第 11 篇(Unit 3 Passage 3)Let children learn to judge their own work
A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time; if corrected too much, he will stop talking
He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the languages he uses and the language those around him use
Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people
In the same way, when children learn to do all the other things they learn to do without being taught-to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle-compare those performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes
But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his own mistakes for himself, let alone correct them
We do it all for him
We act as if we thought that he wou