The English version of this sentence is: "Plato? Is it? Honey? Where to? Me? But? Honey? Or? Is it? Truth. Plato is translated as "teacher" because Plato is Aristotle's teacher. And listen to the story behind me.
Aristotle began to learn from Plato at the age of 17, which lasted for 20 years. He has always loved Plato and regarded him as a mentor. Aristotle praised Plato like this: "Of all people, he is the only one ... such a person is nowhere to be found now!" " However, they had a heated academic debate.
At first, Plato advocated "idealism", thinking that specific things are only the "foundation" and "shadow" of ideas, and specific individual things are not true, only ideas are true. Aristotle, on the other hand, advocates "entity theory", arguing that concrete individual things are real, and it is useless to assume that "ideas" that are more real than entities are beyond daily entities, and general abstract conceptual things cannot exist without individual concrete things.
Aristotle firmly believed that his argument was correct and criticized the teacher's wrong view mercilessly. This caused an uproar in the local area at that time. Someone accused Aristotle of being an ungrateful person who betrayed his teacher. Aristotle responded with this famous historical saying: "I love my teacher, and I love the truth more." History has proved that Aristotle's view is the progress from idealism to simple materialism (although this progress is not complete).
In fact, there are similar famous sayings in ancient China that can be compared with beautiful women. Han Yu, a great writer in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in Teacher's Notes: "Disciples don't have to be inferior to teachers, and teachers don't have to be superior to disciples. They have heard about it and are good at it, that's all. " This passage also makes it clear that students should and can surpass teachers. The only difference between teachers and students is that they have listened to different courses and specialized in different fields.
Looking around the current education sector in China, exam-oriented education has caused various adverse consequences, one of which is that students are afraid to say "no" in front of teachers because of the ethos of "respecting teachers and attaching importance to teaching", which is worrying. Of course, the implementation of "I love my teacher and I love the truth more" requires the efforts of both teachers and students. A teacher should be generous and generous, and will be happy to hear it; Be a student, don't be afraid of authority, but dare to surpass it. Here is a good example.
Professor Jiang Kongyang, an aesthetician of Chinese Department of Fudan University, published the authoritative monograph German Classical Aesthetics on 1980, which received rave reviews, but one student put forward four critical opinions. After reading these opinions, Mr. Jiang Kongyang, who is giving a lecture in Japan, immediately wrote to the student, clearly stating: "Your article is more positive to me than what I wrote, but it is too polite to criticize me. The points you criticized are still reasonable, and I will definitely revise them when I have the opportunity. " In his letter, he also quoted the above famous saying: "I love my teacher, and I love the truth more", and praised his students greatly.