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奥里森·斯威特·马登:向前进·摘录 152

奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导

The time was when the boy who gave no signs of genius or unusual ability was consigned to the farm, and the brilliant boy was sent to college or to the city to make a career for himself. But we are now beginning to see that man has made a botch of farming only because he looked upon it as a sort of humdrum occupation; as a means provided by nature for living-getting for those who were not good for much else. Farming was considered by many people as a sort of degrading occupation desirable only for those who lacked the brains and education to go into a profession or some of the more refined callings. But the searchlight of science has revealed in it possibilities hitherto undreamed of. We are commencing to realize that it takes a high order of ability and education to bring out the fullest possibilities of the soil; that it requires fine-grained sympathetic talent. We are now finding that agriculture is as great a science as astronomy, and that ignorant men have been getting an indifferent living from their farms simply because they did not know how to mix brains with the soil.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21291
定位:Excerpt 152 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

过去人们把没出息的孩子送去种地,把聪明的送进大学或城市;农业被看成没脑子的人混饭吃的下等活。但科学照进来后,人们发现种地需要高能力、好教育,需要细腻体贴的才华。农业和天文学一样是大学问,农民日子过得平庸,往往只是没把脑子用进土里。今天务农或做任何手艺,都别只卖力气,要学科学、用方法,把智慧掺进本行。

上下文

马登在20世纪初美国农业科学化背景下,反驳轻视农业的旧观念。

今日一问

你所在的行业,有哪些“老办法”其实可以用科学和思考重新做一遍?

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