If you've been paying attention, you know that rooks （乌鸦）are very intelligent birds. Now these geniuses have been given a job: six rooks have been trained to pick up rubbish in the Puy du Fou historical theme park in western France.
Whenever these six rooks deposit a cigarette butt or other small pieces of trash in a special container, it gives out a treat rewarding （奖励）rooks for their efforts.
The idea came from one of the park's falconers （放鹰者）, Christophe Gaborit. As part of the falconry show, rooks had been trained to pick up roses and bring them to a princess, so in the 2000s, Gaborit raised and trained two rooks to do the same with rubbish.
The rooks started to pick up rubbish for the first time over the weekend, and they'll be working four days a week under close supervision （监视） not for the birds, but to make sure the humans don't deliberately （故意地）drop rubbish to watch the birds clean it up.
The purpose of the rooks is to educate the people, to open their minds to think: OK, the birds are able to do something that we are much more able to do than them, so we should do this by ourselves," park president Nicolas de Villiers told NPR. "It's a funny way to show the people that you cannot throw the papers everywhere."
It happened long time ago, but I clearly remember the painful feelings as if it happened yesterday. I had prepared for a project for days, but my manager told me he decided to change another person to do it. I stood there and tried to hold back my tears.
I am sure many of us can think of a sad thing like this in our lives, but we can be cheered by it. The key to our success depends not on the incident, but on how we react to it and the actions we take afterwards. Our success depends on our "growth mindset"
A growth mindset comes from the belief that one's basic qualities can be developed through efforts. People greatly differ from each other in talents, interests, or personalities
Needless to say, a growth mindset can act as a pathway to one's success. Here are actions that helped me：
Be open to bad feedback. It's never easy. Let's accept it, although it hurts!
Have an honest self﹣reflection. Reflect on what went wrong, why it went wrong, and what could have been done differently. It's important not to blame others at this stage.
Find a confidant, with whom you can have a heart﹣to﹣heart conversation. He will truly guide you to keep your plan.
Believe in yourself and just go for it. Whenever you fail at something, try to tell yourself, "No one has been born doing this, I can too."
①A week after her 84th birthday, Betty Sandison graduated with a bachelor's degree (学士学位) more than 60 years in the making.
②"Just pure joy, pure satisfaction that I had attained my goal of walking across Northrop," she said.
③On May 7, Sandison received her bachelor's degree in Multidisciplinary Studies from the College of Continuing and Professional Studies—nearly seventy years after she started college.
④Sandison started studying at the University of Minnesota 67 years ago. She had to pause (暂停) her education and follow her husband's career moves when she got married. But she never gave up her dream of getting a degree.
⑤"I was out to lunch with friends, and we were talking about bucket lists (愿望清单) and things we wanted to do. I said I always wanted to graduate from a university," she said.
⑥Deciding to make that happen, Sandison enrolled (注册) in classes at the university in the autumn of 2018, where her second time around was a lot different. The university was larger than before, and she needed to try harder.
⑦Unluckily, because of COVID-19 in 2020, she had to give up both the classes she tried to take online. But Sandison finally got her degree.
⑧"You need to do what you want to do or what your goals are. Don't let anybody stop you," she said. "My big thing is, I would like to encourage older people to go to classes, to keep learning, and not just to sit in front of the TV."
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Labor education is required in China with the purpose of developing students' independence. Since this fall term, students in primary and middle schools have been taking at least one class every week to learn basic household skills like cooking and cleaning. What should you learn in labor education?
First and second graders in primary schools
*Do basic cleaning.
*Wash vegetables and peel fruit.
*Learn to raise one or two kinds of plants or small animals.
Third and fourth graders in primary schools
*Wash underwear, socks and shoes.
*Clean classrooms.
*Learn how to make cold dishes and use simple home appliances(家用电器).
*Try planting vegetables or keeping animals.
Fifth and sixth graders in primary schools
*Cook two or three common dishes, like fried eggs.
*Learn to make a nutritional(有营养的) recipe.
*Raise one or two kinds of common local vegetables or animals.
Middle school students
*Cook three or four dishes independently.
*Take part in local productive labor like potting plants.
*Learn to repair some home appliances.
*Learn how to make one or two kinds of traditional things by hand.
*Get firsthand experience in farming, industrial production or the modern service industry.
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