Sunday, October 20, 2024
Academic Progress
Diogenes Laertius 5.1.20 (tr. R.D. Hicks, on Aristotle):
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The question being put, how can students make progress, he replied, "By pressing hard on those in front and not waiting for those behind."Cf. Horace, Epistles 1.2.70-71 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
ἐρωτηθεὶς πῶς ἂν προκόπτοιεν οἱ μαθηταί, ἔφη, "ἐὰν τοὺς προέχοντας διώκοντες τοὺς ὑστεροῦντας μὴ ἀναμένωσι."
But if you lag behind, or with vigour push on ahead,
I neither wait for the slow nor press after those who hurry on before.
quod si cessas aut strenuus anteis,
nec tardum opperior nec praecedentibus insto.
