Turns out this quote
seems to have been misquoted all along. It's a couple thousand years older than
that...
这个引用一直以来都被误用了。在更古老的数千年前...
"For the mind does not
require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling
to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the
truth." —Plutarch, "On Listening to Lectures". (link)
"因为人类的灵魂不需要像瓶子一样被填满，相反地，它就像木料，需要被点燃以迸发独立思考和追求真理的火花。"-普鲁塔克，摘自《倾听演讲》。（链接）
And a closer
translation from Penguin Classics:
还有一个更贴切的翻译出自企鹅出版社：
"For the correct
analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs
igniting." —Plutarch, from Ian Kidd's translation of Essays. (Google Books
link)
“关于灵魂的准确比喻并非需要注满的容器，而是需要点燃的木料。”-普鲁塔克，出自伊恩.基德的短文翻译。（谷歌书库链接）
Eventually, it appears
this quote was misattributed to Yeats, which appears variously as:
最终，似乎这个引用被张冠李戴到济慈身上，出现了许多不同版本：
"Education is not the
filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
“教育并非注满提桶的水，而是点燃的火光。”
"Education is not
filling a bucket, but lighting a fire."
“教育并非注满水桶，而是点燃火种。”
I'm sure in a few
years' time someone's 20% project at Google will involve analyzing the evolution
of quotes and misattributions... until then it will belong to the realm of
semi-useful procrastination.
我确信几年内某个人在谷歌20%的项目会包括一些引用的演变和张冠李戴的分析...届时这将被归于半有益拖延的范畴。
In the meantime, this
is an example of where the crowds are simply wrong. PageRank doesn't
discriminate between truth and falsehood—it just identifies where the tide of
popular opinion is moving. And once the tide has gone down the path of
misattribution, it's hard to stop it.
此外，这个例子列举了大部分人容易犯的错误。网页排名并不能作为真理与谬误的评判标准-它只能表明当今的潮流趋向。而一旦潮流走偏，就很难为其拨乱反正了。
