我到爱丁堡去上课的前一年,在波士顿给成人上课时,给他们讲的第一则小故事是这样的:玛克辛:老师,你知道吗?奶酪是草做的。老师:你为什么这么说?玛克辛:因为奶酪是牛奶做的,牛奶是生产出来的,而牛是吃草的。老师:你吃不吃奶酪?玛克辛:吃啊!老师:那么,你也是草做的吗?玛克辛:不是,我是人。这段交谈是从一位老师与8岁大的孩子的对话中节录出来的,是一位马萨诸塞州立大学教育学院的老师转述给 The first little story I told them about the year before I went to Edinburgh to go to class in Boston for adults was this: Maxie: Teacher, do you know? The cheese is made of grass. Teacher: Why do you say that? Maxine: Because cheese is made of milk, milk is produced, and cattle are grazed. Teacher: You do not eat cheese? Maxin: Eat! Teacher: So, you are also grass do? Maxine: No, I am human. This conversation was recorded in a dialogue between a teacher and an eight-year-old child, a teacher from the Massachusetts Institute of Education