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每一个人都有自己小小的童年，然而，人们都是无法选择自己的出生，无法预知自己的童年。快乐或悲伤，似乎都是命中注定。苹果之父乔布斯又有怎样的童年呢？

【回顾】【乔布斯传】第一章：年少不识愁滋味（21）»
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Not surprisingly, he was sent home two or three times before he finished third grade. By then, however, his father had begun to treat him as special, and in his calm but firm manner he made it clear that he expected the school to do the same. "Look, it's not his fault," Paul Jobs told the teachers, his son recalled. "If you can't keep him interested, it’s your fault." His parents never punished him for his transgressions at school. "My father's father was an alcoholic and whipped him with a belt, but I’m not sure if I ever got spanked." Both of his parents, he added, "knew the school was at fault for trying to make me memorize stupid stuff rather than stimulating me." He was already starting to show the admixture of sensitivity and insensitivity, bristliness and detachment, that would mark him for the rest of his life.
不出意料，乔布斯在读完三年级之前被送回家两三次。不过父亲当时已经把他当做特殊的孩子来对待了，他以平静但有力的态度向学校阐明，他希望学校也能这么对待自己的孩子。“听着，这不是他的错，”乔布斯回忆当时父亲是这么对老师说得，“如果你提不起他的兴趣，那是你的错。”乔布斯的记忆中，父母从来没有因为他在学校犯错而惩罚过他。“我父亲的父亲是个酒鬼，还会用皮带抽他，但是我连一巴掌都没有挨过。”他又补充说，他的父母“都知道责任在学校，学校没有激发我学习的兴趣，而是让我去背一些没有用的东西”。他开始展现出性格中的多面性，敏感又偶尔迟钝，易怒而又超然，这也是他以后生活中的状态。