The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

  • -- Baruch Spinoza 斯宾诺莎

人类所能达到的最高活动是为理解而学习,因为理解就是自由。

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But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.

但是,如果你观察孩子们在他们生命的最初几年里学习,你会发现他们可以并且确实是自学的——我们让他们自己去爬、走、说,并控制他们的身体。这发生在没有父母帮助的情况下。

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.

由于我所受的教养的性质,我所有的精力都集中在一种活动上,被其他活动打断,甚至无法生存。

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

成年人永远不会自己理解任何事情,而孩子们总是没完没了地向他们解释事情是令人厌烦的。

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

我到处旅行,通过阅读和写作,我创造了这种读写能力的幻觉。我写了一本短篇小说。

Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.

不要等到吸取了所有的教训后才去享受快乐。快乐是你的功课。

To leap into a pool embracing a stone.

抱着石头跳进水池。