Why Education is Essential中英文演講稿對照
the purpose of education is to make people get knowledge and have abilities. as we know, nowadays, our time is a knowledge time, an it time, and it is also a time that is full of competitions. in the rapid developing society, our knowl－edge, our character, our value, our ideas, our behaviour and so on should all fit in with the needs of the society. and all these depend on education. of course it's impossible to fit ourselves on the society from birth. we need to learn and practise step by step.
as the ancient people said, "we know nearly nothing from birth. who hasn't got any doubts yet?" one of the ways to resolve the doubts is to ask the teachers.
just as we know, everyone has great potential, but one can't become useful without being educated. i believe all of us know the story about the wolf-child. he had the same character just as the other persons when he was born. but he wasn't educated as a normal person, so he couldn't show his natural characters. he was almost like an animal. thus it can be seen that education can make us develop our abilities and make our life wonderful.
we all remember forever, in 1840, the most insulting and miserable page in chinese history began with the opium war. at that time, we lost our rights, our lands… the history tells us, "if we are backward, we'll be insulted." and it also taught us a lesson that we should pay great attention to our education. "education is the project of vital and lasting importance." "science and education can strengthen a nation." after liberation, especially after the reform, we have achieved great successes in the aspect of politics, economy, culture and so on, which depend on the development of edu－cation.
from all of the facts above, we can see, education is essential. if all of us know well about this, if all of us act it out, our future will be more beautiful.
thank you all!
譯文：
為什么教育是必不可少的
索陽金
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你們知道阿壩嗎? 到過美麗的九寨溝嗎？我叫索陽金，就是一個來自阿壩藏族羌族自治州的藏族女孩，歡迎在座各位來我的家鄉(xiāng)阿壩，來我的家鄉(xiāng)九寨，領(lǐng)略奇異的民族風(fēng)情。
今天，很榮幸能夠站在這兒，我演講的題目是：為什么教育是必不可少的。
曾有這樣一個國家，二戰(zhàn)結(jié)束后，其政府極力提倡教育，從而使它的國民經(jīng)濟得到大大提高。在很短的時間內(nèi)，國家的科學(xué)技術(shù)、文化教育都已邁入世界領(lǐng)先地位。這個國家就是日本。眾所周知，二戰(zhàn)中，當(dāng)日本野蠻侵略其它國家時，也給它自己帶來了深深的創(chuàng)傷，但是日本并不像人們想象的那樣沉淪下去，而是很快走出了二戰(zhàn)帶來的困境。為什么日本能夠發(fā)展得如此迅猛，有什么秘訣嗎?有，那就是教育。由此可見，教育是十分重要的。