断 翅（2）
《美丽英文》作者：方雪梅 2017-04-14 12:47
断 翅（2）
■ 心灵小语
不同的人，总有着不同的成长历程，每个人脚下的路都曲曲折折，不尽相同。在定义一个人时，我们更应该认识到他的优点。沉沦中的人更需要他人的支持、帮助和关爱。暂时身处顺境中的人们，伸出援助之手，就极有可能成就一个天才！
Broken Wing
Jim Hullihan
Some people are just doomed to be failures. That’s the way some adults look at troubled kids. Maybe you’ve heard the saying, “A bird with a broken wing will never fly as high.” I’m sure that T. J. Ware was made to feel this way almost every day in school.
By high school, T. J. was the most celebrated trouble-maker in his town. Teachers literally cringed when they saw his name posted on their classroom lists for the next semester. He wasn’t very talkative, didn’t answer questions and got into lots of fights. He had flunked almost every class by the time he entered his senior year, yet was being passed on each year to a higher grade level. Teachers didn’t want to have him again the following year. T. J. was moving on, but definitely not moving up.
I met T. J. for the first time at a weekend leadership retreat. All the students at school had been invited to sign up for ACE training, a program designed to have students become more involved in their communities. T. J. was one of 405 students who signed up. When I showed up to lead their first retreat, the community leaders gave me this overview of the attending students, “We have a total spectrum represented today, from the student
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■ 心灵小语
不同的人，总有着不同的成长历程，每个人脚下的路都曲曲折折，不尽相同。在定义一个人时，我们更应该认识到他的优点。沉沦中的人更需要他人的支持、帮助和关爱。暂时身处顺境中的人们，伸出援助之手，就极有可能成就一个天才！
Broken Wing
Jim Hullihan
Some people are just doomed to be failures. That’s the way some adults look at troubled kids. Maybe you’ve heard the saying, “A bird with a broken wing will never fly as high.” I’m sure that T. J. Ware was made to feel this way almost every day in school.
By high school, T. J. was the most celebrated trouble-maker in his town. Teachers literally cringed when they saw his name posted on their classroom lists for the next semester. He wasn’t very talkative, didn’t answer questions and got into lots of fights. He had flunked almost every class by the time he entered his senior year, yet was being passed on each year to a higher grade level. Teachers didn’t want to have him again the following year. T. J. was moving on, but definitely not moving up.
I met T. J. for the first time at a weekend leadership retreat. All the students at school had been invited to sign up for ACE training, a program designed to have students become more involved in their communities. T. J. was one of 405 students who signed up. When I showed up to lead their first retreat, the community leaders gave me this overview of the attending students, “We have a total spectrum represented today, from the student