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The teacher's advice

1.Barditch High School decided to have an All-School Reunion. Over 450 people came to the event.

2.There were tours of the old school building and a picnic at Confederate Park.

Several former teachers were on hands to tell stories about the old days.

3.Ms. Mabel Yates, the English teacher for fifty years, was wheeled to the Park. Some eyes rolled and there were a few low groans when Ms. Yates was about to speak.

4.Many started looking at their watches and coming up with excuses to be anywhere instead of preparing to listen to a lecture from an old woman who had few kind words for her students and made them work harder than all the other teachers combined.

5.Then Ms.Yates started to speak: “I can’t tell you how pleased I am to be here. I haven’t seen many of you since your graduation, but I have followed your careers and enjoyed your victories as well as crying for your tragedies.

6.I have a large collection of newspaper photographs of my students.Although I haven’t appeared in person, I have attended your college graduations, weddings and even the birth of your children, in my imagination.”

7.Ms.Yates paused and started crying a bit. Then she continued: “It was my belief that if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and others would succeed to annoy me.

8.Regardless of our motives, I can see that you have all been successful in you chosen path.” “There is no greater comfort for an educator than to see the end result of his or her years of work.

9.You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all from the bottom of my heart.”

10.There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. Tee clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar.

11.Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame all because of the words from a long forgotten English teacher from their hometown.

第四十篇

老师的劝诫

1.巴迪奇高中决定举办一次全校同学聚会。超过450人参加了这次活动。

2.他们参观了旧校舍，还在联邦公园野餐。有几位以前的老师到场讲述过去的故事。

3.梅布尔·耶茨女士，当了五十年的英语老师，被推到了公园。耶茨女士正要说话的时候，一些人翻了个白眼，还有几声低低的呻吟。

4.许多人开始看表，找借口去任何地方，而不是准备听一位老太太的讲座，这位老太太对学生几乎没有什么好话，却让他们比其他所有老师加起来都要努力。

5.然后，耶茨女士开始讲话:“我无法形容我有多高兴来到这里。你们很多人毕业后我就没见过面了，但我一直关注着你们的事业，享受着你们的胜利，也为你们的悲剧哭泣。

6.我在报纸上收集了很多学生的照片。虽然我没有亲自出现，但在我的想象中，我参加过你们的大学毕业典礼、婚礼，甚至你们孩子的出生。”

7.耶茨女士停顿了一下，哭了起来。然后她继续说:“我相信，如果我尽我所能地逼迫你们，你们中的一些人会成功地取悦我，而另一些人会成功地惹恼我。

8.不管我们的动机是什么，我可以看到，你们都在自己选择的道路上取得了成功。”“对于一个教育工作者来说，没有什么比看到他或她多年工作的最终成果更令人欣慰的了。

9.你们都是我快乐和骄傲的源泉，我想让你们知道，我从心底里爱你们。”

10.人群沉默了几秒钟，然后有人开始鼓掌。掌声变成了欢呼，然后变成了震耳欲聋的吼声。

        11.律师、卡车司机、银行家和模特揉着眼睛，或者毫无羞耻地公开哭泣，这一切都是因为他们家乡一位被遗忘已久的英语老师的话。