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奥里森·斯威特·马登：向前进·摘录 263
奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导
If Henry Wilson, working early and late on a farm with scarcely any opportunities to go to school, bound out until he was twenty-one for only a yoke of oxen and six sheep, could manage to read a thousand good books before his time had expired; if the slave Frederick Douglass, on a plantation where it was almost a crime to teach a slave to read, could manage from scraps of paper, posters on barns, and old almanacs, to learn the alphabet and lift himself to eminence; if the poor deaf boy Kitto, who made shoes in an alms-house, could become the greatest Biblical scholar of his age, where is the boy or girl to-day, under the American flag, who cannot get a fair education and escape the many disadvantages of ignorance?
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定位：Excerpt 263 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
白话
核心是：条件再差也能靠自学改变命运。亨利·威尔逊在农场起早贪黑，几乎没机会上学，二十一岁前只换得一对牛和六只羊，却读了一千本好书；弗雷德里克·道格拉斯身为奴隶，识字近乎犯罪，却从废纸、海报和旧历书里学会字母，最终成名；聋童基托在济贫院做鞋，却成了那个时代最伟大的圣经学者。他们靠的是抓住一切零碎机会、主动找书读、不把环境当借口。今天在美国国旗下的孩子，只要愿意，都能接受基本教育，摆脱无知的种种劣势。所以别抱怨条件，先问自己有没有把能用的资源用到极致。
上下文
马登《奋力向前》励志经典，以历史上自学成才者为例，激励年轻人克服逆境。
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今天你身边有哪些被忽视的学习资源，可以立刻用起来？
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