最近,我们教了贾平凹同志的散文《丑石》,师生围绕《丑石》的选材和寓意进行了热烈而认真的讨论,受到了比较深刻的教育。问题的提起贾平凹同志的散文《丑石》,于一九八一年七月二十日在《人民日报》发表,被选入中学语文教材时,略有改动。对作品的思想内容和艺术手法,教材编辑都作了高度的评价。我们在备课时,认真研读了原文和报刊上的有关评介文字,参考了省教研室编印的教学参考书,开始也是按教材编者的基调着手备课的。但在深入钻研教材的过程中,我们头脑中产生了两个问号。第一,现有的评介文字都是从人们对客观事物的认识这个角度出发的,即不应该因 Recently, we taught Comrade Jia Pingwa’s essay “Ugly Stone,” and teachers and students have conducted heated and serious discussions around the material and implied meaning of “Ugly Stone,” and have received more profound education. Comrade Jia Pingwa’s prose, “Ugly Stone,” was published in the People’s Daily on July 20, 1981 and was slightly altered when it was selected for secondary school language teaching. Both the ideological content, artistic techniques, and textbook editors of the works have been highly evaluated. When we were preparing lessons, we carefully studied the original texts and related comments on the newspapers and magazines, referenced the teaching reference books compiled by the provincial teaching and research office, and began to prepare lessons according to the tone of the textbook editors. However, in the course of further studying the teaching materials, two question marks have emerged in our minds. First, the existing review texts are based on people’s understanding of objective things, ie they should not be