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1、 yea other school 孟课 -CAL-FENGHAI.-(YICAI)-Company One 1 2 Another School YearWhat For me tell you one of the earliest disasters in my career as a teacher. It was January of 1940 and I was fresh out of graduate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City. Part of the student b

2、ody was a beanpole with hair on top who came into my class, sat down, folded his arms, and looked at me as if to say HAII right, teach me something.” Two weeks later we started Hamlet. Three weeks later he came into my office with his hands on his hips. Look/ he said, ul came here to be a pharmacist

3、. Why do I have to read this stuff1 And not having a book of his own to point to, he pointed to mine which was lying on the desk 给你们讲讲我刚当老师时候的一次失败经历吧。那是 1940 年的 1 月，我从研究生院毕业不久，在堪萨斯 城大学开始第一学期的教学工作。一个瘦髙，长得就像顶上有毛的豆角架一样的男学生走进我的课堂，坐 下，双臂交义放在胸前，看着我，好像在说：“好吧，教我一些东西。两周后我们开始学习哈姆雷特 三周后他双手义腰走进我的办公室，看，他说，“我來这是学

4、习当药剂师的。我为什么必须读这个由于没 有随身带着自己的书，他就指着桌子上放着的我的那本。 2 New as I was to the faculty, I could have told this specimen a number of things. I could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at the end of his course meant to reach for a scroll that rea

5、d Bachelor of Scienee. It would not read: Qualified Pill-Grinding Technician. It would certify that he had specialized in pharmacy, but it would further certify that he had been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history That is to say, he had not entered a technical train

6、ing school but a university and in universities students enroll for both training and education. 虽然我是位新老师，我本來可以告诉这个家伙许多事情的。我本來可以指出，他考入的不是制药技工 培训学校而是大学，而11他在毕业时，应该得到一张写有理学学士而不是“合格的磨药工的学位证书。这证 书会证明他专修过药剂学，但它还能进一步证明他曾经接触过一些人类发展史上产生的思想。换句话说，他 上的不是技能培训学校而是大学，在大学里学生既要得到培训又要接受教育。 could have told him all th

7、is, but it was fairly obvious he wasnt going to be around long enough for it to matter. 我本來可以把这些话都告诉他，但是很明显，他不会待很长时间，说了也没用。 I was young and I had a high sense of duty and I tried to put it this way: HFor the rest of your life/1 I said, Hyour days are going to average out to about twenty-four hours T

8、hey will be a little shorter when you are in love, and a little Ion ger whe n you are out of love, but the average will tend to hold For eight of these hours, more or less, you will be asleep. 但是，由于我当时很年轻而且责任感也很强，我尽量把我的意思这样表达出来：在你的余生中，我 说，平均每天 24 小时左右。谈恋爱时，你会觉得它有点短;失恋时，你会觉得它有点长。但平均每天 24 小 时会保持不变。在其余

9、的大约 8 个小时的时间里，你会处于睡眠状态。 5.HThen for about eight hours of each working day you will, I hope, be usefully employed Assume you have gone through pharmacy school or engineering, or law school, or whatever during those eight hours you will be using your professi onal skills You will see to it that the cy

10、a nide stays out of the aspirin, that the bull does nt jump the fen ce, or that your client doesnt go to the electric chair as a result of your incompete nee. These are all useful pursuits They involve skills every man must respect, and they can all bring you basic satisfactions. Along with everythi

11、ng else, they will probably be what puts food on your table, supports your wife, and rears your children. They will be your in come, and may it always suffice. 然后在每个工作日8个小时左右的时间里，我希望你会忙于一些有用的事情。假设你毕业于一所药科 大学一一或工程大学，法学院，或者其他什么大学一一在那8个小时时间里，你将用到你的专业技能。作为 一个药剂师，你要确保氯化物没有和阿斯匹林混在一起;作为一个工程师，你要确保一切都在你的掌控之中

12、;作 为一个律师，你要保证你的当事人没有因为你的无能而被处以电刑。这些都是有用的工作，它们涉及到的技 能每个人都必须尊重，而IL它们都能给你带來基本的满足。无论你还干些什么，这些技能都很可能是你养家 糊口的本领。它们会给你带來收入;但愿你的收入总能够用。 6.But having finished the days work, what do you do with those other eight hours Lets say you go home to your 3 famil y. What sort of family are you raising Will the childr

13、e n ever be exposed to a reas on ably pen etrati ng idea at home Will you be presidi ng over a family that maintains some con tact with the great democratic in tellect Will there be a book in the house Will there be a painting a reas on ably sen sitive man can look at without shudderi ng Will the ki

14、ds ever get to hear Bach” 但完成一天的工作后，剩下的 8 小时你做什么呢比如说你可以回家，和你的家人待在一起。你所供养 的是一个什么样的家庭呢孩子们在家里能接触到一点还算是精辟的思想吗你主持的家庭中有民主气息吗家里 有书吗有那种一般敏感的人看了不会发怵的画吗孩子们会听到巴赫的音乐吗 is about what I said, but this particular pest was not interestedLook/1 he said, Hyou professors raise your kids your way; Ill take care of my ow

15、n. Me, Im out to make money.11 这差不多就是我所说的，但这个讨厌鬼不感兴趣。“看，他说，你们教授用你们的方法培养孩子;我会 以我自己的方式抚养我自己的孩子。我呀，我会尽一切努力挣钱的。 8.l hope you make a lot of it/ I told him, Hbecause you*re going to be badly stuck for something to do when youre not signing checks.H 我希望你能赚很多，我告诉他，“因为你在开支票的余暇会愁没事干的。” years later I am still

16、teachi ng, and I am here to tell you that the business of the college is not only to trai n you, but to put you in touch with what the best human minds have thought If you have no time for Shakespeare, for a basic look at philosophy, for the contin uity of the fine arts, for that less on of mans dev

17、elopment we call history then you have no business being in college You are on your way to being that new species of mechanized savage, the push-button Neanderthal. Our colleges inevitably graduate a number of such life forms, but it cannot be said that they went to college; rather the college went

18、through them without maki ng con tact. 10 年后的今夭，我仍然在教书，在此我要告诉你们，大学的职责并不只是在于培训你，它还要使你接 触人类思想的精髓。如果你没时间看莎士比亚的作品，没时间看哲学入门，没时间欣赏艺术的存续，也没时 间学习我们称之为历史的人类发展的课程一一那么你就没有必要呆在大学里了。你正在变为那种新型的机械 化的野蛮人，那种装有按钮的尼安德特人。我们大学的毕业生里不可避免有不少这样的行尸走肉;但是我们不 能说他们上过大学，只能说大学曾存在于他们的生活一一却没能留下任何痕迹。 one gets to be a huma n being un

19、aided There is not time en ough in a single lifetime to inve nt for on eself everything one needs to know in order to be a civilized human 没有外界的帮助，谁也不会成长为一个文明人。要想成为一个文明人，必须获取文明社会所需的知识 和文化，而人生苦短，不足以获取人类历史长河中的所有宝贵财产。 for example, that you want to be a physicist. You pass the great stone halls of, say,

20、 M I. T., and there cut into the stone are the names of the scientists The chances are that few, if any, of you will leave your names to be cut into those stones. Yet any of you who man aged to stay awake through part of a high school course in physics, knows more about physics than did many of thos

21、e great scholars of the past You know more because they left you what they knew, because you can start from what the past learned for you. 比如说你想成为一个物理学家。你走过，比方说，麻省理工学院的宏伟的石头大厅，那里的石头上刻 着科学家的名字。很可能将來，你们当中几乎没有人可以把名字留在那些石头上，如果有的话也是极少数。 但是只耍你们原来上高中物理课的时候不是从头睡到尾，你们当中任何一个人了解的物理学知识都要比许多 那些历史上的伟大的学者多。你知道的多是因

22、为他们将他们知道的传给了你，你可以从他们己了解的知识上 起步。 as this is true of the techniques of mankind, so it is true of mankinds spiritual resources Most of these resources, both technical and spiritual, are stored in books Books are mans peculiar accomplishment. When you have read a book, you have added to your huma n expe

23、rie nee. Read Homer and your mind in eludes a piece of Homers mind Through books you can acquire at least fragments of the mind and experienee of Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare the list is endless For a great book is necessarily a gift; it offers you a life you have not the time to live yourself, and it

24、 takes you into a world you have not the time to travel in literal time A civilized mind is, in esse nee, one that contains many such lives and many such worlds .If you are too much in a hurry, or too arroga ntly proud of your own limitations, to accept as a gift to your humanity some pieces of the

25、minds of Aristotle, or Chaucer, or Einstein, you are neither a developed human 4 nor a useful citizen of a democracy. 人类的技术发展是如此，人类精神财富的积累也是如此。这些技术和精神的大部分资料都储存在书 中。书籍是人类独有的成就。你读完了一本书，你就丰富了你的人生经历。阅读荷马的作品，那么你的头脑 里就有了荷马的思想。通过读书你起码能获得一些维吉尔、但丁、莎士比亚的思想和经历一一名单是列不完 的。因为一本好书必然是一份礼物;它为你呈现你没时间去亲口体验的生活，带你进入一个你在

26、现实生活中没 时间去亲口游览的世界。从本质上说，一个文明的人应该知道许多这样的生活和这样的世界。如果你太过匆 忙，或是对口己的无知洋洋得意，以至于不能把一些亚里士多德，乔叟或爱因斯坦的思想当作你的品质的一 件礼物來接受，那么你既不是一个先进的人，也不是一个民主社会的有用公民。 think it was La Rochefoucauld who said that most people would never fall i n love if they had nt read about it. He might have said that no one would ever man age to become huma n if they had nt