地球青年们的五四挑战 54challenge from the youth living on the Earth

题图由陶理用Keynote文艺复兴模版制作

Cover photo made by Hermione using Keynote Renaissance Theme

这篇推送由地球上的青年人们共同完成。

This is a post contributed by young people living on the Earth.

首先要对愿意响应挑战的朋友们表达真挚的感谢与祝福，谢谢你们花时间完成这项我想你也乐在其中的挑战，让我和看到这篇推送的人都窥见了更多美好的可能性.

First I would like to express my gratitude and wishes to my friends who completed their 54challenge(s), thanks for investing your time to finish the challenge (I know you also enjoy the process), and letting me and everyone else who see this post to know more beautiful possibilities.

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五四挑战的第0项

公开说出心声

The Zero Challenge of 54challenges

Speaking to the public with my heart

根据时间来，我先收到了小廖给我的一段话，小廖也是我有五四挑战想法后最先想到的一个朋友，她就是我会立刻想到的当代有志青年——勤于思考也敢于表达。下文是她对于b站后浪视频的一段理性反思。我设想大部分能看懂中文的读者都看过这个视频，就不放链接了。对小廖感兴趣的读者不妨去她的豆瓣页面（@小廖）了解她更多。

小廖的话：

《后浪》所说的“选择”和“多元化”，可能和我理解的不太一样。

可以看不同类别视频的是后浪，可以买不同颜色口红的是后浪。这是何冰口中有消费选择的后浪。

失去了朝九晚五双休这个选择的是后浪，失去了劳动法保护的也是后浪。这是没有生存选择的后浪。

可以被他人包容不一样的消遣娱乐的是后浪，可以被他人接纳有不同的无伤大雅的兴趣爱好的是后浪。这是何冰口中消费价值观多元化的后浪。

不敢公开发声的是后浪，不敢走不一样人生道路的也是后浪。这是活在价值观同一化时代的后浪。

I first received a post from my friend Xiaoliao, the comment from her is to a popular 4min-video (actually a commercial ad from a video website bilibili) saying so-called 'nice' words to the 'new’ generation. As I do not have enough time and do not think the video worthy of my time, I will skip the translation. Mainly my friend and I are challenging the definition of “choice” and “diversity”, we would like to criticise the puppet-show directed by  consumerism. In short, access to different videos are good, but what we are also expecting to raise your voice to the public for what you are supposed to say.

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五四挑战的第五项

给青年写明信片

The Fifth Challenge of 54challenges

Write a postcard to a young person

在策划这个挑战的过程中，我想到一个挺有意思的念头，如果让外国青年给中国青年写一张明信片或者漂流瓶，然后让感兴趣的人可以回复，也会是一个蛮有趣的挑战哈！所以就厚脸皮地去骚扰了某个很友善又有好奇心的人，得到了如下内容：

When designing the challenges, an idea jump to my mind, what if a young person not from China write a postcard or drift bottle to a Chinese peer, and we will open to any reply, this sounds like a fun challenge! That is why I bothered someone who is very friendly and curious, here we go:

Dear Mr X.

When was the last time you thought there was a really interesting question?

When I was young I was always interested in why, why things worked, why things happened, I’ve always wanted to understand the world. I asked more questions.

Now I am an architect, I design places, spaces, interiors, exteriors even gardens and furniture... therefore it looks as if I’m giving answers to questions. But actually answering questions is also a way of asking questions. Therefore I’m doing the same thing...

Did you learn more asking the question or receiving the answer?

Cedric

尊敬的X先生：

上次你想到一个真正有趣的问题是什么时候？

年轻的时候，我一直对为什么，为什么这样就起作用了，为什么会发生这样的事感兴趣，我一直想理解这个世界。我的问题也越来越多。

现在我是一名建筑师，会设计场所，空间，内部，外部甚至是花园和家具……因此，好像我是在回答问题。但是实际上回答问题也是提出问题的一种方式。因此，我正在做同样的事情...

你是从提出问题或还是得到答案中学到更多呢？

塞德里克

（基础中译本源自谷歌，经陶理修改审校 The basic translation is from Google and Hermione changed some of the expression）

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五四挑战的第三+五项

分享心头好的书+给青年写明信片

The Third+Fifth Challenge of 54challenges

Sharing a book you like+Write a postcard to a young person

要给Luna妈妈一个大大的生日祝福！祝她继续带着充满活力与能量的心生活！然后分享一下Luna写给青少年的明信片。

A huge birthday wish to Luna's mum! I wish her can embrace life with vitality and energy. And here is a postcard to an teenager:

To another teenager,

Jeannette Walls is the author of my favourite book from when I was a teenager; The Glass Castle. This book meant a lot to me, as I saw a reflection of my own life within the story.

This book is a memoir, so the stories I felt connected to also made me feel close to the author, even though she lived on the other side of the world.

I think this was an important book for me to read as a young woman, as it made me think about the ups and downs of childhood, the commonality of female experiences, as well as my own potential to follow my aspirations. I wish every child had the opportunity to read a book that inspires them in this way during their childhood.

So, my question to you- have you ever felt connected to a character in a book, maybe one from another country?

Luna

写给另一个青少年，

Jeannette Walls是我十几岁时最喜欢的作家，我最喜欢她写的玻璃城堡。这本书对我意义重大，因为我在故事中看到了自己的生活。

这本书是一部回忆录，所以即使她生活在世界的另一端，我与之联系的故事也使我感到与作者很亲近。

我认为这本书对于我这个年轻女性来说是重要的，它促使我思考了童年的风风雨雨，女性经历的共性以及我追随自己志向的潜力。我希望每个孩子都有机会读一本书，以此激发他们的童年。

因此，我给你的问题是-你是否曾经与书中的某个人物（也许来自另一个国家的人物）有联系？

卢娜

（基础中译本源自谷歌，经陶理修改审校 The basic translation is from Google and Hermione changed some of the expression）

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五四挑战的第一项

写激励我的女性

The First Challenge of 54challenges

Write stories of women inspired me

我和Livia是在去年四月的会议上相识的，她是从巴西来伦敦开会的老师。相处过程中她流露出来的热情自信与开朗很吸引我，但还有一种坚韧的感觉让我觉得她值得信赖。我想在看了她的这个故事之后，你也就更能理解我为什么这么说了。

Livia and I know each other last April as she came to London from Brazil for an academic conference. She is a teacher. During our time together, I am attracted by her personality, how can one be so warm, confident, and open-minded? And I also sensed that she is reliable and strong which also makes me feel that she is trustworthy. I would say after reading her story, you are likely to understand why I say so.

There are a lot of women who inspire me. Two of them come from my family. My grandmothers.

My mother´s mom came with her sister without her parents, when she was 13, to work as a housekeeper in the city where I now live (Cubatão-SP, Brazil).

She never had the opportunity to go to school, could not read or write, but was the first to defend that her own children could have access to school.

She usually bought books for them and all of her five children went to college.

Her life wisdom was amazing, she gave all the structure to allow them to have more than she had.

My father´s mom also migrated to my city alone, when she was 40, with 11 children and my father in her belly.

She cooked and sold food to people and also sewed clothes to sell. She then opened a restaurant and from her work and leadership, which was something unusual for a woman to do at the time, sustained all her 13 children.

I am very proud to be their granddaughter. I am sure that if today I have all the possibilities around me is because so many women like them struggled and never gave up.

Livia 

Livia供图  photo provided by Livia

有很多启发我的女性，其中就有我的两位家人，我的两位祖母。

我母亲的妈妈13岁时带着她的姐妹离开父母，在我现在居住的城市（巴西圣保罗州库巴唐）做家政服务。

她从未有过上学的机会，不会读书或写字，但她是第一个捍卫自己的孩子要去上学。

她总是给他们买书，而她的五个孩子都上了大学。

她的生活智慧令人赞叹，她倾尽所有，让孩子们拥有比她更多的东西。

我父亲的妈妈也独自一个人移民到我现在居住的城市，那时她40岁，有11个孩子，我父亲还在她肚子里。

她靠售卖自己做的饭菜谋生，还缝衣服出售。然后，她开了一家餐厅，由于她的工作和领导能力，

当时对一个女人来说，这是不寻常的事，她抚养了她所有的13个孩子。我很荣幸成为她们的孙女。

我敢肯定，如果今天能拥有我周围的一切可能性，是因为如此之多的像她们这样的女性在奋斗并且从未放弃。

利维亚

（基础中译本源自谷歌，经陶理修改审校 The basic translation is from Google and Hermione changed some of the expression）

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五四挑战的第三项

分享心头好的书

The Third Challenge of 54challenges

Sharing a book you like

早晨起来，我收到了VV的双语分享，是她最近在看的一本书：

The first message I got from social media is VV sharing the book she is reading in both Chinese and English.

vv供图  photo provided by vv

最近我在看舒斯特《科学史与科学哲学导论》。尽管是一本导论性质的书，但对我具有不少的启发性和冲击力。我过去认为自然科学是客观的、理性的，是对接近现实的尝试。然而，每一次科学革命都是思想的伟大转变。科学远不止我原先认为的那样。现实也许并不是事实，而是建构出来的。

Recently, I’m reading An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science, written by John Schuster. Though it is an introductory work, it is enlightening and striking for me. I used to argue that natural science was objective and rational, and an attempt to approach reality. However, every scientific revolution is a great change of thought. Science is much more than I thought. “Reality” may not be a fact, but a construct.

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五四挑战的第一项

写激励我的女性

The First Challenge of 54challenges

Write stories of women inspired me

点亮“师生平等”之光——佩芬老师

作者：莉莉姜

如果要从记忆中提取一位对我影响很大的女性，首先想到则是佩芬老师，不仅仅是因为其曾只身赴美求学八年，更是因为她的理念与信仰。

未遇到她时，我对于“师生平等”的理念更多地停留在口号与理解上，甚至在去年上半年出去上公开课时因学生调皮而对学生发难，现在回忆不免觉得那个时候的自己太过于幼稚与固执，没有真正做到以人为本，更何谈“平等”。

不过去年下半年在台湾中大有幸遇到佩芬老师，从此“师生平等”理念成为了我的人生信条，也将是我以后会一直践行的原则。

其中发生的一件事我想大概终身难忘吧。

以前总觉得课堂上老师有所疏忽，例如忘记让某个同学发言是很正常的事，没想到佩芬老师因为这事专门发了一封邮件表示道歉，而自己当时因为忙着其他事迟迟未回邮件，以至于老师在食堂看见我时，立刻小跑着追上我，并且用着可爱的台湾腔说：“姜同学，你怎么不回我邮件呢？是生老师气了吗还是太忙啦？老师记性不太好，忘记让你分享了，十分抱歉...”

我想我大概永远不会忘记这样的时刻吧，一位大学教授在食堂向一位学生如此诚恳的道歉，后面在课堂上她也当着全班同学的面向我道歉。

她说这是她的原则，人和人都是平等的，更何况师生之间，老师犯错就应该道歉，而且她也不觉得向学生道歉是丢脸的事情，同时她也鼓励所有同学在课堂上畅所欲言，不需要有所顾忌，可以像朋友聊天一样。

也许正是因为老师这样的理念与信仰，跨领域课程设计课上，同学们从一开始的没什么好说到最后的公然辩论。

与此同时，课间同学们经常会和老师分享日常的烦恼与困惑，佩芬老师也帮其解决。虽然那门课任务繁重，但是现在回忆却是满满的收获与甜味。

我也希望自己有一天可以做到这样，与学生如朋友般相处，真正做到“师生平等”。

Light up the "Equality of Teachers and Students"-Teacher Peifen

Author: Lily Jiang

If I want to extract one woman who has a great influence on me from memory, the first thought is Teacher Peifen, not only because she once went to the United States alone for eight years’ study, but also because of her ideas and beliefs.

Before I met her, I stayed on the superficial understanding the idea of "equality between teachers and students" as a slogan.

Even when I went out to have my public classes in the first half of last year, I was troubled by students as they were naughty. I was being too naive and stubborn not really practicing humanism, let alone "equality".

However, in the second half of last year, I was fortunate to meet Ms. Peifen in Taiwan.

Since then, the concept of "equality between teachers and students" has become my life belief, and it will also be a principle that I will continue to practice in the future.

One of the things that happened to me is probably unforgettable for life.

Before meeting her, I had always felt that it was okay for a teacher to be negligent in the class. For example, it was normal to forget to let a classmate speak. I did not expect that Ms. Peifen would sent me an e-mail to express her apology because of this incident.

I did not reply to her email as I was busy doing something else, so when Ms. Peifen saw me in the cafeteria, she immediately trot to catch up with me and said in a lovely Taiwanese tone: "Student Jiang, why haven’t you reply to my email? Are you angry at me or you are too busy? My memory is not very good, I forgot to let you share it, I am truly sorry ... "

I think I will probably never forget such a moment, a university professor apologises so sincerely to a student in the cafeteria. Later in her class, she also apologised to me in front of all the classmates.

She said that this was her principle.

Everyone is equal, not to mention that teachers and students should apologise when they made mistakes, and she did not think it is embarrassing for teachers to apologise to students.

You can talk freely without any scruples, just like chatting with friends.

Perhaps it is precisely because of the ideas and beliefs of the teachers, and in the cross-domain curriculum design class, the students started with having nothing to say from the beginning to open debates in the end.

At the same time, classmates often share daily worries and confusions with teachers, and Teacher Peifen also helps them to solve.

Despite the heavy tasks in that course, the memories are full of harvest and sweetness.

I also hope that one day I can do this, get along with students like friends, and truly achieve "equality between teachers and students."

（基础英译本源自谷歌，经陶理修改审校 The basic translation is from Google and Hermione changed some of the expression）

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五四挑战的第五项

给青年写明信片

The Fifth Challenge of 54challenges

Write a postcard to a young person

熟悉GEO的读者应该都对接下来的这位非常熟悉了，加葱的分享：

1、外国朋友来信的回复

我觉得回答问题确实可以让自己得到学习。一方面是回答问题，促进了自己去思考和探索，本身就是一种成长。另一方面，有时候为了弄懂问题而查阅资料时，可能会遇到新的问题，需要解决新出现的问题，才能弄懂最初的问题，就会出现一连串可以探究的问题了。

2、青年节活动

想写给刚入职的年轻人：

借着五四青年节，我想跟刚入职的毕业生们探讨职场中“真诚”。尽管我离开校园进入职场不到3年，但也感受到偶然出现的“浊流”，也听到一些朋友抱怨，说自己尽管谨慎行事，还是给别人留下了不好的印象。

是的，当你初进职场，你满怀热情投入工作，同时你带有一丝丝的担忧、忐忑，怕自己办不好事情或者得罪别人。然而，当看到职场中的拖沓、逢迎、官僚作风现象，我想到的并不是躲避或者融入其中以求自保，而是保持真心的可贵。

在工作中，我越来越喜欢有话直说，有理有据地发表自己的意见，如意见相左，可以进一步讨论。不管最后意见有没有被采纳，我们都真诚地表达了自己的意见，对于问题的解决是有帮助的，而且同事们都看在眼里。

真诚相待、与人为善是我的人生准则，在相互不熟悉的情况下尤其适用。在职场中，我把同事当作是成长过程中的“战友”，我们是要一起帮助学生成长的！我们个人也有可能成为新的朋友。无论作为朋友还是同事，真诚坦率地交换意见是解决矛盾的不二法门。

我是在教育行业，每次遇到这种问题，其实有一个试金石可以帮助我们，那就是问自己：这样做对帮助学生成长有没有帮助？对自己的成长有没有帮助？对学校发展有没有帮助？

（乱糟糟写了一点东西）

If you are a frequent reader of GEO, you may know Jiacong quite well, here we go:

1. Reply to a letter from an international friend

I think answering the questions really allows me to learn. On the one hand, answering questions and promoting self-thinking and exploration is a growth in itself. On the other hand, sometimes when accessing data in order to understand the problem, you may encounter new problems. You need to solve the new problems to understand the original problem, and there will be a series of problems that can be explored.

2. Youth Day activities

I want to write to the young people who just started their career.

Through the May 4th Youth Day, I want to discuss the "sincerity" in the workplace with fresh graduates.

Although I left campus for less than three years to enter the workplace, I also sensed the occasional "turbidity", and I heard some friends complaining that: although acting cautiously, (he/she) still left a bad impression on others.

Yes, when you first enter the workplace, you are full of enthusiasm to work, and at the same time you have a trace of worries, anxiety, fear of doing things badly or offending others.

However, when I see the procrastination, flatter, and bureaucracy in the workplace, I think not of avoiding or integrating into it for self-protection, but the precious value of keeping one's true heart.

In my work, I like to speak more directly and express my opinions rationally and reasonably.

If the opinions are different, I can discuss them further. Regardless of whether the final opinion has been adopted, we have sincerely expressed our opinions, which is helpful for the solution of the problem, and colleagues are watching.

Treating each other sincerely and being kind to others are my life principles, especially when they are not familiar with each other.

In the workplace, I regard colleagues as "comrades" in the process of growing up. We all want to help students grow! We, personally, may also become new friends. No matter as a friend or a colleague, sincere and frank exchange of opinions is the only way to resolve conflicts.

I am working in the education fields. Every time I encounter this kind of problem, there is actually a touchstone which can help us. That is, to ask myself, does this help students grow? Does it help your growth? Is it helpful for school development?

(My writing is a bit messy)

（基础英译本源自谷歌，经陶理修改审校 The basic translation is from Google and Hermione changed some of the expression）

MAY THE FORCE (FOURTH) BE WITH YOU

愿原力/五四与你同在