上周陪女儿做地理作业，我发现学校发的地图上把西西里岛标在了撒丁岛上。我让女儿自己找家中的世界地图册来确认西西里岛的位置，并且希望她第二天告诉老师这个发现。第二天接她放学时她主动告诉我今天的地理小测验，就是填写所有作业中复习过的地理位置。她说她得了满分10分，但是有两个同学得了10+。我问为什么？她说因为这两个小朋友标出了正确的西西里岛位置，纠正了教材的错误。我纳闷了，问她：“难道你没标对位置？我们不是已经找到学校教材的错误吗？”她说她最终还是按教材上错的位置回答的，也没告诉老师她发现了教材上的错误。我询问：“为什么你不相信自己是正确的呢？我们昨天已经纠正了学校教科书中的错误呀！”
她看起来有点烦躁：“这很重要吗？”
我说：“这非常重要。你至少需要努力捍卫真理。”
当我再次考虑这件事时，我仍然相信它确实很重要。你需要一个过程来学习如何以正确的理由争取并捍卫你的观点。此过程的时间长短取决于每个人不同的个性。我女儿是一个通常不主动为自己的言语权和个人利益而争取的人。争取需要勇气。我希望她能理解坚持真理的重要性，学会凡事尽力而为，勇敢的坚持。
Last week, I accompanied my daughter to do her geography homework. I found that Sicily was marked on Sardinia on the map issued by the school. I asked my daughter to find the world atlas to confirm the correct location of Sicily. I hope she will tell the teacher about her discovery the next day.
When I picked her up from school the next day, she took the initiative to tell me that today’s geography quiz is to fill in all the geographic locations reviewed in her homework. She said that she got a perfect score of 10. But two classmates of her got 10+. I asked why? She said that because those two kids marked the correct location of Sicily. I was puzzled and asked her: “Did you not mark the right position? We corrected the error in the school textbook yesterday.” She said that she finally answered same as in the textbook. And she did not tell the teacher that she found the error from the textbook. “Why don’t you believe that you are right?” I asked. She looked a bit irratable: “Is this so important?”
“It is very important,” I said. “You need at least to try to defend the truth.”
When I think this topic again, I still beleive it is really important. It takes a process to learn how to fight in right reasons and defend your opinions. How long of this process depend on different personalities. My daughter is a person who normally doesn’t take the initiative to fight for her speaking right. It takes courage to stand up. I hope she can understand the importance of adhering to the truth, and learn to try her best and persevere bravely.