读点英文吧–no.2

来源: Iris Murdoch

Education doesn’t make you happy, and nor does freedom.

We don’t become happy just because we’re free – If we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have.But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy.

It opens our eyes, our ears, tell us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance –the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.

艾瑞斯·梅铎(Iris Murdoch),爱尔兰作家,被誉为“全英国最聪明的女人”，著有“20世纪百本最杰出英文小说”——《网之下》。

Education is the most important, absolutely.

I hate learning when I was young.

I accustom to do it, maybe…

Anyway, I should do it better, for freedom!