美国新任劳工部长赵小兰的经历,被认为是最成功的美国故事之一。她的气质及今天的成就,来自特殊的家庭教育。1981年,我念研究生的最后一年,日文课班上突然出现了一位50岁左右的太太。她正襟危坐,挤在一群二三十岁年轻人之间,跟着教授朗读,实在很有意思。起初我以为她只是排遣时间的旁听生,后来看她也紧张兮兮地应付考试,才确定她是正式研究生。 Zhao Xiaolan, the new U.S. labor minister, is considered one of the most successful American stories. Her temperament and today’s accomplishments come from special family education. In 1981, the last year I was studying for a graduate student, a 50-year-old wife suddenly appeared in Japanese class. She sat tight, squeezed between a group of young people in their twenties and thirties, read the professor, it is very interesting. At first I thought she was just a short time listening student, and later she was nervous to cope with the examination, to make sure she was an official graduate student.