No one thought that young Albert Einstein would grow up to change the world. He was so slow in learning to speak that he was considered a bit {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(fool).

    Albert Einstein was never happy in school. He answered slowly because he was very thoughtful, and he asked difficult questions, which made {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(he) teachers think that he was trying {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(make) trouble. The strict discipline（纪律）of a German school made him very unhappy.

    However, young Einstein {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(do) learn what interested him, and he was interested in what lay below the surface of {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(thing). For instance, his father once gave him a compass（指南针）. This made Albert curious {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the unseen forces that could keep a compass needle always pointing north. In his teens he read deep in science. He had already started to wonder about the mysteries of {#blank#}7{#/blank#} universe.

    At 17, Einstein entered the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} he studied mathematics and physics. He stayed away from many lectures and did not impress his professors, but he was {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (actual) studying very hard all the time. When he graduated in 1900, he asked to be appointed as an assistant in the physics department but {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(refuse).

    I won't call myself the most accomplished person when it comes to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (hold) chopsticks. In fact, I'm pretty sure that my technique looks clumsy at times. I tend to hold {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (I) in the middle, more like beginner than expert.

    Still, since I eat almost every meal with the eating utensil (器皿) of choice in China, it's not uncommon for a new friend or acquaintance to come to a simple {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (conclude) after observing me that my Chinese husband, Jun, must have shown me {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to use them before.

    They are wrong. I've used chopsticks ever since I was a teenager, a time when my sister and mother were both fond of Chinese cuisine and introduced me {#blank#}5{#/blank#} many new dishes, along with the {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (prefer) utensils in China. We always kept bamboo chopsticks along with our {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (knife), forks and spoons, ready for whenever we happened to have Chinese food for dinner. It was my closest family {#blank#}8{#/blank#} observed my first mistakes I made in using chopsticks.

    Plus, I lived over two years in China before Jun and I started dating and I {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (expect) to use chopsticks in almost every restaurant, stand and bar. Trust me, when you're hungry you figure out pretty fast what it takes to down (咽下) {#blank#}10{#/blank#} meal with these utensils.

    English perfectly shows the "network effects" of a global tongue: the more people use it, the more useful it is. Parents expect their children {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(master)English, which is encouraging the {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(grow)of private schooling. Education authorities are switching to English medium, in part to control the outflow(外流) of children into the private sector.

Teaching children in English is fine if that is {#blank#}3{#/blank#} they speak at home and their parents are fluent {#blank#}4{#/blank#} it. But that is not {#blank#}5{#/blank#} case in most public and low-cost private schools. Children are taught in a language they don't understand by teachers {#blank#}6{#/blank#} English is poor. The children learn neither English nor anything else.

    Research shows that children learn {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(much)when they are taught in their mother tongue than they do when they are taught in any other language. In a study of children in 12 schools in Cameroon last month, those taught in Kom {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(do)better than those taught in English in all subjects.

    English should be an important subject at school, but not {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(necessary)the language of instruction. Rather than switching to English-medium teaching, governments fearful of {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(lose) custom (光顾) to the private sector should look at the many possible ways of improving public schools.

    Students at Shady Side are exposed to a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} curriculum in a safe and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} environment; the joy of learning becomes their bridge to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} lifelong learners.

    In the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} of this journey they are provided an experience in Kindergarten {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Twelfth Grade, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} enables them to mature academically, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}, emotionally and socially. As they walk down the halls during their years together at Shady Side, our boys and girls—so soon to become men and women—are learning to think, to work, to question, to be {#blank#}8{#/blank#} and responsible, to relate with others, to laugh {#blank#}9{#/blank#} their mistakes and to act graciously when success {#blank#}10{#/blank#} their way.

Logan Wells, a high school student in Massachusetts, developed an app that makes it easier for people to care for loved ones with dementia(痴呆).

Logan was 15 when his grandmother was diagnosed with dementia. "You can't imagine{#blank#}1{#/blank#} terrible its effect was, not only on my grandmother, but on my parents and other family members," Logan said. "It became really hard to stay on{#blank#}2{#/blank#}same page, because we had to have multiple group chats."

So, he came up{#blank#}3{#/blank#}the idea for CareZare, which enables caregivers to work as a team through a communication website. Logan did the coding{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (entire) by himself while his father assisted him in creating the original design and undertook the marketing.

The free app allows users{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (create) a profile(档案)centered around the individual with dementia and invite other people to join and receive{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (message). With the app, you can schedule events, confirm completed tasks, and even add a "heads up" such as the current mood of the patient or poor weather conditions.

       The app is currently being used by over 600 families and they enjoy{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (share) their opinions about it.{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(please) with that, Logan is hoping it will grow.

       "So far our users{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(be) great about giving us feedback so we can tailor(定做)the app to their needs," he said. "Caregiving is such an important issue for them because it's sovl {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(person) for them, just as it is for me."