现代教育者的任务不是砍伐丛林，而是灌溉沙漠。
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
——《民国月刊》出世辞（1913年5月20日)
The duties of all public officers are, or at least admit of being made, so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance.