When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

当我拿着铲子走进花园,挖了一张床,我感到如此的兴奋和健康,我发现我一直在欺骗自己,让别人为我做我本应该用自己的双手做的事情。

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If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

如果我们重视独立,如果我们被我们现有体系所诱导的知识、价值观和态度的日益一致所干扰,那么我们可能希望建立学习的条件,从而形成独特性、自我指导和自主学习。

I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

多年来,我一直躲在那支铅笔后面,什么事也没发生。但是,自从他们把我列入歌曲作家名人堂以来,我改变了主意。我好好审视了一下自己,说:我想是时候回去工作了。

One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?

当一个人有了孩子,他就是一个孩子。没有人会说,‘你再也不会是从前的你了。“这是真的!”我们都应该一直快乐。那是关于什么的?

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'

骄傲使人自欺。但在普通良知的深处,一个平静、微弱的声音对我们说:“有些东西不对劲。”