It Never Stops, And Never Should When I was five years old, I played the role of the turtle in a play organized by my older sister. I had one line at the end, when I beat the sleeping rabbit to the finish line: slow and steady wins the race. 我五歲時在我姐姐組織的一場演出中扮演烏龜，最后打敗熟睡的兔子沖過終點線時有一句臺詞：又慢又穩(wěn)贏得了比賽。 I’ve always felt that those words guided my career. I was never the fastest; I was rarely an A student. But as the careers of others stalled, I kept going. My goal was always the same: to learn more this year than I had last year. 我總是感覺那些話對我的事業(yè)有指導(dǎo)作用，我從來不是最快的，我?guī)缀鯖]得過A。但當(dāng)其他人事業(yè)停滯不前時，我的事業(yè)一直在發(fā)展。我的目標(biāo)始終如一：今年要比去年多學(xué)點東西。 Some people have difficulty with particular topics. They may also have a slow deliberate style. The goal of education is not to gain as much knowledge as quickly as possible, but to gain useful knowledge and retain it. As a teacher, I don’t care how “fast” someone learns something. 有些人理解某些特定話題有困難，他們可能是緩慢從容的風(fēng)格。教育的目標(biāo)不是以最快速度獲取最多知識，而是要獲取有用的知識并記在大腦里。作為一名教師，我不在乎學(xué)生學(xué)習(xí)有多快。 There may be a lot of reasons someone picks up a particular subject or topic more quickly: more background, natural adeptness, previous exposure to the material, more sleep that night, less stress, and so on. We process information differently. 有很多原因會導(dǎo)致學(xué)生學(xué)習(xí)某一特定學(xué)科或話題比別人快：更多的背景知識、天生的熟練、之前接觸過相關(guān)材料、前一晚睡眠更充足、壓力更小等。我們處理信息有所不同。 In retrospect, I’ve come to realize that one of the ways I learn is “error-based.” That is, I effectively learn by making mistakes. This may be slower than other methods of learning, but when I learn something, I really learn it. 回顧過去，我意識到我的一種學(xué)習(xí)方法是“以錯為鑒”，就是通過犯錯有效地學(xué)習(xí)。這個方法可能比其他學(xué)習(xí)方法慢，但只要我學(xué)會了，就是真的學(xué)會了。 It never stops, and never should. Now the world is competitive and sometimes being too slow means you miss out. But speed is seldom the biggest marker of success. Learning, like a career, or like life, is a marathon, not a sprint. 學(xué)習(xí)永不停歇，也永遠不該停下?，F(xiàn)在社會競爭激烈，有時速度太慢意味著你會錯過機會，但速度也極少是成功最大的標(biāo)志。學(xué)習(xí)就像事業(yè)或生活一樣，是一場馬拉松，而不是（短跑）沖刺。