The above passage is a famous saying of a president of Peking University.
Yes, matter and spirit are like human wings. Without any wings, it is impossible to fly in balance.
Making money can make us rich materially, and only when we are rich materially can we live with more dignity. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. When you have no money, even the most powerful people will be down and out. So we can't despise money. In pursuit of honesty, some people regard money as dirt, despise it, and despise people who value it very much.
In fact, money is particularly important. It is the material basis. Tao Yuanming resigned and left for honesty, not for fighting for rice. Left the name of eternal integrity as a benchmark for literati. But after living in seclusion in the countryside, as a helpless scholar, life is very hard.
After he retired, although his father left him an inheritance, his family suffered two fires and he was down and out. It can be said that his family is penniless: "Don't be blocked, don't take shelter from the wind; Short brown knots, ladybugs are empty. " In the end, I couldn't even drink.
Only Tao Yuanming can be such a person who is poor in material resources but cannot be an official.
Du Fu, a great poet, spent most of his life wandering around because of the Anshi Rebellion. In his later years of wandering southwest between heaven and earth, he lost the support of his friends and had no financial resources, so he had to eat porridge and drink water regularly. In order to make a living, he often stays behind the boat. Mountain vegetables are sold as medicinal materials for a living. But in his later years, he still "climbed to this height alone with my hundred years of sorrow" and "heartache and fatigue are thick dust in my wine". Live a very bleak life.
Cao Xueqin, the author of A Dream of Red Mansions, is so poor that he and his children have no money to see a doctor when they are sick that they can only freeze to death.
Such examples abound.
Even in modern society, people are not enough to eat and wear. But people at the bottom of society are still very sad. If you earn money by your own physical strength, you will always be looked down upon by the bottom of society. Although there is no distinction between high and low occupations, who can really believe it? Who can truly be selfless and treat people in any profession fairly?
So if you don't want to be looked down upon by others, be strong. Improve yourself. Only by becoming strong can we maintain our dignity.
Reading is the cheapest aristocrat. Books are cheap, but it doesn't mean knowledge is cheap. Although our study may not be successful, it may not make your future bright, but it can make you meaningful, have room to do things, speak with scale and be measured by hippies.
Reading to make money is the best practice in life. The former is puzzling, while the latter is dignified.
Nowadays, students don't know the importance of reading and despise reading. They saw an online celebrity become rich overnight. They seem to have glimpsed the shortcuts and tricks to make money. They are addicted to games and feel the excitement and happiness of the moment. But I don't know, we can't just walk for a while on the long road of life. When will online celebrities become popular? This is all a flash in the pan.
A real network celebrity is a person with knowledge, ability and lasting influence. And these people still regard reading as their first priority.
Reading can help us understand and master the ability, skills and methods of making money. If you don't study hard and don't respect knowledge at the age when you should study, you will be severely educated by society in the future. The influence of the big environment makes students' confidence more impetuous and it is difficult to settle down.
Such a scene is really worrying. But reading to make money is a compulsory course for everyone.