v*******e
发帖数: 3714 | 1 那天拿到一个代数几何课程等讲义，是年轻教授两年前第一次在
我们学校开课时，每次上课前亲手写的。第一课第一句话就是：
As you set out for Ithaka, hope your road is a long one.
by Cavafy
我算得个坏学生，对教程本身缺乏兴趣，却觉得这句话有趣，就
专门拿去找教授问。得知ithaka原来就是ulyses多年流浪的目的
地，而写这首诗的cavafy，则是这位教授最喜欢的希腊诗人。难
怪也，他本人也是希腊来的嘛。
聊到数学的目的和功用问题，这首诗不知怎的又被提起，不过这次
是被教授本人。他指我看全诗－－－google下搜索ithaka＋cavafy
的结果，问我：“从这里面，你读到了什么？” |
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v*******e
发帖数: 3714 | 2 ITHAKA
Constantine P. Cavafy
As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon-don't be afraid of them:
you'll never find the things like that on your way
as long as you keep thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon-you won't encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you. |
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g****d
发帖数: 3461 | 3
Ithaka, if there had been no faithful Penelope waiting,
would you still return, Odysseus?
Ithaka, there is none else waiting in your house but
the suitors going after Penelope.
Are you afraid Odysseus?
Kalypso asked you, Odysseys, what is Penelope like,
what is it that made the glory of Kalypso herself
useless, that you would trade immortality with
mortal reunion with Penelope?
Kirke's charm, Skylla's terror and even the beauty
of Nausika, the fairest woman of all claccical times,
did not move |
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o***s
发帖数: 42149 | 4 “网课”风靡，原来人文也性感
历史找到了梵高，但我们错过了多少梵高？
人文学科，不就是纸面上的那些东西吗？都是浮云。
见识了哈佛、耶鲁、麻省理工的公开课——原来，传说中的“人文精神”确有其事，人文学科也能这么性感。教育者传授的不单是知识，还有道德、审美、智慧、伦理。
不过，能达到这种水准的教师有多少？有这样的水准，为什么要去当教师呢？
好在，有互联网这个分享的平台，公平、公益、自由、免费则是分享的要义。这群在幕后为我们搭起知识转接桥梁的人，从个人到字幕组，从网站机构到爱好者，因为共同的理想聚合在一起：把门打开，让知识进来。
名校公开课，今天你淘了吗
不用点名，不用占座，没有考试，没有学分，想上就上的国外名校课程让中国的高校学生、白领阶层趋之若鹜，大声宣称——以前爱逃课，现在爱“淘”课！
你知道2006年哈佛大学最受欢迎的讲师是谁，去年最火爆的新生公共课又是哪门吗？你知道耶鲁大学那个半仙一样盘腿坐在讲台上大谈死亡哲学的大胡子老头吗？你知道即便不能坐在鼎鼎大名的常青藤院校课堂里，在家照样能够免费聆听大师的授课、理化工商文哲医史任君选择吗？
2001年，美国麻省理工学院率先拉开了网络公开课程... 阅读全帖 |
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D*****E
发帖数: 9352 | 5 Ithaka
新华社：伊萨卡
徐志摩：伊的家
冰心（据说）： 绮色佳 |
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v*******e
发帖数: 3714 | 6 Mathematics is not an easy road, and supposedly a long one. I know
that I might not be good at it eventually, since I'm always so
doubtful about myself, and that I am impatient in general.
But there's something very touching in mathematics, like everything else
that is involved with metaphysical thinking. It's more like mathematics
is an exclusive world, such that you can take a different look at
certain things only after you are allowed to enter into it.
Quoting a line from the movie by Neil Jo |
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g****d
发帖数: 3461 | 7
哪个我引错了, 给衷告的是雅典娜,
For thou knowest what sort of a spirit there is in
a woman's breast; she is fain to increase the house of
the man who weds her, but of her former children and
of the lord of her youth she takes no thought,
when once he is dead, and asks no longer
concerning them. Nay, go, and thyself put all thy possessions
in the charge of whatsoever one of the handmaids
seems to thee the best, until the gods shall show thee a noble bride.
It depends on who are the gods. :-)
If one believes |
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