We can be sure that most of the people we appoint to educate our children have not been educated. Yet we assume that they can give something they have not themselves received, and that this is the only way one can get an education.
La maggior parte delle persone che deputiamo a educare i figliuoli, sappiamo di certo non essere state educate. NĂ© dubitiamo che non possano dare quello che non hanno ricevuto, e che per altra via non si acquista.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Saturday, July 26, 2008
Getting an Education
Giacomo Leopardi, Pensieri, X (tr. W.S. Di Piero):