好久好久没上过QQ了。
几天前,老同学梁树丽老师在朋友圈发了一则通知,是河南杏坛网研社qq群的一次英语课例研讨会,于是就申请入群打算好好学习一下。
今天中午,在浏览好友动态的时候发现了这样一张表格:
这是我几年前的一个学生王义江发的。2012年七年级到2014年暑假,我教了他两年。正能量满满的一个男生,学习一直特别努力,唯一的缺点就是字写得不怎么样。九年级我不教他了,他还经常来办公室找我问题或交流。后来他考上了六中——我们这儿除了一中就数六中了。
2016年春的一个星期三,下晚自习回到办公室放东西,一个家长正在等我,正是王义江的父亲。王义江都上高一了,还找我干什么呢?我很意外。
他说,需要我帮忙,因为王义江只听我的话。原来,年前的期末考试,王义江考得很好,本来在普班,但根据这次成绩可以调到宏志班。可是他死活不去,想让我去做做他的工作。
我知道自己没有这么大的能量,但是家长的心情可以理解,毕竟都想给孩子提供更好的学习条件并且机会难得。
于是我就去了。而王义江也非常给面子地同意了。后来他又陆续打过电话,再后来,我工作忙,他学习紧张,就没再联系过。去年他已经参加完高考,我也没打听他考到了哪里。
今天看到好友动态中他数学建模获得了省级二等奖,就忍不住打扰了一下。他说他最近正忙着打比赛,给我发了一张图片。
我说你比高中还用功。结果他说高中时不喜欢宏志班,不适应那个环境。我就在想,我当时是不是不应该劝他。如果他一直在普班,会不会有更好的结果呢?
可世上没有如果。但我真的很喜欢吉卜林写给12岁儿子的诗《如果》。
If——
By Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’ em up with worn out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch and toss
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run——
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!