无论多么聪明的人,在他年轻时都曾说过或做过一些事情,后来回想起来会感到不快,以至于如果可能的话,他会很高兴地从记忆中抹去。
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
True progress happens when we stop optimizing for the past and start building for the future.