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托斯丹·凡勃伦：有闲阶级论·摘录 155
托斯丹·凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》· The Theory of the Leisure Class · 投资
It is only as the exigencies of modern industrial life have enforced the recognition of causal sequence in the practical contact of mankind with their environment, that men have come to systematize the phenomena of this environment and the facts of their own contact with it in terms of causal sequence. So that while the higher learning in its best development, as the perfect flower of scholasticism and classicism, was a by-product of the priestly office and the life of leisure, so modern science may be said to be a by-product of the industrial process. Through these groups of men, then--investigators, savants, scientists, inventors, speculators--most of whom have done their most telling work outside the shelter of the schools, the habits of thought enforced by the modern industrial life have found coherent expression and elaboration as a body of theoretical science having to do with the causal sequence of phenomena. And from this extra-scholastic field of scientific speculation, changes of method and purpose have from time to time been intruded into the scholastic discipline.
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定位：Excerpt 155 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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凡勃伦说，现代工业生活迫使人们在实际接触环境时承认因果序列，这才有了系统化的科学。古典学问是神职和有闲生活的副产品，现代科学则是工业过程的副产品。多数科学家、发明家的工作都在学校之外完成，他们把工业生活养成的思维习惯整理成理论科学，再反过来影响学校。所以，真正的创新常来自实践一线，而非象牙塔。今天做研究，要重视一线经验，别把学校当成唯一的知识来源。
上下文
凡勃伦对比古典学问与科学的不同起源，指出科学源于工业实践，多在学校外发展。
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你最近一次学到真正有用的东西，是在课堂里还是在实际做事中？
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