罗素《竞争》：
From quite early years American boys feel that this is the only thing that matters, and do not wish to be bothered with any kind of education that is devoid of pecuniary value. Education used to be conceived very largely as a training in the capacity for enjoyment - enjoyment, I mean, of those more delicate kinds that are not open to wholly uncultivated people. In the eighteenth century it was one of the marks of a 'gentleman' to take a discriminating pleasure in literature, pictures, and music.
美国的男孩子，从很小时起就觉得金钱的成功是唯一重要的事，一切没有经济价值的教育是不值一顾的。然而教育素来被认为大部分是用以训练一个人的享受能力的，我在此所说的享受，乃是指全无教育的人所无法领略的，比较微妙的享受。十八世纪时，对文学、绘画、音乐能感到个别的乐趣，算是“缙绅先生”的特征之一。
