托?？谡Z網(wǎng)課

性格教育

托?？谡Z試題：

Some people believe that one’s personality changes as they grow older while others believe that one’s personality remains the same over the time. What is your opinion and why?

今天跟大家分享英國哲學家，數(shù)學家羅素的這篇On Education of Character，供大家思考和積累話題素材：

On education of Character

論性格的教育

When it is sought to produce a certain kind of behavior in a child or animal, there are two different techniques which may be followed. We may, on the one hand, by means of rewards and punishmentscause the child or animal to perform or abstain from certain precise acts; or we may, on the other hand,seek to produce in the child or animal such emotions as will lead, on the whole, to acts of the kind desired.

如果想在兒童或動物身上產(chǎn)生某種行為，可以有兩種不同的方法。一方面，我們可以用獎罰的方法來使兒童或動物執(zhí)行或回避某種明確的行為;另外一方面，我們也可以努力在兒童或動物身上產(chǎn)生能夠在整體上導向被期望行為的感情。

By a suitable distribution of rewards and punishments, it is possible to control a very large part of overt behavior. By this method boy