I often hear many parents complain that their children don’t like to study and are difficult to learn, and they are very troubled by this.
Psychologist Richard concluded after extensive research: "In ordinary Chinese and American families with similar incomes, American children read 6 times more than Chinese children."
The reasons for this significant difference are also very surprising. People are sad. It’s not that children don’t like reading, but that adults have not cultivated children’s reading habits and failed to provide children with a good reading environment. Instead of creating a good reading environment for children,
also uses various means to create obstacles for children's reading and kill their natural love of reading.
This may be related to the deep-rooted traditional concepts of many people. People often give reading a utilitarian color.
In ancient times, there was a saying of "reading to become an official", which meant that you could become an official only after you had read the classics well.
In the imperial examination of Tang Dynasty, it was "selecting scholars based on poetry". If you don't read and write poetry, you can't be an official.
In modern times, reading has also been given more utilitarian colors.
Atsushi Yinnan said in "Speed Reading" that more and more people regard acquiring knowledge and improving their self-cultivation as the purpose of reading. Such a purpose may give rise to arrogance.
But a person who has a lot of knowledge may not mean that he is very great. This is the same as a person who wears a famous brand and feels that he instantly becomes elegant and noble.
Many people who are obsessed with collecting knowledge will have the illusion that they are excellent. Such an illusion will make them focus on what they gain after reading, rather than the reading itself. This also makes reading an arduous practice to improve literacy and cultivate one's character.
In fact, for modern people, books are not necessarily a necessity in life.
In the Internet era, if you need to query and solve doubts, the Internet is more convenient. If you need to get information and seek excitement, a smartphone will be faster.
And reading brings us deeper happiness.
What reading brings us may be information or knowledge that we don’t know, or it may be feelings or values that we have never had, or it may be the sense of accomplishment and satisfaction accumulated over time from reading a lot.
If we can maintain this state of mind, no matter what our age or experience, we will be able to meet books that move us throughout our lives, and we can also find a self that we appreciate.
Mr. Liang Shiqiu said: "Life has reached a stage where studying is not to cope with external demands, not for others, but for yourself. It is to enrich yourself, make yourself a sensible person, and make your life fulfilling and meaningful. I Therefore, it is said: Reading is a joy.
Turning the pages of the book eagerly and excitedly, and getting lost in it, this is the state of mind that reading should have.
A person's mental development history is his reading history. Enjoy the process of reading, this is the state of mind that reading should have.
