To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

在我看来，最不给人希望的孩子是那种批判性的能力比想象力发展得更快的孩子。

-- Quintilian 昆提利亚语