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Seeking the translation of a passage in the Analects of Confucius. Especially the last two sentences.
Confucius said: learning without thinking is useless, and thinking without learning is dangerous.

This is what we mentioned before. In the past history, talents have three basic principles, namely, talents, morality and learning. Some people's personalities are born-they often come from nature-but they have no talent. We know that people with moral character can stick to their own opinions and teach such people to sit in the rear area, which is very good; Teach him to try to break the ice and rush out, which he can't do. He doesn't have the talent. He has only the talent of persistence, but not the talent of creation. Therefore, successful people emphasize morality. It is difficult to have both ability and political integrity, but one thing can be remedied, that is, learning and using knowledge to cultivate the missing side. Although some people are born with virtue, they still need knowledge to cultivate them. When it comes to learning, there are two things, one is learning, and the other is asking. Learning is to ask more from others, learn more from others, accept the experience of predecessors, and gain from experience by yourself. But "learning without thinking is useless." Some people are learned, but they don't have wise thoughts, so they are pedantic and alienated, becoming unrealistic and useless. So you can be a scholar, like us-teaching and bragging, not only in academia, but also in other circles. It is unrealistic to have knowledge but no real thoughts.

On the contrary, some people "think it is dangerous to be ignorant." They are thoughtful and talented, but they are also very dangerous without practical training in their studies. Many people often rely on genius to run amok and mistake it for creation, and as a result, they fall into self-harm.

Especially, the teenagers in China are suffering from the exchange and impact of ideological trends at all times and at all times, and their thoughts are hesitant and contradictory, and their emotions are depressed and agitated, which fully shows the disorder and anxiety of the times, thus forming the morbid psychology of teenagers. On the other hand, the older generation, representing the previous generation, lamented poverty, sadness, "the world is getting worse" and "the heart is not old" and worried that they would not survive for a day; In fact, childlike innocence, with a pure heart, came to this world, just like a piece of white paper, dyed with red ink and red ink. The result is due to the subjective concept of parents-"expect a child to succeed and expect a woman to succeed." Smear them, make them colorful, rotten and dirty, and make them either bookworms or taibao, not taibao. I always say that the True Taibao is a talent who creates history. Therefore, the thoughts of the older generation, whether parents, teachers or * * *, should educate themselves first. Especially those who are engaged in education and lead the cultural trend of thought, can't help but be clear about this problem.

Therefore, the problem of youth education should first pay attention to their fantasy, because fantasy is the basis of learning. According to my research, regardless of ancient and modern times, everyone's knowledge and career are based on adolescence. From this period of adolescence, we can see the achievements of middle-aged and elderly people from the personality of teenagers. A person's life is also the ideal of youth and the cultivation of knowledge. In middle age, the career is to play the ideal of youth and recall the achievements of his youth when he is old. So I say, history and culture, both at home and abroad, will always be young, always only thirty years old, not five thousand years. Why? People's intelligence and wisdom are brought into full play before the age of 40, even from a scientific point of view. After 40, there are few new inventions. Everyone's achievements are in the stage from teenagers to their twenties and thirties. The achievements accumulated by mankind in this period will become cultural history. People's brains are in their fifties and sixties when they are fully mature, but most of them fall to the ground like apples. Therefore, the wisdom of human beings will always be this 30-40 stage relay race, and 20-30 years of experience will always be behind. As a result, it has a history of 5000 years and only 20-30 years of experience. So the basic problems of mankind have not been solved. Chicken or egg first? Where did the universe come from? What is life like? There is still no absolute answer. Therefore, with thought, we need mechanics. As mentioned above, learning without thinking is useless, and learning is useless; On the contrary, if you have ideas, you need to learn to cultivate them. For example, teenagers are unrestrained, but not mechanical. Just like some teenagers in the United States, they take drugs and run naked, and they don't know what tricks they will play in the future. Therefore, thinking without learning is "dangerous" and dangerous.