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布克·T·华盛顿：力争上游·摘录 157
布克·T·华盛顿《力争上游》· Up from Slavery · 领导
We tried several locations before we opened up a pit that furnished brick clay. I had always supposed that brickmaking was very simple, but I soon found out by bitter experience that it required special skill and knowledge, particularly in the burning of the bricks. After a good deal of effort we moulded about twenty-five thousand bricks, and put them into a kiln to be burned. This kiln turned out to be a failure, because it was not properly constructed or properly burned. We began at once, however, on a second kiln. This, for some reason, also proved a failure. The failure of this kiln made it still more difficult to get the students to take part in the work. Several of the teachers, however, who had been trained in the industries at Hampton, volunteered their services, and in some way we succeeded in getting a third kiln ready for burning. The burning of a kiln required about a week. Toward the latter part of the week, when it seemed as if we were going to have a good many thousand bricks in a few hours, in the middle of the night the kiln fell. For the third time we had failed.
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华盛顿原以为造砖简单，试了才知道烧窑很讲技术。他们做了两万五千块砖，连烧两窑都失败：第一窑构造或火候不对，第二窑原因不明。失败让学生更不愿参与，好在几位在汉普顿受过训练的教师自愿帮忙，第三窑才备好。烧一窑约一周，眼看快成功，半夜窑塌了，第三次失败。这说明光有热情不够，技术细节决定成败；连续失败会打击士气，需要骨干顶上。
上下文
汉普顿学院是华盛顿的母校，以工业教育闻名，那里的教师有制砖经验。
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你最近一次失败，是方向错了，还是某个技术细节没做到位？
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