美国一位心理学家为了研究早期 教育对人一生的影响,在全美选出50 位成功人士和50名有犯罪记录的人, 分别给他们去信,请他们谈谈母亲对他 们的影响。信发出去不久,心理学家收 到了许多回信。而其中有两封回信谈到 的都是同一件事:小时候母亲给他们分 苹果。 这两封信,一封是美国白宫一位著 名人士写来的,一封是一个仍在监狱服 刑的犯人写来的。 In order to study the impact of early education on one’s life, a psychologist in the United States selected 50 successful people and 50 criminal record-holders in the United States to write letters to them and asked them about their mothers’ influence on them. Not long after the letter was sent out, psychologists received many replies. And of the two letters I talked about, I did the same thing: when I was young, my mum gave them apples. The two letters, one written by a prominent White House humanist, were written by prisoners still in prison.