异类之不一样的成功启示录 第161期:法国乡下农民的生活

That's, at most, 1,000 hours a year of work. 那么他们每年花在工作上的时间最多不会超1000个小时。 When a Kung bushman was asked once why his people hadn't taken to agriculture, he looked puzzled and said, 当土著人被问及为什

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第166期:美丽的理解误区

Renee was in her mid-twenties, with long black hair and round glasses. 其中一名叫雷妮的女生给他留下了深刻的印象，雷妮大概20多岁，黑色长发，带一个银边眼镜。 In the tape, she is playing with a software program d

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第167期:用程序画一条同Y轴平行的直线

Renee was a nurse. She wasn't someone who had been particularly interested in mathematics in the past. 雷妮是个护士。过去，她从不像其他人那样对数学感兴趣。 But she had somehow gotten hold of the software well and was hooked.

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第168期:学习数学的秘密

She types in 80. The line steeper still, but it's not totally vertical. 她输入80，线更斜了，但是还是没有变成垂线。 Ohhh, it's infinity, isn't it? It's never going to get there. 数值是无穷大是吗？我永远都划不出一条垂

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第169期:怎样解决问题

Schoenfeld once asked a group of high school students how long they would work on a homework question before they concluded that it was too hard for them ever to solve. 肖恩菲尔德曾经问一组高中生，在他们做家庭作业时，在下定结

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第170期:成功就是坚持不懈地钻研

If, on the other hand, you start working the day I give you the midterm, you'll be frustrated. 或者，另一方面，如果你只是在我们期中考试那天才开始复习，那么你一定会感到很失落。 You'll come to me and say, 'It's i

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第171期:工作态度与数学能力

Now, here is the interesting part. As it turns out, the average number of items answered on the TIMMS questionnaire varies from country to country. 从问卷结果来看，国家间的差异很大，这是个有趣的现象。 It is possible, in fact

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第172期:玛丽塔的契约

So, which places are at the top of both lists? The answer shouldn't surprise you. 那么哪几个国家或地区将会出现在这两个数据的前几位呢？ Singapore, South Korea, China (Taiwan), Hong Kong, and Japan. 没有任何悬念，他们分

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第173期:KIPP学校

KIPP seems like the kind of school in the kind of neighborhood with the kind of students that would make educators despair KIPP学校就是在这样的一个地区里，由这样的孩子组成的学校，而这样的学校会让教育工作者绝望。

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第174期:教育与精神错乱的关系

There are now more than fifty KIPP schools across the United States, with more on the way. 现在美国已经有50多家KIPP学校，但按照这种趋势发展，将来还会有更多家。 The KIPP program represents one of those promising new educ

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第176期:补救透支危机的方法

But in western agriculture, the opposite is true. Unless the field is that left fallow every few years, the soil becomes exhausted. Every winter, fields are empty. 但是在西方的农作习惯中，情况刚好相反。每隔几年土地就得闲置一

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第177期:贫富学生的差距

The first graders from the wealthiest homes have a 32-point advantage over the first graders from the poorest homes, and by the way, first graders from poor homes in Baltimore are really poor. 来自富裕家庭的一年级学生以32分的优势高于

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第178期:富孩子胜过穷孩子的所有优势

Let's start with school-year gains. That is how many points students' test score's rise from the time they started classes in September to the time they stopped in June. 让我们从学校这一年所获得的分数开始。下面表格中的数据显示

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第179期:穷孩子的业余生活

Think back to Alex Williams, the nine-year-old whom Annette Lareau studied. 我们回头再看亚力克斯威廉姆斯，这个安妮特拉里奥研究的9岁孩子， His parents believe in concerted cultivation. He gets taken to museums and gets en

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第180期:假期是个问题

But think back to that second settled statistics that showed what happened between September and June. Schools work. 回头看看第二个表格，显示的是9月到6月之间产生的差距。 The only problem with school, for the kids who aren't a

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第175期:充足的休息有利于学生

Similarly, the pioneer of public education in Massachusetts, Horace Mann, 相似的是，马萨诸塞州的公共教育倡导者霍勒斯曼相信， believed that working students too hard would create a most pernicious influence upon character and

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第183期:失败者变为成功者

The extra time gave Corcoran the chance to make mathematics meaningful: to let his students see the clear relationship between effort and reward. 增加的那些时间不但让科科伦的学生觉得数学有意义，也让他们清楚地看到努力和

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第181期:KIPP的学习生活

They start school at seven twenty-five, David Levin says of the students at the Bronx KIPP academy. 他们7点25分上课，布朗克斯KIPP学院学生大卫李文说： They all do a course called thinking skills until seven fifty-five. 我们所有的

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第182期:KIPP的数学教育方式

The beginning is hard, he went on. By the end of the day, they are restless. Part of it is endurance, part of it is motivation. 一开始很难，他继续说：他们一整天都坐立不安。因为他们缺乏耐力和动力， Part of it is incen

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第184期:玛丽塔的生活(上)

I wake up at 5:45 a.m. to get a head start, she says. I brush my teeth, shower. I get some breakfast at school if I'm running late. 为了早到学校，我早上5点45分起床，她说。接着刷牙、洗澡。如果我起晚了，我会在学校吃