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And I'd like to run through a few of these today.
現(xiàn)在我想具體地解釋一下
I'd like to kick off by looking at education.
先從教育說起
Now education is a field the secular world really believes in.
非宗教的人們十分相信學習、教育的力量
When we think about how we're going to make the world a better place,
我們覺得教育使世界進步
we think education; that's where we put a lot of money.
我們還在教育上花了很多錢
Education is going to give us, not only commercial skills, industrial skills,
教育不僅僅給我們很多本領(lǐng)，例如商業(yè)以及工業(yè)技術(shù)，
it's also going to make us better people.
還讓我們變成更加優(yōu)秀的人
You know the kind of thing a commencement address is, and graduation ceremonies,
像是那些開學典禮或者畢業(yè)典禮的演講
those lyrical claims that education, the process of education -- particularly higher education --
那些話語都告訴我們教育的過程，特別是高等教育
will make us into nobler and better human beings.
會使我們變成高尚優(yōu)秀的人才
That's a lovely idea. Interesting where it came from.
那是個很好的想法。這想法的起源也很有意思
In the early 19th century,
在十九世紀初的西歐
church attendance in Western Europe started sliding down very, very sharply, and people panicked.
去教堂的人急速減少，大家也變得緊張起來
They asked themselves the following question.
他們問自己
They said, where are people going to find the morality, where are they going to find guidance,
人們要去哪里尋找好品德，去哪里尋找指引
and where are they going to find sources of consolation?
又去哪里去尋找慰藉呢
And influential voices came up with one answer. They said culture.
那些有影響力的人回答道：文化
It's to culture that we should look for guidance, for consolation, for morality.
我們要在我們的文明中尋找指引，慰藉，和好品德
Let's look to the plays of Shakespeare, the dialogues of Plato, the novels of Jane Austen.
去看莎士比亞的劇本，柏拉圖的對話，簡·奧斯汀的小說
In there, we'll find a lot of the truths that we might previously have found in the Gospel of Saint John.
我們可以找到很多真理，那些真理很可能也在《約翰福音》中出現(xiàn)過
Now I think that's a very beautiful idea and a very true idea.
我覺得這想法是非常美妙真實的
They wanted to replace scripture with culture.
他們想用文化積淀來代替圣典
And that's a very plausible idea.
這也是非常有道理的
It's also an idea that we have forgotten.
但這也是一個我們已經(jīng)忘卻了的想法
