《教学的要素》前言（2）

· Those who are considering teaching as a career or just beginning to teach,who need to know both the demands of their chosen work and the deep satisfactions of its pursuit and mastery.

*Veteran teachers,practiced in their ways and classroom characters, who may need reasurrance of the value, indeed sometimes the glory, of their efforts, and who may also seek the inspiration and encouragement to evaluate their old habits and to consider new ones.
*Those many people-----parents, students,administrators, members of governing boards, and public officials-----who evaluate teaching for personal or professional reasons.
* And those many others who, with no less seriousness of intent or moral concern than professional teachers, occasionallly instruct other people in unfamiliar tasks----parents, police officers, managers, counselors, coaches, and all professionals----in fact, anyone and everyone.

The book originates in our personal experiences. It represents the distillation of two lifetimes of teaching in many settings, from an elementary school classroom in the slums of southest London to graduate seminars in an Ivy League university. Yet it is in no sense a memoir; it contains no references to personal history. It is instead, as Gilbert Highet characterized, his own penetrating Art of Teaching ,"a book of suggestions drawn from practice."

  考虑成为教师或者刚刚开始的教育工作者，想了解他们的职业要求以及追求和掌握教学所能带来的满足感。

  有经验的教师，已经按照他们的方式和风格教学多年，需要重新明确自己努力的价值，乃至荣耀之处。还有那些可能需要寻找灵感和鼓舞去反思自己的习惯，从而考虑新的转变。

那些家长、学生、管理人员、管理委员会成员和政府人员---出于个人或者职业原因要进行教学评估。

还有很多其他人，在认真程度和对道德的关注上不亚于专业教师，偶尔也会指导其他人一些他们不熟悉的项目————父母，警察，经理，顾问，教练等等其他职业。事实上，这包含了所有的人。

   这本书源于我们的个人经历。从伦敦南部贫民窟的小学教室到常青藤联盟大学的研究生研讨会，它浓缩了在不同环境下两辈人的教学精华。然而，这绝不是一本回忆录，它没有提及个人生平。实际上，正如Gilbert Highet在那本透彻的《教育的艺术》种所描述的那样，这是“一本实践出真知的书”。