事件有关的人并将此采访的内容录下来。
珍妮特:好的,那接下来呢?
安 迪: 我们编辑这些采访然后将它们全部都上传到网站上。我们一周就取得了二十万个网
路点击数。我们是伦敦最大的数据站点。
珍妮特:我能问你其他事情吗?
安 迪: 尽管问吧。
珍妮特:我们现在要做什么?
安 迪: 我需要回到我的公寓去拿我的研究调查。然后,我们得去做个采访。让我们乘地铁
到我家去吧。
珍妮特:那乔怎么办?
安 迪: 他现在应该在去国家剧院的路上。他要去给一位新戏剧的导演做个采访。但我有点
儿希望他在途中迷路。然后,他将会发现伦敦是多么棒的一个地方。
珍妮特:我不明白。
安 迪: 我是在开玩笑!快点,我们走吧!
Outside view
Happiness is not what most students have in mind when they think of school. Yet a school
in Germany has developed a novel way to raise the morale of its students, by teaching happiness
in classes. Students at Heidelberg‘s Willy Hellpach School of Economics are learning how to
achieve happiness as an official subject, alongside mathematics and languages. This is the first
school in Germany to develop a happiness course, intended for 17- to 19-year-olds preparing for
university entrance exams.
Ernst Fritz-Schubert, the school‘s principal, is on a mission to change things.
Ernst Fritz-Schubert: It was my idea-I‘ve been at this school for 31 years, and I feel that
school and happiness have to be reunited. These are two terms which are not considered together,
because one does not connect school with happiness. In some cases school comes behind the
dentists on the popularity scale and we should try to push schools‘ popularity a bit.
It has been proved by science that a happy student can learn more than an unhappy one,
Unhappy students can concentrate for a while but do not use all their potential. The happiness
classes are intended to help students fulfill their potential. They will help the students live happy
and prosperous lives.
The classes aim to help students in achieving a positive state of mind, by using all their
own resources and boosting their self-esteem. In addition, they hope classes will increase
self-awareness and physical comfort. Happiness classes are also intended to make students more
aware about their environment and society as a whole. During classes students are encouraged to
express themselves and observe their peers‘ behavior. The classes are taught by Bjoern Bonn, an
actor and visiting lecturer.
Bjoern Bonn: One of the exercises I do is to have one of the students walk across the
classroom, with the others copying his walk. Through this exercise, I hope they learn something
about themselves. Why do I move like this? How do others see my way of walking? I hope that
with a higher body awareness they ideally –of course it will take time-achieve a higher
self-consciousness which could lead to happiness.
Wolfgang Lang: We give these classes to students to help them find happiness. Now the
question is: How do I define happiness? Happiness is for example a strengthening of the