教育不是注满一桶水，而是点燃一把火。

米来妈妈荐语

孩子的成长不可被成人的固有思维控制、束缚，而应多采用启发性原则，根据孩子的认识规律、身心发展特点，调动孩子主动性，引导其积极思考，自觉掌握科学知识、提高分析问题解决问题的一系列能力。关于更多成人如何构建适于成长的环境，引导、启发孩子成长的方式请看校长怎么说：

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

– W. B. Yeats (Irish poet 1865 – 1939)

教育不是注满一桶水，而是点燃一把火。

——爱尔兰诗人 兰芝.B W

(爱尔兰诗人，1865 - 1939年)

From the time kids are old enough to start school until they are independent enough to make their own decisions, parents consume themselves worrying about their child’s education. It made sense, after all, getting our children a good education was always thought to be the best thing you could do to assure them a bright future.

从孩子年龄大到可以开始上学，直到他们有足够的自主权做出决定，父母就会担心孩子的教育问题。这是有原因的，毕竟让我们的孩子接受良好的教育总被认为是父母可以做以确保孩子有一个光明未来的最好的事情。

Parents all around the world go to crazy lengths to do whatever they can to make sure their kids get the education they need. They’ll move houses to be in a better school district, spend thousands of dollars/renminbi a year on after-school and summer programs, and hire tutors, to make sure their children are prepared to face the world of tomorrow.

世界各地的家长竭尽全力，尽一切可能确保孩子们得到所需的教育。他们会把房子搬到一个更好的学区，每年花费数千美元/人民币的课后暑期课程，并聘请导师，以确保他们的孩子准备好面对未来的世界。

However for parents today things have gotten a bit more complicated. The world that the next generation will grow up in will be radically different from anything we have seen in the past. A world filled with artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, automation, virtual reality, personalized medicine, self-driving cars, and people on Mars etc. A world where people might not even have jobs and where society itself may be arranged in fundamentally different ways. How are parents, and society for that matter, supposed to know how to prepare our children to succeed in a world that we cannot predict?

然而，对于父母来说，事情变得更加复杂了。我们下一代成长的世界将与我们过去所看到的任何东西都截然不同。这是一个充满人工智能，基因工程，自动化，虚拟现实，个性化医疗，自驾车和火星人等的世界。一个人们甚至可能连工作都没有的世界，并且社会本身可能根本不同。那么父母和社会怎样才能知道如何让我们的孩子在一个我们无法预知的世界上取得成功呢？

The role of school should no longer be to fill heads with information, rather it should be a place that inspires students to be curious about the world they live in. Kids are born explorers, when they are young all they want to do is push boundaries and explore the limits of what they can do. Let’s not suffocate that curiosity but encourage it. This is when you realise, Maria Montessori was a formidable woman who understood in the early 20 century that we were already educating children for a world we could not imagine.

学校的角色不应该是把学生的头脑中填满信息，而应该是激发学生对他们生活世界充满好奇的地方。孩子是天生的探索者，当孩子小的时候他们想要做的就是不断打破局限，超越自己。我们不要去扼杀孩子们的好奇心，而是要去鼓励他们。当你意识到这一点的时候，玛丽亚·蒙特梭利是一个强大的女人，她在20世纪初就明白我们已经在为一个我们无法想象的世界教育孩子。

We can all agree with Maria Montessori “Education should prepare you for life”

我们都同意蒙特梭利女士所说的：“教育应该为你的生活做好准备”。

How do we get children ready for our world, for a future we do not know, for a future that is ever changing? Personal and learning skills that will make our children successful in the future.

“我们怎么让孩子准备好去改变世界呢？对于未来我们一无所知，对于未来从未改变。个人能力和学习能力，这将使我们的孩子在未来取得成功”。

Come and meet with us at Hello Future, we are here to encourage your children to be curious, learn about respect, have fun and learn at his/her own rhythm.

欢迎您来米来未来做客，我们一起聊聊！我们在校园里鼓励孩子充满好奇心，学习如何尊重，玩的开心，并且按照自己的节奏去学习。

Christine J.

米来未来总校长

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