They will oversleep. They will bug out.

Part of the problem is that they are expected to do. A professor will assign five page papers. Several students will start writing ten page papers to impress him. Then more students will write ten page papers, and a few will raise the ante to fifteen. Pity the poor student who is still just doing the assignment.

“Once you have twenty or thirty percent of the student population deliberately overexerting,” one dean points out, “It’s bad for everybody. When a teacher gets more and more effort from his class, the student who is doing normal work can be perceived as not doing well. The tactic work, psychologically.”

Why cannot the professor just cut back and not accept longer papers? He can, and he probably will. But by then the term will be half over and the damage done. Grade fever is highly contagious and not easily reversed. Besides, the professor’s main concern is with his course. He knows his students only in relation to the course and does not know that they are also overexerting in their other courses. Nor is it really his business. He did not sign up for dealing with the student as a whole person and with all the emotional baggage the student brought along from home. That’s what deans, masters, chaplains, and psychiatrists are for.

To some extent this is nothing new: a certain number of professors have always been self-contained islands of scholarship and shyness, more comfortable with books than with people. But the new pauperism has widened the gap still further, for professors who actually like to spend time with students do not have as much time to spend. They are also overexerting. If they are young, they are busy trying to publish in order not to perish, hanging by their figure nails onto a shrinking profession.

If they are old and tenured, they are buried under the duties of administering departments—as departmental chairmen or members of committees—that have been thinned out by the budgetary axe.

Ultimately it will be the students’ own business to break the circles in which they are trapped. They are too young to be prisoners of their parents’ dreams and their classmates’ fears. They must be jolted into believing into themselves as unique men and women who have the power to shape their own future.

“Violence is being done to the undergraduate experience,” says Carlos Hortas. “College should be open-ended: at the end it should open many, many roads. Instead, students are choosing their goal in advance, and their choices narrow as they go along. It’s almost as if they think that the country has been codified in the type of jobs that exist-that they’ve got to fit into certain slots. Therefore, fit into the best paying slot.”

“They ought to take chances. Not taking chances will lead to life of colorless mediocrity. They’ll be comfortable. But something in the spirit will be missing.”

I have painted too drab a portrait of today’s students, making them seem a solemn lot. That is only half of their story; if they were so dreary I wouldn’t so thoroughly enjoy their company. The other half is that they are easy to like. They are quick to laugh and to offer friendship. They are not introverts. They are usually kind and are more considerate of one another than any student generation I have known.

Nor are they so obsessed with their studies that they avoid sports and extracurricular activities. On the contrary, they juggle their crowded hours to play on a variety of teams, perform with musical and dramatic groups, and write for campus publications. But this in turn is one more cause of anxiety. There are too many choices. Academically, they have 1,300 courses to select from; outside class they have to decide how much spare time they can spare and how to spend it.

This means that they engage in fewer extracurricular pursuits than their predecessors did. If they want to row on the crew and play in the symphony they will eliminate one; in the ‘60s they would have done both. They also tend to choose activities that are self-limiting. Drama, for instance, is flourishing in all twelve of Yale’s residential colleges, as it never has before. Students hurl themselves into these productions—as actors, directors, carpenters, and technicians—with a dedication to create the best possible play, knowing that the day will come when the run will end and they can get back to their studies.

They also cannot afford to be the willing slave of organizations like the Yale Daily News. Last spring at the one-hundredth anniversary banquet of that paper—who’s past chairmen include such once and future kings as Potter Stewart, Kingman Brewster, and William F. Buckley, Jr.—much was made of the fact that the editorial staff used to be small and totally committed and that “newsies” routinely worked fifty hours a week. In effect they belonged to a club; Newsies is how they defined themselves at Yale. Today’s students will one or two articles a week, when he can, and he defines himself as a student. I’ve never heard the word Newsie except at the banquet.

If I have described the modern undergraduate primarily as a driven creature who is largely ignoring the blithe spirit inside who keeps trying to come out and play, it’s because that’s where the crunch is, not only at Yale but throughout American education. It’s why I think we should all be worried about the values that are nurturing a generation so fearful of risk and so goal-obsessed at such an early age.

I tell students that there is no one “right” way to get ahead—that each of them is a different person, starting from a different point and bound for a different destination. I tell neither them that change is a tonic and that all the slots are not codified nor the frontiers closed. One of my ways of telling them is to invite men and women who have achieved success outside the academic world to come and talk informally with my students during the year. They are heads of companies or ad agencies, editors of magazines, politicians, public officials, television magnates, labor leaders, business executives, Broadway products, artists, writers, economists, photographers, scientists, historians—a mixed bag of achievers.

I asked them to say a few words about how they got started. The students assume that they started in their present profession and knew all along that it was what they wanted to do. Luckily for me, most of them got into their field by a circuitous route, to their surprise, after many detours. The students are startled. They can hardly conceive of a career that was not pre-planned. They can hardly imagine allowing the hand of God or chance to nudge them down some unforeseen trail.

11. To Err Is Wrong

In the summer of 1979, Boston Red Sox first baseman Carl Yastrzemski became the fifteenth player in baseball history to reach the three thousand hit plateaus. This event drew a lot of media attention, and for about a week prior to the attainment of this goal, hundreds of reports covered Yaz’s every more. Finally, one reporter asked, “Hey Yaz, aren’t you afraid all of this attention will go to your head?” Yastrzemski replied, “I look at this way: in my career I’ve been up to bat over ten thousand times. That means I’ve been unsuccessful at the plate over seven thousand times. That fact alone keeps me from getting a swollen head.”?

Most people consider success and failure as opposites, but they are actually both products of the same process. As Yaz suggest, an activity that produces a hit may also produce a miss. It is the same with creative thinking; the same energy that generates good creative ideas also produces errors.

Many people, however, are not comfortable with errors. Our educational system, based on “the right answer” belief, cultivates our thinking in another, more conservative way. From an early age, we are taught that right answers are good and incorrect answers are bad. This value is deeply embedded in the incentive system used in most schools:

Right over 90% of the time = “A”

Right over 80% of the time = “B~”

Right over 70% of the time = “C~” Right over 60% of the time = “D~” Less than 60% correct, you fail.

From this we learn to be right as often as possible and to keep our mistakes to a minimum. We learn, in other words, that “to err is wrong.

Playing It Safe

With this kind of attitude, you aren’t going to be taking too many chances. If you learn that failing even a litter penalizes you (e.g., being wrong only 15% of the time garners you only a “B” performance), you learn not to make mistakes. And more important, you learn not to put yourself to situation where you might fall. This leads to conservative thought pattern designed to avoid the stigma our society puts on “failure”.

I have a friend who recently graduated from college with a Master’s degree in Journalism. For the last six month, she has been trying to find a job, but to no avail. I talked with her about situation, and realized that her problem is that she doesn’t know how to fail. She went through eighteen years of schooling to try any approaches where she might fail. She has been conditioned to believe that failure is bad in and of itself, rather than a potential stepping-stone to new ideas.

Look around. How many middle managers, housewives, administrators, teachers, and other people do you see who are to try anything new because of this failure? Most of us have learned not to make mistakes in public. As a result, we remove ourselves from many learning experience except for those occurring in the most private of circumstances.

Different Logic

From a practical point of view, “to err is wrong” makes sense. Our survival in the everyday world requires us to perform thousand of small tasks without failure. Think about it: you wouldn’t last very long if you were to step out in front of traffic or stick your hand a pot of boiling water. In addition, engineers whose bridges collapse, stock brokers who lose money for their clients, and copywriters whose ad campaigns decrease sales won’t keep their jobs very long.

Nevertheless, too great an adherence to the belief “to err is wrong” can greatly undermine your attempts to generate new ideas. If you are more concerned with producing right answers than generating original ideas, you’ll probably make uncritical use of the rules, formulae, and procedures used to obtain these right answers. By doing this, you’ll by-pass the germinal phase of the creative process, and thus spend litter time testing assumptions, challenging the rules, asking what-if questions, or just playing around with the problem. All of these techniques will produce some incorrect answers, but in the germinal phase errors are viewed as a necessary by-product of creative thinking. As Yaz would put it, “if you want the hits, be prepared for the misses.” That’s the way the game of life goes.

Errors as Stepping Stones

Whenever an error pops up, the usual response is “Jeez, another screw up, what went wrong this time?” the creative thinker, on the other hand, will realize the potential value of errors, and perhaps say something like, “Would you look at that! Where can it lead our thinking?” and then he or she will go on to use the error as a stepping stone to a new idea. As a matter of fact, the whole history of discovery is filed with people who used erroneous assumptions and failed ideas as stepping-stones to new ideas. Columbus thought he was finding a shorter route to India. Johannes Kepler stumbled on to the idea of interplanetary gravity because of assumptions that were right for the wrong reasons. And, Thomas Edison knew 1800 ways not to build a light bulb.

The following story about the automotive genius Charles Kettering exemplifies the spirit of working through erroneous assumptions to good ideas. In 1912, when the automobile industry was just beginning to grow, Kettering was interested in improving gasoline engine efficiency. The problem he faced was“knockthe phenomenon in which gasoline takes too long to burn in the cylinder-thereby reducing efficiency.

Kettering began searching for ways to eliminate the “knock.” He thought to him, “How can I get the gasoline to combust in the cylinder at an earlier time?” the key concept here is “early”. Searching for analogous situations, he looked around for models of “things that happen early.” He thought of historical models, physical models, and biological models. Finally, he remembered a particular plant, the trailing arbutus, which “happens early,” i.e., it blooms in the snow (“earlier” than other plants). One of this plant’s chief characteristics is its’ red leaves, which help the plant retain light at certain wavelengths. Kettering figured that it must be the red color, which made the trailing arbutus bloom earlier.

Now came the critical step in Kettering’s chain of thought. He asked himself, “How can I make the gasoline red?” perhaps I’ll put red dye in the gasoline—maybe that’ll make it combust earlier.” He looked around his workshop, and found that he didn’t have any red dye. But he did happen to have some iodine—perhaps that would do. He added the iodine to the gasoline and, lo and behold, the engine didn’t “knock”.

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走在每个路的转角，与你擦肩而过的人是低头叹气，还是昂头飞奔。在人海中，屡屡受挫折但最终走向成功的人的秘诀是什么?答案就是两个字：勇气。

中国乒乓新的女领军人物张怡宁的夺冠之路，并非一帆风顺。从1999年到2003年她在多次重大赛事，连连失利，这些挫折曾使她产生放弃打球的念头，但也正是这些挫折使她越来越清楚的认识到：“当技术水平达到一定的高度之后，比赛就不仅是技术更是在比心理!”张怡宁正是凭借着勇于面对挫折的勇气，才取得今天的成绩。

在汶川大地震后，一些刚刚脱险的学生没有被刚刚经历的巨大灾难吓倒，而是迅速加入到帮助伤者的行列。他们搬运救灾物资，抬运伤者，为受伤人员喂水、喂饭。此川民族中学的李剑波，救助同学逃离垮塌的教室后，不顾余震危险，与老师一起搭建帐篷。为了使700多名同学喝上热粥，他冒雨到两里外的“温井子”挑水、到山上拾柴……，在大地震中，正是这些无数坚强意志的人，用他们的勇气和爱心救助了无数素不相识的人，谱写了一曲曲动人的乐章。

《绿山墙的安妮》这本书，讲述了一个父母双亡的孤儿，在孤儿院中饱尝了冷漠的安妮。就在这个时候，安妮就阴差阳错的被带到了绿山墙农舍。这家主人本想领养个男孩帮助他们干活，开始安妮差点被退了出去，后来是因为她以自己的独特性格魅力和感染力征服了马修和玛丽拉，也赢得了周围所有人的喜爱……

生活中，挫折同样是我们每个人的一生中共同经历的。就拿这次考试来说吧，成绩一出来，我所有的希望全都化为泡影了，不敢去想妈妈对我鼓励的承诺，更不敢去面对每日为我备付辛苦父母的那双充满期待而又失望的双眼，但我鼓励自己既然已经失败，就要有勇气去面对，只有找出原因、改进方法，就会有希望的“失败是成功之母!”

生活是七色板，其中蕴含着追梦的艰辛，成功的喜悦，挫折的痛苦，孤独的寂寞等等。但只有胸怀勇气，才能超越一切得到成功。勇气是处于逆境中的光芒，是通往天堂的必经之路。我们要相信有一扇门关上，必有另一扇门为你打开，而打开这扇门所需的钥匙，就是：勇气。

成长是舍弃，你需要勇气忍受失去的痛苦;成长是挑战，你需要勇气战胜途中的风雨;成长是责任，你需要勇气挑起肩上的重担。

——题记

带着幼稚的思维，尚未成熟的脸，我正品尝着成长带来的酸与甜，这个时候，我需要什么?

一幅美好的画面展开在我的记忆当中。躺在大地的怀中，感受她流动的血液，散发的体香。抬头望着蔚蓝色的幕布上，几缕被风儿追赶的云，慢悠悠地跑着。天的颜色在我的眼中闪烁，和同伴海阔天空地闲聊，银铃般的笑声充满整个田野，飘荡在空中。现在，我只能在题海中挣扎，快要被淹没。当疲倦的眼望向窗外，只能隔着玻璃看天空，成长让我失去了与青草大地为伴的日子。我需要勇气，让自己不再悲伤。

当学习、生活上的困难和挫折像潮水一般向我涌来，我还能睁着迷茫的双眼问：“妈，我该怎么办?”也许父母还会一如既往保护我，一如既往地为遮风挡雨，不让我受到一丝伤害。但这不能成为永远，总有一天我会走出呵护，独自去面对，因为我已经长大。太多的呵护只会让我的心像鸡蛋壳一样不堪一击。我需要勇气去接受挑战，尽管我会遍体鳞伤，但只有风雨的洗礼才能让我变得更加坚强。

父母依然会无微不至地照顾我，但更多的却是期望。在他们眼中我已不是那个只会哭闹的小丫头了，我自己也认为我已经长大了。再也不能依偎在母亲的怀里撒娇。望着父母已渐苍老的脸，时间的流逝在他们身上留下了不可磨灭地痕迹，这标志着他们为我的成长付出的心血。我的身上已多了一份责任，我需要勇气挑起肩上的重担，为父母撑起一把伞。

成长需要勇气，抹去悲伤，战胜困难，挑起重担，走向美好未来……

天气晴朗，道道金光洒满大地，世间万物都尽情地享受着阳光的亲吻和爱抚，一切都那么和谐、美好。而此时的我，心中没有一缕阳光。工作的压力，家人的不理解，让我感觉快要窒息。压抑的心情让我近乎崩溃，无奈的生活给我的心灵蒙上一层灰尘。我就像是撞入蛛网的一只小虫，不管怎样的奋力挣扎，却始终逃不脱蛛网的束缚。

忽然天空划过一道痕迹，仔细一看，是一只美丽的小鸟在尽情飞翔，心中忽然生出几分羡慕，真想像小鸟一样拥有一对翅膀，在蓝天中自由的翱翔，一直飞到那快乐的天堂。可现实告诉我，那只能是一个梦想。压抑、无奈、孤独、无助再次向我袭来，我重新跌入万丈深渊。我不禁问自己，我就这样 甘陷蛛网 ?我就这样惆怅悲伤?不!我需要勇气，我需要力量。我坚信， 生活 的磨难消磨不了我的意志，无情的打击会让我变得更加坚强。虽然我不能像小鸟一样在天空自由翱翔，但我依然会给自己 造一对翅膀。自信和刻苦是它的骨架，自强和奋斗赋予它源源不断的能量，这对翅膀将托我飞过困惑，飞过迷茫，飞向理想的天堂。

再望那洁净的天空，我的心情豁然开朗，我强烈的感受到：那明媚的阳光，已照亮我的心房。