与孩子一起成长

            The Graduate, Scarborough Fair, etc.

如果时光能倒流，我愿意坐校车，重返小学课堂，找回童年的时光。可是，一个人的成长似乎是不可逆的。不过，孩子给了我与其一同成长的机会。通过孩子我有幸接触和了解当前中国和美国的小学教育之真实现状。

 

为了记录孩子的成长经历以及我的实际观察，我先后开辟了《美国教育观察》和《中国教育观察》专栏，但是没有精力和时间坚持这方面的写作。

 

我不知道现在的孩子们是否喜欢Sarah Brightman的歌（如：Scarborough Fair--Scarborough-Fair-by Sarah Brightman.mp3），这是美国电影《毕业生》中的经典老歌。也许现在的老师们会喜欢这首歌，也许孩子们再长大一些也会喜欢。

孙启高

2012年6月16日

SCARBOROUGH FAIR --Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel原唱：

SCARBOROUGH FAIR-BY SIMON & GARFUNKEL.mp3

  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Simon

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Garfunkel

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American film---The Graduate （1967）

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graduate

 

美国电影《毕业生》

http://baike.baidu.com/view/2212411.htm

 

Scarborough Fair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Fair_(ballad)

 

Sarah Brightman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Brightman

 

Scarborough----North Yorkshire, England

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough,_North_Yorkshire

 哦，十几前我造访过这座美丽的海滨小镇，海边侏罗纪地层中有丰富的银杏化石！

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Scarborough fair  (Lyrics)

 

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

Remember me to one who lives there,

For once she was a true love of mine.

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

Without any seam or needlework,

Then she shall be a true lover of mine.

Tell her to wash it in yonder well,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

Where never spring water or rain ever fell,

And she shall be a true lover of mine.

Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

Which never bore blossom since Adam was born,

Then she shall be a true lover of mine.

Now he has asked me questions three,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

I hope he'll answer as many for me

Before he shall be a true lover of mine.

Tell him to buy me an acre of land,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

Betwixt the salt water and the sea sand,

Then he shall be a true lover of mine.

Tell him to plough it with a ram's horn,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

And sow it all over with one pepper corn,

And he shall be a true lover of mine.

Tell him to shear it with a sickle of leather,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

And bind it up with a peacock feather.

And he shall be a true lover of mine.

Tell him to thrash it on yonder wall,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,

And never let one corn of it fall,

Then he shall be a true lover of mine.

When he has done and finished his work.

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme:

Oh, tell him to come and he'll have his shirt,

And he shall be a true lover of mine.

 

Symbolic meaning

Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme have — like many other herbs — a symbolic meaning that goes back centuries:

Parsley has been used as a digestant, which should take the bitterness out of certain comestibles. Some medieval physicians used this herb in a spiritual manner.

Sage is renowned as a symbol of power.

Rosemary represents fidelity, love, and remembrance and is therefore often used in traditional wedding customs. Rosemary for remembrance.

Thyme symbolizes courage and thus found its way into heraldry.

 

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