I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
我还告诉他们，你的教育可以让你走得比足球、棒球、田径或篮球更远——这只是底线。
A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
教育
Education
教育既关乎知识，也关乎提问、理解和独立思考。在这些中英语句中，寻找对学习方法、师生关系与持续成长的不同观察。
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
你知道教育和经验的区别吗?教育是当你读到细则的时候;经验是你没有经验时得到的东西。
I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
我认为世界上最伟大的教育是能够帮助一个人在必须做的时候做正确的事情。
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
奴隶制只被废除了一半，解放只完成了一半，而手中握有选票的数百万自由人却没有受到教育。
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
回首往事，我意识到培养好奇心和寻求解决办法的本能，也许是教育能做出的最重要的贡献。
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
我对受过教育的人的定义是，在必须做的时候知道该做什么。你可以是真诚的，也可以是愚蠢的。
The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.
理论物理学的方法应该适用于所有那些基本特征可以用数字表示的思想分支。
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
一个教区的牧师通常没有受过圣歌或音乐方面的教育，他会雇佣第一个进门的音乐总监。
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.
一般来说，高等教育不知道如何为自己的利益说话。它提供了一种防御性的、懦弱的、可能无效的立场。
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
一个文盲身上有一种说不出的新鲜感和无意识感，它使最高尚的表达天才的力量受到贬低和嘲笑。
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
经济学家报告说，大学教育使一个人一生的收入增加数千美元，然后他把这些钱花在送儿子上大学上。
I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.
我没有赢，事实上我被叫到校长办公室和我的父母商量。但那是我文学生涯的开始。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
没有一个崇拜教育的人能从教育中得到最好的东西……没有对教育的温和蔑视，没有人的教育是完整的。
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
教育是思维习惯的有系统的创造。
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
三人行，必有我师焉。择其善者而从之，其不善者而改之。
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
众所周知，如果一个人的内心土壤从未受过教育而变得松软或肥沃过，那么偏见是最难以根除的;他们在那里生长，如同野草生长在岩石中。
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
在教育中，没有什么比它以惰性事实的形式积累的无知更令人震惊的了。
A LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT
给此刻的你，一点向前的力量。
关于学习、善意与成长，读一句，再想一想。