1884年,哈佛大学校长查尔斯-威廉-艾略特为约翰·哈佛雕像揭幕,并宣称:
“ 约翰·哈佛会告诉人们善行会流芳百世,会以超越所有计量方式的速度和规模繁衍。
他会教导人们,在这个教育花园里播下的种子,
如何迸发出喜悦、力量以及永远新鲜的能量,年年花开,随着时光流转,
在人类活动的所有领域,花繁叶茂。”
In 1884,Harvard President
Charles William Eliot unveiled the Statue of John Harvard and claimed:
“ John Harvard would teach that the good rich men do lives after them,
fructified and multiplied beyond all power of measurement or computation;
he would teach from the seed which he planted has sprun joy、
strength and energy everfresh,blooming year after year in this garden of learning,
and flourishing as time goes on in all fields of human activity. ”
一个国家的繁荣,不取决于它的国库之殷实,
不取决于它的城堡之坚固,也不取决于它的公共设施之华丽;
而在于它的公民的文明素养,即在于人们所受的教育、人们的远见卓识和品格的高下。
这才是真正的利害所在、真正的力量所在。
——马丁·路德
The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues,
nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings;
but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens,
in its men of education, enlightenment, and character;
here are to be found its true interest, its chief strength, its real power.
——Martin Luther
品格,
使一个人的魅力得以展现,使一个人的道德影响得以产生,
使一个人能赢得世人的尊重。
一个人的品格,能使整个民族为之感到振奋,
成为国民行动的强大力量,能使整个民族为此感到自豪。
品格是一个人征服他人的武器,
是一个人崇高地位的基础,是一个人真正的桂冠和荣耀。
贵族的派头不是来自贵族的血统,不是来自贵族的时髦生活方式,
也不只是来自贵族的才华,而是来自于贵族的品格。
品格是一个人的真正的徽标。
——英国泰晤士报
That which raises a country,
that which strengthens a country, and that which dignifies a country,
——that which spreads her power, creates her moral influence,
and makes her respected and submitted to,
bends the hearts of millions, and bows down the pride of nations to her
——the instrument of obedience, the fountain of supremacy,
the true throne, crown, and sceptre of a nation;
——this aristocracy is not an aristocracy of blood, not an aristocracy of fashion,
not an aristocracy of talent only; it is an aristocracy of Character.
That is the true heraldry of man.
——The Times
什么是良好的教育呢?
也许我们很难给予它一个周全的描述。但我们可以非常肯定地说:
如果一个人从来没有感受过人性光辉的沐浴,
从来没有走进过一个丰富而美好的精神世界;
如果从来没有读到过一本令他激动不已、百读不厌的读物,
从来没有苦苦地思索过某一个问题;
如果从来没有一个令他乐此不疲、废寝忘食的活动领域,
从来没有过一次刻骨铭心的经历和体验;
如果他从来没有对自然界的多样与和谐产生过深深的敬畏,
从来没有对人类创造的灿烂文化发出过由衷的赞叹……
那么,他就没有受到过真正的、良好的教育。
——肖川
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