The Psychological Solution
Well, then, what is to be done?
We must begin by "sending out into the country all the inhabitants of the city who are more than ten years old, and by taking possession of the children, who will thus be protected from the habits of their parents".
We cannot build Utopia with young people corrupted at every turn by the example of their elders.
We must start, so far as we can, with a clean slate.
It is quite possible that some enlightened ruler will empower us to make such a beginning with some part or colony of his realm. (One ruler did, as we shall see.)
In any case we must give to every child, and from the outset, full equality of educational opportunity; there is no telling where the light of talent or genius will break out; we must seek it impartially everywhere, in every rank and race.
The first turn on our road is universal education.
For the first ten years of life, education shall be predominantly physical; every school is to have a gymnasium and a playground; play and sport are to be the entire curriculum; and in this first decade such health will be stored up as will make all medicine unnecessary.
"To require the help of medicine because by lives of indolence and luxury men have filled themselves like pools with waters and winds,... flatulence and catarrh—is not this a disgrace?...
Our present system of medicine may be said to educate diseases," to draw them out into a long existence, rather than to cure them.
But this is an absurdity of the idle rich.
"When a carpenter is ill he asks the physician for a rough and ready remedy—an emetic, or a purge, or cautery, or the knife.
And if anyone tells him that he must go through a course of dietetics, and swathe and swaddle his head, and all that sort of thing, he replies at once that he has no time to be ill, and that he sees no good in a life that is spent in nursing his disease to the neglect of his ordinary calling; and therefore, saying good-bye to this sort of physicians, he resumes his customary diet, and either gets well and lives and does his business, or, if his constitution fails, he dies and has done with it".
[ 01’57” ] so far as we can (只要我们能)
[ 02’05” ] wipe a slate clean (重头来过)
[ 02’44” ] Martin Heidegger (马丁·海德格尔，1889—1976年，德国存在主义哲学家，著有《存在与时间》。)
[ 04’27” ] there is no telling (没有明确的表述)
[ 07’41” ] indolence (放纵)
[ 07’52” ] waters and winds (各种食物)
[ 08’01” ] flatulence (肠胃气胀)
[ 08’03” ] catarrh (痰)
[ 09’05” ] rough and ready (简单粗暴的)
[ 09’10” ] remedy (治疗)
[ 09’14” ] emetic (催吐剂)
[ 09’16” ] purge (洗胃)
[ 09’19” ] cautery (烧灼)
[ 10’25” ] swathe and swaddle (缠绷带)
[ 10’32” ] all that sort of thing (诸如此类的事)
[ 11’55” ] customary (传统的，习惯的)
[ 12’07” ] constitution (身体的的各个技能)