翻译：XG
原作：TOM时间仓促，并未完全直译，有意译成分。望大家谅解和指正。
译文如下：
我认为他们找错了目标
我估计到现在为止，做出杭外改制决定的人已经焦头烂额了。我会给此人在评价上留点面子，因为我认为，他根本不明白杭外真正的意义。这样一个商业的决定只能让公众对他的能力产生质疑。
我同样很有把握地说，他根本不明白他正面对的是怎样一个集体。
杭外不是一群能够被玩弄，被出卖，被威胁，被无视，被遣散的个人。真正的杭外是建立它的传统之上的。那些杭外的保卫者并不是为了一个好工作，一个舒适的校园，或是他们子女的分数。他们保卫杭外，是为了杭外带给所有人的那种特质，而这样坚定的激情永远不可能是贪婪能够激发的。如果有人真的想要改进教育，那么就倾听这些杭外的保卫者的诉求吧，他们有重要深刻的思想。他们不仅保卫杭外，也保卫这样一种思想，以及去实现它的可能。在这个改制决定中真正受损的是教育官员的信用。对于一个能把杭外这样一个地方摧毁的教育体制，无论是过去的学生，将来的学生，家长，以及来自直接各地的我们，只要是了解杭外的，都会对这样的体制产生质疑。
我想到了Tang Yuji (译者：Tangyujie?)。他在教育中有成就伟大事业的能力，但问题是，在这样一个有人威胁老师，有人逃避对话的组织中，有他的位置吗？
每当我给我的班级上课，我都看到他们带给我将来的希望。他们都是有天赋的，令人称赞的学生，在我眼里他们都是英雄。他们互相激励；他们用只有他们自己做的到的方式帮助他人进步。给这些学生机会，让他们用自己的方式一起成就辉煌，是中国教育制度的一部分。他们对老师的崇拜让我惊喜，对那些把大学的尊严带进初一到高三课堂的伟大的老师们。这样的教育理念和学生才能的组合的1+1已经得出了远远大于2的结果。
这样的伟大已经经过的多年，并且成为了在杭外的所有人的一部分。杭外是教育界一块宝石，远远超越了应试的境界。教育应该不仅停留在分年级，按程度教授。任何学校都能造出考试机器，只有真正的学校能赋予学生好奇心的在兴趣引导下自学的能力。世界任何地方的人都会想要这样一所学校，而中国就有这样一所特立独行的学校。如果杭外因为政治原因，或关系原因，和一些不愿承认错误的官员而就此消亡，那才是真正的悲剧。如果对话中没有了信任和尊重，那么留下的就是赤裸裸的暴政。所有在世界各地的杭外校友和朋友现在都在关注着这件事，尽管地方媒体已被禁声。
我并非因为杭外是一所所有学生都梦想就读的学校而保卫它。我保卫杭外是因为这是一所真正鼓励和教会学生挖掘自己的潜力的学校，并帮助更多的学生分享梦想，从而改进中国，向世界展示中国并不只有廉价商品，和一些做愚蠢决定的，同时还认为自己很有能力的人。
我的确认为教育学院应该得到改进。我认为中国政府有的是财力在中国的任何地方为任何一所高质量的学校提供支持。只要有中国给美国的贷款中的很微小的一部分那么多，就可以做到。
原文如下：
I think he kicked the wrong dog.
I assume that by now the person who made the decision to effectively close HFLS as it is, is in a living hell. I will be generous with my judgment of him and assume that he had no idea what Hangwai（杭外） really was when he decided to mark it unnecessary as an example of how to lower everyone’s expectations to his own ability to produce or as a as a business deal or whatever the real reason was.I am also positive that he did not know what he would be up against.
HFLS is more than just a collection of individuals that can be shifted about, sold, reassigned, intimidated, ignored and dismissed. The true Hangwai（杭外） lives in its tradition. Those who defend this place don't do it just to protect an advantaged job or beautiful school or merely for their children's test grades. They defend it because they believe in what it has to offer to everyone. There is a passion for that place that cannot come from greed. If one really wants to improve education they will listen to those who defend HFLS. They have important thoughts. They defend the philosophy and the ability to implement it as well as the school itself.
The real cost of the decision is the loss of trust in the education bureau for all involved. The past students, the future students, the teachers, and yes all of us around the world who know this place will forever wonder about a system that would let someone destroy what works so well.
I think of Tang Yuji. He could do great things in education but is there a place for him in an organization with the kind of people who threaten teachers and hide from dialogue?
When I looked at my classes while teaching there it gave me hope for the future. They are gifted students and admirable people and have earned the status of heroes in my eyes. They incite each other to be their best. They bring each other up in ways that only they can do. Giving them the opportunity to thrive together in this way is an important part of the Chinese educational system. I marvel at the way that they admire their teachers, those amazing teachers that can carry the dignity of a university into a classroom of junior ones to senior threes. This combination of educational philosophy and talent has evolved into something that is much greater than the sum of its parts.
This greatness has developed over many years and is a part of everyone there. HFLS is a gem of education that goes beyond preparing students to be classified by a test. Education should be much more than organizing people into different levels of learning ability. Anyone can produce test monkeys, but it takes a real school to leave the students curious and teaching themselves from their own interest. People the world over dream of having a school like this. China has something special in this school. To have it reduced as a political move by a hollow disconnected guanxi (关系)emperor that will not admit to a mistake would be a tragedy. If you take away respect and the confidence to dialog what you have left is tyranny. Friends and alumni of HFLS all over the world are watching these developments, in spite of the local press censorship.
I don't defend HFLS to keep a place that most kids in China will never dream of attending. I defend it as a place that encourages and teaches people to live up to their true potential and in turn make it possible for more students to share in their dream and as a result improve China for everyone and help show the world that the central kingdom is capable of more than just cheap goods and constant and empty changes made by men who create foolish disruptions to establish themselves as effective.
I do think the teacher's university（教育学院） deserves improvement too. I think there is enough money in the Chinese treasury to fund a good school for teachers and HFLS quality schools all over China. A fraction of the extra money that is loaned to America would accomplish this.
Tom
