It is useful for parents to teach their children to read. What is the use of reading?

This year, many of my colleagues’ children are taking the college entrance examination. It can be seen that everyone is quite nervous. Because as a teacher, it can be said that no one thinks that studying is useless. Everyone thinks that the college entrance examination can change the destiny of children. In fact, judging from the family backgrounds of the top scorers in college entrance examinations or top academics over the years, many parents of children have also started a new life because of studying.

In today's life, there are indeed some people who are promoting the theory of "the uselessness of studying" and have a disdainful attitude towards academic qualifications, study quality, diplomas, etc. They believe that studying is useless and cannot make money, and what you learn is Written cultural knowledge, but today’s society only looks at earning ability.

1. Is the saying "reading is useless" really true?

The college entrance examination is the best shortcut for children from ordinary families and remote villages to go abroad. It is the fairest, most cost-effective and most affordable golden key for thousands of students.

We always question the college entrance examination, thinking that only four test papers can really determine a person's life? Of course not. Obviously, this is the most poisonous bowl of chicken soup. Anyone will say: The college entrance examination cannot determine life. But in fact, the uselessness of studying is used to comfort losers, not as an excuse for people to get lucky and not study. If everyone adheres to this belief, the consequences will be disastrous. Although the college entrance examination does not determine a person's life, it at least determines a person's life. A person's direction in life determines his future social and interpersonal circles, as well as his level of realm.

Peking University graduates sell pork, PhD graduates sell insurance, and undergraduate graduates sell pancakes and fruits. People seem to have a discriminatory and contemptuous mentality towards these special cases. Anyone can sell pork, isn't it a butcher? The insurance threshold is so low that anyone can do it, and pancakes are a joke. People hold this mentality and think that they are overqualified and underqualified for their talents. However, in their own eyes, they accept in their hearts that "study is useless."

First of all, there is no distinction between high and low occupations. Graduates with high academic qualifications may not necessarily choose a high starting point for employment. Although they choose a low starting point, they can still realize the value of life. Facts have proved that, People with high academic qualifications may be able to make a career out of a low-barrier job.

Secondly, most of us only know that Peking University graduate Lu Buxuan sells pork, and even gave him the title of "Peking University Butcher", but you know that he made his own pork into a brand, and the sales volume More than one billion, with sales of 1.8 billion a year. Have you become a well-known entrepreneur? We have a bias against the insurance industry and even think it is an unfair industry, but did you know that insurance is also a very complex financial product? We think that pancakes and fruits are just stalls, but did you know that Liu Haoming founded a pancake and fruit brand and earns 150,000 yuan a month?

Those who study may not necessarily have a good job, but they have the mindset of change and entrepreneurship. If they don’t study, they may not have a good job. It’s just that they have to put in more effort and sweat. It’s not that studying is useless, but You don't want to use it.

2. Why do people think reading is useless?

As the theory of "the uselessness of reading" spread on the Internet, people started talking about it, but when netizens showed two pictures, people were immediately silenced.

One is the 2019 Young Rich List, and the other is a gathering of well-known entrepreneurs. From the Young Rich List, it can be seen that except for two people who are family heirs, everyone else is They started from scratch and now own over 100 million yuan. Another dazzling thing is that these young entrepreneurs all graduated from famous universities at home and abroad. Let’s look at the second picture. This is a picture of a gathering of China’s most famous and top entrepreneurs. They They all graduated from prestigious schools, and several of them topped the college entrance examination. It can be said to be a gathering of students from prestigious universities.

If they had not studied hard, they would not have achieved the success they have today. Therefore, we must admit that reading is useful, and reading is really useful.

Take Wang Xinglai, the founder of Meituan, as an example. Wang Xing graduated from Tsinghua University and was a typical good student. After graduation, he went to the United States to study for a Ph.D., then gave up his studies and chose to return to China to start a business. He started his own business three times out of four times. Failure, most people probably don’t know that Wang Xing has been a rich second generation since he was born. He could have inherited the family business, but he didn’t. He still chose to learn this difficult road and finally achieved something of his own. cause.

There is also Liu Qiangdong. Liu Qiangdong was born in a poor and backward rural area and his family was poor. However, he studied very seriously and won the top spot in the college entrance examination with a score of 688 points. He later founded JD.com and is now the Part of the country’s business elite.

In fact, the examples we gave of people who are very promising even without studying are only a small part, and they do not represent the majority of people. Just like what Teacher Bai Yansong said: There is no college entrance examination. , can you fight against the rich second generation?

Without the college entrance examination, would Liu Qiangdong be able to get out of that poor rural area and achieve today’s success? If it weren’t for the college entrance examination, we might not know Wang Xing, the rich second generation. In fact, most of the top people in the industry today Talents, they all have good academic backgrounds as prerequisites. They are not what we think of as lucky and smart. Their past efforts and dedication are worthy of their current achievements!

Why do people think that reading is useless? It’s because some people do nothing but comfort themselves that being ordinary is valuable.

3. Reading is the shortcut that most people should take. So what can reading bring to a person’s life?

1. Reading can change people's thinking

We often hear the saying "reading changes destiny". This sentence is not true at all. The key depends on how you understand it. The correct answer is It should be: Reading changes thinking, and thinking changes destiny.

Yes, reading will broaden people's horizons and increase their knowledge. Taking the college entrance examination will make a group of people stand out among tens of millions of people and become the best. If you have an education, you will have more choices, but it does not necessarily mean that you will have a good future. If you don’t have an education, you will not necessarily be unsuccessful. But if you want to succeed, people without an education will have to suffer much more. Like people There is a saying that is often said: Studying is hard, but life without studying is even harder.

Reading changes people’s thinking, reading other people’s books can help you achieve your own life.

2. Reading can change your future

Studying is the best opportunity for people at the bottom to move to the upper class. It is also the hardest and easiest.

Studying changes your destiny. If it were not for studying or for the college entrance examination, then many people would miss the opportunity to visit other cities. Reading will determine what your social circle is like. Reading will determine you. Where you take root, studying will determine the level of your working platform. Studying will determine your career, your income, your living status...

3. Reading will change your social circle

Through reading and passing the fair college entrance examination, we will have the opportunity to get to know more ambitious, dreamy, and courageous people in the world. They are more educated and thoughtful people. But if it were not for the college entrance examination, we would Our social circle may consist of working, taking care of children, and other trivial matters of life. In the end, all people fall into the trivial matters of life. However, we should not be like this. We should seize such precious and fair opportunities and fight for our future.

Concerning the saying that reading is useless, what can reading bring to a person’s life? What do you think about this? Welcome to share your views.