Part I Oct.09 The school. Friday,28th

（导读）爸爸的来信，鼓励安利柯好好学习，做一名学习大军中的勇敢的战士。只有好好学习，人类文明才会进步！（本期有部分生字标注，便于听众学习）

THE SCHOOL.     Friday, 28th.

Yes, study comes hard to you, my dear Enrico, as your mother says: I do not yet see you set out for school with that resolute mind and that smiling face which I should like. You are still intractable. But listen; reflect a little! What a miserable, despicable thing your day would be if you did not go to school! At the end of a week you would beg with clasped hands that you might return there, for you would be eaten up with weariness and shame; disgusted with your sports and with your existence. Everybody, everybody studies now, my child. Think of the workmen who go to school in the evening after having toiled all the day; think of the women, of the girls of the people, who go to school on Sunday, after having worked all the week; of the soldiers who turn to their books and copy-books when they return exhausted from their drill! Think of the dumb and of the boys who are blind, but who study, nevertheless; and last of all, think of the prisoners, who also learn to read and write. Reflect in the morning, when you set out, that at that very moment, in your own city, thirty thousand other boys are going like yourself, to shut themselves up in a room for three hours and study.

Think of the innumerable boys who, at nearly this precise hour, are going to school in all countries. Behold them with your imagination, going, going, through the lanes of quiet villages; through the streets of the noisy towns, along the shores of rivers and lakes; here beneath a burning sun; there amid fogs, in boats, in countries which are intersected with canals; on horseback on the far-reaching plains; in sledges over the snow; through valleys and over hills; across forests and torrents, over the solitary paths of mountains; alone, in couples, in groups, in long files, all with their books under their arms, clad in a thousand ways, speaking a thousand tongues, from the most remote schools in Russia. Almost lost in the ice to the furthermost schools of Arabia, shaded by palm-trees, millions and millions, all going to learn the same things, in a hundred varied forms.   
      Imagine this vast, vast throng of boys of a hundred races, this immense movement of which you form a part, and think, if this movement were to cease, humanity would fall back into barbarism; this movement is the progress, the hope, the glory of the world. Courage, then, little soldier of the immense army. Your books are your arms, your class is your squadron, the field of battle is the whole earth, and the victory is human civilization. Be not a cowardly soldier, my Enrico.

词汇：1. resolute adj.坚决的   2.intractable adj.倔强的，难驾驭的   3.reflect  v.反省    4.despicable adj.卑贱的，可鄙的     5.clasp v.抱紧；攥紧     6.weariness n.疲倦；厌倦     7.toil v.苦干，费力地做    8.precise   adj.精确的；恰好的       9.amid  prep.在其中；在正当中       10.intersect  v.交叉；分割      11.torrent n.激流     12.solitary adj.偏僻的；荒凉的    13.clad（clothe的过去式）v.覆盖    14.immense adj.极大的，巨大的   15.cease v.停止  16.barbarism n.野蛮；原始  17.squadron n.空军中队；骑兵中队