《明史·列传·卷六十八》
国家设置文渊阁，命令学士在此任职，的确是想让学士为国家谋划政事，讲经论史，培养治政的根本，纠正过失，并非要其阿谀奉承，唯命是从。
董傑，泾县人。成化末进士。鼐之论暑月辍讲也，傑方谒选，亦抗疏争，由是知名。
The nation has set up the Wen Yuan Pavilion and ordered the academics to serve here in order to permit the academics to plan politics for the country, to discuss scriptures, to cultivate the foundations of politics, and to correct faults.  It is not so that they might flatter or follow orders unquestioningly.