Our world is noisy and utilitarian. Today, due to the dual impact of college students' employment and social employment, the "useless theory of reading" that once disappeared from the social level has resurrected, and it feels slightly popular. People often bring up the special examples of elementary and junior high school graduates becoming bosses and key university graduates becoming employees to prove the uselessness of studying.
In recent years, the theory that reading is useless has been revived. (This article was originally written by Bo Dong, the author of the headline)
Is reading really useless? In fact, this is not the case. Even if we only start from the utilitarian aspect, that is, employment, studying is probably the only way out for ordinary children like us, and there is no one. If you think I am just preaching, then you might as well take a look at my experiences and stories, maybe they will touch you a little bit.
In my hometown, our family was an immigrant household in the 1970s. Our family conditions were pretty good at first. However, after we immigrated, we were far away from our hometown and hometown, and away from our old connections. From then on, we began to decline all the way until we were unable to recover, and then became one of the poorest families in our village.
I clearly remember that when I was in elementary school, tuition and fees together only cost a few hundred yuan, but even this amount of money was not available to our family. Many times I was urged by the principal and teachers to go back and get tuition before coming to class. Then, alone and weak, I stood messy in the wind, at a loss.
This is the textbook I used when I was a child. (This article was originally written by Bo Dong, the author of the headline)
Fortunately, I can study fairly well, which gives my family some hope for future growth.
My academic performance has always been good, which is mainly due to my father. This stubborn and self-respecting old man was able to study well when he was a child. After immigrating, he found my mother to marry when he was thirty years old, and gave birth to me a year later. In the countryside and in that era, it was a proper old age to have a son. As a result, my father attached great importance to my study and training. When I was very young, probably only three or four years old, he always liked to hold me in his arms and tell me various stories, such as "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl", "The Creation of Pangu", "Journey to the West" and other Chinese classical myths.
Around the time "Xijiu 1988" first came out, I went to school and started to know some words. I no longer relied solely on my father's oral education. Instead, I looked for books to read and stories to read. If I remember correctly, my first big book was " Perpetual Calendar " which I dug out from under the bed of my neighbor's house. It was a very thick calendar book with the words "Don't ask for anything" and other words on the cover. In addition to the calendar, it also contained a variety of literary knowledge, literary and historical stories, and even medicinal remedies, sesame cake songs, push-back diagrams, bone weighing fortune-telling, four-column and eight-character fortune-telling, and other miscellaneous things.
My first book in life, what’s yours? (This article was originally written by Bo Dong, the author of the headline)
I don’t know how I fell in love with reading at that time. Think about it, a seven or eight-year-old child is not obsessed with playing and making fun at all, but is focused on going to every house to find books to read. Isn’t it a bit hard to believe? To be honest, I don’t believe it now, but I was like that at that time. After watching "Perpetual Calendar", I followed my neighbor’s brother to the pile of books in their attic (mainly his textbooks and a few comics and martial arts novels. He was three or four years older than me) and lay on the mat to read. I often didn’t do anything else during the summer vacation. Most of the time I just lay in their attic and read.
Later, I accidentally came into contact with " Outline of Chinese History" written by Mr. Boyang. His humorous and concise language, profound and far-reaching thoughts, and his historical skills of simplifying the complex, They are all deeply attracted to me, which has also prompted me to have been in love with historical works over the past few decades. Even my current bookshelf is full of books, 99% of which are historical books. Of course, this may also be a shortcoming in my reading.
Since then, I have read more and more books, so that my myopia has reached more than 700 degrees. You must know that neither of my parents are myopic, and there is no genetic factor. I only saw it through reading books at that time, but I think this can be said to be an achievement of mine.
My first history reading list. (This article was originally written by Bo Dong, the author of the headline)
The effect of liking reading became more and more apparent in the subsequent learning process. My grades have always been among the best since elementary school until I graduated from junior high school. My compositions are often used as examples for teachers to read out. I am also the first primary school student in our small mountain village to participate in the county's on-site composition competition and win the grand prize.
Especially in junior high school, I took a month and a half of leave from school due to physical reasons. Later, I went back to school directly to take the final exam. As a result, I took a month and a half of sick leave. I actually got the first place in the school. This shocked all the teachers, principal and even the township party committee secretary. They also solemnly praised me at the meeting. The township party committee secretary knew that my family was poor and specially approved a 3,000 yuan subsidy for our family. To this day, I I still remember what the principal said at the meeting that made me very proud. He said: "This child is really good at studying together."
Later, together with three other classmates in the school (the four of us helped each other and encouraged each other to learn), I was admitted to the best and only provincial key high school in the county. It became the most legendary inspirational story in that township at that time, because our junior high school had never had such a brilliant record before.
I still remember that praise from the principal and the township party committee secretary, and I am still a little proud. (This article was originally written by Bo Dong, the author of the headline)
Of course, among the strong, there are even stronger ones. After I came to the county, I finally discovered the gap between myself and the children in the city. Although I read a lot, I lacked systematicity and orderliness. I often read whichever book I thought of, and never planned an overall system. This caused my academic performance in high school to deviate from my ideal.
But even so, I still benefited a lot from my previous reading. First, my liberal arts scores have always been very good, and second, my writing style, that is, composition is still one of the models read out in class. I am casual, lazy, and don’t work hard enough, and I don’t like to get hung up on numbers, so I finally chose liberal arts.
A big reason why I chose liberal arts is that in liberal arts, you don’t have to study questions all the time. You just need to hold a few books to flip through, read, and understand. Later, I read my history, politics, geography textbooks, etc. over and over again, but it was not the kind of rote memorization, but understanding and memory with critical thinking. This is why I am now used to writing headlines and speculative articles.
Let me tell you from my experience that there is still money to be made in the liberal arts, so don’t belittle yourself. (This article was originally written by Bo Dong, the author of the headline)
Reading like this makes me get twice the result with half the effort. When others are hiding under the covers with flashlights and working hard, I am already fast asleep. But also because of this laziness, my college entrance examination results were not very satisfactory, and in the end I only enrolled in the law major of a 211 key university. Of course, this is actually not bad. I am the first child in our village to be admitted to a key university. I just want to say that this did not meet my expectations. My original ideal was Renmin University of China .
Looking back at the things worth "hoarding" in the past thirty years or so, with my personality and diligence, and the basic attributes of my remote mountain village, I am indeed very grateful to the person who was lying in the attic of my neighbor's house and forgetting to eat and sleep, reading.
Although I have not achieved rapid success, nor have I been promoted to a high official, nor have I made a lot of money every day, but compared to those rural children who grew up wearing crotchless pants, I am lucky enough.When they are driving large trucks on the highway thousands of kilometers away, when they are working hard on the construction site under the scorching sun with their backs turned to the sky, or when they are helpless in the face of family difficulties, it is better for me as a person who came to the big city. At least, now I don’t have to worry about life, don’t have to worry about family expenses, and of course, I don’t have to worry about where to work tomorrow.
I am just relatively shallow, what do you think? (This article was originally written by Bo Dong, the author of the headline)
And all of this is because I have always believed in a truth, that is: for those of us who are extremely ordinary families, and can even be said to be poor families, studying may be the only way for us to break through our own social class, and I am cruel to tell you, there is probably no such thing.
Serving as a soldier used to be one of the options for rural children, but now, if you understand the policy a little bit, this path is very difficult. It is true that there are a very small number of children who do not study, and through various encounters, they finally reach a high level and start a business and become the boss. However, you have to know what the probability of success is. I believe that as long as you carefully calculate the ratio, you will know how likely this is.
Children from poor families, you should study hard. (This article was originally written by Bo Dong, the author of the headline)
I would like to make it clear that I do not want to rest on my laurels and shamelessly show off the slightest bit of pride I once had. This is not something a normal adult can do. I just want to tell you that if the person reading this article is a child, then please take the textbook in your hand seriously; if the person reading this article is an ordinary parent, then you must tell your child that reading is the only way out for a child born in a family like ours. There may be setbacks in the future, but the books he has read will never treat him badly.
Finally, I would like to solemnly advise you to throw away the opinions you have heard about "the uselessness of reading" and feed them to the dogs. Work hard and study hard. What awaits you or your children will definitely be a happy future. Although it will be very ordinary many times, isn't this the height we ordinary people want to reach in our lives? You think so? !
Believe in the master, he will not lie to you, and neither will I, although I am not a master. (This article was originally written by Bo Dong, the author of the headline)
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