Understanding knowledge by studying things is an important concept in China's ancient Confucianism, which is a discipline specializing in physics. Has been lost, from the Book of Rites? The eight goals of the university-learning things, knowing, being honest, being upright, cultivating oneself, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world-state that "those who want to be honest are prophets; Knowledge exists in things. The content is known, and the knowledge is sincere. " However, this passage is the only passage in Da Xue, but it has not been explained since, and the words "Wu Ge" and "Zhi Zhi" have not been quoted in the ancient books of the pre-Qin period, which makes the true meaning of "Wu Ge Zhi Zhi" a mystery of Confucianism. The sixth edition of Modern Chinese Dictionary published on 20 12 interprets "knowing knowledge by studying things" as "studying the principles of things to acquire knowledge."
Then our education, basically, is more exam-oriented education, just like China's Olympic Mathematics is very strong, because students are under too much pressure to go to school, and then they study too much. They only know a lot of things, but they don't know why, because there are too many, so they don't have much time to explore.