美国留学申请，文书写作一直是头疼的事。其实只要用心，好文章并不难，比如这篇申请教育学的文书，以小见大，生活处处皆学问，只要你是爱学习的人。

　　Love Of Learning

　　My friends and I decided to go to the beach yesterday. On our way we drove down Woodward Avenue, a street that happens to be lined with beautiful old tulip trees. “Those are tulip trees; they are the largest deciduous trees in North America.” I told my friends. Of course I received the inevitable question from the back seat, “How do you know that?” I had to think about that for a minute, and then I knew; when I was in first grade we started learning about plants, and we learned the difference between coniferous and deciduous trees. I can remember sitting in my father’s car telling him about what I had learned about about , and he told me about the Tulip Trees that lined Woodward Ave.

　　My friends are always amazed that I can hold onto information for such a long time. Of course my ability doesn’t impress me. What I find astonishing is the way that learning grows from itself, like a plant whose cutting you can put into water so that it will root. Knowing one thing, the difference between deciduous and evergreen trees, led to my learning about something close to home, which led me to learn about when the tulip trees were planted, by whom, and what zoning rules were causing some of them to be preserved while others were cut down. Knowledge is just like that - you get a little bit of it and it grows.

　　When I think about going to  college, about leaving the facts and sights that I’ve known and explored for years I am filled not with fear but with a rising tide of excitement. To live day in and day out in a place filled with my peers who are all in the pursuit of different branches of academia seems like a dream come true for me. The conversations and information that I will receive outside of class alone will be staggering, and the ability to choose and specialize my educational pursuits and goals is thrilling.

　　Someday I hope to be a teacher and to have the ability to pass on what I have learned into the future. What will be truly exciting about this job will not only be the opportunity for me to educate others about , but that I will be learning constantly from my students.

　　Every time you get out of bed and start a new day you are giving yourself a new opportunity for experience and learning. Each day that you spend awake is a day unlike any other that has ever been lived or will be lived again. There is nothing which, once learned, serves no purpose; for, even if its only use is repeating it at an apropos time, there is always the chance that you are planting a seed in someone’s mind. When I leave my home and my Tulip Trees I will not walk forward without casting a backwards glance. A love of knowledge has been sown and now it can only flourish.

　　参考译文：我和朋友昨天决定去海边，途中我们驾车经过伍德沃德大道，这条道旁边碰巧站着一排美丽的老郁金香树。“那些是郁金香树，它们是北美最大的落叶树”我跟朋友说。“你怎么知道?”后座的朋友当然不可避免地要问。我想了一下，然后忆起：当我一年级我们开始学习植物的时候，我们学习了针叶树和阔叶树的不同。我依然记得我坐在我爸的汽车里，告诉他我在学校里学习的一切一切，他当时告诉我伍德沃德大街就有一排排的郁金香树。

　　我的朋友们总是惊讶我怎么能记那么长时间。我当然不会为我的记忆力惊讶，让我觉得惊讶的是学习自身生长的方式，就像你栽种郁金香树，从大树上截取一段幼枝，浇上水，它就自己生根了。学习了某种知识，例如针叶树和阔叶树之间的差异，让我想学习对与其相关的知识，诸如郁金香树一般什么时候种植，谁种啊，在别的部分被砍掉时有哪些分区法则能保护它们剩下的部分...知识就像——你知道其中一点，它自身就在生长了。

　　当我考虑进入大学，离开我已经熟悉的环境和多年来我一直兴奋地摸索的世界，将天天生活在许多同龄人为不同学术而追求的地方似乎象征我梦想成真。我单单课堂外收到的信息、听到的对话是令人惊愕的，而辨别筛选的能力、我将在教育行业学习专业知识是令人兴奋的。

　　我希望将来有一天成为一名教师，并有能力将我所学的一并传授。这份工作真正让我兴奋的是不仅我有机会教育别人，而且我也会不断地从我学生那里得到学习。

　　每一次清晨醒来，开始新的一天，你都在给自己新的学习和经历的机会。其实，每个今天，和过去的每个昨天以及将到来的明天都不一样。学到的知识，只要学到了，就不会没用。即使它唯一被用到的地方就是某个恰当时机被提起。但，你总有机会播撒知识的种子。当我离开家乡，离开我的郁金香树，回头再看一眼，对知识的爱已经种下，现在它已枝繁叶茂了。

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