Translation of learning pleasure
Today, with the establishment of more and more schools, learning has become an obligation. Seriously speaking, what must be done is maintained by fixed class hours and strict discipline. This is terrible. Students scoff at these required courses and try their best to resist them. This attitude may last a lifetime. For too many people, learning seems to be a kind of slavery when one's will succumbs to external guidance.
This view is wrong. Learning is a kind of enjoyment, an innate instinct of human beings and the most basic enjoyment of human beings. Observing a child is too young to implant any psychological habits in training. Arnold Gesell, the late doctor of Yale University, made a group of interesting films, showing some small creatures, who could hardly study problems with enthusiasm and excitement like explorers, and seek for discoveries with enthusiasm and concentration like scientists. Once the exploration is successful, the children's little faces will show happy expressions.
However, if the fun of learning is universal, why are so many people insensitive and indifferent? This is because they have received poor education, are isolated, succumb to convention and become dull, and sometimes become numb and dull because of the pressure of hard work and poverty or the poison of wealth. However, under the guidance of luck, the human mind can survive not only in poverty, but also in prosperity.
The fun of learning is not limited to school textbooks, because textbooks are often boring. But it should include reading from books. When I stand in a big library, such as the Library of Congress or the Butler Library in Colombia, and look around my millions of books, I feel a clear and sincere joy, which I can hardly express except a metaphor. These are not dead pieces of paper, but thoughts living on the bookshelf. Each of them makes his own sound, just like the sound transmitted by radio waves outside our hearing range; Just like the keys on our stereo will be full of music, when one of them is opened, people can summon a voice that is far away in time and space to a certain range, and then listen to it, with a heart in mind and a lingering fear.
However, far from books, learning means keeping an open mind and actively accepting all kinds of experiences. One of the most insightful people I know is a cowboy. He seldom reads newspapers and never reads books, but he rides thousands of miles across a state in the west. He knows his own state just as a surgeon knows the human body. He likes it and understands it. Not a mountain, not a canyon. There is nothing to tell him; ? There is no weather change that he can't explain. Therefore, in the fun of learning, travel should be included: travel with an open mind and alert eyes, hoping to know other people and other places, rather than looking for your own mirror image.
Learning also means learning to practice, or at least appreciating an art. Every new art you learn is like a new window to the universe, and it seems that you have gained a new feeling. Handicrafts are also worth exploring. A friend of mine picked up the bandage because his doctor ordered him to do something that would make him relax and move without being nervous. At first, it was an arduous challenge, but he gradually learned to cut paper and cardboard, sew pages, fix them with belts, and keep them accurate and tidy.
As for reading, there are two different kinds of fun. One is the pleasure of understanding unexpected things, for example, when one meets a new writer with a new view of the world. Another pleasure is to deepen your knowledge in a special field. People may like to read articles about the civil war, and then be attracted by a particularly touching part, such as taking runaway slaves to the underground railway in the north. Then, people will be forced to visit the main stations along the way, rebuild the lives of those determined organizers and thank the fugitives.
Learning expands our life (as Ptolemy said) to a new dimension. It is cumulative. Instead of being equal to health and strength, its return will increase with the decrease of time.
As long as your goal, in your life, when you continue to learn, integrate your thoughts and make them harmonious. If you happen to be an engineer and like singing in the choir, then link the two activities. They are United in you; They have no conflict. Chorus and engineering are both examples of human architectural ability: he has the ability to make a grand plan. And clearly convey it to others. Both of them are aesthetic and largely depend on symmetry. Don't treat them as separate, but as a separate aspect. You will do better and be happier.
Those who have never realized the need to mold themselves into a complete and harmonious personality in order to maintain cleanliness, health and financial solvency have suffered many unfortunate pains. The integrity of mind and spirit is not a quality given by nature, nor is it a quality given by God. It is like health, virtue and knowledge. People have the ability to achieve it, but they have to rely on their own efforts. It requires long-term and thoughtful efforts, thoughts and emotions, and even the body.
During our life, our bodies gradually die, and even our emotions become dull. However, most of our hearts continue to live, and even become more lively and active, enjoying more, expanding and having more fun in work and games.
Many people play all their lives, many people eat and drink all their lives, but few people think all their lives. Age is not the main issue. Laziness, laxity, ruthlessness and dullness make them invade us quietly, just like cold wind entering the cellar through curtains and water. Many people feel that life is boring after escaping or giving up their studies. They spend 30 years sitting in club chairs gloomily watching the sea and the beach, or resting on the swing on the porch, waiting for someone to pass by and get a ride. Life should not be like this.
No learner has ever lacked a theme to explore. The fun of learning is really fun. Actually, this word should be changed. The real name is happiness. By gaining and maintaining the happiness of learning, you can live the longest, best and most valuable life.
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Is it? It is never too old to learn.
A lazy youth, a lousy age.
Reading enriches us, and conversation enriches us. By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.