Being educated is a moral obligation. And I don't mean educated as in, "i'm good at math!" I mean educated in every sense of the word; knowledge about yourself, the world around you, the humanities, history, music, science, and the entire spectrum of human knowledge. And because not one person could ever hope to master all these subjects, making education into a moral obligation will help you be a student for life. That's the first reason you should think about education in moral terms.
受教育是一項道德義務。接受教育不僅僅是指"我很擅長數學!"。我想表達的是教育在每個方面的意義; 跟你有關的知識、 你周圍的世界、 人文、 歷史、 音樂、 科學和人類世界所有知識。因為沒有一個人能夠掌握所有這些學科知識，讓教育成為一種道德義務將幫助你成為一個在終生學習者。這就是你需要從道德角度去思考教育的第一原因。
But what is a moral obligation? A moral obligation is the sense of personal responsibility someone feels honor-bound to perform because of their personal beliefs and values. Having a sense of moral duty arises from ideas about right and wrong. These ideas are usually shaped by your culture, family and even peer pressure. Generally, people are not legally required to donate money to children with cancer, they just do, because they believe it is the right thing to do.
什么是道德義務呢?道德義務是一個人因為有了他自己的信念和價值，使他為自己的行為有榮譽感和責任感。這種道德責任感包括了一個人對正確和錯誤的認知。這些認知通常是由你的文化、 家庭甚至是來自同齡人的壓力而形成的。一般來說，法律是不會強迫人們把錢捐給癌癥患兒，但捐款的人這么做了，是因為他們相信這是正確的事。
I want to convince you that this calculus of doing the right thing already resides within you. To prove it to you I want to share something that happened yesterday in my physics class with two of my students; Bob and Steve. I have changed the names of the students to protect their privacy.
你要相信，這種做正確事情的決算已經扎根在你心里面了。為了證明這個，我想要跟你分享我的昨天物理課的故事; 我的兩個學生Bob和Steve，為了保護學生的隱私，我更改了他們的名字。
To the chagrin of my Physics students I actually taught a lesson yesterday and even gave them a quiz. Chagrin means, NOT HAPPY! So while my students were taking the quiz I was thinking about this speech and about how angry Mandy and Mickey would be if I didn't write it on time. So I took it upon myself to ask my students the following question:
使學生感到懊惱的是，昨天上了一整節的物理課，并且給了他們一個小測驗。大家都知道懊惱就是不快樂!當學生在做測驗的時候，我就在思考今天的發言我該說些什么，如果我沒有按時寫完稿子Mandy和Mickey會有多生氣。所以我就自己去問我的學生以下問題：
