Have you ever been taught something in school that was completely incorrect?
你是否在學校裡學過一些完全錯誤的東西?
Andrew Guillot, Director - Maple International / Maple Prefab
Updated Mar 17, 2018
楓木國際/楓木預製件總監Andrew Guillot
Oh dear…
We will call this teacher Ms. N. She was my primary school teacher for first grade.
我們叫這位老師N女士。她是我小學一年級的老師。
Let me give you a little background first… Although I was very young and I never went to kindergarten or pre-k, I was able to read and write fairly well early on. I was a pretty well-rounded kid; my parents split up early on in my life and my father and I had moved to Hong Kong almost immediately after that. He was a skydiver and we travelled a lot due to that; he only worked six months of the year, so by the time that I was ready to go to school I had already filled up a few passports and was pretty knowledgable about different cultures and food, especially the Asian cultures. However, my mother wanted me to go to public school back in Canada, so off I go; however, I go straight into first grade without having gone to pre-k or kindergarten, so the kids were a little older than me (1–2 years).
讓我先給你們介紹一下背景知識……雖然我很年輕，從來沒有上過幼兒園或學前班，但我很早就能讀寫自如。我是一個非常全面的孩子;我的父母在我很小的時候就分開了，在那之後我和父親幾乎立刻就搬到了香港。他是一名跳傘運動員，因此我們經常旅行;他一年只工作6個月，所以當我準備上學的時候，我已經填好了幾本護照，對不同的文化和食物非常瞭解，尤其是亞洲文化。然而，我媽媽想讓我回加拿大上公立學校，所以我就去了;然而，我直接進入一年級，沒有上過學前教育或幼兒園，所以孩子們比我大一點(1-2歲)。
So, you must be thinking where is this story going — well, one or two months into school our teacher decides to teach us a little about China, the history, the culture and the food..(my mother had failed to mentioned to her that I grew up abroad…in China.) So Ms. N brings out an uncooked bowl of rice, exactly like this one.
所以，你一定在想這個故事的走向——嗯，上學一兩個月後，我們的老師決定教我們一些關於中國、歷史、文化和食物的知識。(我母親沒有告訴她我是在國外……在中國長大的。)所以女士。N拿出一碗生米飯，就像這碗一樣。
And then proceeds to hand all the students who were around in a circle some chopsticks.
然後繼續遞給所有圍成一圈的學生一些筷子。
Ms N: "So kids, do you think you could eat this rice with these chopsticks?"
老師:“孩子們，你們覺得能用筷子夾米飯嗎?”
教室裡所有的孩子……除了我:“不可能!...
I'm sitting there in total silence… as she passes the bowl around to every kid and lets them have a go at picking up one grain of rice at a time.
她把碗遞給每個孩子，讓他們試著一次撿起一粒米。
Ms N: "you guys should feel grateful that you live on this side of the planet because kids in China have to eat this every day using only chopsticks because spoons, forks, and knives haven't made their way to that side of the world yet..."
N女士:“你們應該感謝你們生活在地球的這一邊，因為中國的孩子每天只能用筷子吃這個，因為勺子、叉子和刀子還沒有到達地球的那一邊……”
... I BURST out laughing… I stand up, take the bowl of rice from one of my fellow classmates, grab my chopsticks, pick up a grain of rice perfectly and tell her that this rice is uncooked, that people in China are much more advanced than we are, that she was spreading china phobia and that I would never take anything she says for granted again.
…我大笑起來……我站起來,把碗米飯從我的一個同班同學,抓住我的筷子,拿起一粒米完美,告訴她這飯是生的,人們在中國比我們更先進,她被感染了中國恐懼症,我不會再把她說的東西視為理所當然。
The whole classroom was shocked, and no one said a word.
整個教室都驚呆了，沒有人說話。
Ms N: "why would you know anything about China? Go sit outside! Actually you're going straight to the principal for disturbing my class and being so rude!"
N女士問:“你為什麼對中國這麼瞭解?”去到外面坐!這句話的意思是:“你這樣打斷我的課，又這樣沒有禮貌，你應該直接去找校長。”
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Long story short, my mum left work, came to pick me up, told the principal that I very well knew what I was talking about and that her teacher was ignorant, that she wanted me to change teachers and that she would be talking with the school board about what was taught in class.
長話短說,我媽媽離開了工作,來接我,告訴校長,我知道我在說什麼,她的老師是無知,她想換老師,她會與學校董事會談論在N女士課堂上教的東西。
And this my kids, is how I schooled a teacher and proved her wrong all in the course of five minutes.
這就是我的童年，如何教育一位老師並在五分鐘內證明她是錯的。
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