何为大学（二）

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何为大学（二）

课程导读

上节课，我们看到作者从大学的古代名称“Studium General”说起，来简单通俗地描述一般意义上的大学是什么——大学最基础的就是汇集来自不同地方的学生，来学习各类知识的地方；从而引出大学的本质——思想知识交流、传播的场所。可是，知识传播的方式有很多种，大学只是其中的一种。那么大学比起其他的知识传播方式，有哪些好处呢？让我们继续阅读吧。

英文原文

What can we want more, you will say, for the intellectual education of the whole man, and for every man, than so exuberant and diversified and persistent a promulgation of all kinds of knowledge?

Why, you will ask, need we go up to knowledge, when knowledge comes down to us?

The Sibyl wrote her prophecies upon the leaves of the forest, and wasted them; but here such careless profusion might be prudently indulged, for it can be afforded without loss, in consequence of the almost fabulous fecundity of the instrument which these latter ages have invented.

We have sermons in stones, and books in the running brooks; works larger and more comprehensive than those which have gained for ancients an immortality, issue forth every morning, and are projected onward to the ends of the earth at the rate of hundreds of miles a day.

Our seats are strewed, our pavements are powdered, with swarms of little tracts; and the very bricks of our city walls preach wisdom, by informing us by their placards where we can at once cheaply purchase it.

I allow all this, and much more; such certainly is our popular education, and its effects are remarkable.

Nevertheless, after all, even in this age, whenever men are really serious about getting what, in the language of trade, is called “a good article,” when they aim at something precise, something refined, something really luminous, something really large, something choice, they go to another market;

they avail themselves, in some shape or other, of the rival method, the ancient method, of oral instruction, of present communication between man and man, of teachers instead of learning, of the personal influence of a master, and the humble imitation of a disciple, and, in consequence, of great centers of pilgrimage and throng, which such a method of education necessarily involves.

This, I think, will be found to hold good in all those departments or aspects of society which possess an interest sufficient to bind men together, or to constitute what is called “a world”.

It holds in the political world, and in the high world, and in the religious world; and it holds also in the literary and scientific world.

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