On the 104th May Fourth Youth Day, which is also the day of the 125th anniversary of my alma mater, Peking University, immersed in the fragrance of books, we also talk about this topic.
A few years ago, People's Daily published a news article that a father did not want his daughter to go to college because he thought that it would take four years to go to college and cost a total of 80,000 yuan in tuition. After reading the job he looked for, the salary may be 2,000-3,000 yuan a month, which he thinks is not cost-effective.
My father said, I let my daughter go directly to work after the college entrance examination, and I can earn hundreds of thousands in four years. Then these hundreds of thousands can also start a business, buy a house, make investments, how good.
Especially in recent years, the general environment is not good, and this old problem has been turned over again.
——In this era, why should we study?
Read books to help you solve difficult problems
Reading is a rewarding experience.. Books are certainly not money, and they cannot be eaten. But indeed "there is an answer".
Whether it is to answer the puzzles and doubts in life, or the confusion at work, reading is the simplest and most practical way.
When you open a book, it's like opening an "arbitrary door" in the world that leads to any area you want to know. Talk to people who are awesome.
Whether he is in this world or in that world, no matter the gap between him and you for thousands of years, you can find him through this "arbitrary door".
The documentary film "Post-90s" is a record of young people during the revolutionary period, who saw hope in pain and turned hope into reality through reading.
On November 1, 1937, National Peking University, National Tsinghua University, and Private Nankai established the National Changsha Provisional University in Changsha. Due to the continuous bombing of Changsha by Japanese aircraft, in mid-February 1938, with the approval of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China, Changsha Provisional University moved west to Kunming in three ways. In April 1938, it was renamed National Southwest Union University. It is such a university that has only existed for 8 years, but it has created a miracle in the history of modern education in China, influencing several generations...
Alumni: Deng Jiaxian, Zhu Guangya, Yang Zhenning, Li Zhengdao, Xu Yuanchong, etc...
This movie, with an average of 96 years old United Nations University alumni "starred", truly recorded and restored "the country is still breaking mountains and rivers, and the bachelor is unparalleled in the world". The top students in all of China, studying under the fires of war, falling in love with fleas, squandering their youth in suffering, and radiating wisdom in despair... Decades later, immersed in the spirit of his alma mater, the trend of thought of democracy and freedom, changing disciplines, changing China, and changing the world!
Reading gives you the power to choose
When your work has meaning in your heart, you have a sense of accomplishment.
When your work gives you time and doesn't take away your life, you have dignity. A sense of accomplishment and dignity that gives you joy.
The movie "University" uses three years of tracking documentary filming to condense a vibrant college campus.
The film tells the choices of four different Tsinghua people in Tsinghua Park.
"00", who just passed his 18th birthday, went through the college entrance examination and was admitted to his favorite school after twists and turns;
Graduates who studied for a doctorate for nine years in the garden, waved goodbye to the ivory tower, experienced some choices, and strengthened their ideal of "benefiting the people";
The "Hubble Scholar" who has been in the United States for ten years has the idea of "looking up at the stars", returned to China to join the Department of Astronomy, and finally found the soil for the growth of his dreams;
The 83-year-old academician has retired, but he still ploughs on the three-foot podium and walks non-stop.
This is the ideal light of the four Tsinghua people, and it is also their life choice.
Reading books will take you to meet a better version of yourself
It is said that books are "spiritual food", although the books you read now will not directly become money, will not directly become the road in front of you, and even after a while you will forget most of the content...
But believe me, the books you read are like the food you have eaten, and although sometimes you can't remember the content, the nourishment and enlightenment it brings you will become your bones and blood, your flesh, and your way of thinking.
The movie "No Question West East" tells four stories, from modern to modern times, and back to modern times. The protagonists of the 4 stories are all excellent students of Tsinghua University——
Wu Linglan faces his heart to choose subjects, and does not blindly follow the tide of the times;
Shen Guangyao said goodbye to a worry-free life for the sake of his family and country, resolutely joined the Air Force, and finally died in his youth;
The love of Chen Peng and Wang Minjia has not faded despite hardships, transcending time and space;
Zhang Guoguo inherits the idealistic spirit of Tsinghua's predecessors and insists on selfless donations to quadruplets.
They all use their own ways to break through the worldly gaze, to meet the real and most eager to become themselves, and to achieve life pursuits higher than the world. The way to university does not necessarily lie in sacrificing one's life for righteousness, but it must not be limited by the world.
More than 100 years ago today, when society was in turmoil and the nation was in danger, countless young Chinese students worked hard to study for independence, for independence, for resisting oppression, and for national freedom.
Today, more than 100 years later, with the rise of the nation, the security of the country, countless Chinese young people must also study hard, for their dreams, for freedom, for meeting their glowing selves, for more possibilities in life, and for the whole country.
Today I went back to my alma mater to break my leg and specially prepared a set of handwritten postcards + bookmarks to give to you who love reading and love the future.
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These three films are about China's top century-old institutions of higher learning, and even more about the usefulness and uselessness of reading. Not everything that seems useful has value. Help children see farther and read together!