《论孩子》 　　于是一个怀中抱着孩子的妇人说：请给我们谈孩子。 　　他说： 　　你们的孩子，都不是你们的孩子， 　　乃是“生命”为自己所渴望的儿女。 　　他们是借你们而来，却不是从你们而来， 　　他们虽和你们同在，却不属于你们。 　　你们可以给他们以爱，却不可给他们以思想， 　　因为他们有自己的思想。 　　你们可以荫庇他们的身体，却不能荫庇他们的灵魂， 　　因为他们的灵魂，是住在“明日”的宅中，那是你们在梦中也不能想见的。 　　你们可以努力去模仿他们，却不能使他们来象你们， 　　因为生命是不倒行的，也不与“昨日”一同停留。 　　你们是弓，你们的孩子是从弦上发出的生命的箭矢。 　　那射者在无穷之中看定了目标，也用神力将你们引满，使他的箭矢迅疾而遥远地射了 　　出去。 　　让你们在射者手中的“弯曲”成为喜乐吧； 　　因为他爱那飞出的箭，也爱了那静止的弓。  
                                                                                                     诗人纪伯伦的先知中的一段
On Children
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, “Speak to us of Children.”
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
----The Prophet  by Kahill Gibran

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论教育
于是一位教师说，先知请给我们讲教育。
  他说：
  除了那已经半睡着，躺卧在你知识的晓光里的东西之外，没有人能向你启示什么。
  那在殿宇的荫影里，在弟子群中散步的教师，他不是在传授他的智慧，而是在传授他的忠信与仁慈。
  假如他真是大智，他就不命令你进入他的智慧之堂，却要引导你到你自己心灵的门口。
  天文家能给你讲述他对于太空的了解，他却不能把他的了解给你。
  音乐家能给你唱出那充满太空的韵调，他却不能给你那聆受韵调的耳朵和应和韵调的声音。
  精通数学的人能说出度量衡的方位，他却不能引导你到那方位上去。
  因为一个人不能把他理想的翅翼借给别人。
正如上帝对于你们每个人的了解都是不相同的，所以你们对于上帝和大地的见解也应当是不相同的。  
                                                                                                                                                   
  纪伯伦
The Prophet  by Kahill Gibran
On Teaching
Then said a teacher, “Speak to us of Teaching.”
And he said:
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of our knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.
The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.
And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.
For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.
And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

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