职工业余中学高中语文课本选了聂绀弩先生的一篇文章《七十年前的开笔》。一位八旬老人谈自己八岁时开笔做第一篇作文的旧事,写得深入浅出、淳朴真切而又妙趣横生。我反复读这篇文章,越读越有滋味;在教学时,发现学员也越学越有兴趣。究其原因,我以为就在于他把一般人认为很难讲的 The staff of the amateur secondary school high school language textbook selected an article by Mr. Nie Hao, “The Writing of the Thirty Years Ago.” An 80-year-old man talks about his old writing of his first composition when he was eight years old. He has written in simple language and is honest and fun. When I read this article over and over again, the more I read, the more I liked it. When I was teaching, I found that the more students learned, the more I became interested. The reason, I think, is that he thinks it is hard for ordinary people to say