Confucius, an educator two thousand years ago, once said, "Learning without thinking is useless." In other words, if a person only knows rote memorization, but not thinking and digesting, then he will get nothing. Confucius' words are very reasonable.
The process from accepting knowledge to applying knowledge is actually a process of remembering and knowing, learning and thinking. Learning is the foundation of thinking, and thinking is the supplement of learning. The two are closely related and indispensable. Just like the human body's digestion process of things, learning without thinking is useless and swallowing dates without chewing; We can't draw inferences, because it is undigested and absorbed, and the knowledge we have learned can't become our own. Only by studying and thinking can we master what we have learned and draw inferences from others.
The combination of learning and thinking is the only way to master knowledge, which has been proved by successful cases at home and abroad. It's time for Marxism–Leninism to spread to China. Communist party people, led by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, absorbed the essence of Marxism–Leninism, combined with the reality of China, embarked on the revolutionary war road of "encircling the city from the countryside" and finally founded the new socialist China. Just imagine, if the revolutionary predecessors did not study, think and practice, and blindly copied mechanically and dogmatically, wouldn't the China revolution be ruined by the left-leaning dogmatists? Galileo, a great scientist in the Renaissance, if he didn't think independently in his research, could the experiment of "two iron balls landing at the same time" have been produced at that time? Can mankind get rid of Aristotle's wrong theory as soon as possible? Learning and thinking, thinking and learning are the successful experiences of these great men and the source of power for human progress.
Today is the era of "knowledge surge", and the field of knowledge has expanded many times in less than a century. "My life is limited, but my knowledge is also limited." Faced with such a vast ocean of knowledge, it is impossible to reach the other side of the light only by rote memorization. Therefore, American educational circles are trying to reform the original educational system and cultivate students' thinking ability and creative ability to adapt to tomorrow's science; Europe and Japan have followed in their footsteps, and the education system reform in China is imminent and imperative. Tomorrow's creative talents should be cultivated from today's students. Therefore, we should do more, think in study, put forward original opinions in thinking, and cultivate our thinking ability to wait for tomorrow's choice.
Independent thinking in learning is the successful experience of scholars and masters and the source of power for human progress. Cultivating students' ability is the hope of China's rise tomorrow.
Learning and thinking
As we all know, learning and thinking influence and promote each other. In today's era of knowledge economy, correctly handling the relationship between Neo-Confucianism and thinking can help us to learn, master and use knowledge better, so as to gain the upper hand and remain invincible in the fierce competition.
There is a saying in The Analects: "Learning without thinking is useless, and thinking without learning is dangerous." In other words, people who only study without thinking can't deeply understand and grasp the essence of what they have learned. The more they know, the more doubts you have. And those who daydream all day long, without certain knowledge as the basis, will only think more and more confused. It can be seen that only by paying equal attention to learning and thinking can we become a wise person.
Learning is the basis of thinking, and thinking is the means of in-depth learning. In your learning journey, knowledge is like rain, which makes you full of ponds; Thinking is like winding valleys, streams and rivers, which guide you to towards the distant and make you travel thousands of miles to merge into rivers and seas. Zhu said: "If you study without knowing, you will think. If you think for knowing, you will read." That's what I said.
Reading is to learn from the wisdom of others, and thinking is to form your own wisdom. A biographer once asked Einstein how to establish the theory of relativity. Einstein replied: "What is space and time? The primary school textbook explains it clearly, but my intelligence develops late, so I think more than others. I thought about what I learned from books in the past ten years before I understood the relationship between space and time. " It was in the process of learning and thinking that Einstein surpassed his predecessors and raised physics to a new height.
In War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Communist Party of China (CPC) learned from the experience of the October Revolution of the Soviet Union and established War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's principles and lines. Wang Ming and Bo Gu Kailai, who studied in Russia and were proficient in Marxism-Leninism, were sent by the International Communist Youth League to guide the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s anti-Japanese war, and they all commanded operations according to the experience of the Soviet revolution. However, fighting a powerful Japanese aggressor army with a small number of troops is like throwing eggs at a stone, which makes the equipment and combat level far inferior to that of the enemy Red Army, and the Communist Party of China (CPC) is on the verge of extinction. After analyzing the war situation, Mao Zedong thought that we should not blindly adopt the experience of the Soviet Union, but should formulate a communist line suitable for China. After hard work, the Communist Party of China (CPC) won the victory in the anti-encirclement campaign and had a bright future, and survived the crisis of being wiped out by the Japanese invaders.
Please remember Voltaire's words: "The more books you read without thinking, the more you will feel that you know. The more you read and think, the more you will know that you know little and work harder."