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How do you understand the saying "All things are inferior, but only reading is superior"?

Reading is something that can help you improve yourself, this quote is from the famous scholar Wang Su's "Poem of a Prodigy", he started reading when he was young and was called a prodigy, in his opinion, reading is something that can help you to become a man of honor. This is because in ancient times only through reading you were able to go on to a career and become an important person who could influence the country. Most of the officials in the court were people who had read books, that's why he wrote such a sentence.

The importance of reading was already shown in ancient times, when any important events were recorded through readers, and in modern times, the importance of reading has become even more prominent. If you are not educated and do not read, you cannot even survive in this society.

Because, nowadays, reading teaches not only cultural knowledge, but also all kinds of common sense, if you don't even know the basic common sense, there is no way to be understood by others, and the bridge of communication with others.

But because more and more people are getting educated, there are some supporters of the "uselessness of reading" theory, who believe that even if you don't read, you can still realize your own value. They think that even if you don't study, you can still realize your own value, and then cite the example of a so-and-so boss who came out to work in the second grade of elementary school and made a great career. Readers have to work for him or something.

But if you ask these bosses what they regret, many of them will say that they regret that they did not study hard. There is no way to use money to measure the study of this thing, throughout the ages, to become a great man, there is no one who does not need to study.

They can only expand their knowledge through continuous learning, they can have a bigger pattern, more open career, and create a more remarkable world.