As we help children get out into the world to do their learning there, we can get more of the world into the schools.
在我们帮助孩子们踏入外面的世界进行学习的时候，我们也可以让外面的世界更多地进入校园。
Aside from their parents, most children never have any close contact with any adults except their teachers.
除了父母，大多数孩子从未与老师之外的成年人有过密切的接触。
No wonder they have no idea what adult life or work is like.
难怪他们对成年人的生活或工作没有任何概念。
We need to bring more people who are not full-time teachers into the schools.
我们需要将更多的全职老师以外的成年人请进学校。
In New York City, under the Teachers' and Writers' Collaborative, real writers come into the schools, read their work, and talk to the children about the problems of their craft.
在纽约，真正的作家在教师作家协会的努力下走进了学校，他们朗读自己的作品，并与孩子们交流作品中的问题。
The children love it.
孩子们非常喜欢。
In another school, a practicing attorney comes in every month and talks to several classes about the law.
在另一所学校，一位执业律师每月来一次，与多个班级的孩子探讨法律。
Not the law as it is in books, but the law as he sees it and encounters it in his cases.
不是书本上的法律，而是在自己的案例中亲眼目睹或者切身经历的法律。
And the children listen with intense interest.
孩子们聚精会神地听着。
Here's something even easier: let children work together, help each other, learn from each other and each other's mistakes.
以下事情则更加容易：让孩子们相互合作、相互帮助、相互学习，并相互学习对方的错误。
We now know from the experience of many schools that children are often the best teachers of other children.
现在，我们已经从许多学校的经验中认识到，孩子们常常是彼此最好的老师。
What's more important, we know that when a fifth- or six-grader who has been having trouble with reading starts helping a first-grader, his own reading sharply improves.
更重要的是，我们发现当一个阅读有障碍的五年级或六年级学生开始帮助一个一年级学生，他自身的阅读能力也会显著提高。
A number of schools are beginning to use what some call "paired learning".
许多学校正在开始实行一些人所谓的“配对学习”。
This means that you let children form partnerships with other children, do their work even including their tests together and share whatever marks or results this work gets, just like grown-ups in the real world.
这意味着让孩子们建立伙伴关系，一起完成甚至包括考试在内的任务，并共享任务的成绩或成果，一切就像现实世界中的成年人一样。
It seems to work.
这种办法似乎很有效。