3. What do you feel like the most different thing about the Chinese students and the students in Canada? You’ve been teaching in Canada for many years.
您在加拿大也有很多年的教学经验，那么，您认为中国学生和加拿大学生最大的不同之处在哪？

I think, probably the attitude toward teachers is really different. There’re lots of kids back in Canada too. But it’s quite different here in China. For instance, if I was walking on the street in my home town, there is student on other side of the street, even if on the same side of the street, he might be ignoring, just walk passed. They are cool to the teacher. Here, if I see a student on the other side of the street, quite often they cross the street, come over say hi. You know the same thing is you are walking in the hall, there are always “good morning, teacher” “good morning, how are you”. That’s really neat. And actually the most rewarding part of my career has been these students in China. I enjoy that more than any other part of my career.
我想最大的不同可能是对待老师的态度。在加拿大，如果我在街对面看到一个学生，甚至就在同一条街上和他迎面走过，他可能都会熟视无睹地走过去。加拿大的学生对待老师比较疏远。而在中国，如果我在街上看到一个学生，他就会穿过马路，走过来跟我打招呼。同样地，在学校里，经常会听见学生跟你问好。这一点让人感觉很棒。这些中国学生就是对我事业的最大回报，比起任何其他东西来，我更享受这种感觉。

I feel a little bit proud, actually.
我也感到很自豪啊。

You should be.
应该的。

4. From what I heard is like students in China, they are really good students. They obey the teachers. But we are a little bit afraid of the thing about they lack of the creativity during their study. I believe, maybe that’s one of your reasons to start international school.
中国的学生都是好学生，他们非常听话，但是缺少创造性。我想，这大概也是您要开办国际学校的一个原因吧。

That’s correct. When I was in Daqing teaching in a public school, I notice that students never ask why. If I said something, they believe it. They never question it. But in West, kids always ask why, why, why. And they will accept it if you come up with good reason and they accept most things. Whereas here I find students just accept it. And if teacher says it’s right, that’s right. What I was trying to do is I try to get students start to think, put together their own thoughts. It’s one of the biggest differences between Canadian or West education and Chinese. Chinese education is what called converging thinking. Everybody comes together, they come out one answer. And the answer is the one on the text book or what their teacher tells them. We try to do the opposite. We do diverging thinking. We say you come with your own answer because we believe sometimes it has more than one answer to a problem, and sometimes it has more than one way to answer a problem. Stop on a same answer. So we try to encourage kids to be cracker.
你说的很对。我在大庆教书的时候，我发现学生们从来都不会问为什么。我说什么，他们就信什么。他们从不提问。但在西方，孩子们总是不停地问为什么。当你说的有道理的时候，他们才会接受。而这里的学生，不管我说什么，都会通通接受，只要你说是对的，他们就认为是对的。我想做的就是让学生们开始自己思考，让他们有自己的想法。中国教育和加拿大或者西方教育最大的不同之一就是中国是一种聚合式的思考方式，所有人聚到一起，想出一个答案。而这个答案就是教科书上写的或者是老师教的。我们要做的恰恰相反。我们鼓励发散性思维。我们让学生有自己的想法，因为一个问题的答案可能不只一个，解决问题的方法也可能不只一种。我们不要那种统一的标准答案，而是鼓励学生们自己思考。

Would you say you’ve reached a success now?
那您认为您成功了吗？

In most records, yes. By time they get English well, certainly. You know, we look at the successful rate of our students in university, yes, well means.
从很多方面来看，我们成功了。我们的学生英语水平都很好，很多学生都进入了大学。

5. Would you say this is the biggest difference between your school and local public Chinese school?
那这是您的学校和中国本地的学校最大的不同吗？

That’s one of the biggest differences. The other big difference I will say is in extracurricular activities. We will not only live on mark’s report and the classroom’s report and discover how you find information, teacher helps you to find information rather than be the information itself. But outside the classroom is very important too. Like friends being involved, varieties of sports, varieties of clubs. Researches show that students are most successful are not necessary won the highest marks; they are the ones are most involved in school because they’ve learned skills like leadership, teamwork, things are vary valuable as you probably know.
这不能说是最大的不同，我们还有其他的不同之处，比如课外活动。我们不仅仅看学生的课堂表现和成绩，我们关注学生是如何发现问题，老师可以帮助学生，但是我们更关注的是发现问题的能力而不是问题本身。课外活动也很重要。学生们要积极参与各种体育活动、各种俱乐部活动。有研究表明，那些最成功的学生并不是成绩最好的而是最积极参与活动的，因为这些学生从中学到了许多宝贵的技能，比如领导力，团队合作等。