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Most days, unless there is somewhere we need to be,
he moves through the day in his own rhythm.

 

Books for a while.
Then drawing.
Then blocks.
Then something else entirely.

 

No one decides when one interest should end
and another should begin.

 

大多数时候，除非家里有既定的安排，
他按照自己的节奏度过一天。

 

一阵子读书，
一阵子画画，
一阵子搭积木，
然后又转向别的什么。

 

没有人决定
一种兴趣什么时候该结束，
另一种什么时候该开始。

 

 

2

 

Attention seems to gather by itself.

For some time, one thing becomes the whole world.
Then, without announcement,
the centre shifts.

What looked important yesterday
may quietly disappear today.

 

注意力像是自己聚拢起来的。

有一段时间，
某一件事几乎成为整个世界。

然后没有预告地，
中心又移开了。

昨天还很重要的东西，
今天也许就安静地退到一旁。

 

 

3

 

We do very little teaching.

Questions arrive first.

 

What is this?
Why does that happen?
What does this word say?

 

Explanation comes after curiosity,
not before it.

 

我们很少刻意去教什么。

往往是问题先出现。

 

这是什么？
为什么会这样？
这个字念什么？

 

解释跟在好奇之后，
而不是走在它前面。

 

 

4

 

One day, letters simply became interesting.

There had been no plan.

Then suddenly, everywhere we went,
he began noticing the few letters and words he knew,
finding them on signs, books, packages, walls.

As if the world had quietly revealed
a layer that had always been there.

 

有一天，字母和文字突然变得有趣起来。

之前没有计划。

然后不知从什么时候开始，
走到哪里，
他都会认出那几个熟悉的字和字母。

招牌上，书里，包装上，墙上。

像是世界忽然显露出
原本一直在那里的一层。

 

 

5

 

In a relaxed state,
learning does not always look like learning.

 

Something is noticed.
Something is repeated.
Something connects with something else.

Then one day,
what seemed scattered has already grown into form.

 

Perhaps knowledge can grow like this—
less like something placed inside,
more like something living
finding its own direction.

 

在自然放松的状态里，
学习并不总是看起来像“学习”。

 

看见一点，
重复一点，
和别的东西连接一点。

然后某一天，
那些原本零散的东西
已经自己长出了形状。

 

也许认知本来就可以这样生长——

不像被放进去的东西，
更像某种有生命的东西，
自己寻找方向。

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