I want to teach my students how to live this life on earth,
To face its struggle and its strife and improve their worth.
Not just the lesson in a book or how the rivers flow,
But how to choose the proper path wherever they may go.
To understand eternal truth and know the right from wrong,
And gather all the beauty of a flower and a song.
For if I help the world to grow in wisdom and in grace,
Then, I shall feel that I have won and I have filled my place.
And so I ask my guidance, God, that I may do my part,
For character and confidence and happiness of heart.
譯文:
老師的心愿究竟是什麼呢？
我想教會學生如何去生活，
如何面對困難，完善自我。
不只是書本知識或是自然奧秘，
而是如何走好人生之旅。
學會去辨別是非，找尋真理，
從平凡的點滴中發掘美的韻律！