Reading is for the sake of understanding, not making a living!

Diary of Xiamen Yining's Mom

Why does a person need to read? In terms of traditional Chinese culture, this is an important old question. Why should a person study? The most correct answer in the tradition is the four words "to read and understand".

Making sense is to first understand the reason of being a human being. If we ask the Chinese people, what is the purpose of their education? Let us repeat: it is to "be human", not to "live".

Because the meaning of "life" is that people have to "survive" in this world, how to manage to maintain their own lives, and at the same time, make everyone have a better "life", live a very comfortable and happy life.

This is all after "reading and understanding", because "wisdom" and "intelligence" are developed, it is easy to understand the "techniques" of "making a living", and the "techniques" of "making a living", and the "techniques" of "making a living", and the "techniques" of "making a living", and the "techniques" of "making a living". The "techniques" of "making a living" and all kinds of "wisdom" that are conducive to "making a living" also belong to "reading and understanding". All of these belong to "reading and understanding". It is a matter of course and necessity when one understands the way of "human decency".

It is a pity that the basic purpose of culture and education, as recognized by modern people, is only to "make a living". We want our children to learn, to study and to be educated, so that they can have a good career, a good salary, or to earn a lot of money and live a good "life".

What's more, some people put their hopes on their children for a lifetime of disappointment, or for a lifetime of not being able to do what they want to do, and desperately try to force them to go to school and study. They do not take into account the children's "aptitudes" and interests, nor do they understand the children's brain power and health, and they are forced to read and study, not realizing that "to love is to harm," and therefore, harming the children's lives.

Particularly modern schools and extracurricular tutorials and other educational methods, simply "fishing to the depths of the sea" approach, so that the general children's brain health is still underage, by overloading the damage, the most serious.

The child's growth depends on him or her, so don't ask too much and let him or her develop freely. Education does not depend on his future success or lack of success, but first I hope he grows up to be a good person.

There is an old saying that 'a good field is better than a skill'. A child's ability to earn a living, such as being a carpenter or plasterer, has nothing to do with education, status or position, and this is the minimum. Learning is learning and eating is eating.