Well， I just wanted to be a lushly tree， a straight tree.

GuoJian Zhao

Every human being have to face the problems of education. In twenty-first Century， China was on the international stage， and its political， economic， cultural， military and other fields of rapid development. Science and technology is the first productivity， many peoples are paying more attention to the education， and the competition is increasingly fierce. Like our generations are already received the fetal education when we were in the womb.

My best friend Qiang， on his seven years old， on the passive to become a little warrior， from the fierce competition， his father says， foreign education， much more pursuant to the regulations！ then he across the seas to the United States， start to be come an international student to study abroad. Qiang's mother goes to the United States also， just to be his company and take care of him. Both Qiang and my parents were students since they were in the same University， they are very close to each other. His father and my father are both famous lawyer， their career rooted in China， but also developing the foreign market of businesses.

Im still under the wings of my parents， stay at hometown， into the Chinese examination oriented education system on the road to study. So I entered the Northeast China a metropolis and a famous elementary school， all the way to the layers of the examinations just for entering a top middle school， and even of the top high school.

This decade， Since Qiang and I was born in the same month and same year， we grew up in the same kindergarten， Even though we are far apart now， we still keep in touch through out webcam， e-mail， telephone and also I can meet him every year when he come back to China for visit during summer break， and my four times visited to the United States with the group of my school， never lost connection in between us. We are aware the current situation of each other， feelings， mutual comfort and encouragement， and things in time and space， just like we grow together all the way. Let the potential of the seeds， grow into the most beautiful appearance.

At every 8：30am in the morning， Qiang enjoys the sunshine and woke up in a beautiful bedroom， and I was in high spirits after the morning and first class； I have mastered the four operations for the mathematics. and Qiang with his classmate do not even know what is the meaning of race 1/2； He drinks 100% pure milk with preservative free， and my stomach had to adapt to many kinds of food additives in China， these are all pass the Chinese foods safety standards examination， but does not meet the requirement of American foods safety standards. life， respect， sunshine， frustration， happiness is a strong theme in the classrooms main course， encourage and motivate that the students to conduct self education， encourage the lose and fall down and their accumulated experiences， I was fast and well accepted the sale experience of many imposed mathematics formula of olympic mathematic game or the law of life.

Ancient Greek famous educator and philosopher Platon saids： “a person from the education of the childhood where he led， can decide where he wanted to go.” I was lucky to have the integrity of the family education， and a children's education from a father； I was lucky， that I have a good friend since when we were little； I am lucky， Chinese traditional culture were feed me up. Education is invisible to each other then complete. Although you can not see is happening， it is really the impact of our hearts， to help us to developing the potential. My most precious obtained is well versed in the way more than difficult ever， and actively sought and found the contradiction between ability and ability to solving problems.

During my most recent trip to the United States， second year of high school on behalf of my school to where Qiang is at， St. Anthony's high school （St. Anthonys high school hosted the ten days friendship exchange activities. After the Mathematics and Science， we looked at each other and smiled and agreed to go study in Yale university law school. and majoring in Law.

A famous German philosopher Karl Theodor Jaspers in developing an in “what is education，” wrote （THE ENTEITIMENT）： “the essence of education means： a tree shakes a tree， a cloud to push a cloud， a soul awaken a soul.”

I just wanted to be that tree. Deeply rooted in the earth， earn Chinese Sinologys nutrition； green lush on foliage - Learn Chinese and Westerns law. Proudly rooted in the forest and to serve the country.

譯文：

我就要做那棵枝葉繁茂、挺拔向上的樹

人類都要面臨著教育問題。二十一世紀的中國躋身于國際舞臺，其政治、經濟、文化、軍事等領域迅猛發展。科學技術是第一生產力，教育尤其被越來越多的中國人所重視，且競爭的態勢愈演愈烈。我們這一代人在娘胎中就已然接受胎教了。

我最好的朋友阿強，七歲那年，就被動地成為這場激烈角逐的小勇士，帶著他爸爸的一句話“國外的教育，更按規律辦事！”，飄洋過海，去了美國，開始了國外留學生涯。阿強媽媽到美國全職陪讀。阿強父母與我的父母是大學同學，他們彼此交往甚密。他爸爸和我爸爸一樣，是國內知名律師，事業扎根于中國，也有國外市場業務拓展。

我則被父母做主，留在家鄉，融入中國應試教育體制上的求學之路。于是我踏進了中國東北某個大都市一所重點小學，一路層層考試升入重點初中、時值重點高中。

這十年來，同年同月出生、同一個幼稚園長大的我們，雖然天各一方，但仍通過視頻、電子郵件、電話以及每年他的回國探親假、我的四次隨校團體美國之旅保持著親密聯系。我們了知彼此近況、心事，互相安慰與鼓勵，東西時空下，我們一路共同成長。讓潛質的種子，長成最美麗的樣子。

清晨八點半，阿強享受著陽光灑滿臥房而自然醒的美好，我則精神飽滿地上完早自習與第一堂課；我已熟練掌握四則運算之時，阿強及其身邊的同學競不知二分之一是何意；不摻水不摻加任何防腐劑的純正濃香地道牛奶是阿強每日平常飲食，我的腸胃早已適應了各式食品添加劑、不符合歐美食品標準、但符合中國食品安全標準等級的中國食品；生命，尊重、陽光，挫折、快樂主題是阿強課堂上的主課，美國老師鼓勵、激發學生去進行自我教育，鼓勵失敗、跌倒、自己累積經驗，我則快準狠地接受到了許多強加的奧賽公式或生活規律的預售經驗。

古希臘著名教育家、哲學家柏拉圖說：“一個人從小受的教育把他往哪里引導，能決定他后來往哪里走。” 我很幸運，擁有了完整的家庭教育，沒有缺失父親對孩子的教育；我很幸運，擁有了那樣一個發小；我很幸運，中國國學文化滋養哺育了我。教育于無形之中彼此遞增完成。雖看不到它的發生，卻實實在在的影響了我們的心靈，幫助我們發揮潛能。我最寶貴的獲得就是深諳辦法永遠比困難多，并主動尋求發現矛盾的能力、解決問題的能力。

我最近一次的美國之旅，是高中二年級代表學校到阿強所在的美國圣安東尼高中（St Anthonys High Finding School）十日聯誼互訪活動。在Mathematics and Science之后，我倆相視會心一笑，約定他日并肩攻讀Yale university法學專業。

德國著名哲學家卡爾·西奧多·雅斯貝爾斯（Karl Theodor Jaspers）在《什么是教育》（THE ENTEITIMENT）中寫道：“教育的本質意味著：一棵樹搖動一棵樹，一朵云推動一朵云，一個靈魂喚醒一個靈魂。”

我就要做那棵樹。深深扎根于大地——汲取中國國學營養；青青繁茂于枝葉——修得中國法律、西方法律；赫赫傲然于林中——拳拳報效國家。