To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

  • -- Muriel Spark 穆丽尔·斯帕克

对我来说,教育是学生灵魂深处的一种引导。对麦凯小姐来说,这是对一些不存在的东西的投入,而这不是我所说的教育。我称之为入侵。

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Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous and abominable, he very often writes so well that you are loth to believe he could ever have written thus extremely ill.

莎士比亚的作品常常写得很差,你会怀疑他是否能写得非常好;或者,如果这样说显得不礼貌和可恶,他常常写得那么好,你不愿意相信他会写得那么差。

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

常识是世界上分布得最均匀的东西,因为每个人都认为自己很有天赋,即使是那些在其他事情上最难满足的人,也没有比他们已经拥有的东西更渴望得到常识的习惯。

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

教育的真正目的不是使学生仅仅成为他的导师的翻版,因此,各种各样的阅读应该引导学生进入新的思维方式,而不是让他们感到悲哀,而是让他们感到高兴。

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

在你看到一些东西之前,你必须想象它是可能的。证据就在你面前,但是如果你不能想象以前从未存在过的东西,那是不可能的。

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

每一种艺术所要求的条件与其说是不受限制,不如说是不掺杂和不受外来物质的侵扰。

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

在现实生活中,每个人都是主角。我们不认为自己是配角或角色演员。

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

如果一只猫做了什么,我们称之为本能;如果我们出于同样的原因做同样的事情,我们称之为智慧。

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

没有什么比常识分配得更公平了:没有人认为自己需要的比已经拥有的更多。

I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.

我本应该是一个浪漫的人,要么追求女主角,要么和男主角竞争。

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

我们所说的管理,大部分是让人们难以完成工作。

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

好运气是很难发现的——它看起来很像你赢得的东西。

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

痛苦是可以接受的——只要你知道你可以在你想要的时候摆脱它。

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

教育的最大困难是从思想中获得经验。

I was putting forward too much of myself when I was singing.

当我唱歌的时候,我对自己要求太高了。

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

目标过高或过低都有可能偏离目标。