王丹随感翻译

再說少年得志：我是認為對于年輕人和學生要以鼓勵為主的。這是因為：第一，人生的教訓大多要自己經歷才能把握，過來人講教訓，年輕人其實很難聽的進去，畢竟不是感同身受嘛；第二，少年得志，進入比較高的境界，可以很早就開始對自己有比較高的要求，這對成長史有利的；第三，人的成功需要一些銳氣，甚至需要一些幼稚，這些特質都是年輕才擁有的，年輕的時候不鼓勵他而是壓抑他，等他少年長成，銳氣就一去不復返了，很多本來應當成才的人，其實就是在社會化教育的壓制下慢慢平庸了。所以，我認為，作為過來人，我們對年輕一輩唯一能給的東西，就是鼓勵。
Referring to the saying – “achieving success when one is still young”, my opinion is that to young people and students, we must give them plenty of encouragement. The reasons are being, firstly, life lessons are mostly obtained through one’s own experiences. The lectures from people “been there done that” are not really effective to young ones. It is not equivalent to one’s own experience. Secondly, achieving success when one is still young enables the person to enter into a higher level and subsequently to start to have high requirements of him or herself from an early age. These are beneficial to one’s growth. Thirdly, to achieve success, one must retain a certain degree of freshness, or even some naivety. These are characteristics of the youth. Suppressing instead of encouraging the youth could grind his or her freshness and lose the freshness when one is grown up. Many who were supposed to be successful are becoming mediocre under the suppression of the society’s education. Therefore, in my opinion, as a “been there done that”, the only thing we can give to the youth is to encourage them.