Talking about reading is a famous article. Many wonderful passages in the article, such as "reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people witty, mathematics makes people think deeply, science makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, and learning logic rhetoric makes people eloquent", have become well-known aphorisms. Mainly talking about the benefits of reading. Around this central topic, I also talked about some related issues, such as supplementing experience in reading, paying attention to reading methods, and making different choices according to different personalities and needs. This paper discusses it from three aspects:

First of all, from the beginning to "all by observation", talk about the benefits of reading. From the beginning, the author pointed to the theme and thought that reading has three advantages: delight in emotion, happiness in talent and long talent. Then explain them separately from the front, which is not complicated. Later, when the conversation turned, it was pointed out from the opposite side that there might be misunderstandings in seeking knowledge, that is, "reading is too time-consuming and easy to be lazy, and literary talent is too abundant to be corrected." It is a pedant's truth to judge things completely by the provisions. "

Secondly, talk about reading methods (from "don't deliberately question the author when reading" to "ignorant but clearly know"). He advocates adopting different methods for different books, such as selective reading, full reading and intensive reading, and combining reading with taking notes and writing to apply what you have learned; It should also be treated separately according to personal temperament and needs.

Finally, the author quotes an important viewpoint of Ovid, an ancient Roman poet, that is, "learning changes temperament" (translated by Wang Zuoliang as "everything learned becomes character"), which actually emphasizes and publicizes the benefits of reading from another angle, making the argument of the article more complete, the argument more rigorous and the writing echoing.