J*******g
发帖数: 8775 | 1 十四
为何当时我对于讴歌这些故事的希腊文觉得憎恨呢？的确荷马很巧妙地编写了这些故事
，是一个迷人的小说家，但对童年的我却真讨厌。我想味吉尔对于希腊儿童也如此，他
们被迫读味吉尔，和我被迫读荷马一样。读外国文字真是非常艰苦，甜蜜的希腊神话故
事上面好像撒上了一层苦胆。我一个字也不识，人们便用威吓责罚来督促我读。当然拉
丁文起初我也不识，但我毫无恐惧，不受磨折地，在乳母们哄逗下，在共同笑语之中，
在共同游戏之时，留心学会了。我识字是没有遇到也没有忍受强迫责罚，我自己的意志
促引我产生概念，但不可能不先学会一些话，这些话，不是从教师那里，而是从同我谈
话的人那里学来的，我也把我的思想说给他们听。
于此可见，识字出于自由的好奇心，比之因被迫而勉强遵行的更有效果。但是，天主啊
，你用你的法律，从教师的戒尺到殉教者所受的酷刑，使胁迫约束着好奇心的奔放，你
的法律能渗入有益的辛酸，促使我们从离间你我的宴安鸩毒中重新趋向到你身畔。
CHAPTER XIV
23. But why, then, did I dislike Greek learning, which was full of such
tales? For Homer was skillful in inventing such poetic fictions and is most
sweetly wanton; yet when I was a boy, he was most disagreeable to me. I
believe that Virgil would have the same effect on Greek boys as Homer did on
me if they were forced to learn him. For the tedium of learning a foreign
language mingled gall into the sweetness of those Grecian myths. For I did
not understand a word of the language, and yet I was driven with threats and
cruel punishments to learn it. There was also a time when, as an infant, I
knew no Latin; but this I acquired without any fear or tormenting, but
merely by being alert to the blandishments of my nurses, the jests of those
who smiled on me, and the sportiveness of those who toyed with me. I learned
all this, indeed, without being urged by any pressure of punishment, for my
own heart urged me to bring forth its own fashioning, which I could not do
except by learning words: not from those who taught me but those who talked
to me, into whose ears I could pour forth whatever I could fashion. From
this it is sufficiently clear that a free curiosity is more effective in
learning than a discipline based on fear. Yet, by thy ordinance, O God,
discipline is given to restrain the excesses of freedom; this ranges from
the ferule of the schoolmaster to the trials of the martyr and has the
effect of mingling for us a wholesome bitterness, which calls us back to
thee from the poisonous pleasures that first drew us from thee. | c*******u
发帖数: 640 | 2 强迫生恨，所以神给我们自由意志，属世、属灵，自己选择 | J*******g
发帖数: 8775 | 3 推还是不推？可以转parenting版了。呵呵。
【在 c*******u 的大作中提到】
: 强迫生恨，所以神给我们自由意志，属世、属灵，自己选择
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