No matter how good the "elevator" is, it is still worthy of the "ladder"
One is the "4.23" World Book Day
Zhang Bingchun
"Books are the ladder of human progress", the famous writer Gorky said the truth has long been recognized by the world. After all, books pave the way for human progress and are a necessity for the progress of human civilization. However, with the development of the times, the progress of science and technology, and the popularization of the Internet, especially the mobile Internet, some people sincerely sigh that "e-books are the elevator of human progress". The Internet is also a significant symbol of the progress of human civilization, e-books are favored for their convenience, speed, personalization, large capacity, low cost and other advantages, and the society has already formed a general trend of e-book reading and paper book (including newspapers and magazines) reading in parallel. However, when in-depth reading is necessary, especially when it is research-based, paper books and newspapers still have irreplaceable advantages in mobilizing readers' in-depth understanding and thinking ability. Therefore, no matter how good the "elevator" of human progress is "e-book", it is still inseparable from the "ladder" of human progress of "paper books and newspapers", just like a modern high-rise building, it will be very inconvenient without an elevator, and it will be very unsafe to leave the walking stairs.
Books are the joint efforts of authors and editors, which record the history of mankind in the form of words and symbols, record the various knowledge accumulated in ancient and modern dynasties, record the new discoveries of mankind, and record the dreams of mankind through specific carriers such as animal skins, bamboo slips, and paper. This is the essence of the progress of human civilization, as long as people are willing to read, they can revisit thousands of years of human thought and experience in a short period of time, and absorb the knowledge and lessons that others have gained through great hardship. It is precisely along this "ladder" of progress that mankind has reached today's heights step by step. Throughout the ages, even though some races, ethnic groups, and countries have disappeared, books documenting human activities have survived and become an important source of knowledge. Therefore, books are the best friends of mankind forever. Reading a good book is to stand on the shoulders of giants and move forward, which can completely allow people to take fewer unnecessary detours and make fewer mistakes on the way forward.
If you talk about the model of reading, it must be Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong loved to read and lived with books all his life. He once said, "You can go a day without eating, you can sleep without sleeping, and you can't go without reading a book for a day", he prefers "Twenty-four History", from the purchase of this book in 1952 to the eve of his death in 1976, during the 24 years, wherever he went, wherever he went, where he went, where he read, whether in the office where he lived, on the train out, day and night, the staff around him often saw him reading calmly. On the eve of the Long March in 1934, he went to Huichang to carry out a nearly three-month investigation of the southern front...... The book "Learning from Mao Zedong" edited by Xie Chuntao, published by the Party School Publishing House of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, said: "As far as reading is concerned, among revolutionaries, military strategists, and politicians in ancient and modern times, it is rare for a strange person like Mao Zedong to love reading, to have a wide range of books, and to be able to use them to govern the party, the country, and the army. ”
April 23 "World Book and Copyright Day" has been unanimously recognized as "World Book Day" to promote more people to read and write, and hope that everyone can respect and thank the authors and speakers who have contributed to human civilization.
The ancients said, "Standing up is based on learning, and learning is based on reading". Since 2014, "Reading for All" has been written into the government work report every year, and creating a bookish society has become a good social atmosphere. Reading should start from the baby, "less and easy to learn, like the sunrise of the sun", before the age of 12 is the "golden period" for cultivating children's reading habits. The ancients said that "3 years old look big, 7 years old look old", the psychological characteristics and personality tendencies of children around 3 years old, we can see the prototype of the psychological and personality image of teenagers, and from the 7-year-old children, we can vaguely predict their achievements and achievements after middle age. Therefore, to cultivate the habit of reading from an early age, we must not only have a certain amount of reading, but also have a continuous amount of time, and we must have a fixed reading time every day, and we must not like to read, and if we don't like to read, we will not be able to develop a good habit; Cultivating reading ability is also developing learning ability, which is a lifelong benefit. To develop reading ability, it is necessary to insist on reading and impulse reading. Only by persisting in reading can we form a habit and complete the corresponding amount of reading; impulse reading, ensuring a certain amount of reading every day, and accumulating over time, can achieve the reading effect. The first thing is to "accumulate thickly" before "thin hair". The discovery of a child's ingenuity is like a seed, which needs conditions to germinate and grow, and this condition is a lot of reading and using hands and brains. The thickness of a child's reading at an hour determines the length of a child's secondary and university studies, and will even determine the height of his or her life.
It is true that both adults and children, reading, not only to have a certain amount of extensive reading, but also to strengthen targeted study, but also to strengthen the practice of "the unity of knowledge and action", the so-called "travel thousands of miles, read thousands of books", is to verify the truth in the book in observation, in practice to form a sense of innovation. In this way, we can "contribute to the progress of human civilization" and live up to the original intention of the establishment of World Book Day.