Dear students,

Hello, everyone!In response to the "Youth reading Season" this month, the theme of my speech today is "to open the self-threshold with books, and to remove the opacity in the chest with practice", which is translated into adult language, basically to persuade people to read。

It is a troublesome thing to advise people to read, as it is to advise people to study hard, although it is very correct, it is also very boring, and when it comes to the small flame of youth and independent thinking, it may be counterproductive, and a young fire will burn the grumbling of your good teacher。

The happiness of reading, people who do not love reading may not imagine;Just like the joy of playing games, people who do not love playing games may not imagine。There is one of the simplest pleasures of reading, called the "blind box" of happiness。The blind box is usually not marked on the box, and only at the moment when it is opened will you know what you have drawn. This random experience and uncertain stimulus makes the majority of primary and middle school students unable to stop。Reading is the same, although it has a title on the cover, but before you thoroughly read it, you are not sure what kind of book it is, what kind of wonderful chemical reaction will occur with you, and what form will affect your future life。

For example, more than ten years ago, when I was a senior high school student surnamed Zhang, I met a book called "Village Teacher", read the cover and thought it was moving China, and then I knew it was science fiction。It said that due to the genetic reasons of knowledge memory, higher civilization crushed lower civilization, and human beings on the earth, knowledge memory can not be inherited, but still independently developed a thriving civilization path, which made higher civilization very shocked, and decided to preserve the civilization of the planet。

Carbon-based human civilization is not like silicon-based computer civilization, can be born to inherit the knowledge civilization of the past, each new individual, is a blank sheet of ignorance。What is it that has allowed human civilization to continue and flourish to this day？In the title of this book, we see the answer - it is education, it is the teachers who preach and teach generation after generation, it is the parents who teach generation after generation, and it is the books left by generation after generation of sages。From that moment on, Zhang was determined to become a people's teacher, to become a part of the continuous transmission of human civilization for tens of thousands of years。

Unlike other blind boxes, the moment the book box is opened, it is often just an ordinary afternoon for you;However, the moment you close it after reading it, in the days to come, it may be duckweed to you, only occasionally gather and disperse;Maybe it's the stars that can brighten up your potentially confused night。It's like science fiction like The Village Teacher，It gave me the belief that I wanted to become a people's teacher when I was in my third year of high school，Supporting the intellectual knowledge is comparable to Grandma Liu, physical strength is not as good as Lin Daiyu students surnamed Zhang，Spent every starry morning，Wading through every night of war and chaos，In the bumps along the way and humble arrogance，Wash it all out，Skyrocketing grease，Finally became the ordinary but great teacher Zhang。

Of course, reading a blind box can open a career that you are willing to fight for your life, which belongs to the behavior of opening a blind box lottery。However, it is precisely this sense of fate brought by uncertainty that often makes people linger。And this fate, is not a one-time sale, may be some books at the time only ordinary, but years later in retrospect, but will be feeling。

Reading, sometimes just plant a seed in your heart, and when it takes root, can not be flowers, can not be luxuriant, can not be strong towering, is dependent on your subsequent life growth。Many students feel that they read, as if they read, and as if they did not read。A book, from beginning to end, after shelving, after two or three years, do not say sincere, if you can clearly emerge in the mind, are excellent student behavior。For this, don't be sad, sometimes we so-called "forget", just a moment "don't know where to extract", and this extraction window, is our own experience of life。In other words, people can build a fresh and strong connection with the books they read by enriching their life awareness, so that they can read new and constantly grow and gain knowledge that is unique to them。

The happiness of the blind box of reading lies in giving yourself a chance to touch the unknown, and opening the threshold of existing "knowledge" with unforeseen "knowledge";And reading often read often new, is to give themselves a relevant sense of space, with the physical practice of "knowledge" to open the threshold of abstract "knowledge"。I suddenly understood why Borges, even though he was nearly blind in his later years, still secretly imagined that heaven should be like a library。

I hope you can also find your own paradise in the vast life。Thank you all!

April 11, 2022