Good morning teachers and fellow students. Today we would like to introduce a few favorite books to you.
My favorite book is (Italian: Cuore). This is a diary written by an Italian boy Enrico. The diary is about his life and study. It included various touching stories that happened around Enrico, the mottos taught by his parents, as well as the wonderful ten "monthly" stories told by his teacher during the class. Every word in the chapter describes the word "love". From patriotism to friendship, and to the love between parents and child -- really touching.
This novel taught me how to love, and how to learn from love. I really like this book very much. How about you? What is your favorite book?
My favorite book is . Have you read it before?
Oh, I havent read this book before. What is it about?
Well, it is a story of a rich girl who maintained her noble character after the bankruptcy of her father. The story is happy ending.
Can you tell us why you love this book so much?
Sure. It is because the story taught us to be brave and to face the challenges and difficulties with courage. I am dee*** impressed by the strength and perseverance of the little princess in the story. I have decided to learn from her from now on.
Oh I see, the story sounds very good. I cannot wait to read this book as well.
A Clever Farmer
Uncle Sam doesn’t like farmer. He thinks they are very foolish and only know work on the farm.
One winter morning, the sun is shining. Uncle Sam sits on the step of his house. At that moment, a farmer with a map in his hand comes to him.
Farmer：Excuse me, Uncle. Can you tell me know to get to the hospital, please? Uncle Sam: Lie down in the middle of the street and you’ll soon be at a hospital. Farmer Please set an example to me.
Uncle Sam: I think you come to our city at the first time. It’s much more beautiful than the field. Is that right?
Farmer: Yes, uncle. But it is built on the field. Uncle Sam’s face turns red.
Good morning, my dear teachers and friends! My name is Li Bingke, from class four O five. Today, I am very happy to be here. My topic is “Our School”.
My dear friends, welcome to our school! My school is very beautiful! It has a big playground. We can play and do some sports there. Near the playground, there is a garden. Many trees and flowers are there. So the air is very clean and we can hear birds singing in the trees. It is so wonderful. Our teaching buildings are around the garden and look like our teachers’ arms to welcome us. We can draw pictures in the art room on the first floor and read story-books in the library on the second floor. My classroom is on the third floor. It is clean and bright. We like to study in it. The computer room is on the fifth floor. We can sing and dance in the music room on the sixth floor. What a lot of fun! We can have lunch in the canteen near Defang Teaching Building.
In our school, our teachers work hard and help us with our lessons. We study hard and listen to teachers carefully. After class, our teachers play with us and we feel very happy.
Our school is so nice and our teachers are so kind. We all love them. Dear friends, do you like them?
Thats all. Thanks!
A man was walking along the street when he saw a woman struggling with a large box. It was half in and half out of her car. He was a nice man, so he went up to the woman and said, “Let give you a hand with that box, It looks very heavy.”
“That is very kind of you,” the woman said. “I’m having a lot of trouble with it. I think it’s struck.” “Together we’ll soon move it.” The man said, He got into the back seat of the car and took hold of the otherendof the box. He said, “And he began to push hard.”
For a few minutes the man and the woman struggled with the box. Soon they were tired. “Let’s rest for a minutes,” the man said,” I’m sorry, but it is struck.” A few minutes later, the man said, “let’s try again.Are you ready?” Both of them took hold of the box again. “one, two, three!” the man said, and they went on with their struggle.
At last, when they were very tired, the man said, “you’re right, It is really struck, I don’t think there’s any way we can get it out of the car.”
The woman cried. “I’m trying to get it in!”
Little snail asks mother: why do we from birth, must shoulder the hard and heavy shell?
Mom: because our body without the skeletal support, can only climb, and climb unpleasant. So the protection of the shell!
The little snail: caterpillar sister have no bones, also climb unhappy, why she did not back the hard and heavy shell?
Mom: because caterpillar sister can become a butterfly, the sky will protect her ah.
The little snail: but the earthworm younger brother didnt also bone climb unhappy, also wont become a butterfly he what dont carry this hard and heavy shell?
Mom: because the earthworm younger brother will drill the earth, the earth will protect him ah.
The little snail crying: we pity, the sky is not protection, dont protect the earth.
Snail mother comforted him: "so we have the shell ah!"
We dont rely on, but also the place, we are on your own.
——五分钟英语故事演讲稿 (菁华5篇)
I am an ordinary boy. I thought I had been very lonely. Not a lot of love. Friendship, love, family I do not seem important. I had the world on fantasy alone. Cruel killer me as a lot of people. Who can understand there is darkness in my heart. I am afraid, I suffer too. Perhaps the world is dismal. Lonely people more clearly.
Maybe Im wrong. Should not go on their own have been dark. I changed. Is love. Friends care, parental care, I gradually realized that I was not missing anything. The lack of love found only one pair of eyes. Now sometimes the love you gave me. I look very cold. Is not the case. I can feel. I will be dee* in love.
Im going to feel, feel the love. In fact, Im not alone, I have teeth hot anxious heart. I need to feel it dee*.
Recently, a friend gave me that 2012, you what happens, I do not believe that, if true, I will fight to survive, because the fate of the master in their own hands. Everything is possible. Even dead, I am not afraid, because there is love.
Let us begin to feel love.
Lion was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up in anger, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously
entreated, saying： “If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness.” The Lion laughed and let him go.
It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by strong ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar,
came up, and gnawed the rope with his teeth, and setting him free, exclaimed： “You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to
receive from me any repayment of your favour； but now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion.”
一只老鼠从一只狮子面前跑过去，将它从梦中吵醒。
狮子生气地跳起来，捉住老鼠，要弄死它。老鼠哀求说：「只要你肯饶恕我这条小生命，我将来一定会报答你的大恩。」狮子便笑着放了它。
后来狮子被几个猎人捉住，用粗绳捆绑倒在地上。老鼠听出是狮子的吼声，走来用牙齿咬断绳索，释放了它，并大声说：「你当时嘲笑我想帮你的忙，而且也不指望我有什么机会
报答。但是你现在知道了，就算是小老鼠，也能向狮子效劳的。」
Ladies and Gentlemen,Good morning!
I’m very glad to stand here and give you a short speech. Man’s life is a process of growing up,actually I’m standing here is a growth.If a person’s life must constituted by various choices,then I grow up along with these choices.Once I hope I can study in a college in future,however that’s passed,as you know I come here,now I wonder what the future holds for me. When I come to this school,I told to myself:this my near future,all starts here.Following I willl earn to become a man,a integrated man,who has a fine body,can take on important task,has independent thought,an open mind,intensive thought,has the ability to judge right and wrong,has a perfect job.
Once my teacher said:"you are not sewing,you are stylist; never forget which you should lay out to people is your thought,not craft.” I will put my personality with my interest and ability into my study,during these process I will combine learning with doing.If I can achieve t
Once upon a time there lived a King who had two daughters, and he loved them with all his heart. When they grew up, he was suddenly seized with a wish to know if they, on their part, truly loved him, and he made up his mind that he would give his kingdom to whichever best proved her devotion.
So he called the elder Princess and said to her, How much do you love me?
As the apple of my eye! answered she.
Ah! exclaimed the King, kissing her tenderly as he spoke, you are indeed a good daughter.
Then he sent for the younger, and asked her how much she loved him.
I look upon you, my father, she answered, as I look upon salt in my food.
But the King did not like her words, and ordered her to quit the court, and never again to appear before him. The poor Princess went sadly up to her room and began to cry, but when she was reminded of her fathers commands, she dried her eyes, and made a bundle of her jewels and her best dresses and hurriedly left the castle where she was born.
She walked straight along the road in front of her, without knowing very well where she was going or what was to become of her, for she had never been shown how to work, and all she had learnt consisted of a few household rules, and receipts of dishes which her mother had taught her long ago. And as she was afraid that no housewife would want to engage a girl with such a pretty face, she determined to make herself as ugly as she could.
She therefore took off the dress that she was wearing and put on some horrible old rags belonging to a beggar, all torn and covered with mud. After that she smeared mud all over her hands and face, and shook her hair into a great tangle. Having thus changed her appearance, she went about offering herself as a goose-girl or shepherdess. But the farmers wives would have nothing to say to such a dirty maiden, and sent her away with a morsel of bread for charitys sake.
After walking for a great many days without being able to find any work, she came to a large farm where they were in want of a shepherdess, and engaged her gladly.
One day when she was keeping her sheep in a lonely tract of land, she suddenly felt a wish to dress herself in her robes of splendour. She washed herself carefully in the stream, and as she always carried her bundle with her, it was easy to shake off her rags, and transform herself in a few moments into a great lady.
The Kings son, who had lost his way out hunting, perceived this lovely damsel a long way off, and wished to look at her closer. But as soon as the girl saw what he was at, she fled into the wood as swiftly as a bird. The Prince ran after her, but as he was running he caught his foot in the root of a tree and fell, and when he got up again, she was nowhere to be seen.
When she was quite safe, she put onher rags again, and smeared over her face and hands. However the young Prince, who was both hot and thirsty, found his way to the farm, to ask for a drink of cider, and he inquired the name of the beautiful lady that kept the sheep. At this everyone began to laugh, for they said that the shepherdess was one of the ugliest and dirtiest creatures under the sun.
The Prince thought some witchcraft must be at work, and he hastened away before the return of the shepherdess, who became that evening the butt of everybodys jests.
But the Kings son thought often of the lovely maiden whom he had only seen for a moment, though she seemed to him much more fascinating than any lady of the Court. At last he dreamed of nothing else, and grew thinner day by day till his parents inquired what was the matter, promising to do all they could to make him as happy as he once was. He dared not tell them the truth, lest they should laugh at him, so he only said that he should like some bread baked by the kitchen girl in the distant farm.
Although the wish appeared rather odd, they hastened to fulfil it, and the farmer was told the request of the Kings son. The maiden showed no surprise at receiving such an order, but merely asked for some flour, salt, and water, and also that she might be left alone in a little room adjoining the oven, where the kneading- trough stood. Before beginning her work she washed herself carefully, and even put on her rings; but, while she was baking, one of her rings slid into the dough. When she had finished she dirtied herself again, and let the lumps of the dough stick to her fingers, so that she became as ugly as before.
The loaf, which was a very little one, was brought to the Kings son, who ate it with pleasure. But in cutting it he found the ring of the Princess, and declared to his parents that he would marry the girl whom that ring fitted.
So the King made a proclamation through his whole kingdom and ladies came from afar to lay claim to the honour. But the ring was so tiny that even those who had the smallest hands could only get it on their little fingers. In a short time all the maidens of the kingdom, including the peasant girls, had tried on the ring, and the King was just about to announce that their efforts had been in vain, when the Prince observed that he had not yet seen the shepherdess.
They sent to fetch her, and she arrived covered with rags, but with her hands cleaner than usual, so that she could easily slip on the ring. The Kings son declared that he would fulfil his promise, and when his parents mildly remarked that the girl was only a keeper of sheep, and a very ugly one too, the maiden boldly said that she was born a princess, and that, if they would only give her some water and leave her alone in a room for a few minutes, she would show that she could look as well as anyone in fine clothes.
They did what she asked, and when she enteredin a magnificent dress, she looked so beautiful that all saw she must be a princess in disguise. The Kings son recognized the charming damsel of whom he had once caught a glimpse, and, flinging himself at her feet, asked if she would marry him. The Princess then told her story, and said that it would be necessary to send an ambassador to her father to ask his consent and to invite him to the wedding.
The Princesss father, who had never ceased to repent his harshness towards his daughter, had sought her through the land, but as no one could tell him anything of her, he supposed her dead. Therefore it was with great joy he heard that she was living and that a kings son asked her in marriage, and he quitted his kingdom with his elder daughter so as to be present at the ceremony.
By the orders of the bride, they only served her father at the wedding breakfast bread without salt, and meat without seasoning. Seeing him make faces, and eat very little, his daughter, who sat beside him, inquired if his dinner was not to his taste.
No, he replied, the dishes are carefully cooked and sent up, but they are all so dreadfully tasteless.
Did not I tell you, my father, that salt was the best thing in life? And yet, when I compared you to salt, to show how much I loved you, you thought slightingly of me and you chased me from your presence.
The King embraced his daughter, and allowed that he had been wrong to misinterpret her words. Then, for the rest of the wedding feast they gave him bread made with salt, and dishes with seasoning, and he said they were the very best he had ever eaten.
his “future”,I think that I really grow up.And I dee* believe kind red,good-fellowship and love will be perfection and happy in the future.
How to say future?Maybe it’s a nice wish.Lets make up our minds,stick to it and surely well enjoy our life.
One day the staff members of a zoo called a meeting to discuss the problem--how to deal with the kangaroos that were found out of the cage. They came to the conclusion that the cage was placed too low and decided to raise it from one to two meters high. But the next day the kangaroos were still at large and they again raised the cage to three meters.
有一天，动物园管理员们发现袋鼠从笼子里跑出来了， 于是开会讨论，一致认为是笼子的高度过低，所以他们决定将笼子的高度由原来的1米加高到2米。结果第二天他们发现，袋鼠还是跑到外面来，所以他们又决定再将高度加高到3米。
Quite beyond their expectation the next morning they saw the kangaroos still free to go about. They were alarmed and determined to go to all the length by raising the cage to the height of ten meters.
没想到隔天居然又看到袋鼠全跑到外面，于是管理员们大为紧张，决定一不做二不休，将笼子的高度加高到10米。
Later a giraffe, while chatting with some kangaroos, asked them, “Do you think they will go on raising your cage?”
一天，长颈鹿和几只袋鼠在闲聊，“你们看，这些人 会不会再继续加高你们的笼子?”长颈鹿问。
“Hard to say,” said a kangaroo, “if they continue forgetting to fasten the cage door.”
“很难说。”袋鼠说，“如果他们再继续忘记关门的话!”
Tom is a little boy, and he is only seven years old.
Once he goes to a cinema. It is the first time for him to do that. He buys a ticket and goes in. But after two or three minutes he comes out, and buys the second ticket and goes in again.
After a few minutes he comes out again and buys the third ticket. Two or three minutes after that he comes out and asks for another ticket.
But a girl asks him,“Why do you buy so many tickets? How many friends do you meet?”
“No, I have no friends here, but a big woman always stops me at the door and cuts up my ticket.”
汤姆是个小孩， 他才7岁。
当他去电影院的时候。那时他第一次去。他买了张票进去了。 但没过两三分钟他就出来了，然后买了第二张票又进去了。
几分钟后他又出来买了第三张票。 接着两三分钟后他又出来买票。
一个女的问她，“你为什么要买那么多票啊? 你见到了几个朋友?"
"没有， 我里面没朋友， 但是每当我进门的时候一位大的女人老把我的票给剪了"
——英语寓言故事3分钟演讲稿（精选五篇）
Standing on the roof of a small goat and the Wolf.
Kid standing on the roof and saw the Wolf walked through the bottom and then abuse him，and laughed at him。 The Wolf said，"oh，buddy，scold me is not you，but your terrain。
This story to illustrate，dili and cat often give a person the courage to fight against the strong。
A Fox, just at the time of the vintage, stole into a vine-yard where the ripe sunny Grapes were trellised up on high in most tempting show.
He made many a spring and a jump after the luscious prize, but, failing in all his attempts, he muttered as he retreated："Well what does it matter! The Grapes are sour!"
A Fisher once took his bagpipes to the bank of a river, and played upon them with the hope of making the fish rise; but never a one put his nose out of the water.
So he cast his net into the river and soon drew it forth filled with fish.
Then he took his bagpipes again, and, as he played, the fish leapt up in the net.
"Ah, you dance now when I play," said he.
"Yes," said an old Fish:
"When you are in a man's power you must do as he bids you."
A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone.
When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: "Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf."
A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: "Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf."
In serving the wicked, expect no the reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
——教育故事演讲稿五分钟合集五篇
尊敬的领导，亲爱的老师:
大家好!
五十余年前，在白山村那排低矮的教室里，一个大学预科的地主女儿高攀了一个目不识丁的，成分极好的放牛汉。于是，她就成了我的奶奶。
四年后，她放下了手中的那根教鞭，诀别嗷嗷待哺的孩子，独自下去寻她战死沙场的国军团长哥哥了。
三十余年前，同在那排低矮的教室里，一个高考无门的学生从村支书手中接过了我奶奶的那根教鞭，一边领着薪水，一边挣着工分。
四年后，他在隔壁的教室里领回了一个女教师，于是，她就成了我的妈妈。接着，我便呱呱坠落在那间教室里，由于奶奶的早去，我在四十天后，便只能安静的睡在教室角落处的那个萝筐里。
十年前，当那个*惯了都市的繁华心比天高的80后，无奈的回到了那个乡村，承续了父辈的事业。当现实的阳光照进梦想的窗，我只能选择*凡。
四年后。我照样在隔壁的那间教室里找到了我的妻。
也许，这就是轮回。这就是宿命。
当黄金潮肆虐的掠过校园橘红色的天空时，我望着西垂的落日，在心里许下一个*凡的愿望——
既然我们无法走出*凡，那我们倒不如在*凡之中寻找它之所以*凡的缘由;既然我们无法逃离现实，何不把*凡当成一种事业，让它洗去职业的尘埃，在未来的某一天熠熠闪光呢?
于是，我在*凡的工作中，寻找*凡，体味*凡，也努力的践行着*凡。
八年前，当我第一次走进公开课的课堂里，我依然选择*凡，但内心深处却无法*静。
我――做了一个导演。一个帐下巨星云集的导演。
淡淡的乡愁如淡淡的风，轻轻拂过孩子们稚嫩的面容。
我――做了一个导演。一个踌躇满志的导演。我要将这群巨星好好的捏合。去打造一场史诗般的演出。一个完美的课堂。我自已为是的上着课。
乡愁，是一张小小的船票。孩子，你读这句时要有梁朝伟一样忧郁的眼神;
乡愁，是一张小小的邮票。孩子，你读这句时要有刘德华一样深情的眼神;
乡愁，是一湾浅浅的海峡。孩子，你读这句时要有李连杰一样坚毅的眼神。
我不断的说着，你要，你要，你要·····
我――确实做了一个导演。一个――导――演。但我忘了自己是一个教者。
于时，我失败了，在那次全县首届现代课堂大赛中，我只拿了一个二等奖。
四年前，当我再次走进公开课的课堂里。我依然选择*凡，但内心深处却无法*静。
我――再做了一个导演。一个帐下巨星云集的导演。
受任于败军之际，奉命于危难之间。
我――做了一个导演。一个踌躇满志的导演。我要将这群巨星好好的捏合。去打造一场史诗般的演出。一个完美的课堂。这次，我想我做得到。
但不同的是，我没有再说：你要，你要。
而是给了他们一片海洋，网络的海洋，让这些鱼儿倘佯。巨星就是巨星，他们时而坚毅如子龙;时而驰骋如的卢;时面多智如孔明;时而精准如黄忠。
他们潸然于诸葛孔明的赤胆忠心;他们焦急于蜀中无将的内忧外患;他们也愤懑于后主阿斗的乐不思蜀。
这次，我所讲授的出师表一课侥幸获到了第一名，并作为唯一一个乡村教师参加内江市的大赛，再次侥幸胜出。
我恍然大悟。新课程标准下的教师不是导演。正如这个职业，只能选择*凡，*凡是躬行。*凡是宽容。*凡是尊重。*凡是细心。*凡是耐心。*凡是爱心。
教师将不再只是知识的传授者和管理者，而是学生发展的促进者和引导者，教师由教学中的主角转向“*等中的首*”，“教师在学生的学*经验中渐渐失去了第一主角的地位”。在课堂教学中，强调学生的自主性，重在启发，贵在引导，妙在点拨，巧在如何帮助学生设计正确的学*线路，选择正确的学*方法，让学生在课堂中始终处于一种积极、活泼、兴奋的状态，让学生有自己的空间去探究、合作、体验、创造，完成教学活动。
教育是一个繁琐的话题，教育故事也如同一篇散文，形式多样，内容丰富，题材广博，方法迥异，但不变的是教育的内核——为了一切孩子，为了孩子的一切，一切为了孩子。因此，我的教育故事，也是你的教育故事，更是我们大家的教育故事。故事虽散文，情感却挺诗歌。
谢谢大家!
尊敬的领导，亲爱的老师:
大家好!
白驹过隙，一转眼两年过去了。往事的每个片段不时冲击着我的思绪，留给我许多感动的余味：学生的改变、进步、成长就是为人师的幸福与成功。
还记得两年前刚接手初一（６）班时，班上有个叫余志灏的男生。老师和同学们常向我提及他的种种“劣迹”，经常不交作业，即使交了，也是马虎应付，书写潦草。纪律性更差，不但课后喜欢追逐打闹，课堂上也经常捣乱，影响别人学*。
有一天，我去开会了，自*课上，班长欧晓晴坐在讲台上维持纪律，其他同学在认真地学*，他却耐不住寂寞，趁机开始恶搞。故意把水倒在自己的裤裆里，然后大摇大摆地走上讲台，大声地说：“班长，我不小心把裤裆弄湿了，你看看，……”班长的脸霎时涨红了，班上的同学也轰的一声，笑开了，他看到这样的场景，得意洋洋。事后我找他训话。一开始，他表现出一副不屑一顾的样子。后来，他有点不耐烦了，便附和我说：“老师，你是对的，我错了，老师总是正确的，学生总是错的。”那一次的谈话就这样以他违心地承认错误而草草结束。
事后我开始反思：在整个谈话过程中，我明显感觉到他对我训斥的反感，心理的对立，使我根本无法真正走进他的心里，说服教育也就成为一句空话。我必须改变我的教育方式。
为了对症下药，我作了一翻努力的“调研”，发现他问题的“症结”：其实他自尊心很强，十分渴望得到老师表扬和认同。因为学*基础差，成绩不佳，感觉不到老师和同学们对他的重视。所以常常在课堂上，下课时不断找机会“好好表现”，以引起同学和老师对他的关注。
找到解决问题的切入点。我马上增设了一个体育委员的职位，由他担任。并让他负责管理班级课间的纪律。从那以后，我发现他的.精神面貌有了很大的改变。上课认真了，恶作剧也不搞了，作业也开始做了。我非常欣喜他的变化，没想一个大胆的尝试，一份他从没享受过的“老师的信任”，为我成功打开了他的心灵之门。事不疑迟，我必须抓住良好战机，“乘胜追击”赢得最后胜利。
多番思量，我利用语文老师批改每周随笔的便利工作条件，继续从“心”开始他的教育工作。刚开始，他交上来的随笔写得不是很认真，我就在本子里写下评语：“志灏，你聪明，关心集体，乐于为集体做事。你给老师的印象一直不错。如果你能认真写好作业，你的表现会更令老师满意！你一定不会让我失望的，对吗？”下一周交上的随笔，态度明显认真了很多。就这样，我每篇都写上对他鼓励和表扬的评语。他也越写越认真，越写越好。这种激励作用很神奇。不但语文科作业认真了，对其他科的态度也认真了，经过半个学期的努力，他的成绩获得了一个飞跃性的进步。
余志灏同学的进步是对我用“心”教育方式的最好褒奖。正如教育家苏霍姆林斯基所说的，我们“应当了解孩子的长处和弱点。理解他的思想和内心感受，小心翼翼地去接触他的心灵”只有这样，才能赢得孩子的信任，赢得孩子的心。教育才得以有效开展。
尊敬的领导，亲爱的老师:
大家好!
高尔基说过：“谁不爱孩子，孩子就不爱他，只有爱孩子的人，才能教育孩子”。在同龄人中，我没有靓丽的外表和时尚的服饰，但我是学生眼里最美最美的老师;我不想苍白空洞的说我为教育事业做了些什么，但我敢说我15 年来是一步一个脚印，以我的满腔热情无微不至地关爱我的学生。正是这份真诚的真挚的无私的深沉的爱，我教的孩子能快乐成长，我的教师生涯也充满阳光和快乐。 再多的辛苦劳累在孩子们纯真的笑容之下烟消云散，无影无踪!我喜欢这样一首小诗：“有一首歌最为动人，那就是师德，有一种人生最为美丽，那就是教师，有一种风景最为隽永，那就是师魂，不要说我们一无所有，我们拥有同一颗火热的太阳，我们拥有同一片广博的天空，在同一片天空下，我们用爱撒播着希望……”当初,我把它工工整整地抄在我日记本扉页上的时候，“用爱撒播希望，用真诚对待学生”便成了我无言的承诺。
一句很简单的话语，真的能够影响一个人的一生吗?回答是肯定的。因为它包含着浓浓的师爱。马尔克姆·戴尔凯夫是一位职业作家。小时候是个很胆小害羞的孩子，没有信心，没有朋友。但是，老师布劳斯太太的一句评语彻底改变了他的人生。在一次作文中，老师给他的评语他永远都忘不了——“写得很好!”这句话极大地鼓舞了他的自信，让他看到了自己的潜力，找到了自己前进的方向!从此，他开始了自己成功而又充实的一生，并且也热情的鼓舞自己身边的同事、朋友。“在我读到这四个字之前，我一直不知道我自己是谁，也不知道将来我能做什么，”戴尔凯夫说，“直到读了布劳斯太太的评语，我才找到了信心。那天回到家后，我又写了一则小故事，这是我一直梦想着去做却不相信自己能做到的事情。”之后，在读书的业余时间，他又写了许多小故事，每一次他都把自己的作品带到学校，交给布劳斯太太。而布劳斯老师对这些稚嫩的作品则给予了鼓舞人心的、严肃而又真诚的评价。“她所做的一切恰恰是当时的我所需要的。”戴尔凯夫说。
精神的力量是无穷的!虽然没有人能左右我们的命运，但是老师、朋友的一句重要的话语有时就如同人生的一颗启明星，温暖我们心灵的港湾，照亮我们前行的路程。优秀的教师就是一团火，一座丰碑。能给人以示范，给人以热情，给人以动力!
我自己也遇到过很多鼓励我的老师和朋友。小时候，我转学到一个陌生的学校，特别自卑，但是班主任刘老师给了我热情的帮助和真诚的关心，经常鼓励我，说我是个听话的好学生，是个很用功的学生，是个很有潜力的学生。就是在我中考之前没有信心的时候也鼓励我：“哀兵必胜!你会成功的!”结果我不负众望，考了全校第一的优异成绩!还有很多家长朋友，都给我很多的鼓励和很高的评价!“你是个优秀的老师!”“你有一颗真诚的爱心!”“我的孩子放在你的班里很放心!”我听了真的非常欣慰和自豪!记得有人曾说过：“我曾想做一个伟人，但没有成功;后来我又想做伟人的妻子，业已失败;现在我想通了，我要做伟人的老师。” 看着孩子们一拨一拨在涓涓细流的浇灌下健康成长，我由衷感受到为人师表的幸福，感受到真诚无价的甜蜜。
所以我在和孩子们相处中，更多的是他们以热情的鼓励和殷切地期望!表扬他们的优点，赞美他们的闪光之处，用美好的语言激励他们，用***的故事启发他们，快乐洋溢在孩子们的脸上，幸福荡漾在他们的心头!
我曾经讲过丽娜的故事，丽娜是个一生下来就裂唇的可怜的孩子!她肯定：除了家里人，没有人会爱她。二年级时，丽娜进了老师伦纳德夫人的班级。老师长得很美，每一个孩子都喜欢她、尊敬她。但丽娜觉得没有一个人比她更爱伦纳德夫人。因为这里有个不一般的缘故——低年级同学每年都有一次耳语测试：孩子们依次走到教室门边，用右手捂着右耳，然后老师在讲台上轻轻说一句话，再由那个孩子把话复述一遍。可丽娜的左耳先天失聪，几乎听不见任何声音。她不愿把这事说出来，以免被人嘲笑。早在幼儿园时，丽娜就发现没人注意你是否真正捂住耳朵，而只注意你重复的话对不对，所以，每次测验时，丽娜都假装用手捂住了耳朵。这次同往常一样，丽娜又是最后一个。她心想：老师会说什么呢?以前，老师一般会说“天是蓝色的”或者“你有没有一双新鞋”等。
终于轮到丽娜了。她把左耳对着伦纳德老师，同时，用右手紧紧捂住了右耳，然后，悄悄抬起一点，这样就足以听清老师的话了。她静静地等待着，然后，伦纳德老师说了一句话，这句话仿佛是一束温暖的阳光直射她的心田，抚慰了她那颗受伤的心，这句话改变了她对人生的看法。这位美丽而亲切的老师轻轻地说：“我希望你是我女儿!”
这短短的一句话，给了一个常受嘲弄的残疾儿童以震撼内心的巨大的欢乐和生活的勇气，丽娜从此不再孤独，不再自卑;因为她知道自己最爱的老师也爱自己!乌申斯基说：“教师是人的范例，对于学生的心灵是任何东西都不能代替的最有用的阳光。”
每一个孩子都是祖国的希望，民族的未来。对每一个孩子我们都应该耐心、细心。对于每一个孩子我们都应对他们充满希望，真诚地爱着他们，把他们当作是自己的女儿或者儿子，把浓浓的师爱化作每一个孩子心中最美的云彩，一定会有更多的奇迹和惊喜。人生因为事业才显示生命价值。我没有慷慨激昂的豪言壮语，我将继续的在自己的岗位上，分分秒秒地珍惜宝贵的时间，真真切切地爱着所有的学生，踏踏实实地做着该做的工作，这，就是我的*凡人生*凡路。套用奥斯特洛夫斯基的一句名言作为我的结束语——一个好老师的生命是应当这样渡过的：当他回首往事时，不因碌碌无为而悔恨，也不因误人子弟而羞愧。这样，在临死的时候，他就能骄傲地说：我把整个的生命和全部的精力献给了孩子。
谢谢大家!
各位老师、各位同学：
大家早上好！
今天我演讲的题目是：让生活因“感恩”而绽放光彩在汉文化中，“感恩”一词源于晋代文豪潘岳的《关中》一诗“观遂虎奋，感恩输力”，后来亦取“感恩戴德”之意。由此可见，“感恩图报”历来就是中华民族的传统美德。
众所周知的古语：“施人慎勿念，受施慎勿忘”、“投我以桃，报之以李”、“滴水之恩，当涌泉相报”、“谁言寸草心，报得三春晖”等等，说的正是一种知遇之恩、养育之恩、提携之恩与救命之恩。而儒家文化的“仁义礼智信，温良恭俭让”其实也包含着感恩的情结，这些良好的道德文化，传承了千年，也熏陶了人类千年。
然而，在当今这个科技与经济突飞猛进的朝代，“感恩”却被一些人渐渐淡忘了。据报载，深圳著名歌手丛飞无偿捐出300万元，用来资助178个贫困学生，可是当他自己病重住院时，那么多受他资助的学生竟无一人去看望他，更不用说助他一臂之力了。
北京保安员冯志飞为救一落水女子而被河水吞噬，面对逝去的恩人生命，获救女子竟反问道：“谁让他救我的？”救了19条人命的重庆开县农民金有树，他救的人中，有的不但不感恩，反而还说救人者是为了得奖金，等等。这一件件令人心寒的事实，这种人性的缺失与人生价值观的扭曲，对一个有着五千年文明史的国度来说，无疑是一种悲哀与不幸！这不禁引发了我们深深的思考……“感恩”的内涵到底是什么？“感恩”是知晓“送人玫瑰，手留余香”蕴含的处世哲学；“感恩”是领悟“只有心怀感恩，才能滋润生命”的人生真谛；感恩是一缕春风，能将枯板败草装点得生机盎然；感恩是一杯香茗，能使品尝的人精神焕发；感恩是一剂良药，能把紧张的人际关系调节得宽松和谐。
鸟有反哺之义，羊有跪乳之恩，人更应有感恩之情。那么，我们应该怎样感恩呢？朋友，其实感恩很简单——吃饭时，“一粥一饭，当思来之不易”；穿衣时，“半丝半缕，恒念物力维艰”。
幸福时，感恩朋友；快乐时，感恩痛苦；坚强时，感恩泪水；成功时，感恩失败，即使生命临终依然感谢上苍赐予生命！感恩生命，因为那是造物的传奇；感恩世界，因为世界给予我们衣食住行；感恩伤害我们的人，因为通过他们，我们懂得珍惜生命中那些美好的东西。先哲说，世上最大的悲剧与不幸就是一个人大言不惭地说：“世上没人给过我任何东西，没有人为我做过一件事。
”这种漠视恩义的人，他们无法做到把忠心献给祖国，把爱心洒向社会，把关心送给他人，把孝心带回家中。我们作为时代的骄子，肩负着建设祖国的重任，不仅要有知识的武装，更要时刻怀揣一颗感恩之心。
“感恩”不一定非要大恩大德，“感恩”有时也可以是一种生活态度，一种发现美好并欣赏美的道德情操。在生活中，我们应当怀着一颗“感恩”的心，善于发现事物的美好，感受*凡中的美丽，那样，我们就能以坦荡的心境、开阔的胸怀、青春的激情来应对生活中的酸甜苦辣，让原本*淡的生活绽放出迷人的光彩！我的演讲完了，谢谢大家！
尊敬的各位领导，亲爱的老师：
大家好！坦白地说，在我听到这次演讲的主题的时候，我实在找不到更为确切的词语来概括我今天的演讲，我忽然想到有这样的一首歌，任静付笛生唱的，题目叫《你是幸福的，我是快乐的》，于是，我想，我身为教师追求什么呢？追求这样的一个境界吧，那就是：我亲爱的学生，你是快乐的，我就幸福了！
在前一次训练的作文里，我让学生用创新思维写一篇作文，有一位学生写了一篇题为《十八岁的天空也有乌云密布》，我看了，感触很深，这位学生在他的文章里淋漓尽致地抒写“青春，也不美丽”这一观点。青春，本来是人人赞颂的，但是，这个学生反其意而写之，认为，青春有太多的无奈。有太多不尽如人意的缺撼！观点独到，新颖又不失文采，我把它作为一篇范文在全班同学面前念，学生们报以热烈的掌声，认为这篇文章写出了他们的心声！
前几天，我在自己任教的两个班，作了这样的一个问卷调查，我让学生写写自己每天快乐与否、快乐的原因和不快乐的原因。问卷收上来以后，我内心受到了很大的震动！大约有百分之八十的学生说他们不快乐，不快乐的原因很多，但让我感到惊异的是：学生在写不快乐的原因里面，大都把成绩不理想带来的不快乐放到最后讲。，而他们不快乐的原因，更多的是来自他们对人际关系的困惑。对复杂社会的惊惧，对家庭父母的不满，对自己的不自信，还有很多的学生认为不快乐的原因是来自老师！
不可否认，我们的学生随着年龄的增长，学*逐渐变得被动和沮丧。每个年龄阶段的学生都有其特殊性，我们承认其存在着独特性和差异性，但是，无论是多么大的孩子，他们都有一个共同的特点，就是他们需要尊重、理解、信任、欣赏、唤醒和激励。试问，我们老师在学生成长的历程中，都能给予他们这些吗？全部给予了吗？每位老师都能给予吗？持之以恒了吗？不离不弃了吗？没有，很多老师包括我在内没有做到。过去不太想这个问题，也不曾做到，现在也做得不太好，未来，我，不知道。每位老师的个性、学识、特长都有不同，处理问题的方式和*惯也不同，所以学生只能从少数几位老师，或是少数几堂课中去得到这些他们想要的东西。到了高年级，学生已被“教育”所“同化”，由此，被动沮丧的情绪充斥着学生的学*生活。学*，将不再是快乐的了。
在现实中，我们经常会发现这样一些现象：有的老师的课，学生非常喜欢，但是考不出高分；有的老师上课，学生很难受，可是考的分就是高，不服不行！
如何让学生学得开心的同时，又考得分高？如何做到开心教学的同时又教得有效？这是每个教师，必须作出的现实选择。也是我们面临的挑战！
当然了，学校教育只不过是青少年受影响的一个方面。随着社会的进步和开放，青少年从广泛的社会中汲取了大量知识和行为*惯。当中有先进于现行教育理念的部分，也有一些颓废的恶*。因此，教师们作为一个相对落后思想体系的维护者必定会遭遇到来自学生的阻力。而学生所受到的坏的影响又在教师的教育中产生极大的困难。所以，我们不免陷入到一定的思想矛盾之中。
应该说，教师的职位并不*凡了，时代把我们推到风口浪尖。要当一个混口饭吃的庸师也许都不太容易了，当一个永远有责任心和爱心的老师就更难了。我认为，要把快乐还给学生，我们老师唯一能做的，就是不断提高自己的素养。
第一，就是文化底蕴。简单的说就是学识的修养与人格的修养。
第二，就是对教育的一个理想与信念的问题。因为教育是一个基于心灵的行为，而不是一个简单的操作性行为，不是去模仿什么一招一式，它是要发自内心的。因为只有是你自己很确信的东西，是你自己内心世界流露出来的东西，你才能够打动人，才有感召力、感染力。
第三，就是教学的智慧，教学的技艺。而后两者都只能在深厚的文化底蕴的基础上生长出来。没有任何一门课程可以直截了当的教给教师这个教学的智慧。
我也呼唤，我们的社会需要重视快乐的价值！给老师一个宽松的环境，让老师们在愉快的氛围中快乐地工作，身心快乐起来！把快乐的因子传递给可爱的学生。不再为有限的继续教育的机会而伤神，不再为局促的生活而奔波，让老师们不再为繁琐的无聊的形式的教条的政策而忙碌！
在我步入教坛的这几年里，我曾无数次地在心里扣问自己：我是一个能让学生感到快乐的教师吗？我一次次地问，我一次次地想，一次次地否定自己，又一次次地让自己成长！面对一张张稚嫩的忧郁的可爱的茫然的学生的脸，我只能说，亲爱的学生，你是快乐的，我就幸福了！
汪国真有首诗叫热爱生命，我把它改了改，作为今天的结束语
我不去想是否能够成功
既然选择了远方
便只顾风雨兼程
我不去想能否赢得事业的辉煌
既然钟情于教育
就勇敢地吐露真诚
我不去想身后会不会袭来寒风冷雨
既然目标是地*线
留给世界的只能是背影
我不去想未来是*坦还是泥泞
只要热爱教育事业
一切，都在意料之中
谢谢！
——1分钟英语演讲稿(精选5篇)
The City Mouse and the Country Mouse
Once there were two mice. They were friends. One mouse lived in the country; the other mouse lived in the city. After many years the Country mouse saw the City mouse; he said, "Do come and see me at my house in the country." So the City mouse went. The City mouse said, "This food is not good, and your house is not good. Why do you live in a hole in the field? You should come and live in the city. You would live in a nice house made of stone. You would have nice food to eat. You must come and see me at my house in the city."
The Country mouse went to the house of the City mouse. It was a very good house. Nice food was set ready for them to eat. But just as they began to eat they heard a great noise. The City mouse cried, " Run! Run! The cat is coming!" They ran away quickly and hid.
After some time they came out. When they came out, the Country mouse said, "I do not like living in the city. I like living in my hole in the field. For it is nicer to be poor and happy, than to be rich and afraid."
this morning i went to the market to buy some vegetables with my parents. on the way we all highly praised a young man in western-style clothes and leather shoes who was riding by. but he rode so fast that he knocked an old lady down carelessly.instead of stopping, he pretended not to see this and rode away quickly. we were all very angry with the young man. to our happiness, a girl in plain dress ran forward at once, helped the lady up and took her home. we all praised the girl.
from this we know we cannot judge a person by his appearance. a person who is dressed beautifully may not have a beautiful soul. only a person who has a beautiful soul is really beautiful.
1分钟英语演讲稿 [篇2]
Hello, everyone
I’d like to ask you to point out your favorite country if here is a map. Maybe you will choose the United States for the freedom; maybe you will choose French for the romantic. I’d like to say that these are nice countries for traveling. But there is one country in the bottom of my heart, and I will be proud of her forever, that’s China---my motherland!
Our great motherland is one of the largest countries in the world. It has a population of over thirteen hundred million. Beijing is its capital.
It’s needless to say that China has a long history.Now China is a strong and developing country. Facts have proved that China is a powerful, invincible. If anyone asked, we will proudly say that I am Chinese.I am proud of you-----China.
I am a primary school student now; I know that all of us are the future of our nation. So, what we need to do is to study hard step by step, listen carefully in the class and do homework everyday so that we can dedicate ourselves to our nation when we grown up! That’s my speech! Thank you for listening.
Hi everybody.
Beauty usually refers to what appeals to the eye. A nice and well built girl is regarded as beautiful. A bunch of vigorous flowers are also considered as beautiful. A splendid waterfall ing down from a mountain is as well looked on as beautiful.
Beauty also refers to what appeals to the mind. The virtue of the Chinese nation-industry and bravery are taken as beautiful，because it helped to produce such a magnificent culture in the world. Einstein's theory of relativity is also perceived as beautiful，for it explains many natural phenomena so perfectly.
Beauty is around us. If you keep an eye or pay some attention，it is never difficult to find something beautiful somewhere about you. Wonderful natural spots，historical relics，fine arts，splendid buildings，and kind people are just a few inches away.
thank you.
老猫
一位老妇有只猫，这只猫很老，它跑不快了，也咬不了东西，因为它年纪太大了。一天，老猫发现一只老鼠，它跳过去抓这只老鼠，然而，它咬不住这只老鼠。因此，老鼠从它的嘴边溜掉了，因为老猫咬不了它。
于是，老妇很生气，因为老猫没有把老鼠咬死。她开始打这只猫，猫说：“不要打你的老仆人，我已经为你服务了很多年，而且还愿意为你效劳，但是，我实在太老了，对年纪大的不要这么无情，要记住老年人在年青时所做过的有益的事情。”
A man was going to the house of some rich person. As he went along the road, he saw a box of good apples at the side of the road. He said, "I do not want to eat those apples; for the rich man will give me much food; he will give me very nice food to eat." Then he took the apples and threw them away into the dust.
He went on and came to a river. The river had become very big; so he could not go over it. He waited for some time; then he said, "I cannot go to the rich man's house today, for I cannot get over the river."
He began to go home. He had eaten no food that day. He began to want food. He came to the apples, and he was glad to take them out of the dust and eat them.
Do not throw good things away; you may be glad to have them at some other time.
Life is important to anyone in the what the life mean is not clear to anyone on the earth.
What is the meaning of life?Someone thinks that life is working and think that they don't need to know anything outside the field of their specializations,so they don't care about many things such as sports,entertainment,music...
Life is more than course working is important to our life,because it supports oppotunity to get money,and make our life ver,working is not enough to a human in today's society,he or she should know much more knowledge than his or her own knowledge outside one's specialization can help him or her build up the moral sense.
The meaning of life is difficult to one can give the clear identification of the life is not meaning of life is to anyone in the world is ready to devote,the life of the world will be more beautiful.
——家风故事五分钟演讲稿合集5篇
尊敬的老师们，亲爱的同学们：
大家好！
我演讲的题目是良好家风，从我做起。
中华民族是礼仪之邦，受悠久的儒家文化熏陶，形成了我们仁义、宽厚的个性和忠诚国家、孝敬父母的观念。扬中华优秀传统美德、良好家教家风，注重自身修养，注意行为举止，以身作则，言传身教，培育与传承良好家风从我做起。优良的家风，可以使个人获得进入社会的基本品质，在道德观念上进行自我约束，尤其对于弘扬和践行社会主义核心价值观、促进社会和谐稳定、树立道德自信、实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦，具有独特作用。
家风简单地说就是一个家庭多年构成的为人处世的风尚，或叫家规、家风、精神、品格等，包括家庭成员的为人处事的态度和行动准则。构建良好的家风最重要的是家长或家庭的主要成员的思想、观念、态度、行动的认识和体现；其次，是家庭的规则，家庭规则虽然大多数没有文字记载和要求，但身教、口传的传统美的教育非常关键；最后有着良好传统家风的家庭，在中国自古到今最重视的是子女的教育，良好的教育，培养良好的素养，构成良好的思惟方式、处世原则、行动规范，从而代代相传，代有提高，家庭的文化，良好的家风。
家庭教育是孩子成长过程的基础性教育，良好的家风是未成年人成长的基石。家风是人们在家庭生活中形成的一种稳定的风格、作风和传统，包括为人处事的态度和行为准则。家风是一种潜在无形的力量，在日常的生活中潜移默化地影响着孩子的心灵，塑造我们的人格，是一种无言的教育、无字的典籍、无声的力量，是最基本、最直接、最经常的教育，它对我们的影响是全方位的。
记得小时候，我背着书包去读书，爸妈交代的就是：要听老师的话，不要和同学打架，别人的东西不能拿。他们还告诉我在外边碰到长辈一定要叫人，小一点的叫哥哥、姐姐；大一点叫叔叔、阿姨，老一点的叫爷爷、奶奶等。礼貌、友爱、诚实是爸妈教育的主要内容，也是家风的一个体现吧。
好的家风就是一所好学校。在*时的学校教育中，家风体现在孩子的言行之中，我们经常说的一句话就是这个孩子有家教，那个孩子没家教。家教也是一个家风的体现，它是通过孩子的言行表现出来了。家庭教育良好的家庭，孩子的行为*惯作为学校是不大需要操心的，因为家长在*时的一言一行中已经帮学校教育好了。家风不仅是一些道德教育、礼貌教育、规矩教育，更是对我们的一种规范、一种风气、一种文化，好家风就是一所好学校。
如何更好地培育良好的家风家教，应该特别注意从以下几方面着手：重视优秀传统思想文化资源的发掘和转化。应把家风家教看成一种重要的文化遗产加以保护和发掘，在全国逐步建立起家风家教的文化研究体系；发挥各类先进家庭典型的引领示范作用。开展文明家庭、和谐家庭、学*型家庭等创建活动，结合城乡文明建设带动家风培育；抓好培育公民德行和**、家长教育。以家风家教弘扬社会主义核心价值观，重点要放在培育与现代社会相适应的公民道德上；建立家风家教宣传的长效、联动机制。要运用各种方式，多方配合，建立相应的切实有效制度。树立良好家风要与妇女素质提升相结合。良好家风是人成长进步的起点。树立良好家风要与家庭教育工作相结合。优良的家庭教育孕育着优秀的子子孙孙。回顾历史上曾经辉煌一时的家庭，他们的家风各有千秋：岳母为儿刺字“精忠报国”，“忠”为岳家之家风；林则徐勤俭持家，“俭”为林家之家风；曾国藩以为“勤”为人生第一要义，“勤”为曾家之家风。优良的家风形成，往往是通过创立者的.建立，和几代甚至数代人的不懈努力，践行而形成的，通过父传子，子传孙，子子孙孙相互濡染的家庭教育氛围，在生活的点滴之中不断地践行，形成一种无言、无声的教诲，最为直观、最为直接、最为基本、最为经常的家庭教育，在一代又一代的践行过程中，铸就了家庭言传身教的典范，铸就一代又一代的英才。家风是一个家庭或家族最为重要的、无以替代的精神财富；它弥漫于整个家庭或家族之中，影响到每一个家庭成员，惠泽于家庭的成员；家风也是一个家庭或家族的魂魄之所在，支撑着家庭的进步与发展。
只有把的良好风气融入到每个家庭的血脉中，不断地规范做人做事的思维和方法，良好家风才能坚实并历经风雨传承下来。只有让良好风气与千家万户共同价值追求相互融合、互为依托、共生共长，才能在全社会激发出崇德向善的正能量。
对于我来说，我家的家风就是“学会做人”。这里讲的“学会做人”指的是在道德品行做好，不是说要做到最好，但在一般情况下，我都以此来告诫我自己。在为人处事方面，对别人要做到宽容、和善、认真地对待；在生活上，我会做到细心，对每件事都坚持认真地去处理；在道德方面，我时常提醒自己绝不做任何破坏、违反社会规则的事情，我会尽力地做好道德上的小事情，从身边的小事情做起，不要做得最好，但我会尽自己最大的努力去对待它们。
正是有了良好的家风，我才成了一个合格的家庭成员。有时，我所学到的家风，是从父母的身上借鉴而来的。我觉得在此方面，父母对我的影响是极为重要的。一些好的家风就会养成一些优秀的品质，正是有了这样良好的家风，我们才能更好地成长。家风如细雨，润物细无声。每一位成年人都要把握好自己的言行，为子女的成长营造良好的家风。因为只有正当的家风，才能给未成年人创造良好的成长环境，良好的家风是孩子终身的财富。
尊敬的各级领导、老师们、同学们：
大家好！
今天是市里发起的“弘扬中华美德，传承良好家风”活动在我校举行。作为学校的一员，我感到十分荣幸。
现在，家风是人们长议论的话题之一。其实，对家庭成员而言，有什么样的家风，就会有什么样的处世态度。孝敬父母，关爱父母，就是一种最重要的家风。好的家风在人们的成长过程中起着别的东西不可替代的作用，是某种品德和力量的源泉。就是说，做儿女的，在好家风的熏陶下，从而成就自己的一生。大学生章某成活在一个三世同堂的家庭，祖孙三代人过着*静和睦的生活。这个家庭从没有和邻居发生过争吵。奶奶是个勤快人，每天早早起床，拿着大扫帚把整个大院打扫得干干净净。章某从小跟着奶奶，奶奶还专门给他也准备了把小扫帚，让她跟在后面比画，还告诉她：“人的.双手是个宝，勤劳可以创造一切。”幼小的章某虽然听不懂那些大道理，但她爱劳动，并从劳动中获得了快乐。妈妈每次带章某去公园都要带上一个塑料袋，把吃剩的果皮、糖纸装进去再扔进垃圾桶。章某到现在也有随手带着塑料袋的*惯，把没用的废弃物装进去，放到垃圾桶里。章某的父亲虽然没有接受过高等教育，但他热爱读书，他节余下来的钱几乎都买了书，并经常写读书笔记。在父亲的影响下，章某从小也爱看书，从上小学起就坚持写日记，现在已经在报刊杂志发表了十几篇__。和睦、*静、温馨、严谨的家风为章某的成长奠定了良好的基石。
所以，每一个人都要把握好自的言行，良好的家风是孩子终身的财富。这样才能弘扬中华美德，传承良好家风。
各位老师，同学们：
大家好!
今天我演讲的题目是《读书与生活》。
众所周知，书是人类进步的阶梯。书在我们的生活中扮演着一个极其重要的角色。之所以说它重要，是因为它无时无刻不存在于我们的身边，充斥在我们的周围，并且每个人都在学知识，用知识 。
但是，有些人却不知道读书到底是为了什么。我觉得读书的好处之一就是调整心态。不管生活中我们遇到怎样的大喜大悲，都能保持一个*和冷静的心态，做好充分的思想准备去面对它。高兴地时候，不要得意忘形；失意的时候，不要过分悲伤，倘若不能避免伤心，就自己想办法疏通。
高尔基说：书籍使我变成了一个幸福的人。闲暇的时候，我们也不妨读一读书。通过读书，我们从书体会到博爱，感受到真情；我们从书中认识到历史的更替，社会的变革；我们从书中学会思考，提出有价值的问题，学会成长。
世纪老人冰心说过：读书好，好读书，读好书。这是一句至理名言。读一本好书，就是和一个智者交谈，可以使人心灵充实，使人明辨是非。
毕淑敏也说过，书不是胭脂，却会使人心颜常驻。书不是棍棒，却会使人铿锵有力。书不是羽毛，却会使人飞翔。书不是万能的，却会使人千变万化。
书是我们最忠诚的伙伴，所谓：走遍天下书为侣。时光会不断流逝，读书却让我们增长知识。难道你不想增长知识吗？如果你愿意，请你拿起对我们人生有意义的书，走进书的世界，畅游知识的海洋吧，它会让你充满思想，充满智慧，进而改变命运，改变人生，更能让我们找回那些真正属于我们的自信！
谢谢大家，发言完毕！
敬爱的老师，亲爱的同学们：
大家好！
我今天演讲的主题是：良好家风助我成长。
家庭教育是孩子成长过程的基础性教育，良好的家风是我们健康成长的基石。
家风是人们在家庭生活中形成的一种稳定的风格、作风和传统，包括为人处事的态度和行为准则。家风是一种潜在无形的力量，在日常的生活中潜移默化地影响着孩子的心灵，塑造我们的人格，是一种无言的教育、无字的典籍、无声的力量，是最基本、最直接、最经常的教育，它对我们的影响是全方位的。
父母亲在日常生活中*惯性的言谈举止营造了特定的家风，我们在这种特定家风的熏陶下，会经过耳闻目睹接受影响。这其中，“模仿”起着重要的作用。
我家的家风就是百善孝为先，自从我懂事起，爷爷就教我读《三字经》、《百家姓》，“人之初，性本善……”爷爷在教我读的时候，也告诉我其中蕴含的道理。记得有一次，爷爷告诉我：“‘百行孝为先’这句话说的是，我们做人要懂得尊敬长辈，对长辈要尽孝道，一个人对自己的父母不孝，这种人也不能指望他去爱别人。”正因为如此，每当家里吃饭的时候，我们总是把好的东西留给爷爷奶奶吃。有一次，我生病了，妈妈帮我炖了条鱼，还煮了个鸡蛋，我把东西端到爷爷房里，爷爷抚摸我的头，“乖孙，你生病了，这个还是你吃，给你身子补营养。”我回答：“爷爷，我壮得很，没事。”那时，我看到爷爷眼里有一丝泪水。
正是有了良好的家风，我才成了一个合格的家庭成员。有时，我所学到的家风，是从父母的身上借鉴而来的。我觉得在此方面，父母对我的影响是极为重要的。一些好的家风就会养成一些优秀的品质，正是有了这样良好的家风，我们才能更好地成长。
家风如细雨，润物细无声。只有正当的家风，才能给让我们健康成长。我希望我家的家风家训能够世世代代传承下去，让我们的的民族越来越强大，让我们的国家越来越昌盛！
谢谢大家！
家风家训就在父母的言行里，它充满正能量。记得小时候，我背着书包去读书，爸妈交代的就是：要听老师的话，不要和同学打架，别人的东西不能拿。他们还告诉我在外边碰到长辈一定要叫人，小一点的叫哥哥、姐姐；大一点叫叔叔、阿姨，老一点的叫爷爷、奶奶等。礼貌、友爱、诚实是爸妈教育的主要内容，也是家风的一个体现吧。记得有一次和同学打架，老师告诉了爸妈，爸妈一个劲的赔不是，还让老师尽量管我，不乖就打。所以如果在外面我被欺负，一般情况下我不敢跟家里人说，因为一说，爸妈都会马上责备我：“一个巴掌拍不响，你肯定也惹人家了！”出了问题，首先要从自身找原因——这对我的影响确实很大！
*民百姓家的家风大多充满正能量，是要把孩子培养成好人、老实人，诚实做人，老实做事，还要尊敬长辈。教育我们做一个出淤泥而不染的“莲”。
好的家风就是一所好学校。现实在*时的学校教育中，家风体现在孩子的言行之中，我们经常说的一句话就是这个孩子有家教，那个孩子没家教。家教也是一个家风的体现，它是通过孩子的言行表现出来了。大凡家庭教育良好的家庭，孩子的行为*惯作为学校是不大需要操心的，因为家长在*时的一言一行中已经帮学校教育好了。当然也有一些家庭教育，家风不怎么的家庭，表现在孩子也是很难管理和教育的对象。有的时候甚至家长也拿他没有办法。家风虽然是一些道德教育、礼貌教育、规矩教育，它就是对我们的一种规范、一种风气、一种文化，好家风就是一所好学校。
家风教育是践行社会主义核心价值观的有效手段。“培育好的‘家风’，也是践行社会主义核心价值观的有效手段。”“家风”不仅是一种规范、一种风气、一种文化，也是主流道德价值观大众化最有效、最简洁的途径。“对于一个小学生来说，社会主义核心价值观可能还难以真正的理解和领会，但通过挖掘学生‘家风’中的优良因素，将核心价值观融入其中，可以让每一位学生通过耳濡目染，学*和传承社会主义核心价值观的内涵精髓。”
学校有责任有义务为家风传承做贡献。“家风是一种无言的教育，它在潜移默化中影响孩子的心灵，塑造孩子的人格。学校可以把家风教育与推进社会主义核心价值观融合起来，融入中小学教育全过程、各方面，发挥家庭教育在学生成长中的重要作用。
教育局将组织各校开展说说我家家风”、“家风故事”、“我理想的家风”、“家风助我成长”、“父母教会我”等为内容的主题活动，开展“好家风、好家训”征文比赛与演讲比赛。要求各校组织开展“好家风、好家训”家庭教育大课堂活动。传承中华民族传统美德，弘扬社会正能量，也使家长们更加注重自身修养的提升，
通过活动要让学生知晓家风家训，围绕传承好家训、培育好家风、共筑“中国梦”，切实加强家校联系，强化“感恩父母，对父母负责”的意识”，为孩子的健康成长营造了良好的家庭环境。
——英语三分钟对话演讲稿（精选5篇）
Good afternoon ，ladies and gentlemen!I’m very honored to stand here and give you a short speech! my topic is Opportunities and Challenges.First, I would like to know, what does your destiny offer you? Happiness, wisdom, a strong body or something else. If I had asked this question to president Nixon, he would probably had said,”Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.”Needless to say, one of the biggest opportunities given to China is the 2008 Olympic Games. Till now, we have used two sevenths of the preparation time. How much changes have you seen? New roads, new subway lines, public-exercising equipments with beautiful colors, large blocks of grass fields, and also lots of modern gyms which are under construction.Other than those, there are even more good effects brought to us by the Olympic Games that cannot be seen directly. For example, more and more people will get to know China. I’m sure the mysterious Chinese culture will attract them strongly. And the games will also do good to the economy and environment, for it is gaining the attention of foreign investors and the awareness of environmental protection is being strengthened. What is more, Olympic Games give a unique opportunity to inspire and educate a new generation of Chinese youth with the Olympic values and the Olympic spirit. Now that we have seen so many advances, could you even imagine us losing the holding rights?I’ve already said a lot about the Olympics and China. But I think everyone should use some time to think of this question, ”Does the Olympic Games have any special meaning to you?”For us, I mean the Chinese youth, 2008 Olympic Games is a tremendous gift. Because what we are waiting for is to do something significant as repaying the love given to us .The society is just like a ship, and in our dreams the captain is waving his hand and saying ”Hey! Come here and take the helm! ”How charming his voice is, but we have never heard of it in our true life. This morning, however, when we wake up, we will see the Olympic Games waving its hand. After chewing, most of us will have at least one plan about what to do for the Olympic Games. And mine is to be a “comforter” ----that is someone who will give comfort to others.At the end of my speech, I hope all the preparation will go well, and everyone will show their ability to the world. Let us seize opportunities and give a big smile to challenges.
most people would like to be popular with others, but not everyone can achieve this goal. what is the secret to popularity? in fact, it is very simple. the first step is to improve our appearance. we should always make sure that we stay in good shape and dress well.
when we are healthy and well-groomed, we will not only look better but also feel better. in addition, we should smile and appear friendly. after all, our facial expression is an important part of our appearance. if we can do this, people will be attracted to our good looks and impressed by our confidence.
another important step is developing more consideration for others. we should always put others first and place their interests before our own. its also important to be good listeners; in this way people will feel comfortable enough to confide in us. however, no matter what we do, we must not gossip.
above all, we must remember to be ourselves, not phonies. only by being sincere and respectful of others can we earn their respect. if we can do all of the above, i am sure popularity will come our way.
Xiao Ling is on her way to the dormitory. She drops a book and Yani and Songtao who happen to be right behind her, pick up the book and give it back to her.
Y: Excuse me, is this your book?
X: Thank you so much.
Y: You are welcome. Are you a new admit?
X: yes. I just came to register yesterday. My name is Xiao ling. Nice to meet you.
Y: My name is Yani. Nice to meet you, too. This is my friend since childhood, Songtao.
S: hi! We both came from xxx.
X: really? I am from there too. We are all town fellows aren’t we?. It’s such a small world.
Y: absolutely. We both majored in computer science. What’s yours?
X: accounting. I don’t really like it. But my parents said this school offers excellent accounting programs and it will be easier for me to get a job later on.
S: I picked my own major because I know what I want. I just like computers a lot. I would like to be a computer programmer in the future.
Y: Well, I don’t know wether I really like it or not. I just follow Songtao where he goes.
X: I feel bad for those students who make it to the top but had to quit school because of short of money.
S: My parents paid some of my tution and I said to myself that I want to be somebody. But no matter how much I do, I will never be able to repay parents for what they do for me.
X: yeah. I agree with you.
S: look. The boys are playing basketball now. I will join them. See you !
X: let’s keep in touch, ok?
Y: ok. Here is my cell phone number.
X: this is mine. I am so glad to meet you. Take care!
Y and S: bye!
Good afternoon, everyone!The topic of my speech today is “Being a Good Listener”.Good listening can always show respect, promote understanding, and improve interpersonal relationship.Many people suggest that parents should listen more to their children, so they will understand them better, and find it easy to narrow the generation gap; teachers should listen more to their students, then they can meet their needs better, and place themselves in a good relationship with their students; students should listen more to their classmates, thus they will help and learn from each other, and a friendship is likely to be formed.What I want to stress is that each of us should listen more to others. Show your respect and never stop others till they finish their talk; show you are interested by a supportive silence or a knowing smile; be open-minded to different opinions even though you don’t like them. In a word, good listening can really enable us to get closer to each other.Thank you for your listening!
We've all been taught that we should help people. It is the right thing to do and will make us popular with others. It may even win us favors in return. However, we must be realistic. We can't say yes to every request. If we did, we would fail or go crazy for sure. Sometimes we sim*** don't have the time to help. In this case, we must know how to say no politely.
When we need to say no, here is one method we can try. First, we should tell the truth. If we really can't do something, we should just say so. Second, we should remember to refuse requests politely. We must communicate clearly, but must also be sincere and sympathetic. A true friend will understand. Finally, we must not feel guilty about saying no. Sometimes refusing others is the right thing to do. It can save ourselves, and them, a lot of trouble. In short, we cannot please everyone all the time. Refusing favors is a part of life.
——TED5分钟英语演讲稿（精选5篇）
People returning to work after a career break: I call them relaunchers. These are people who have taken career breaks for elder care, for childcare reasons, pursuing a personal interest or a personal health issue. Closely related are career transitioners of all kinds: veterans, military spouses, retirees coming out of retirement or repatriating expats. Returning to work after a career break is hard because of a disconnect between the employers and the relaunchers. Employers can view hiring people with a gap on their resume as a high-risk proposition, and individuals on career break can have doubts about their abilities to relaunch their careers, especially if they've been out for a long time. This disconnect is a problem that I'm trying to help solve.
有些人经过离职长假之后 重新投入到工作中来， 我称他们为“再从业者”。 这些人选择休离职长假， 有些是要照顾老人， 有些是要照顾孩子， 也有些是追求个人爱好， 或是健康因素。 各行各业转业的人 都与之紧密相关： 退伍军人、军嫂， 退休返聘的人， 或遣返回国者。 离职长假后重返工作 是非常困难的， 因为雇主和再从业者之间 有了隔阂。 雇主们认为，雇佣这些 简历上工作时间不连贯的人 是风险极高的决策， 而正在离职长假中的人 可能对自己再从业的能力产生疑虑， 特别是那些离职时间较长者。 两者间的缺乏联系 是我在尝试解决的问题。
Now, successful relaunchers are everywhere and in every field. This is Sami Kafala. He's a nuclear physicist in the UK who took a five-year career break to be home with his five children. The Singapore press recently wrote about nurses returning to work after long career breaks. And speaking of long career breaks, this is Mimi Kahn. She's a social worker in Orange County, California, who returned to work in a social services organization after a 25-year career break. That's the longest career break that I'm aware of. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor took a five-year career break early in her career.
如今，我们在各行各业 都能见到成功的再从业者。 这位是萨米·科法拉， 他是英国的一位核物理学家， 因为要在家照顾五个孩子 而度过了五年的离职长假。 新加坡的媒体最*发表了文章， 内容是有关离职长假后再从业的护士。 提到长时间的离职假期， 这位是米米·卡恩, 她是加州奥兰治县的一位社工， 她在度过20xx年的离职长假后 回到了一个社会服务组织工作。 这是据我所知最长的离职假期。 最高法院法官桑德拉·戴·奥康纳， 在其职业生涯早期 度过了五年离职长假。
And this is Tracy Shapiro, who took a 13-year career break. Tracy answered a call for essays by the Today Show from people who were trying to return to work but having a difficult time of it. Tracy wrote in that she was a mom of five who loved her time at home, but she had gone through a divorce and needed to return to work, plus she really wanted to bring work back into her life because she loved working. Tracy was doing what so many of us do when we feel like we've put in a good day in the job search. She was looking for a finance or accounting role, and she had just spent the last nine months very diligently researching companies online and ap***ing for jobs with no results.
这位是特蕾西·莎碧罗， 她度过了20xx年的离职长假。 特蕾西答复了从“今日秀”节目观众中 征集到的问题， 他们想要重返工作， 却发现很难做到。 特蕾西写道：自己是五个孩子的母亲， 也很享受居家的时间， 但是她历经了一次离婚， 并且急需回到工作状态， 另外，她很想把工作 带回她的生活中， 因为她也很享受工作。 特蕾西也曾做过 我们很多人所做的事， 每天不停的搜寻合适的工作。 她找过财经、会计领域的职位， 她在那之前花掉了九个月时间， 很努力地调查网上的公司， 然后投放简历，却一无所获。
I met Tracy in June of 20xx, when the Today Show asked me if I could work with her to see if I could help her turn things around. The first thing I told Tracy was she had to get out of the house. I told her she had to go public with her job search and tell everyone she knew about her interest in returning to work. I also told her, "You are going to have a lot of conversations that don't go anywhere. Expect that, and don't be discouraged by it. There will be a handful that ultimately lead to a job opportunity."
我在20xx年六月见到了特蕾西， 那时“今日秀”节目 问我可否与她合作， 看我能不能帮她走出困境。 我告诉特蕾西的第一件事， 就是她必须走出家门。 我告诉她，她必须 公开自己求职的想法， 然后告诉她认识的所有人， 自己再从业的强烈意愿。 我还告诉她， “有很多你参与的对话 是对你完全没有帮助的。 你要做好心理准备， 别因为那些而灰心丧气。 找到工作机会之前， 确实要经历很多琐事。”
I'll tell you what happened with Tracy in a little bit, but I want to share with you a discovery that I made when I was returning to work after my own career break of 11 years out of the full-time workforce. And that is, that people's view of you is frozen in time. What I mean by this is, when you start to get in touch with people and you get back in touch with those people from the past, the people with whom you worked or went to school, they are going to remember you as you were before your career break. And that's even if your sense of self has diminished over time, as happens with so many of us the farther removed we are from our professional identities. So for example, you might think of yourself as someone who looks like this. This is me, crazy after a day of driving around in my minivan. Or here I am in the kitchen. But those people from the past, they don't know about any of this. They only remember you as you were, and it's a great confidence boost to be back in touch with these people and hear their enthusiasm about your interest in returning to work.
我稍后再告诉你们 特蕾西是如何处理的， 我想先跟大家分享 我的一个发现， 那时我刚刚回到工作中， 结束了自己离开全职工作大军 20xx年的长假。 这个发现就是， 人们对你的印象凝固在过去。 我的意思是， 当你再次开始与人打交道， 与曾经合作过的人重新接触， 例如跟你一起上学、工作过的人， 他们对你的印象是 离职长假之前的你。 我们的自我意识 随着时间推移逐渐淡化， 我们很多人都会这样， 我们距离我们的职业身份 也就越来越远。 举个例子， 你可能把你自己看成这样。 这就是我，开了一天小面包车， 整个人感觉很疯狂。 这是我在厨房里的样子。 但是从前的那些人， 他们对这些一无所知。 他们只记得你曾经的样子， 当你重新与这些人沟通时， 真是大大的增强了自信心， 而且他们对你有再从业的兴趣 感到非常的开心。
There's one more thing I remember vividly from my own career break. And that was that I hardly kept up with the business news. My background is in finance, and I hardly kept up with any news when I was home caring for my four young children. So I was afraid I'd go into an interview and start talking about a company that didn't exist anymore. So I had to resubscribe to the Wall Street Journal and read it for a good six months cover to cover before I felt like I had a handle on what was going on in the business world again.
我还清晰地记得发生在 我离职长假中的一件事。 那时我几乎完全不关注经济新闻。 我曾是财经行业出身， 然而我在家照顾四个孩子时， 我几乎不关注任何的新闻。 所以我很害怕， 自己去参加面试的时候， 会讲到一个不复存在的公司。 所以我重新订阅了华尔街日报， 然后连续看了六个月， 之后我才觉得自己对经济 又有了点解了。
I believe relaunchers are a gem of the workforce, and here's why. Think about our life stage: for those of us who took career breaks for childcare reasons, we have fewer or no maternity leaves. We did that already. We have fewer spousal or partner job relocations. We're in a more settled time of life. We have great work experience. We have a more mature perspective. We're not trying to find ourselves at an employer's expense. Plus we have an energy, an enthusiasm about returning to work precisely because we've been away from it for a while.
我相信再从业者是 劳动大军中的精英， 原因如下。 想想我们人生的阶段： 对于那些因为要照顾孩子 而休离职假期的人， 大都没有产假，或是产假很短。 我们早就做过这些了。 我们离婚率较低， 也很少因伴侣而调整工作。 我们的生活更稳定。 我们有很棒的工作经历， 更成熟的眼光， 我们不会成为雇主的牺牲品。 此外，我们有一种能量 - 重返岗位的热情， 正是因为我们离职一段时间了。 另外，我也跟雇主讨论，
On the flip side, I speak with employers, and here are two concerns that employers have about hiring relaunchers.
以下是雇主们 关于雇佣再从业者的两个担忧。
The first one is, employers are worried that relaunchers are technologically obsolete. Now, I can tell you, having been technologically obsolete myself at one point, that it's a temporary condition. I had done my financial ***ysis so long ago that I used Lotus 1-2-3. I don't know if anyone can even remember back that far, but I had to relearn it on Excel. It actually wasn't that hard. A lot of the commands are the same. I found PowerPoint much more challenging, but now I use PowerPoint all the time. I tell relaunchers that employers expect them to come to the table with a working knowledge of basic office management software. And if they're not up to speed, then it's their responsibility to get there. And they do.
其一，雇主担心这些再从业者 技术方面比较落后。 我可以告诉各位， 虽然有段时间我自己技术确实落后， 但那只是暂时的。 很早以前我用“莲花123”软件 来做财经分析， 我不知道有没有人还记得 那么早以前的事了， 这些技能我得在 Excel上重新拾起。 其实这并并非难事， 很多的操作指令是一样的。 我发现PowerPoint更具挑战性， 但现在我对PowerPoint驾轻就熟。 我告诉再从业者们， 雇主希望找工作的人 对基本的办公管理软件 有实践经验。 如果他们操作速度不够快， 那他们就必须变得更高效。 而他们确实做得到。
The second area of concern that employers have about relaunchers is they're worried that relaunchers don't know what they want to do. I tell relaunchers that they need to do the hard work to figure out whether their interests and skills have changed or have not changed while they have been on career break. That's not the employer's job. It's the relauncher's responsibility to demonstrate to the employer where they can add the most value.
雇主对再从业者的第二种忧虑， 就是他们担心再从业者 不清楚他们想要做什么。 我告诉再从业者， 他们必须仔细研究， 了解自己的爱好或者技能 在离职长假的过程中 是否发生了变化。 这不是雇主的职责。 这个是再从业者的责任， 把自己展现给雇主， 来充分展示自己可创造的价值。
Back in 20xx I started noticing something. I had been tracking return to work programs since 20xx, and in 20xx, I started noticing the use of a short-term paid work opportunity, whether it was called an internship or not, but an internship-like experience, as a way for professionals to return to work. I saw Goldman Sachs and Sara Lee start corporate reentry internship programs. I saw a returning engineer, a nontraditional reentry candidate, ap*** for an entry-level internship program in the military, and then get a permanent job afterward. I saw two universities integrate internships into mid-career executive education programs.
20xx年，我开始注意到一件事。 我从20xx年开始追踪 人们重返岗位的情况， 然而在20xx年，我开始注意到， 一种短期、带薪的工作机会开始出现， 不论它是不是名叫“实*”， 但总之是一个很像实*的经历， 这为重回岗位的专业人士 开辟了一条道路。 我看到高盛和莎莉集团 都开始了此类 二次从业的实*项目。 我看到一个再从业的工程师， 算是不太传统的再从业人士， 申请了一个 军方的初级实*项目， 后来他获得了一个永久的工作。 我看到两所大学 将实*项目整合到 职业中期管理学教育项目中。
So I wrote a report about what I was seeing, and it became this article for Harvard Business Review called "The 40-Year-Old Intern." I have to thank the editors there for that title, and also for this artwork where you can see the 40-year-old intern in the midst of all the college interns. And then, courtesy of Fox Business News, they called the concept "The 50-Year-Old Intern."
于是，就我所观察到的现象， 我写了一篇报告， 后来它发表在了 《哈佛商业评论》中， 名字叫《40岁的实*生》。 我必须得感谢编者拟的标题， 还有这个很棒的配图， 你们可以看到那个40岁的实*生 出现在一群大学实*生中。 后来，还得感谢福克斯商业新闻， 他们把这个概念称为 “50岁的实*生”。
So five of the biggest financial services companies have reentry internship programs for returning finance professionals. And at this point, hundreds of people have participated. These internships are paid, and the people who move on to permanent roles are commanding competitive salaries. And now, seven of the biggest engineering companies are piloting reentry internship programs for returning engineers as part of an initiative with the Society of Women Engineers. Now, why are companies embracing the reentry internship? Because the internship allows the employer to base their hiring decision on an actual work sample instead of a series of interviews, and the employer does not have to make that permanent hiring decision until the internship period is over. This testing out period removes the perceived risk that some managers attach to hiring relaunchers, and they are attracting excellent candidates who are turning into great hires.
五家最大的金融服务公司 都设立了再从业实*项目， 专为重回岗位的金融精英。 截至目前，数百人参与了这些项目。 这些实*项目是带薪的， 而且那些晋升到永久岗位的人， 都有极具竞争力的薪资。 现在，七家最大的工程公司， 也在推行再从业实*项目， 来帮助重返岗位的工程师， 这也是女性工程师协会 新方案的一部分。 那么，为什么这些企业 大力支持再从业实*呢? 因为这种实*可以让雇主 基于参与者实际工作成效 来做出雇佣决策， 而非一系列的面试， 而且雇主不必在实*结束之前 就做出永久雇佣的决定。 这段试验期消除了一定的风险， 这关乎某些经理人 对雇佣再从业者的担忧， 同时，这也吸引了大量再从业人士， 他们成为了出色的雇佣对象。
Think about how far we have come. Before this, most employers were not interested in engaging with relaunchers at all. But now, not only are programs being developed specifically with relaunchers in mind, but you can't even ap*** for these programs unless you have a gap on your resume.
各位,想一想我们取得的进步， 在此之前，大多数雇主 根本没兴趣与再从业者打交道。 然而现在，有许多项目在开展实施， 特别是针对再从业者的项目， 如果简历上没有一段空档期， 你根本不能申请这些项目。
This is the mark of real change, of true institutional shift, because if we can solve this problem for relaunchers, we can solve it for other career transitioners too. In fact, an employer just told me that their veterans return to work program is based on their reentry internship program. And there's no reason why there can't be a retiree internship program. Different pool, same concept.
这标志着一种实质变化， 一种真正的制度变革， 因为如果我们可以 为再从业者解决这个问题， 我们亦可为其他的职业转型者 解决同样的问题。 事实上，一位雇主刚刚告诉我， 他们的“退伍军人再从业项目”， 就是基于他们的再从业实*项目。 我们也没有理由不去设立 一个“退休人士实*项目”。 不同的对象，相同的概念。
So let me tell you what happened with Tracy Shapiro. Remember that she had to tell everyone she knew about her interest in returning to work. Well, one critical conversation with another parent in her community led to a job offer for Tracy, and it was an accounting job in a finance department. But it was a temp job. The company told her there was a possibility it could turn into something more, but no guarantees. This was in the fall of 20xx. Tracy loved this company, and she loved the people and the office was less than 10 minutes from her house. So even though she had a second job offer at another company for a permanent full-time role, she decided to take her chances with this internship and hope for the best. Well, she ended up blowing away all of their expectations, and the company not only made her a permanent offer at the beginning of 20xx, but they made it even more interesting and challenging, because they knew what Tracy could handle.
让我告诉你们特蕾西·莎碧罗 最后发生了什么。 各位回想一下， 她必须告诉她认识的每一个人， 自己对重返工作岗位很有兴趣。 结果，她与自己社区里的长辈 进行了一次关键的谈话， 这让她找到了一份工作邀请。 那是一个金融部门的会计工作。 但那是临时的。 公司告诉她， 有可能有岗位晋升的机会， 但是不能保证。 那是20xx年的秋天。 特蕾西很爱那个公司， 而且她喜欢那里的员工， 从办公室去她家只需10分钟。 所以即使她后来得到了 第二份工作邀请， 来自另一家公司， 而且有永久、全职的保证， 她决定在这份实*项目中冒冒险， 尽人事，听天命。 最后，她的业绩 远远超出了所有人的期望值， 公司不但提供了她永久岗位， 那是在20xx年初， 而且他们还让她的工作 更加有趣、有挑战性， 因为他们知道特蕾西可以办得到。
Fast forward to 20xx, Tracy's been promoted. They've paid for her to get her MBA at night. She's even hired another relauncher to work for her. Tracy's temp job was a tryout, just like an internship, and it ended up being a win for both Tracy and her employer.
时间快进到20xx年， 特蕾西获得了晋升。 公司为她的夜校工商管理课程买单。 她甚至雇佣了 另一位再从业者为她工作。 特蕾西的临时工作像是一个试验， 就像实*项目， 而最终，特蕾西和她的雇主 达到了双赢局面。
Now, my goal is to bring the reentry internship concept to more and more employers. But in the meantime, if you are returning to work after a career break, don't hesitate to suggest an internship or an internship-like arrangement to an employer that does not have a formal reentry internship program. Be their first success story, and you can be the example for more relaunchers to come.
我的目标是将这种 再从业实*的概念 推荐给越来越多的雇主。 但是与此同时， 如果你在离职长假后重返岗位， 别犹豫向雇主提议设立实*项目， 或者类似实*项目的想法， 特别是那些没有 正式的再从业实*项目的公司。 争当他们的第一个成功故事， 而你们都可以成为 未来更多再从业者的楷模。
Thank you.
谢谢大家。
do you think it's possible to control someone's attention? even more than that, what about predicting human behavior? i think those are interesting ideas, if you could. i mean, for me, that would be the perfect superpower, actually kind of an evil way of approaching it. but for myself, in the past, i've spent the last 20 years studying human behavior from a rather unorthodox way: picking pockets. when we think of misdirection, we think of something as looking off to the side, when actually it's often the things that are right in front of us that are the hardest things to see, the things that you look at every day that you're blinded to.
for example, how many of you still have your cell phones on you right now? great. double-check. make sure you still have them on you. i was doing some shopping beforehand. now you've looked at them probably a few times today, but i'm going to ask you a question about them. without looking at your cell phone directly yet, can you remember the icon in the bottom right corner? bring them out, check, and see how accurate you were. how'd you do? show of hands. did we get it?
now that you're done looking at those, close them down, because every phone has something in common. no matter how you organize the icons, you still have a clock on the front. so, without looking at your phone, what time was it? you just looked at your clock, right? it's an interesting idea. now, i'll ask you to take that a step further with a game of trust. close your eyes. i realize i'm asking you to do that while you just heard there's a pickpocket in the room, but close your eyes.
now, you've been watching me for about 30 seconds. with your eyes closed, what am i wearing? make your best guess. what color is my shirt? what color is my tie? now open your eyes. by a show of hands, were you right?
it's interesting, isn't it? some of us are a little bit more perceptive than others. it seems that way. but i have a different theory about that, that model of attention. they have fancy models of attention, posner's trinity model of attention. for me, i like to think of it very simple, like a surveillance system. it's kind of like you have all these fancy sensors, and inside your brain is a little security guard. for me, i like to call him frank. so frank is sitting at a desk. he's got all sorts of cool information in front of him, high-tech equipment, he's got cameras, he's got a little phone that he can pick up, listen to the ears, all these senses, all these perceptions. but attention is what steers your perceptions, is what controls your reality. it's the gateway to the mind. if you don't attend to something, you can't be aware of it. but ironically, you can attend to something without being aware of it. that's why there's the cocktail effect: when you're in a party, you're having conversations with someone, and yet you can recognize your name and you didn't even realize you were listening to that.
now, for my job, i have to play with techniques to exploit this, to play with your attention as a limited resource. so if i could control how you spend your attention, if i could maybe steal your attention through a distraction. now, instead of doing it like misdirection and throwing it off to the side, instead, what i choose to focus on is frank, to be able to play with the frank inside your head, your little security guard, and get you, instead of focusing on your external senses, just to go internal for a second. so if i ask you to access a memory, like, what is that? what just happened? do you have a wallet? do you have an american express in your wallet? and when i do that, your frank turns around. he accesses the file. he has to rewind the tape. and what's interesting is, he can't rewind the tape at the same time that he's trying to process new data.
now, i mean, this sounds like a good theory, but i could talk for a long time and tell you lots of things, and they may be true, a portion of them, but i think it's better if i tried to show that to you here live. so if i come down, i'm going to do a little bit of shopping. just hold still where you are.
hello, how are you? it's lovely to see you. you did a wonderful job onstage. you have a lovely watch that doesn't come off very well. do you have your ring as well? good. just taking inventory. you're like a buffet. it's hard to tell where to start, there's so many great things.
hi, how are you? good to see you.
hi, sir, could you stand up for me, please? just right where you are. oh, you're married. you follow directions well. that's nice to meet you, sir. you don't have a whole lot inside your pockets. anything down by the pocket over here? hopefully so. have a seat. there you go. you're doing well.
hi, sir, how are you? good to see you, sir. you have a ring, a watch. do you have a wallet on you? joe: i don't. apollo robbins: well, we'll find one for you. come on up this way, joe. give joe a round of applause. come on up joe. let's play a game.
(applause)
pardon me.
i don't think i need this clicker anymore. you can have that. thank you very much. i appreciate that.
come on up to the stage, joe. let's play a little game now. do you have anything in your front pockets? joe: money. ar: money. all right, let's try that. can you stand right over this way for me? turn around and, let's see, if i give you something that belongs to me, this is just something i have, a poker chip. hold out your hand for me. watch it kind of closely. now this is a task for you to focus on. now you have your money in your front pocket here? joe: yup. ar: good. i'm not going to actually put my hand in your pocket. i'm not ready for that kind of commitment. one time a guy had a hole in his pocket, and that was rather traumatizing for me. i was looking for his wallet and he gave me his phone number. it was a big miscommunication.
so let's do this sim***. squeeze your hand. squeeze it tight. do you feel the poker chip in your hand? joe: i do. ar: would you be surprised if i could take it out of your hand? say yes. joe: very. ar: good. open your hand. thank you very much. i'll cheat if you give me a chance. make it harder for me. just use your hand. grab my wrist, but squeeze, squeeze firm. did you see it go? joe: no. ar: no, it's not here. open your hand. see, while we're focused on the hand, it's sitting on your shoulder right now. go ahead and take it off. now, let's try that again. hold your hand out flat. open it up all the way. put your hand up a little bit higher, but watch it close there, joe. see, if i did it slowly, it'd be back on your shoulder. (laughter) joe, we're going to keep doing this till you catch it. you're going to get it eventually. i have faith in you. squeeze firm. you're human, you're not slow. it's back on your shoulder. you were focused on your hand. that's why you were distracted. while you were watching this, i couldn't quite get your watch off. it was difficult. yet you had something inside your front pocket. do you remember what it was? joe: money. ar: check your pocket. see if it's still there. is it still there? (laughter) oh, that's where it was. go ahead and put it away. we're just shopping. this trick's more about the timing, really. i'm going to try to push it inside your hand. put your other hand on top for me, would you? it's amazingly obvious now, isn't it? it looks a lot like the watch i was wearing, doesn't it?
(laughter) (applause)
joe: that's pretty good. that's pretty good. ar: oh, thanks. but it's only a start. let's try it again, a little bit differently. hold your hands together. put your other hand on top. now if you're watching this little token, this obviously has become a little target. it's like a red herring. if we watch this kind of close, it looks like it goes away. it's not back on your shoulder. it falls out of the air, lands right back in the hand. did you see it go? yeah, it's funny. we've got a little guy. he's union. he works up there all day. if i did it slowly, if it goes straightaway, it lands down by your pocket. i believe is it in this pocket, sir? no, don't reach in your pocket. that's a different show. so -- (squeaking noise) -- that's rather strange. they have shots for that. can i show them what that is? that's rather bizarre. is this yours, sir? i have no idea how that works. we'll just send that over there.
that's great. i need help with this one. step over this way for me. now don't run away. you had something down by your pants pocket. i was checking mine. i couldn't find everything, but i noticed you had something here. can i feel the outside of your pocket for a moment? down here i noticed this. is this something of yours, sir? is this? i have no idea. that's a shrimp.
joe: yeah. i'm saving it for later.
ar: you've entertained all of these people in a wonderful way, better than you know. so we'd love to give you this lovely watch as a gift. (laughter) hopefully it matches his taste. but also, we have a couple of other things, a little bit of cash, and then we have a few other things. these all belong to you, along with a big round of applause from all your friends. (applause)
oe, thank you very much.
(applause)
so, same question i asked you before, but this time you don't have to close your eyes. what am i wearing?
(laughter)
(applause)
attention is a powerful thing. like i said, it shapes your reality. so, i guess i'd like to pose that question to you. if you could control somebody's attention, what would you do with it?
thank you.
What I'd like to do today is talk about one of my favorite subjects, and that is the neuroscience of sleep.
Now, there is a sound -- (Alarm clock) -- aah, it worked -- a sound that is desperately, desperately familiar to most of us, and of course it's the sound of the alarm clock. And what that truly ghastly, awful sound does is stop the single most important behavioral experience that we have, and that's sleep. If you're an average sort of person, 36 percent of your life will be spent asleep, which means that if you live to 90, then 32 years will have been spent entirely asleep.
Now what that 32 years is telling us is that sleep at some level is important. And yet, for most of us, we don't give sleep a second thought. We throw it away. We really just don't think about sleep. And so what I'd like to do today is change your views, change your ideas and your thoughts about sleep. And the journey that I want to take you on, we need to start by going back in time.
"Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber." Any ideas who said that? Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Yes, let me give you a few more quotes. "O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee?" Shakespeare again, from -- I won't say it -- the Scottish play. [Correction: Henry IV, Part 2] (Laughter) From the same time: "Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together." Extremely prophetic, by Thomas Dekker, another Elizabethan dramatist.
But if we jump forward 400 years, the tone about sleep changes somewhat. This is from Thomas Edison, from the beginning of the 20th century. "Sleep is a criminal waste of time and a heritage from our cave days." Bang. (Laughter) And if we also jump into the 1980s, some of you may remember that Margaret Thatcher was reported to have said, "Sleep is for wimps." And of course the infamous -- what was his name? -- the infamous Gordon Gekko from "Wall Street" said, "Money never sleeps."
What do we do in the 20th century about sleep? Well, of course, we use Thomas Edison's light bulb to invade the night, and we occupied the dark, and in the process of this occupation, we've treated sleep as an illness, almost. We've treated it as an enemy. At most now, I suppose, we tolerate the need for sleep, and at worst perhaps many of us think of sleep as an illness that needs some sort of a cure. And our ignorance about sleep is really quite profound.
Why is it? Why do we abandon sleep in our thoughts? Well, it's because you don't do anything much while you're asleep, it seems. You don't eat. You don't drink. And you don't have sex. Well, most of us anyway. And so therefore it's -- Sorry. It's a complete waste of time, right? Wrong. Actually, sleep is an incredibly important part of our biology, and neuroscientists are beginning to explain why it's so very important. So let's move to the brain.
Now, here we have a brain. This is donated by a social scientist, and they said they didn't know what it was, or indeed how to use it, so -- (Laughter) Sorry. So I borrowed it. I don't think they noticed. Okay. (Laughter)
The point I'm trying to make is that when you're asleep, this thing doesn't shut down. In fact, some areas of the brain are actually more active during the sleep state than during the wake state. The other thing that's really important about sleep is that it doesn't arise from a single structure within the brain, but is to some extent a network property, and if we flip the brain on its back -- I love this little bit of spinal cord here -- this bit here is the hypothalamus, and right under there is a whole raft of interesting structures, not least the biological clock. The biological clock tells us when it's good to be up, when it's good to be asleep, and what that structure does is interact with a whole raft of other areas within the hypothalamus, the lateral hypothalamus, the ventrolateral preoptic nuclei. All of those combine, and they send projections down to the brain stem here. The brain stem then projects forward and bathes the cortex, this wonderfully wrinkly bit over here, with neurotransmitters that keep us awake and essentially provide us with our consciousness. So sleep arises from a whole raft of different interactions within the brain, and essentially, sleep is turned on and off as a result of a range of
Okay. So where have we got to? We've said that sleep is complicated and it takes 32 years of our life. But what I haven't explained is what sleep is about. So why do we sleep? And it won't surprise any of you that, of course, the scientists, we don't have a consensus. There are dozens of different ideas about why we sleep, and I'm going to outline three of those.
The first is sort of the restoration idea, and it's somewhat intuitive. Essentially, all the stuff we've burned up during the day, we restore, we replace, we rebuild during the night. And indeed, as an explanation, it goes back to Aristotle, so that's, what, 2,300 years ago. It's gone in and out of fashion. It's fashionable at the moment because what's been shown is that within the brain, a whole raft of genes have been shown to be turned on only during sleep, and those genes are associated with restoration and metabolic pathways. So there's good evidence for the whole restoration hypothesis.
What about energy conservation? Again, perhaps intuitive. You essentially sleep to save calories. Now, when you do the sums, though, it doesn't really pan out. If you compare an individual who has slept at night, or stayed awake and hasn't moved very much, the energy saving of sleeping is about 110 calories a night. Now, that's the equivalent of a hot dog bun. Now, I would say that a hot dog bun is kind of a meager return for such a complicated and demanding behavior as sleep. So I'm less convinced by the energy conservation idea.
But the third idea I'm quite attracted to, which is brain processing and memory consolidation. What we know is that, if after you've tried to learn a task, and you sleep-deprive individuals, the ability to learn that task is smashed. It's really hugely attenuated. So sleep and memory consolidation is also very important. However, it's not just the laying down of memory and recalling it. What's turned out to be really exciting is that our ability to come up with novel solutions to complex problems is hugely enhanced by a night of sleep. In fact, it's been estimated to give us a threefold advantage. Sleeping at night enhances our creativity. And what seems to be going on is that, in the brain, those neural connections that are important, those synaptic connections that are important, are linked and strengthened, while those that are less important tend to fade away and be less important.
Okay. So we've had three explanations for why we might sleep, and I think the important thing to realize is that the details will vary, and it's probable we sleep for multiple different reasons. But sleep is not an indulgence. It's not some sort of thing that we can take on board rather casually. I think that sleep was once likened to an upgrade from economy to business class, you know, the equiavlent of. It's not even an upgrade from economy to first class. The critical thing to realize is that if you don't sleep, you don't fly. Essentially, you never get there, and what's extraordinary about much of our society these days is that we are desperately sleep-deprived.
So let's now look at sleep deprivation. Huge sectors of society are sleep-deprived, and let's look at our sleep-o-meter. So in the 1950s, good data suggests that most of us were getting around about eight hours of sleep a night. Nowadays, we sleep one and a half to two hours less every night, so we're in the six-and-a-half-hours-every-night league. For teenagers, it's worse, much worse. They need nine hours for full brain performance, and many of them, on a school night, are only getting five hours of sleep. It's sim*** not enough. If we think about other sectors of society, the aged, if you are aged, then your ability to sleep in a single block is somewhat disrupted, and many sleep, again, less than five hours a night. Shift work. Shift work is extraordinary, perhaps 20 percent of the working population, and the body clock does not shift to the demands of working at night. It's locked onto the same light-dark cycle as the rest of us. So when the poor old shift worker is going home to try and sleep during the day, desperately tired, the body clock is saying, "Wake up. This is the time to be awake." So the quality of sleep that you get as a night shift worker is usually very poor, again in that sort of five-hour region. And then, of course, tens of millions of people suffer from jet lag. So who here has jet lag? Well, my goodness gracious. Well, thank you very much indeed for not falling asleep, because that's what your brain is craving.
One of the things that the brain does is indulge in micro-sleeps, this involuntary falling asleep, and you have essentially no control over it. Now, micro-sleeps can be sort of somewhat embarrassing, but they can also be deadly. It's been estimated that 31 percent of drivers will fall asleep at the wheel at least once in their life, and in the U.S., the statistics are pretty good: 100,000 accidents on the freeway have been associated with tiredness, loss of vigilance, and falling asleep. A hundred thousand a year. It's extraordinary. At another level of terror, we dip into the tragic accidents at Chernobyl and indeed the space shuttle Challenger, which was so tragically lost. And in the investigations that followed those disasters, poor judgment as a result of extended shift work and loss of vigilance and tiredness was attributed to a big chunk of those disasters.
So when you're tired, and you lack sleep, you have poor memory, you have poor creativity, you have increased impulsiveness, and you have overall poor judgment. But my friends, it's so much worse than that.
(Laughter)
If you are a tired brain, the brain is craving things to wake it up. So drugs, stimulants. Caffeine represents the stimulant of choice across much of the Western world. Much of the day is fueled by caffeine, and if you're a really naughty tired brain, nicotine. And of course, you're fueling the waking state with these stimulants, and then of course it gets to 11 o'clock at night, and the brain says to itself, "Ah, well actually, I need to be asleep fairly shortly. What do we do about that when I'm feeling completely wired?" Well, of course, you then resort to alcohol. Now alcohol, short-term, you know, once or twice, to use to mildly sedate you, can be very useful. It can actually ease the sleep transition. But what you must be so aware of is that alcohol doesn't provide sleep, a biological mimic for sleep. It sedates you. So it actually harms some of the neural proccessing that's going on during memory consolidation and memory recall. So it's a short-term acute measure, but for goodness sake, don't become addicted to alcohol as a way of getting to sleep every night.
Another connection between loss of sleep is weight gain. If you sleep around about five hours or less every night, then you have a 50 percent likelihood of being obese. What's the connection here? Well, sleep loss seems to give rise to the release of the hormone ghrelin, the hunger hormone. Ghrelin is released. It gets to the brain. The brain says, "I need carbohydrates," and what it does is seek out carbohydrates and particularly sugars. So there's a link between tiredness and the metabolic predisposition for weight gain.
Stress. Tired people are massively stressed. And one of the things of stress, of course, is loss of memory, which is what I sort of just then had a little lapse of. But stress is so much more. So if you're acutely stressed, not a great problem, but it's sustained stress associated with sleep loss that's the problem. So sustained stress leads to suppressed immunity, and so tired people tend to have higher rates of overall infection, and there's some very good studies showing that shift workers, for example, have higher rates of cancer. Increased levels of stress throw glucose into the circulation. Glucose becomes a dominant part of the vasculature and essentially you become glucose intolerant. Therefore, diabetes 2. Stress increases cardiovascular disease as a result of raising blood pressure. So there's a whole raft of things associated with sleep loss that are more than just a mildly impaired brain, which is where I think most people think that sleep loss resides.
So at this point in the talk, this is a nice time to think, well, do you think on the whole I'm getting enough sleep? So a quick show of hands. Who feels that they're getting enough sleep here? Oh. Well, that's pretty impressive. Good. We'll talk more about that later, about what are your tips.
So most of us, of course, ask the question, "Well, how do I know whether I'm getting enough sleep?" Well, it's not rocket science. If you need an alarm clock to get you out of bed in the morning, if you are taking a long time to get up, if you need lots of stimulants, if you're grumpy, if you're irritable, if you're told by your work colleagues that you're looking tired and irritable, chances are you are sleep-deprived. Listen to them. Listen to yourself.
What do you do? Well -- and this is slightly offensive -- sleep for dummies: Make your bedroom a haven for sleep. The first critical thing is make it as dark as you possibly can, and also make it slightly cool. Very important. Actually, reduce your amount of light exposure at least half an hour before you go to bed. Light increases levels of alertness and will delay sleep. What's the last thing that most of us do before we go to bed? We stand in a massively lit bathroom looking into the mirror cleaning our teeth. It's the worst thing we can possibly do before we went to sleep. Turn off those mobile phones. Turn off those computers. Turn off all of those things that are also going to excite the brain. Try not to drink caffeine too late in the day, ideally not after lunch. Now, we've set about reducing light exposure before you go to bed, but light exposure in the morning is very good at setting the biological clock to the light-dark cycle. So seek out morning light. Basically, listen to yourself. Wind down. Do those sorts of things that you know are going to ease you off into the honey-heavy dew of slumber.
Okay. That's some facts. What about some myths?
Teenagers are lazy. No. Poor things. They have a biological predisposition to go to bed late and get up late, so give them a break.
We need eight hours of sleep a night. That's an average. Some people need more. Some people need less. And what you need to do is listen to your body. Do you need that much or do you need more? Simple as that.
Old people need less sleep. Not true. The sleep demands of the aged do not go down. Essentially, sleep fragments and becomes less robust, but sleep requirements do not go down.
And the fourth myth is, early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Well that's wrong at so many different levels. (Laughter) There is no, no evidence that getting up early and going to bed early gives you more wealth at all. There's no difference in socioeconomic status. In my experience, the only difference between morning people and evening people is that those people that get up in the morning early are just horribly smug.
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Okay. So for the last part, the last few minutes, what I want to do is change gears and talk about some really new, breaking areas of neuroscience, which is the association between mental health, mental illness and sleep disruption. We've known for 130 years that in severe mental illness, there is always, always sleep disruption, but it's been largely ignored. In the 1970s, when people started to think about this again, they said, "Yes, well, of course you have sleep disruption in schizophrenia because they're on anti-psychotics. It's the anti-psychotics causing the sleep problems," ignoring the fact that for a hundred years previously, sleep disruption had been reported before anti-psychotics.
So what's going on? Lots of groups, several groups are studying conditions like depression, schizophrenia and bipolar, and what's going on in terms of sleep disruption. We have a big study which we published last year on schizophrenia, and the data were quite extraordinary. In those individuals with schizophrenia, much of the time, they were awake during the night phase and then they were asleep during the day. Other groups showed no 24-hour patterns whatsoever. Their sleep was absolutely smashed. And some had no ability to regulate their sleep by the light-dark cycle. They were getting up later and later and later and later each night. It was smashed.
So what's going on? And the really exciting news is that mental illness and sleep are not sim*** associated but they are physically linked within the brain. The neural networks that predispose you to normal sleep, give you normal sleep, and those that give you normal mental health are overlapping. And what's the evidence for that? Well, genes that have been shown to be very important in the generation of normal sleep, when mutated, when changed, also predispose individuals to mental health problems. And last year, we published a study which showed that a gene that's been linked to schizophrenia, which, when mutated, also smashes the sleep. So we have evidence of a genuine mechanistic overlap between these two important systems.
Other work flowed from these studies. The first was that sleep disruption actually precedes certain types of mental illness, and we've shown that in those young individuals who are at high risk of developing bipolar disorder, they already have a sleep abnormality prior to any clinical diagnosis of bipolar. The other bit of data was that sleep disruption may actually exacerbate, make worse the mental illness state. My colleague Dan Freeman has used a range of agents which have stabilized sleep and reduced levels of paranoia in those individuals by 50 percent.
So what have we got? We've got, in these connections, some really exciting things. In terms of the neuroscience, by understanding the neuroscience of these two systems, we're really beginning to understand how both sleep and mental illness are generated and regulated within the brain. The second area is that if we can use sleep and sleep disruption as an early warning signal, then we have the chance of going in. If we know that these individuals are vulnerable, early intervention then becomes possible. And the third, which I think is the most exciting, is that we can think of the sleep centers within the brain as a new therapeutic target. Stabilize sleep in those individuals who are vulnerable, we can certainly make them healthier, but also alleviate some of the appalling symptoms of mental illness.
So let me just finish. What I started by saying is take sleep seriously. Our attitudes toward sleep are so very different from a pre-industrial age, when we were almost wrapped in a duvet. We used to understand intuitively the importance of sleep. And this isn't some sort of crystal-waving nonsense. This is a pragmatic response to good health. If you have good sleep, it increases your concentration, attention, decision-making, creativity, social skills, health. If you get sleep, it reduces your mood changes, your stress, your levels of anger, your impulsivity, and your tendency to drink and take drugs. And we finished by saying that an understanding of the neuroscience of sleep is really informing the way we think about some of the causes of mental illness, and indeed is providing us new ways to treat these incredibly debilitating conditions.
Jim Butcher, the fantasy writer, said, "Sleep is God. Go worship." And I can only recommend that you do the same.
Thank you for your attention.
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When you are a kid, you get asked this one particular question a lot, it really gets kind of annoying. What do you want to be when you grow up? Now, adults are hoping for answers like, I want to be an astronaut or I want to be a neurosurgeon, you’re adults in your imaginations.
Kids, they’re most likely to answer with pro-skateboarder, surfer or minecraft player. I asked my little brother, and he said, seriously dude, I’m 10, I have no idea, probably a pro-skier, let’s go get some ice cream.
See, us kids are going to answer something we’re stoked on, what we think is cool, what we have experience with, and that’s typically the opposite of what adults want to hear.
But if you ask a little kid, sometimes you’ll get the best answer, something so simple, so obvious and really profound. When I grow up, I want to be happy.
For me, when I grow up, I want to continue to be happy like I am now. I’m stoked to be here at TedEx, I mean, I’ve been watching Ted videos for as long as I can remember, but I never thought I’d make it on the stage here so soon. I mean, I just became a teenager, and like most teenage boys, I spend most of my time wondering, how did my room get so messy all on its own.
Did I take a shower today? And the most perplexing of all, how do I get girls to like me? Neurosciences say that the teenage brain is pretty weird, our prefrontal cortex is underdeveloped, but we actually have more neurons than adults, which is why we can be so creative, and impulsive and moody and get bummed out.
But what bums me out is to know that, a lot of kids today are just wishing to be happy, to be healthy, to be safe, not bullied, and be loved for who they are. So it seems to me when adults say, what do you want to be when you grow up? They just assume that you’ll automatically be happy and healthy.
Well, maybe that’s not the case, go to school, go to college, get a job, get married, boom, then you’ll be happy, right? You don’t seem to make learning how to be happy and healthy a priority in our schools, it’s separate from schools. And for some kids, it doesn’t exists at all? But what if we didn’t make it separate? What if we based education on the study and practice of being happy and healthy, because that’s what it is, a practice, and a simple practice at that?
Education is important, but why is being happy and healthy not considered education, I just don’t get it. So I’ve been studying the science of being happy and healthy. It really comes down to practicing these eight things. Exercise, diet and nutrition, time in nature, contribution, service to others, relationships, recreation, relaxation and stress management, and religious or spiritual involvement, yes, got that one.
So these eight things come from Dr. Roger Walsh, he calls them Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes or TLCs for short. He is a scientist that studies how to be happy and healthy. In researching this talk, I got a chance to ask him a few questions like; do you think that our schools today are making these eight TLCs a priority? His response was no surprise, it was essentially no. But he did say that many people do try to get this kind of education outside of the traditional arena, through reading and practices such as meditation or yoga.
But what I thought was his best response was that, much of education is oriented for better or worse towards making a living rather than making a life.
In 2006, Sir Ken Robinson gave the most popular Ted talk of all time. Schools kill creativity. His message is that creativity is as important as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
A lot of parents watched those videos, some of those parents like mine counted it as one of the reasons they felt confident to pull their kids from traditional school to try something different. I realized I’m part of this small, but growing revolution of kids who are going about their education differently, and you know what? It freaks a lot of people out.
Even though I was only nine, when my parents pulled me out of the school system, I can still remember my mom being in tears when some of her friends told her she was crazy and it was a stupid idea.
Looking back, I’m thankful she didn’t cave to peer pressure, and I think she is too. So, out of the 200 million people that have watched Sir Ken Robinson’s talk, why aren’t there more kids like me out there?
Shane McConkey is my hero. I loved him because he was the world’s best skier. But then, one day I realized what I really loved about Shane, he was a hacker. Not a computer hacker, he hacked skiing. His creativity and inventions made skiing what it is today, and why I love to ski. A lot of people think of hackers as geeky computer nerds who live in their parent’s basement and spread computer viruses, but I don’t see it that way.
I'd like to share with you a discovery that I made a few months ago while writing an article for Italian Wired. I always keep my thesaurus handy whenever I'm writing anything, but I'd already finished editing the piece, and I realized that I had never once in my life looked up the word "disabled" to see what I'd find.
Let me read you the entry. "Disabled, adjective: crippled, helpless, useless, wrecked, stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated, run-down, worn-out, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile, decrepit, laid-up, done-up, done-for, done-in cracked-up, counted-out; see also hurt, useless and weak. Antonyms, healthy, strong, capable." I was reading this list out loud to a friend and at first was laughing, it was so ludicrous, but I'd just gotten past "mangled," and my voice broke, and I had to stop and collect myself from the emotional shock and impact that the assault from these words unleashed.
You know, of course, this is my raggedy old thesaurus so I'm thinking this must be an ancient print date, right? But, in fact, the print date was the early 1980s, when I would have been starting primary school and forming an understanding of myself outside the family unit and as related to the other kids and the world around me. And, needless to say, thank God I wasn't using a thesaurus back then. I mean, from this entry, it would seem that I was born into a world that perceived someone like me to have nothing positive whatsoever going for them, when in fact, today I'm celebrated for the opportunities and adventures my life has procured.
So, I immediately went to look up the 2009 online edition, expecting to find a revision worth noting. Here's the updated version of this entry. Unfortunately, it's not much better. I find the last two words under "Near Antonyms," particularly unsettling: "whole" and "wholesome."
So, it's not just about the words. It's what we believe about people when we name them with these words. It's about the values behind the words, and how we construct those values. Our language affects our thinking and how we view the world and how we view other people. In fact, many ancient societies, including the Greeks and the Romans, believed that to utter a curse verbally was so powerful, because to say the thing out loud brought it into existence. So, what reality do we want to call into existence: a person who is limited, or a person who's empowered? By casually doing something as simple as naming a person, a child, we might be putting lids and casting shadows on their power. Wouldn't we want to open doors for them instead?
One such person who opened doors for me was my childhood doctor at the A.I. duPont Institute in Wilmington, Delaware. His name was Dr. Pizzutillo, an Italian American, whose name, apparently, was too difficult for most Americans to pronounce, so he went by Dr. P. And Dr. P always wore really colorful bow ties and had the very perfect disposition to work with children.
I loved almost everything about my time spent at this hospital, with the exception of my physical therapy sessions. I had to do what seemed like innumerable repetitions of exercises with these thick, elastic bands -- different colors, you know -- to help build up my leg muscles, and I hated these bands more than anything -- I hated them, had names for them. I hated them. And, you know, I was already bargaining, as a five year-old child, with Dr. P to try to get out of doing these exercises, unsuccessfully, of course. And, one day, he came in to my session -- exhaustive and unforgiving, these sessions -- and he said to me, "Wow. Aimee, you are such a strong and powerful little girl, I think you're going to break one of those bands. When you do break it, I'm going to give you a hundred bucks."
Now, of course, this was a simple ploy on Dr. P's part to get me to do the exercises I didn't want to do before the prospect of being the richest five-year-old in the second floor ward, but what he effectively did for me was reshape an awful daily occurrence into a new and promising experience for me. And I have to wonder today to what extent his vision and his declaration of me as a strong and powerful little girl shaped my own view of myself as an inherently strong, powerful and athletic person well into the future.
This is an example of how adults in positions of power can ignite the power of a child. But, in the previous instances of those thesaurus entries, our language isn't allowing us to evolve into the reality that we would all want, the possibility of an individual to see themselves as capable. Our language hasn't caught up with the changes in our society, many of which have been brought about by technology. Certainly, from a medical standpoint, my legs, laser surgery for vision impairment, titanium knees and hip replacements for aging bodies that are allowing people to more fully engage with their abilities, and move beyond the limits that nature has imposed on them -- not to mention social networking platforms allow people to self-identify, to claim their own descriptions of themselves, so they can go align with global groups of their own choosing. So, perhaps technology is revealing more clearly to us now what has always been a truth: that everyone has something rare and powerful to offer our society, and that the human ability to adapt is our greatest asset.
