honorable judges, dear friends:
do you know a'ba? do you know jiu zhai? a'ba is very famous for jiu zhai and huang long. i'm suo yangjin, a tibet girl from markang a'ba tibet and qiang autonomous prefectur. welcome to markang my hometown!
it's a great honour to make a talk here; my topic is "why education is essential?"
there is a nation in the world. after the second world war, the government paid its great attention to the education. so, the national economy has developed a lot. in a short time, its science and technology, culture and education have been ahead of the other countries in the world. which country is it? do you know? right, it's japan. as we know, while japan was invading the other countries, it greatly suffered from the war itself in the second world war. but, japan did not sink as people thought; it quickly went out of the difficulties caused by the war. why did japan develop so quickly? what's the secret? right, that's education. so, we say, education is really important to a nation.
now, i'll tell you a real story. once, there was a married couple, they were pleased to have a son. but unfortunately, the child was retarded. while he was growing up gradually, the defect was more and more clear. but the couple did not lose heart, they decided to teach the child to play the piano. they believed" where there is a will, there is a way." day after day, year after year, after more than ten years, the child could play some well-known melodies fluently. per－haps, some one will say, " can he really play the piano? i can't believe that." then, let me tell you another story about fang zhongyong. in ancient china, there was a boy named
fang zhongyong, who never read any books. one day, he suddenly asked his father for books. his father was very surprised and borrowed some from the r reading, zhongyong writed a poem about respecting parents and getting on well with the neighbours and so on. from then on, as soon as he saw something, he could write a poem about it. the people in his village were all surprised. gradually, he was well-known and often invited to write some poems for money. his father thought that's very profitable, so he took zhongyong here and there to earn money and zhong yong didn't go on with his study. as we all know, at last, zhongyong became as simple as the others. he couldn't write poems any have to admire the couple for their will, confi－dence and courage, while we also feel sorry for zhongyong. at this time, there is a problem: for a person, which is more important, gift or training? training, i think, is more important. and as one of the most important courses in training, ed－ucation cannot be neglected.
the purpose of education is to make people get knowledge and have abilities. as we know, nowadays, our time is a knowledge time, an it time, and it is also a time that is full of competitions. in the rapid developing society, our knowl－edge, our character, our value, our ideas, our behaviour and so on should all fit in with the needs of the society. and all these depend on education. of course it's impossible to fit ourselves on the society from birth. we need to learn and practise step by step.
as the ancient people said, "we know nearly nothing from birth. who hasn't got any doubts yet?" one of the ways to resolve the doubts is to ask the teachers.
just as we know, everyone has great potential, but one can't become useful without being educated. i believe all of us know the story about the wolf-child. he had the same character just as the other persons when he was born. but he wasn't educated as a normal person, so he couldn't show his natural characters. he was almost like an animal. thus it can be seen that education can make us develop our abilities and make our life wonderful.
we all remember forever, in 1840, the most insulting and miserable page in chinese history began with the opium war. at that time, we lost our rights, our lands… the history tells us, "if we are backward, we'll be insulted." and it also taught us a lesson that we should pay great attention to our education. "education is the project of vital and lasting importance." "science and education can strengthen a nation." after liberation, especially after the reform, we have achieved great successes in the aspect of politics, economy, culture and so on, which depend on the development of edu－cation.
from all of the facts above, we can see, education is essential. if all of us know well about this, if all of us act it out, our future will be more beautiful.
thank you all!
譯文：
為什麼教育是必不可少的
索陽金
尊敬的各位評委、親愛的各位朋友：
你們好！
你們知道阿壩嗎? 到過美麗的九寨溝嗎？我叫索陽金，就是一個來自阿壩藏族羌族自治州的藏族女孩，歡迎在座各位來我的家鄉阿壩，來我的家鄉九寨，領略奇異的民族風情。
今天，很榮幸能夠站在這兒，我演講的題目是：為什麼教育是必不可少的。
曾有這樣一個國家，二戰結束後，其政府極力提倡教育，從而使它的國民經濟得到大大提高。在很短的時間內，國家的科學技術、文化教育都已邁入世界領先地位。這個國家就是日本。眾所周知，二戰中，當日本野蠻侵略其它國家時，也給它自己帶來了深深的創傷，但是日本並不像人們想象的那樣沉淪下去，而是很快走出了二戰帶來的困境。為什麼日本能夠發展得如此迅猛，有什麼祕訣嗎?有，那就是教育。由此可見，教育是十分重要的。
現在，讓我們一起來聽一個小故事吧!從前有一對夫婦生了一個孩子，但不幸的是，這個孩子先天智力就有缺陷，隨著年齡的長大，這種缺陷越來越明顯。但這對夫婦並沒有對他失去信心，在“有志者事竟成”這種信念的推動下，他們決定教這個孩子彈鋼琴。日復一日，年復一年，十幾年過去了，奇蹟也發生了，這個孩子竟能夠流利地彈奏許多名家的曲子。也許，有人要說：“嗯，我才不相信呢！”但事實確實如此。來，再聽聽方仲永的故事吧。在我國古代，有一個男孩叫方仲永，從未上過私塾唸書。
一天，他突然向他的父親要書看，他的父親感到十分驚奇，於是從鄰居那兒借了一些書來。一口氣讀完書後，仲永竟寫了一首關於孝敬父母和如何與鄰里鄉親交往的詩。從那以後，仲永便能指物賦詩，村裡的人們都十分驚詫。不久，仲永便成了村裡有名的神童，常有人花錢請他做詩，而他的父親呢，更覺得這是一個不錯的買賣，便帶著他四處寫詩賺錢。這個故事的結局，我想大家也是知道的：方仲永由於沒有充足的時間去接受教育，變得和其他人一樣的普通，再也寫不出優美的詩句了。
我們由衷地欽佩那對夫婦的毅力、信心和勇氣，也為仲永而深感遺憾。同時一個問題擺在我們面前，對於一個人的成長來說，什麼是更重要的，是先天智力還是後天培養?後天培養，我認為這是更重要的，而教育作為後天培養中最重要的手段更是不容忽視！
教育的目的是讓人們獲得知識、培養他們的能力。要知道，現在的時代是知識的時代，是資訊的時代，同樣也是個充滿競爭的時代。在這高速發展的社會裡，我們的知識、性格、智力、行為、情感等等，都必須適應這個社會的需求，而這所有的一切都是通過教育獲得的。因為，我們不能天生就能適應這個社會，而是需要後天不斷的訓練。
古人云：“人非生而知之者,孰能無惑。”誰都有過疑問，而請教他人就是解決疑難的方法之一。
每個人都有著巨大的潛力，但是如果不受教育就不能成為有用的人。我相信在座各位都知道關於“狼孩”的故事。他剛出生時有著和人類一樣的天性，但他沒有像常人那樣接受正規的教育，因此不能發掘出他的天性，只能像動物那樣。由此可見，教育能使我們發掘潛力，能使我們的生活更加豐富多彩。
也許大家永遠都不會忘記，1840年我國曆史上最為屈辱的一頁隨著鴉片戰爭的槍聲翻開了，綜合國力日益下降，人才大量流失，我們失去了領土，失去了主權……歷史告訴我們“落後就要捱打”，它也警示我們，再也不能忽視教育了。“百年大計，教育為本”，“科教興國”，解放後，特別是改革開放以後，我國在政治、經濟、文化等方面都取得了輝煌的成績，這都與我國政府大力發展教育是分不開的。
無論是對國家，還是個人，教育都是必不可少的，如果我們每個人都能清楚地認識到這一點並付諸實際，我們的未來將會更加美好！
謝謝！
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