文化素养是一种思想活动，
具有对美和人情感悟能力。
Culture is activity of thought,
and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling.
道听途说的点滴知识与此完全是两码事。
Scraps of information have nothing to do with it.
仅仅百事通的人在上帝制造的地球上只是一个废物。
我们所要造就的是既有文化素养，又有专门知识的人。
A merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
What we should aim at producing is men
who possess both culture and expert knowledge in some special direction.
专门知识使人脚踏实地，
文化素养则令人思想像哲学家那样深邃，
情趣象艺术那样高雅。
Their expert knowledge will give them the ground to start from,
and their culture will lead them as deep as philosophy and as high as art.
但我们必须记住，
最有价值的智力开发乃是自我开发，
而开发的最重要的时期是在十六至三十岁之间。
至于一般教育，主要是十二岁以前由母亲所承担的。
We have to remember that the valuable intellectual development is self-development,
and that it mostly takes place between the ages of sixteen and thirty.
As to training, the most important part is given by mothers before the age of twelve.
怀特海：《教育的目的》 Whitehead, Aims of Education引自第1页
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