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发布时间:2012-03-12 18:46:00
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内容提要:世界是我们的,也终将是你们的。

  We are more than the functions and jobs that we do. We are the co-makers of this world we live in. And the moral force of our citizens is not used often enough to enrich of our world. We take the living potential that are young minds and turn them, reduce them, into job-fillers and economy providers. We have regressed from the wonderful project of the academy of Plato’s dream. Every student is a light, a creative spark, waiting to be of use in dispelling the darkness.

  我们所承担的并非只是我们所饰演的角色和所做的工作。我们是所生存的这个世界的共同创造者。公民的道德力量没有得到足够的运用,无法充实我们的世界。我们接收富有活力的年轻人,把他们变成,或者削弱为,填补工作空位的人和提供经济活动的人。柏拉图对高等教育有过美好的构思,我们已经离他的梦想越退越远了。每个学生都是一盏灯,一朵充满创造力的火花,在等待发挥作用驱散黑暗。

  The terms in which I speak must be alien to you: but they will become known. Every day the crisis of purpose grows larger over the lives of people; and prosperity or poverty does not diminish the paralysis it brings if not addressed. A society can die of a lack of an understanding of why it exists, or its larger purpose in the scheme of things. The universe grows more mysterious around us even as we find out more about it. The true reason is this: we are more than we suspect, but we are taught to see less in ourselves, to not probe our true nature, and so the great mystery that we are peers out into the greater mystery that is out there. A mystery stares into a mystery; this is a hopeless position.

  目标危机日益加大对人们生活的影响,如果不予处理,无论富裕还是贫困都不会减轻它所造成的瘫痪。一个社会可能因为不了解自身存在的原因而消亡,或者说因为不了解发展过程中更大的目标而消亡。就在我们对身边这个世界有更多了解的同时,它也变得愈加神秘。真正的原因是:我们不仅仅是我们所想象的那样,但我们所受的教育却不让我们过多地关注自身,不让我们去探索真实本性,结果就是:我们自身这个巨大谜团在费力地张望身外那个更大的谜团。一个谜团凝视另一个谜团,这是一种绝望的处境。

  We ought now to substitute the faith in evidence with the knowledge of self-discovery. Only by knowing ourselves can we begin to undo the madness we unleash on the world in our wars, our divisions, our desire to dominate others, the poverty we create and exploit, and the damage we do with all the knowledge we have which has been only a higher ignorance.

  我们现在应该用发现自我来取代盲从。只有通过认识自身,我们才能开始消除我们在战争、分裂和对他人统治欲中显露出的疯狂;消灭我们创造并利用贫穷;除去我们所拥有的知识带来的灾难,这种知识只是一种程度更高的无知。


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