I asked each of them to bring a book that had informed that question for them, inside or outside of the classroom that they had read or what in Princeton.

我让他们每人带一本书来,这本书该为他们提供了对这个问题的提示,只要是他们在学校里课堂内外读过的都行。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Well our goal here was to answer that question for people and then hopefully facilitate friends getting together, shopping courses with each other, for each other, picking up syllabi and thus was born what we dub Harvard Courses.

我们的目的就是要解答这个问题,并希望可以使认识的朋友一起上课，选课的时候也有个商量，拿起教学大纲,从而诞生了这门哈佛课程。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选