If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.

  • -- Avram Noam Chomsky 乔姆斯基

如果你去参加一次示威,然后回家,那是件了不起的事,但当权者可以忍受。他们无法忍受的是持续不断的压力,不断建立的组织,不断做事情的人,不断吸取上次的教训,下次做得更好的人。

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It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

教育的常识性之一,就是我们常常首先切断生活的根,然后试图用人为的手段取代它的自然功能。因此,我们抑制孩子的好奇心,当他对学习缺乏天生的兴趣时,我们会为他的学习困难提供特殊的指导。

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

长期以来,社会上有一种模糊的信念,即在不损害现有机构的情况下,可以利用法定的每周休息日来达到影响公众利益的目的。

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

夏天是参观艺术博物馆的好时机,那里提供了游泳池的清爽冲洗——只是你沉浸在艺术之中,而不是清凉的水。

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself.

不要跟随别人的想法,而是要学会倾听自己内心的声音。