The ancients had a saying: If you don't sweep a house, why sweep the world? What does this mean? I simply understand it as five words: start with small things!
Although we are all adults, we are also students, and we are college students. We should look like students when we arrive at school, but some of our classmates are just too lazy to do great things.
Look at our surroundings. The school streets are littered with rubbish, and the white walls of the teaching building are marked with pens, shouts and screams after power failure, and so on. These uncivilized phenomena and uncivilized styles should not be done by our college students. Is this a big deal? No, it's no big deal, just some trivial things, but why are these trivial things repeatedly banned? Is it because these are small things? Is it because we are both college students? Is it because we are all intellectuals?
We college students who think we are sedan chairs in heaven always think we are extraordinary and noble. Actually, it's not. Anyone who makes great achievements at any time and in any country starts with small things. Didn't our great savior Chairman Mao also work as a volunteer librarian in Beijing Library when he was young? At that time, he was looked down upon and despised, and he had no position at all, but he did not feel inferior. On the contrary, he worked harder and studied harder, and later devoted himself to the revolution. Speaking of which, I think of our school's library volunteer management service. This club may be unfamiliar to some students and has a low status in the whole school. Students think that the volunteer librarian goes to the library, but in fact, he just helps clean and clean the windows. Actually, it is not like this!
Of course, our volunteer librarian can't compare with Chairman Mao's library assistant. His job is paid, eight dollars a month. Where's our volunteer manager? No salary, voluntary service for the students. Volunteer administrators go to the library to help teachers sort out books, help teachers complete the registration procedures for borrowing and returning books, and be good teachers' assistants. Volunteer administrator's work is glorious!
How can you become a software engineer if you can't even type?
How can you become a writer if you haven't even published an article?
If you can't even swim, how can you become an excellent sailor?
Everything depends on people's efforts. Not everything needs us to do, but we should work hard to do something, even small things!
I have a dream that one day, there will be no more garbage on the roadside of school!
I dream that one day, there will be no pen handwriting on the walls of the teaching building!
I dream that one day, my classmates can sweep the whole house before sweeping the world!
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I have read such a short story: In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a young man named Chen Fan who lived alone in one room and was filthy. Qin Xue, a friend of his father's, criticized him and asked him why he didn't dress up to meet the guests. He replied, "When a man is a man, he should clean up the world and settle down?" Qin Xue immediately retorted: "How can we sweep the world without sweeping a house?"
Come to think of it carefully, the reason why Fan Chen doesn't sweep the house is nothing more than disdain. It is valuable to be ambitious and want to "sweep the world", but I beg to differ. I must take not sweeping the house as a sign of "abandoning sparrows' small ambitions and embracing the ambition of a swan"
Everything is always from small to large, as the saying goes, many a mickle makes a mickle, and we must follow certain steps and procedures. There is also a saying that "the widow is punished, and the brother is ruled by the family" in the book of songs "Scholars", which means to set an example for his wife and spread it to his brother before further governing a country. Imagine a person who doesn't want to clean the house. When he sets out to do a big thing, he will inevitably ignore its initial links and basic steps, because for him, it is nothing more than cleaning the house. Therefore, this cause is as flashy as a building without a good foundation, and even an earthquake of magnitude 3 or 4 can't stand it. It is really "in jeopardy."
This reminds me of the basic problems of learning that many teachers have said. In the process of learning, we often attach importance to delving into some comprehensive and complex big problems, but unconsciously give up the in-depth understanding of basic knowledge. Now regret can't save the lost time, so we have to consolidate it from the beginning, but the impression is much lighter. This kind of thinking has made me suffer a lot, so the deeper my understanding of "sweeping the house", the more important it is.
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." "Opportunities only favor those who are prepared." All these show that without the usual accumulation, even if the best fate comes to him, he can only watch it pass by blankly. What a pity that would be! Therefore, we must first know how to "sweep the house" and distinguish whether to sweep the floor first, sprinkle water first or mop the floor first; In this way, when sweeping the world, you will know what should be solved immediately and what can be postponed or even given up.
Our beloved Premier Zhou is the representative who wants to sweep the world first. He has set up the grand goal of "studying for the rise of China" since he was a child. When I was a teenager, my academic performance was first-class and my social activities were extensive. He has run newspapers, written articles and made numerous speeches, and his eloquence is extraordinary, which has a considerable influence on his ability to become prime minister in the future. If he doesn't have a down-to-earth job of "sweeping the floor", can he be a good prime minister when he faces a vast country with a population of 600 million, complicated domestic and international situations and sudden natural and man-made disasters? It can be seen that Premier Zhou's brilliant revolutionary achievements of "sweeping the world" are inseparable from his early "sweeping" work.
"Sweeping the house" and "sweeping the world" come down in one continuous line, but I don't know that the house is also a part of the world. How can "sweeping the world" exclude "sweeping the house"?
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According to the Beijing Daily, some college students go to the labor market to book domestic helpers before they officially start school in Beijing and other places. It is said that it is becoming a popular fashion for college students to compete for nannies. According to reports, the monthly salary of a domestic company's nanny is 400 yuan RMB, and the hourly salary is 10 yuan RMB. These expenses will be paid by parents. The person in charge of a company said: "Now they are all only children. As long as it allows children to concentrate on their studies, it is nothing for parents to spend some money. "
Maybe we can't blame the children too much. College students are children after all. Perhaps we can look at this matter from a positive perspective, for example, it shows that the living standards of our people are improving steadily from one side. Isn't that a fable twenty or thirty years ago? For another example, this is really useful for "stimulating domestic demand" and may be a new "economic growth point". However, it doesn't come from the root. What is the root? I thought these were two words: education.
When it comes to education, some people actually hold the view that there is no need for college students to make a fuss about finding a nanny. Should we also update our ideas and make it more cost-effective for them to make time to study? Or, as the saying goes, a gentleman doesn't have to be limited to "details" to do great things. ...
I disagree with the above statement. On the contrary, I think it is a new concept for college students to find a nanny, which deeply exposes many disadvantages of education in China and some "fatal wounds" of current education in China.
In principle, college students in China implement the boarding system. The school not only has a canteen, but also a washing machine, so there is no need to hire a nanny. But in fact, there are more and more students renting apartments near the school. Behind this phenomenon is a deeper problem.
Value talent over morality. What do college students study? Our educational policy is clearly written: morality, intelligence, physique and beauty. But now, the weight of each of these five words is obvious to the discerning. In reality, there is still no escape from "exams, teachers' magic weapon, scoring points and students' lifeblood". Of course, enrollment is a very complicated matter and a systematic project, and its reform cannot be achieved overnight, and there is no ready-made model to copy. But a realistic question is, how much weight does the moral part take before and after entering school? The society needs a person with a sound personality, a person who doesn't even care about washing and cooking, and a person who lacks a sense of responsibility and labor consciousness. Even with a good education, I'm afraid he is not the talent with both ability and political integrity that we advocate.
Emphasize words over deeds. Modern education attaches great importance to the unity of knowledge and practice, but opposes sitting and talking. When I went to college, I only studied and learned knowledge, and I didn't care about my work. The result must be a "bookworm" whose theory is divorced from reality and who values books over practice. Why do students nowadays generally have high scores and low abilities? An important reason is that they don't want to start work, regard it as "details" and even despise it from the bones. Such "gifted students" are far from modern people.
Value profit over righteousness. "It's cost-effective to save time to study", right? I think, from a short-sighted point of view, there are the right factors. In the so-called "time is money" era, in the era of market economy, it is very important to pay attention to the input-output ratio. But can social morality and justice such as loving the motherland, loving the people and loving labor be replaced? As everyone knows, you can save time to "study", but your beneficial "virtue" and "righteousness" are absent from class and declining. Isn't this account worth calculating?
In fact, the economies of developed countries abroad are much thicker than ours, and there are more rich people than us. However, how many people "look for a nanny before entering school" keep hearing examples of work-study programs. The president's children go to restaurants to carry plates and work at school. In this respect, many old revolutionaries in our country have set a good example for us. During their study abroad, Deng Xiaoping, Zhou Enlai and other revolutionaries of the older generation all relied on work-study programs to maintain their studies. Now let's look at our students. They need their parents to send them to college, and they send them by car. Well, now they are looking for a nanny again. This is progress. I don't think anyone with a little sense will believe it. I think this is a retrogression and a moral decline. This also shows from one side that our educational reform is very arduous, and there is still a considerable gap between the ideological concepts and methods of our whole society and the true consciousness of modern civilization. There is a gap is not terrible. We try to "follow up" because we are afraid that we will always be labeled as "new progress" if we make a mistake or learn something wrong.
Let college students wash clothes and sweep the floor, not to learn any "skills", but to temper their personal will and cultivate the civilian mentality. At home, "clothes come to reach out, food comes to mouth", but after all, it is necessary to leave the care of parents. Property can be inherited, but skills cannot be inherited naturally. There is no way out by sitting on the mountain. For everyone, the career can be said to start from scratch, and even the children of the rich should cultivate a "civilian" mentality. "How can you sweep the world without sweeping a house?" . Mencius once said that if Heaven wants to be a great man, it must first suffer its mind, its bones and muscles, and its physique. In a person's life, it is beneficial to eat a little bitterness properly, which is helpful to understand and adapt to society and is also conducive to the sound personality. It is reported that some rich people in Guangdong are deeply worried about their children's pampering and spend a lot of money to create opportunities for their children to suffer; In recent years, there have also been some "summer camps" and other activities, which are to let children leave their parents completely and live independently in the wild for a few days ... these are gratifying. Shouldn't those college students looking for nannies get some inspiration from the behavior of rich people?