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1、2023年痛苦一时,受益一世受教一时,受益一世 对于教化,英国政治家乔治萨维尔曾下过这样的定义:“教化就是我们被灌输的学问忘光之后剩下的东西。”(Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.)的确,真正的教化不是死记硬背的书本学问,而是受益一生的才智启发。寒窗苦读十数载,总有那么几次特别的教化经验令我们感念一生。它或是教会了我们思索的方法,或是教会了我们做人的道理,又或是在我们脆弱之时为我们点起希望的火苗Saturday Morning at the MuseumBy Michael
2、 Bloomberg, Mayor, New York CityWhen I was growing up, Saturday mornings meant one thing only to me: a trip to the Boston Museum of Science. I loved sciencestill doand there was nowhere else Id rather be. The museums instructors would give these fascinating two-hour lectures and demonstrate the laws
3、 of physics using hands-on1) experiments. They would also quiz us on the museums exhibits, and all the kids would try to show off by having every answer. Those visits to the museum stretched my mind in ways that my schoolwork didnt. They taught me to listen, question, test and analyze. Figuring out
4、how things workand how they can work betteris what led me to become an engineer, a technology entrepreneur, a philanthropist and a mayor. I guess I can count my lucky stars that there were no Saturday morning cartoons when I was kid.The Price of Fur in Byzantium2)By Lewis Lapham, editor, Lahphams Qu
5、arterlyI dont now remember the name of the don3) assigned to conduct my first tutorial at Cambridge University in the autumn of 1956, but I remember the settinglate-afternoon fog, coals burning in an ancient grate4), the don in academic gown seated behind a silver tea service. Five months earlier I
6、graduated from Yale University with the intention of becoming a licensed historian who could be counted upon to attach the name of a dead poet or an unhorsed5) king to the appropriate zeitgeist6).My tutor was delighted to learn of my ambition. Great news, he said, but maybe you could spare a few mom
7、ents for the 12th century? I managed to sustain the illusion of scholarship for about the length of time it takes to see five deals of blackjack7). When I exhausted my supply of talking points, the tutor poured us both a second cup of tea, and for the next quarter of an hour, he asked questions abou
8、t aspects of the 12th century that I had possibly overlooked. In Byzantium, for instance, the prices bid and asked for Russian fur and Christian slaves?My failure to hazard8) even so much as a plausible guess moved the don to a murmur of mild regret. Yes, well, he said, you Americans have this wonderful talent for broad statement and grand abstraction that hasnt been granted to their poorer cousins here in England. Before reaching the general theory, you see, we like to have in hand a passing9) acquaintance with at least some of the facts.