Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  • -- John William Gardner 约翰·威廉·加德纳

今天的很多教育都非常低效。我们常常在应该教年轻人自己种花的时候,却给他们插花。

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Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.

今天,我们站在从领土国家通往国际社会的桥梁上。在政治上,我们仍然受到领土国家概念的支配;在经济和技术上,我们生活在全球通讯和全球市场的支持下。

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

这里有一种基本的张力。有人说,我想把这片森林砍伐掉,把它砍成锯材,因为这对我来说是一件具有经济效益的事情。

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

任何一个成年人,只要他认为自己像过去的父母和老师一样,可以变得内省,唤起自己的青春去理解他面前的青春,他就迷失了。

What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image.

不管怎么说,在我们国家发生的事情是,年轻人已经不再拘泥于音乐厅的形式,不再拘泥于交响乐团的形象。

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

我喜欢戏剧,我会剪掉所有其他的对话,做很长的独白,因为我觉得其他孩子不像我一样认真对待它。

Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.

随着年龄的增长,不要化浓妆。年轻女性可以随意化妆,但如果你年纪大了,你会后悔的。

I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

我可以做最神奇的事情。我们经常称它为“处于危险中的主人”,因为人们喜欢看到我冒着生命危险或处于危险之中。

So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.

所以我尽量不去看太遥远的未来,因为我认为每件事的发生和将要发生都是有原因的。

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

我也喜欢花园。我种东西,蔬菜,花……我特别喜欢兰花。我提高兰花。

A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

做好事永远不会失去;播下礼貌的,收获友谊;播下仁慈的,收获友爱。

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

教会关于妇女的教导的全部基调,到最后都是轻蔑和有辱人格的。

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

只有艺术家才能看到灵魂。但当他告诉大家他们出现在他面前时,每个人都看到了他们。

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

我读了你写的这些备忘录,你是否有这样的印象?我甚至都举不起来。

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

随着年龄的增长,我总是在想,为什么我年轻时没有做得更多,为什么我没有冒更多的风险?

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

每个顶尖的演奏者都有自己的风格,就像每个画家都有自己的个性签名一样。

You never realize how much you like someone until you watch them like someone else.

你永远不会意识到你有多喜欢一个人,直到你看到他们喜欢上另一个人。

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

帮助我们的与其说是朋友的帮助,不如说是他们帮助我们的信心。

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

我的教学实践的一部分是提供演示性的实践经验。

If you wait too long for the perfect moment, the perfect moment will pass you by.

如果你等待完美的时刻太久,完美的时刻就会从你身边溜走。

There is a difference between giving up, and knowing when you have had enough.

放弃和知道自己什么时候已经受够了是有区别的。

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

如果你用有机材料培植土壤,植物就会生长得很好。

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

我认为你的整个人生都表现在你的脸上,你应该为此感到自豪。

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

你在西西里岛的一个家庭长大,成为一名演员并不是一个很大的飞跃。

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.

我今天很想成为一名球员。我有合适的性格。

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

重要的不是我们付出了多少,而是我们付出了多少爱。

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

我愿躺在你的脚下,死在你的怀里。

I know you have felt much more love than you've shown.

我知道你感受到了比你表现出来的更多的爱。

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

有些人被迫成为伟人,但不是最近。

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

外表的判断常常失败,内心的判断永远不会。

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

孤独的树,如果它们生长,就会变得强壮。