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Recently, the TV series "know, know, should be green, fat, red and thin" starring Zhao Liying has been popular, and there are hot searches on new topics almost every day.
A few days ago, I saw a hot search. I felt it was very reasonable to refute the futility of women's reading.
In the plot, grandma advised minglan: "reading is not a girl's job after all."
However, minglan, a daughter born in ancient times and longer than her daughter, has made a thought-provoking point of view:
"In my opinion, the theory that reading is useless is a lie.
If reading is useless, why do men all over the world have to go to scientific research? Is it idle?
I think this sentence is just those men who want women to be ignorant, obedient and easy to manipulate all their lives. "
Although this speech has some limitations of the times, its essence is not outdated even in modern times.
Reading is useless. It has always been the biggest lie in the world.
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I still remember that there was such a story in the circle of friends before.
Give me two lists first:
The first list: Fu Yijian, Wang Shidan, Bi Yuan, Lin Zhaotang, Wang Yunjin, Liu Zizhuang, Chen Hang, Liu Fuyao and Liu Chunlin.
The second list: Cao Xueqin, Hu Xueyan, Li Yu, Gu Yanwu, Jin Shengtan, Huang Zongxi, Wu Jingzi, Pu Songling, Hong Xiuquan and Yuan Shikai.
Q. which list do you know more people?
Obviously, most of us don't know the first one, but the second one.
The final answer is revealed: the former are all the top scholars in the imperial examination of the Qing Dynasty; The latter were all failed scholars at that time.
It is concluded that people who can read do not necessarily mix well, and people who can't read and test are more likely to succeed.
Countless people who support the theory of "reading is useless" turn this paragraph to slap those who think "reading is useful".
Indeed, just looking at this list, this conclusion is really hard to refute.
However, the problems behind success should not be ignored.
According to statistics, there were more than 700 top scholars and about 110000 Jinshi in Chinese history. Except for a few, these top scholars have made good achievements in their posts.
In other words, the success of these people has its inevitability.
What about the failed scholars in history? beyond count.
It is not surprising that there can be people who will last forever. The key is, what is the proportion?
Could be 0. 1%, or 0. 01％。 It can be said that these failed scholars remembered by history are purely small probability events.
Using these two lists to prove that reading is useless is, in the final analysis, an accessibility bias.
People often judge the probability of events according to the accessibility of cognition, which often leads to deviation.
So stop comparing these survivors. Those who have achieved without reading will only be a few.
This is especially true in modern society. Before, a picture spread very popular on the Internet. It was a gathering of Chinese Internet bosses.
In the picture, the 16 bigwigs have different faces and seats, but their sitting posture shows the style of elite talents trained by higher quality education. From left to right, they graduated from Beijing Industrial and Commercial University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Nankai University, Hubei Wuhan University, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen University, Chinese people's Congress, Beijing University of chemical technology, Xiamen University and Chengdu Institute of technology. Without exception,
Not only that, Liu qiangdong of Jingdong is the number one in Suqian college entrance examination, Wang Xing of meituan is the recommended Tsinghua University, and Lei Jun of Xiaomi has completed four years of undergraduate credits in two years. Besides, Baidu Robin Lee (Peking University) and giant ShiYuzhu (Zhejiang University) who are not at the table are also the top students in the college entrance examination.
It can be said that at present, most of the most profitable leaders in China have studied in universities, and even graduated from very good universities.
Do you still believe that reading is useless?
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In contrast to the futility of reading, many people also like to say that it is difficult for poor families to get out of noble children, and upward mobility is becoming more and more difficult.
However, have you ever thought that the real solidification of the circle actually starts from your belief that "reading is useless"?
Growing up in a small county, many people around me believe that reading is useless. Their favorite words are:
Who you look at, you still do well without reading any books;
What's the use of girls in college? In the end, they don't get married and have children;
You college students have to work for illiterate people after graduation......
One of my cousins used to be a loyal supporter of the theory of "reading is useless".
I remember when I was in junior high school, my cousin had worked in Xiamen for many years. At that time, he earned more than 3000 yuan a month with a high salary.
When I go home for the Chinese new year, I like to ask our grades first, and then say that it's useless to study well. Even if I go to college, it's useless. There are many college students in our factory, some of whom are still my apprentices.
In short, college is useless except wasting money.
At that time, he was in high spirits. After drinking some wine, he began to guide the country, as if those college students would always be his minions.
Over the years, his college apprentice was either promoted to a management post or changed jobs, and he was still the skilled worker on the assembly line.
According to my mother, my cousin has now become the person who attaches most importance to education in the family. If the child fails to do well in the exam, he will have to beat him up.
Cousin suffered the loss of not reading, so he woke up, but more people are convinced that reading is useless.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences once conducted a survey and found that the poorer the place, the more it agreed that "reading is useless":
In the village poverty level, the recognition degree is 62. 32％；
The recognition degree of the rural middle level is 37. 24％；
In villages with an annual income of less than 10000 yuan, the proportion of poor people who think reading is useless is the highest.
The reality is also true. In rural areas, the theory that reading is useless is becoming more and more intense.
Countless rural children drop out of school prematurely, feel the pleasure of making money prematurely, and then laugh at their peers who are still studying.
If you look at those advanced people, they may say that reading is useless and education is not important, but check their children and you will know.
They will never let their children start making money too early, but will create all opportunities for their children to receive better and more education.
For them, of course, reading is not for academic qualifications, but reading is a process of their self-improvement and self-growth. It is a way for elites to copy.
Therefore, they stayed in the upper class through reading and education.
Sadly, countless people at the bottom thought that reading was really useless.
Think of a remark made by the president of Princeton University last year:
There is a strange atmosphere in society. Many speakers claim that there are too many college students. Or welders earn more than graduates to prove that reading is useless.
This short-sighted scam will eventually destroy our future.
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Someone said, "what about graduating from Peking University? There are also pork sellers."
Yes, Peking University also has Lu Buxuan who sells pork, but what you don't know is that he has more than 100 million by selling pork.
It also sells pork. Why is there such a big difference?
I have seen such a dialogue between father and son.
Soon after his son went to school, he asked the farmer's father why people should study.
Father said that if a small tree grows for one year, it can only be used as a fence or firewood; 10-year-old trees can be used as purlins; 20-year-old trees are of great use. They can be used as beams, columns and furniture.
If a child doesn't go to school, he can herd sheep at the age of 7. When he grows up, he can herd a large group of sheep, but he can't do anything else except herding sheep.
And Han Han, who dropped out of high school, said:
After leaving school, there was a lot of pressure and discussion, and I was once confused. That's the last century. China Mobile can't send text messages to China Unicom. Of course, dropping out of school is the universal condemnation.
It was once said that this was the "useless theory of reading" and the "ghost of the white scroll hero".
Of course, I also feel very wronged. Who says reading is useless? I don't learn less outside school than in school. I'm glad I dropped out because I got a better learning environment.
You see, his is only school, not study.
Liang Xiaosheng once said:
"Most of us have no family background and no so-called noble people to help. In this case, what do you rely on to rise? Almost only reading, spending the least money, all on self-consciousness."
For us ordinary people, reading is the most effective way to change your destiny.
A college diploma may not make you earn a lot of money and become a winner in life, but it can save you from falling to the bottom.
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In the job search program "it's up to you", a boss once preached that reading is useless, but he was loudly refuted by the host.
The host Zhang Shaogang said:
I hate some businessmen most. When their company selects people, they don't want to graduate without a bachelor's degree.
Then say on this platform, support personality, support, you are very good, don't graduate with personality.
He doesn't have a college diploma and can't find a job in the future.
The new theory that reading is useless is that you businessmen will succeed if you have nothing to do.
Without knowledge, making money is useless.
A writer wrote in a letter to her child:
I also ask you to study hard, not because I want you to compare your achievements with others. But because I think you will have the right to choose a meaningful and time-saving job in the future, rather than being forced to make a living.
When your work is meaningful in your heart, you have a sense of achievement; When your work gives you time and does not deprive you of your life, you have dignity; Sense of achievement and dignity bring you happiness.
Reading is enough to make you happy, colorful and talented. Reading can give you a greater pattern and insight.
I hope we can all understand that success in the world is not only about making money.
The biggest advantage of reading is never making money.
Encourage with you.