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Another lesson from Rousseau -- forget about book-learning.
盧梭的另一個教育理論是扔掉書本吧。
Cramming little heads with facts and figures did terrible damage to their animal high spirits, their instinct for freedom.
把孩子們的小腦袋里塞滿書本知識會嚴重損害他們動物般歡快的天性，扼殺他們追尋自由的本性。
Get 'em outside. Let 'em romp.
讓孩子們到自然中盡情地嬉笑玩耍吧。
But in an age of high infant mortality, making a heavy emotional investment in your children could rebound on you.
但在那個嬰兒死亡率居高不下的時代，在孩子身上投入如此多的感情可能會令你措手不及。
As a disciple of Rousseau, Brooke Boothby discovered when his daughter Penelope died at the age of five, that romantic feeling could be as intense in sorrow as it had been in happiness.
盧梭的追隨者布魯克·布思比，其愛女佩內洛普去世時不過五歲，他隨即發現自己心中迸發的悲傷與當初洋溢的幸福同樣強烈。
She was in form and intellect, most exquisite.
她是個漂亮的人兒，聰明伶俐。
The unfortunate parents ventured their all on this frail bark and the wreck was total.
不幸的父母為她賭上了一切，仍然無力回天。
The poignant memorial speaks of the terror of loss, of joy glimpsed, felt, experienced, and then cruelly destroyed.
這座心酸的紀念碑訴說著喪女的巨痛，那瞬息即逝的幻境，短暫的喜悅和隨即而來無情的毀滅。
That was the romantic vision of Britain, too -- a paradise in peril.
而英國當時的處境也正如那瀕臨破滅的幻境--是一座岌岌可危的天堂。
When men of feeling got off their high horses and left the sanctuary of their fantasy parks, what they saw was the ugly reality of the countryside.
當那些多愁善感的紳士們重歸現實，踏出庇護著他們的美好莊園時，他們看到了鄉村的不幸現狀。
With the explosion in population, many thousands were leaving the land and becoming dependent on the machines of the new industrial revolution.
由于人口急劇增長，幾千人背井離鄉，轉而投身工業革命中新興的機器制造業。
Poets like Oliver Goldsmith were oppressed by a vision of deserted villages.
想到鄉村將一片荒蕪，不少詩人十分抑郁，如奧利弗·哥德史密斯。
Sweet, smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
和藹可親的鄉村，草木蔥蘢，
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
而如今你卻風姿盡逝，干癟無趣，
Amidst thy bowers, the tyrant's hand is seen,
枯藤老樹下，暴掠之像隱約可見，
And desolation saddens all thy green:
青蔥綠野上，籠罩的是凄涼慘象，
One only master grasps the whole domain,
萬徑皆為同一主宰所掌控，
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
半數荒蕪的平原上再無歡笑。
Ill fairs the land, to hastening ills a prey,
沉疴遍野，病魔肆虐，
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
財富聚集處，人心腐朽。
