We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

  • -- Epictetus 埃皮克特斯

许多人说,除了自由的人,没有人应当受教育。而是对哲学家们说,只有受过良好教育的人才是自由的。

相关名言

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

对机械一无所知的哲学家倾向于把人仅仅看作一种机械,并以此暗示人是没有目的的。这表明我们对机器和人类都缺乏了解。

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.

要受教育,一个人不需要知道很多或了解很多,但他或她必须脆弱地暴露在一个忙碌的人类生活的变革事件中。

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

圣经说,上帝按照自己的形象创造了人;哲学家们颠倒了这个过程:他们用自己的方式创造上帝。

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

没有一个国家能真正发展,除非它的公民受过教育。