讓孩子步行上學 Let Kids Walk to the School

These days, inNanjingcity, taking a taxi to school is getting more and more fashionable amongmiddle-school students. Some of them are children of businessmen who arerelatively well-off. The parents of these children claim they can earn muchmoney easily and the yearly taxi fees spent by children mean nothing to them.But most parents must work very hard---some even have to find a second job toafford their children’s high consumption.

近日，在南京中學生打的去上學的現象越來越成為一種潮流。他們有的是相當富有的商人子女。這些孩子的父母聲稱他們賺錢容易，孩子每年乘坐出租車的費用對他們來說不算什么。但是大部分的家長必須努力工作，有的甚至不得不兼職第二份工作以供孩子的高消費。

Parents’ love for their children is natural andunderstandable. They are not willing to let their children take the crowdedbuses and endure hardships of a long time bump. But this practice seems to domore harm than good to these kids. It is not simply a question of taking a taxi,it involves the parents’ education of their children in terms of charactercultivating and physical training in the making of a man. In my opinion, nomatter how wealthy a family is, they should not spoil their children in theprocess of personality development. Instead, they should do something to tempertheir children to endure hardship and torture of life and get self-dependent.They should let their children bear in mind that money does not come easily andanything cannot be achieved without sweat and tears. So they should not takeeverything for granted.

家長愛孩子是天經地義也是可以理解的。他們不愿意讓孩子乘坐擁擠的公車，忍受長時間的顛簸。但是這一實踐帶給孩子的壞處似乎多于好處。這不僅僅只是打的的問題，它涉及了家長對孩子們人格塑造過程中培養個性和鍛煉身體的教育。在我看來，不管一個家庭多富有，他們都不應該在個性發展的過程中溺愛孩子。他們反而應該做些什么來鍛煉孩子忍受生活中的痛苦和折磨從而變得自立。他們應該讓孩子們牢記錢來之不易，沒有什么是不需要汗水和淚水就可以得到的。因此他們就不應該認為一切都是理所當然的。

Our younger generations should have a comprehensivedevelopment, intellectually, physically and ethically. At present, it issurprising that moral education and character training for children are oftenignored. Let’s remember what Helen Keller, a blindUSwriter, says, “Character cannotbe developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and sufferingcan the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and successachieved.”

我們這年輕的一代應該德智體美全面發展。令人驚訝的是現在人們常常忽視了對孩子的道德教育和性格培養。讓我們牢記美國作家海倫凱勒說的：“在安逸和平靜中，人格是無法發展的。只有透過磨難和痛苦，靈魂才能健壯，異象才能看清，雄心才能激揚，成功才能達到。”