原文
子曰:“不愤①不启,不悱②不发③。举一隅不以三隅反,则不复也。”
译文
Confucius then went on to say: "In my method of teaching, I always wait for my student to make an effort himself to find his way through a difficulty, before I show him the way myself. I also make him find his own illustrations before I give him one of my own. When I have pointed out the bearing of a subject in one direction and found that my student cannot himself see its bearings into other directions, I do not then repeat my lesson."
评论
孔子这段话阐明了他的教学方式与特点。其中,“举一隅不以三隅反”一句中,“隅”译为“the bearing of a subject in one direction”,即“从某个角度来看主题的意义”;“反”译为“see its bearings into other directions”,即“见到它在其他角度的意义”。