Teaching is not a lost art. But the regard for it is a lost tradition.

  • -- Jacques Martin Barzun 雅克·马丁·巴赞

教学不是一门消失的艺术。但对它的重视已成为一种失传的传统。

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Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.

教学是人类唯一的主要职业,我们还没有开发出工具,使一个普通人有能力和表现。在教学中,我们依赖于“自然主义者”,那些不知何故知道如何教学的人。

The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

史诗诗人的背后有着物质的传统和文体的传统;这也是其他所有诗人都有的东西;只是,对于史诗诗人来说,传统要狭隘得多,要严格得多。

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

历史或多或少是胡扯。这是传统。我们不想要传统。我们想活在当下,唯一值得修补的历史就是我们今天创造的历史。

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

你的一些老师实际上比你想象的年龄更接近你。