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When Jean Harper was in Grade 3, her teacher Mrs Dean asked her students to write a report on what they wanted to be when they grew up. She expressed her
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of becoming an airline pilot (航空公司飞行员). Her paper came back with an “F” on it. The teacher told her it was a “fairy tale”. “It’s impossible
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girls to become airline pilots!” the teacher added.
In her senior year of high school, her English teacher was Mrs Dorothy Slaton. She was a
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teacher. One day, Mrs Slaton asked this question, “What will you do in the
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?” With excitement, Jean wrote down the very old dream right away.
The next thing that Mrs Slaton said
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Jean’s life. “I have a little secret for you. I think you do have abilities and talents. When you leave school, if you don’t go
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your dream, no one will do it for you. You can have what you want
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you try.”
Jean Harper then told her teacher more about her dream of becoming a pilot. Mrs Slaton slapped (敲击) the desk top
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. “Then just do it!” she said.
So Jean did, but it didn’t
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overnight. Over ten years of hard work, even though (即使) she faced all kinds of difficulties, she
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gave up her dream.
As you can guess, Jean Harper finally became an airline captain of the United Airlines.
