"Don't read without moving pen and ink" was put forward by Xu Teli, an educational theorist in China, and it is the best interpretation of the word "diligence" among his three reading methods (quantity, regularity and diligence).
In Marx's reading method, "making abstracts and notes when reading" also coincides with "no pen and ink, no reading".
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Chairman Mao's reading method: don't read without moving pen and ink.
First, Mao Zedong's reading method of "no pen and ink, no reading" originated from the teaching of his teacher Mr. Xu Teli. While adhering to Mr. Xu Teli's reading methods, he also has his own unique practices.
1, he copied and studied, combining reading, copying and discussion. For example, in Yan 'an, Mao Zedong studied and discussed more than 3,000 words extracted from the philosopher Ai Siqi's Philosophy and Life.
He pays attention to combining reading, thinking and commenting. His method of taking notes is very special, and he seldom uses notebooks. Instead, I interpret my reading experience and wonderful sentences between the eyebrows and between the lines of the book. For example, in Hunan First Normal University, he read the book Principles of Ethics, with hundreds of thousands of words, and his annotations had more than 10,000 words.
Secondly, Mao Zedong's reading method of "no pen and ink, no reading" inherits the basic method of sketch research reading created by ancient Chinese philosophers, but he organically combines reading, thinking and writing. When Mao Zedong was studying, some of his notes and drawings were sewn on the upper and lower ends of the page with white edges, and some of the pages were full of dots, hooks, straight lines, curves, double straight lines, triple straight lines, double circles, triangles and forks.
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