China must learn from America as well and escape her scholastic straightjacket, for academics is a means not an end, and even the best of foundations is wasted if China denies her architects the vision to look up.

• 中国也必须向美国学习，并从自己学究式的死板教学中解脱出来，因为教育是手段，而不是目的。如果中国不让她的建筑师具有往上看的眼界，即使是最好的基础也会浪费掉的。