However, when gulping down the third chapter, a question in it caught my eye, in which the author was asked what is the point of reading since we can find out whatever knowledge we want anytime we go online.
Putting down the book, I pondered this question, my interest in reading does not need to be cultivated at all, I myself love reading. And compared with the vast majority of my peers, I prefer to buy a variety of books, and used to read in order to read paperback novels, saving money. Does that mean I think reading is useful?
On the contrary, as long as I have something "serious" to do, such as preparing for the counselor's exam, I would feel very guilty and anxious if I opened a Hosseini novel and became y engrossed in it. This feeling means that I subconsciously feel that reading is not as useful as the various qualification exams, or even that reading is a waste of time. So for a good portion of the time, I need to suppress the urge to read and force myself to do what most people "have" to do.
And once I have free time, I will be tempted by the fancy gimmicks on Tencent news, and also attracted by the paragraphs and hot searches on the microblogging, unconsciously repeating the action of clicking on the next, and even more free time, I can not help but open the novel reading APP. and as if we all are like this, the chatting topic seems to revolve around the SAD Lotte out of China, He Jie stormed out of the country, the police said, "I don't know what to do. The topic of conversation seems to revolve around Sade Lotte getting out of China, He Jie violently losing weight, and a certain celebrity suspected of cheating on his wife after marriage. Even when it comes to reading and studying, it is just a matter of which publisher's book to buy for the grade exam, which professor's specialized book is more professional, which explains more professional and so on, and so on and so forth.
Everyone in this diversified society but more and more standardized development, are anxious to follow the footsteps of the Internet era of big data, but also which have time to read what leisure books, a month do not read a book, which seems to be nothing strange.
And what I want to say today is, what do you really get from the Internet? An amazing message, a hilarious paragraph will only stay in our minds for a moment, and will soon be replaced by something even more amazing and hilarious. But said the network is useless, that is not true, we want to know as long as the Baidu know Google any site, we can get a lot of answers we want. Just as we usually write those to cope with the homework of the paper, go to various sites to copy and paste, tens of thousands of words of the paper are at hand.
We do get the knowledge we want, but it is acquired purposefully, even predictably, easily, without thought, and it is never further processed into wisdom.
In contrast, if we open a book, we never know what kind of world we are opening up, what kind of soul we are encountering, other than simple speculation based on the name. Every word here may bear witness to the changing times, and every sentence hides the author's lifelong wisdom. We sit at our desks and never leave, but I fear that the feet of our minds have already set foot in distant and exotic lands. And the deep processing of a seemingly useless book, the essence of this book will be integrated into your thoughts, while this thought can be applied to any field, this is the magic of reading.
In my case, I recently read Sophie's world, this story-like philosophy in the science students seem as if it is useless, but can make the boring history of philosophy so interesting, this kind of writing y touched me, as far as my own specialty is concerned, biology is actually the philosophy of life, is it possible to make the textbook into an interesting history of the life sciences, so that laymen are willing to go to
What's the point of the book?
What is it about books, these words may be old, but because of the classics, they will never go out of fashion. And this realm have you ever had a moment to realize it?
Of course, I'll end this age-old question with a quote from the book, which is the author's answer to the questioner, and it's by far the best answer I've ever seen.
"The internet will only tell you what you long to know, and books can tell you facts you don't know. The difference is actually much greater than one might think. While curiosity leads to knowledge, what is not known wakes you up. "
The knowledge of the internet addresses only short-term applications and immediate answers, while the knowledge of reading subconsciously brings you ideas and the wisdom of how to come up with better answers. The combination of the two will allow you to really buck the trend!