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【来自英语牛人团】
译文：
【Education Does Count】
教育真的很重要
每年都有数以百计的学生给我发
电子邮件，要我就接受教育给他们提建议。他们想知道该学些什么，或者可不可以从大学辍学，因为我就没有读完大学。也有不少家长给我写信，为子女寻求指导。他们问：“我们怎样才能把孩子引向成功之路？”我的基本忠告很简单，而且是发自内心的：全力获得最佳教育，充分利用高中和大学，学会如何学习。
不错，为创建
微软，我未完成大学学业，不过辍学之前我已经在
哈佛呆了三年，以前我也说过，谁也不应该辍学，除非他坚信自己正面临着一个一生仅有一次的机会，但就算在那个时候也还是应该深思熟虑。
凯西是
俄亥俄州的一个六年级老师，她写给我说：“好几个学生声称你高中都没毕业，既然你这么成功，可见接受好的教育不是那么重要的。”
可我高中毕业了！
我的公司创立早期，有一个相当出色的兼职程序员，声称要从高中辍学来做全职。我们叫他不要这么做。我们公司里确实有好些人没有读完大学，但我们不希望人们辍学。谁要想在我们公司谋职，有毕业证书肯定会优先考虑。
高中和大学给你提供了最佳机会，你可以广泛学习不同的知识，有机会跟着别的孩子一起做项目，亲身感受到群体的动力。读高中时，我有一段时间醉心于软件编写，但大部分时间里，我的学习兴趣相当广泛。大学期间，我修了很多不同的课程，我读书涉猎很广。对我来说，学习不是只能在教室进行。你也可以在图书馆学习。但人家递给你一本书并不能自动地让你学到东西。你需要向别人学习，提问题，将设想付诸实施，设法验证自己的能力。
简而言之，如果不抓住机会去学习涵盖宽广领域的各门课程，不学会与他人共同工作，那真是个极大的错误，因为教育真的很重要。
原文：
Hundreds of students send me e-mail each year asking for advice about education. They want to know what to study, or whether it’s OK to drop out of college1 since that’s what I did.
A smaller number of parents send message, often poignant2, seeking guidance for their son or daughter. “How can we steer out child toward success3” they ask.
My basic advice is simple and heartfelt. “Get the best education you can. Take advantage of high school and college. Learn how to learn.”
It’s true that I dropped out of college to start Microsoft, but I was at Harvard for three years before dropping out — and I’d love to have the time to go back. As I’ve said before, nobody should drop out of college unless they believe they face the opportunity of a lifetime. And even then they should reconsider.
Kathy Cridland, a sixth grade teacher in Ohio, wrote to say, “Several of my students claim that you never finished high school. Since you are a success, my students perceive that as a reason not to care much about getting a good education.”
I finished high school!
The computer industry has lots of people who didn’t finish college, but I’m not aware of any success stories that began with somebody dropping out of high school. I actually don’t know any high school dropouts, let alone any successful ones.
In my company’s early years, we had a bright part-time programmer who threatened to drop out of high school to work full-time. We told him no.
Quite a few of out people didn’t finish college, but we discourage dropping out.
Having a diploma certainly helps somebody who is looking to us for a job.
College isn’t the only place where information exists. You can learn in a library. But somebody handing you a book doesn’t automatically foster learning. You want to learn with other people, ask questions, try out ideas and have a way to test your ability. It usually takes
more than just a book.
Education should be broad, although it’s fine to have deep interests, too.
In high school there were periods when I was highly focused on writing software, but for most of my high school years I had wide-ranging academic interests4. My parents encouraged this, and I’m grateful that they did.
Although I attended a lot of different kinds of classes in college, I signed up for5 only one computer class the whole time. I read about all kinds of things.
One parent wrote me that her 15-year-old son “lost himself in the hole of the computer.” He got an A in Web site design, but other grades were sinking, she said.
This boy is making a mistake. High school and college offer you the best chance to learn broadly—math, history, various sciences—and to do projects with other kids that teach you first-hand about group dynamics. It’s fine to take a deep interest in computers, dance, language or any other disciplines, but not if it jeopardizes breadth.6
In college it’s appropriate to think about specialization. Getting real expertise in an area of interest can lead to success—unless the specialty ends up being a dead end or you’re not good at it7. Graduate school is one way to get specialized knowledge, although extended college education isn’t always a good investment from a purely economic standpoint.
Choosing a specialty isn’t something high school students should worry about. They should worry about getting a strong academic start.
There’s not a perfect correlation between attitudes in high school and success in later life, of course.
But it’s a real mistake not to take the opportunity to learn a huge range of subjects, to learn to work with people in high school, and to get the grades that will help you get into a good college.