To Be Understood

Emerson: "to be great is to be misunderstood."

Truth Is Made

William James of Pragmatism: "Truth is not a stagnant property. Truth is made, just as hearth, wealth and strength are make, in the course of experience."

What Is College For?

What the college was, or should be -what Meiklejohn hoped to make Amherst into - was a place to be thought of as "liberal," that is, "essentially intellectual": "The college is primarily not a place of the body, nor of the feelings, nor even of the will; it is, first of all, a place of the mind." Introducing "the boys" to the intellectual life led for its own sake, would save them from pettiness and dullness.

There are those among us who will find so much satisfaction in the countless trivial and vulgar amusements of a crude people that they have no time for the joys of the mind. There are those who are so closely shut up within a little round of petty pleasures they that have never dreamed of the fun of reading and conversing and investigating and reflecting.

A liberal education would rescue boys from stupidity, its purpose being to draw from that "reality-loving American boy" something like "an intellectual enthusiasm." But this result could not be achieved, Meiklejohn added, without a thorough reversal of the curriculum: "I should like to see every freshman at once plunged into the problems of philosophy," he said with enthusiasm.

沉思录：第一部

拥有温和持稳的品性。
要有自尊与胆识
虔诚大方，既无丑恶的行为也无丑恶的想法
注重良好的教育，在教育上不惜钱财
朴素，勤奋
做自己应该做的工作
避免过分的热情，不要对观看运动比赛过于兴奋
不要炫耀自己的知识，不要哗众取宠，书信形式要简单
读书要用心，不要为一知半解而满足，不要轻易地与人闲聊
在任何情况之下，都能自始至终地保持镇定，没有一刻缺乏理念的时候，不管失去自己的孩子也好，长年疾病在身也好