这种哲学可以从一些无害然而浅薄的说法中看出端倪，比如，“微笑能比皱眉赢得更多朋友。”
除了英语不说，这些所谓训言的理想与哈佛大学的精神背道而驰。
作为学校的“座右铭”，师范校训是师生共同的精神规范与价值取向。
思想和格言可以美化灵魂，正如鲜花可以美化房间一样。
1·Surround yourself with books, pictures, mottoes, and other suggestive devices. Pick things that symbolize and reinforce achievement and self-reliance.
在你的四周放置书籍、图片、座右铭能强化成就和自力更生意义的东西，并且随时变更放置位置。
1·Thoughts and mottoes can beautify one's soul, exactly the way flowers can beautify one's room.
思想和格言可以美化灵魂，正如鲜花可以美化房间一样。
2·Mottoes are words sensed only by those who have rich experience of life, exactly like the art which can't reach the peak of perfection without skill.
格言是需要有丰富的处事经验者才可能感悟出来的话，就如艺术需要熟练方可登峰造极一样。