【推荐1】A young man named John met a senior citizen who had taught him many years before. But the teacher couldn’t recognize him by appearance. John told his teacher a story about how he inspired him to become a teacher.

“One day, a friend of mine entered the classroom with a new nice watch which I admired so much. So, I decided to steal it. Shortly after, my friend found that his watch was gone and immediately complained to his teacher, who was you. Then you went to the classroom and told the class about the lost watch. I wouldn’t give it back to him. Then you closed the door, told all the students to get up and began to search students’ pockets for it one by one. But you asked us to close our eyes. When you went through my pockets, you found the watch and took it. You went on searching everyone’s pockets till you finished finally. You never said anything about the incident, nor even took me aside to give me a moral lesson. But I received your message clearly. It was the most shameful day of my life, but it was also the day my dignity (尊严) was saved and I decided never to become a thief. And thanks to you, I understood what a real educator needs to do.”

John asked the professor if he still remembered the incident. He replied to him honestly, “I do remember the situation, the stolen watch and that I was looking for it in everyone’s pockets, but I didn’t remember you, because I also closed my eyes while searching.”

If to correct, you must make students feel ashamed or stupid and lose the respect of other people, you don’t know how to teach yet.

【推荐1】Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who rose to fame during Hollywood’s golden age as the star of several Alfred Hitchcock classics, died from natural causes at her home in Carmel, northern California on December 16, 2013 aged 96, US media reports said.

Born in Japan to British parents, Fontaine moved in 1919 to California, where she and her elder sister—screen idol Olivia de Havilland—were to shape successful movie careers. Fontaine and de Havilland remain the only sisters to have won lead actress honours at the Academy Awards. Yet the two sisters also had an uneasy relationship, with Fontaine recording a bitter competition in her own account “No Bed of Roses”.

Fontaine began her acting career in her late teens with Largely less important roles on the stage and later in mostly B-movies in the 1930s. It was not before famous British film director Hitchcock spotted her a decade later that her career took off.

Greatly surprised by her expressive looks, the suspense (悬念) master cast Fontaine in his first US film, a 1940 adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel “Rebecca”. She received an Academy Award nomination (提名) for her performance as a troubled wife. A year later, Fontaine finally won the long-sought golden figure, for her role as leading lady in “Suspicion” opposite Cary Grant becoming the first and only actress to earn the title for a Hitchcock film.

Although her sister, Olivia de Haviland, preceded her in gaining Hollywood fame, Fontaine was the first of the sisters to win an Oscar, beating Olivia’s nomination as best actress in Mitchell Leisen's “Hold Back the Dawn”.

The dislike, between the sisters was felt at the Oscars ceremony. “I froze. I stared across the table, where Olivia was sitting. ‘Get up there!’ she whispered commandingly,” Fontaine said. “All the dislike we’d felt toward each other as children all came rushing back in quickly changing pictures…I felt Olivia would spring across the table and seize me by the hair.”

Olivia did not win her first Oscar until 1946, for her role as the lover of a World War I pilot in Leisen’s “To Each His Own”. Fontaine later made it known that her sister had slighted her as she attempted to offer congratulations. “She took one look at me, ignored my hand, seized her Oscar and wheeled away,” she said.

The sisters were also reportedly competitors in love. Howard Hughes, a strange businessman who dated the elder de Havilland for a time, offered marriage to Fontaine several times. “I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be extremely angry because I beat her to it!” Fontaine once joked.

As her film career fruited in the 1950s, Fontaine turned to television and dinner theatre, and also appeared in several Broadway productions, including the Lion in Winter. Anything but the ordinary lady, Fontaine was also a licensed pilot, a champion balloonist, an accomplished golfer, a licensed decoration designer and a first-class cook.

【推荐3】I missed the clear blue skies of home in Colorado over my grandparents’ farm. Some of my earliest memories were of sitting on my grandfather’s knee while he played his violin. When I was old enough, I went to college on a music scholarship. But when I came to New York City, I left my violin behind.

“As long as you’ve got music, you’ve got good company, Jane,” my grandfather always said. I didn’t have either in my life these days. Looking at the gray sky, I was wondering whether I could get auditions- to give a short performance to be in a film.

The winter sky was starting to turn purple when I heard something unexpected. An orchestra was practicing. I followed the sounds to the park and saw the musicians practicing. I approached the director during a break. “This is a community orchestra,” he said. “One you’re welcome to join. All you need is an instrument.” But I couldn’t afford to buy one and it wasn’t the kind of thing my parents could just ship from Colorado.

As I walked back with heavy steps, a sign made me stop short: Schumacher Violin Maker. From the window, I saw an old man wearing glasses adjusting the bridge on a violin. I stepped inside and told him my story. When I’d finished, he said,“So, you need a violin.” I nodded in embarrassment. He surveyed the rows of instruments and selected a violin with a bright color. “Take it,” he said. “Go and make your music.” I stood there, surprised, as he handed it to me.

Holding the violin, I felt like I’d just woken up from a dream. But it was real—as real as the strings I was touching. My heart pounding with excitement, I headed for the park. There was a chair in the orchestra waiting for me. Playing the violin, I immediately felt at home. I made a ton of friends there. Music had brought me good company, just as my grandfather had promised.

【推荐2】There’s a phrase in Australia that is still widely in use today, “you’ve got Buckley’s”. It relates to a man named William Buckley.

Born in Cheshire, England, Buckley had served in the Napoleonic Wars where he was wounded in action, before being accused of receiving stolen goods (a roll of cloth) and sentenced to transportation (流放) for life in 1802. Buckley arrived at Port Phillip Bay with more than 300 soldiers, settlers and prisoners in 1803, aged 23.

However, the settlers failed to settle at Port Phillip Bay and they gave up the site they chose for their settlement. As the settlers prepared to leave for Tasmania, Buckley escaped with 2 other men. But after reaching the other side of Port Phillip Bay the two tired, hungry and frightened men turned back for Sullivan Bay.

Buckley would not give up and he wandered on alone, eating shellfish and fruits for several weeks before he was befriended by the Wathaurong people. Over the next 32 years Buckley lived with the Wathaurong and learnt their language and customs.

When John Batman, a leading member of the Port Phillip Association, arrived with new settlers in 1835, Buckley finally decided to meet them. At first he couldn’t remember his own language or name but managed to identify himself by the letters “WB” on his arm. He tried to work for the settlers and was employed as an interpreter between the settlers and the aborigines (土著人). But he felt he wasn’t trusted by either side. After less than 2 years he left for Hobart where he died after an accident in January 1856.

Buckley’s story has been reinterpreted many times over the years. His name lives on in Australian English with the saying “you’ve got Buckley’s”. It means very little chance—despite the fact that the real Buckley took his impossible chance for freedom and survived.