An Important Aspect of College Life

　　It is perfectly possible to organize the life of our colleges in such a way that students and teachers alike will take part in it; in such a way that a perfectly natural daily intercourse will be established between them; and it is only by such an organization that they can be given real vitality as places of serious training, be made communities in which youngsters will come fully to realize how interesting intellectual work is, how vital, how important, how closely associated with all modern achievement - only by such an organization that study can be made to seem part of life itself. Lectures often seem very formal and empty things; recitations generally prove very dull and unrewarding. It is in conversation and natural intercourse with scholars chiefly that you find how lively knowledge is, how intimate a part it is of everything that is interesting and important, how intimate a part it is of everything that is "practical" and connected with the world. Men are not always made thoughtful by books; but they are generally made thoughtful by association with men who think.

- Woodrow Wilson

《大学生活的一个重要方面》

　　在组织我们的大学生活时，让学生和教师都参与到其中是非常有可能的；这样师生之间就会建立起自然的日常交流；只有通过这样的组织，才能使大学这种严格培养人的地方充满朝气，才能使它们成为共同生活的团体，年轻人在其中会充分认识到脑力劳动是多么有趣味、多么充满活力、多么重要，并与一切现代成就有着多么密切的联系--只有通过这样组织，学习才可能成为生活本身的一个组成部分。课堂授课往往显得一本正经而空洞无物；背诵的结果往往也是枯燥而收效甚微。只有在与学者的谈话和与自然的交往中，你才能懂得知识是多么生机勃勃，知识和一切有趣的和重要的事情联系得是多么紧密；它是一切"实用的" 、和世界密切相关的事物中不可分割的一分子。读书并不一定使人变得善于思考；但和善于思考的人交往就能使人善学好思。

--伍德罗·威尔逊