After visiting the market, Socrates asked the students, "What did you find in this market?"
The students replied noisily: "There are many things in the market, including many delicious, beautiful and interesting things, and countless new things, including food, clothing, housing and transportation." If it weren't for the teacher's lecture, we would definitely buy a car full of goods to go home. "
Socrates nodded and said, "I am the opposite of you. At this Expo, I found that there are too many things I don't need in the world ... "
Why do Socrates and his students have two completely different understandings of the same thing and produce two completely different views?
Do you walk across the street? What do you buy in the street? Why doesn't Socrates need it?
Do you find it strange? If you know Socrates, you won't find it strange at all.
In the history of European culture, Socrates has always been regarded as a saint who devoted himself to the pursuit of truth. It occupies almost the same position as Confucius in the history of our country. Socrates initiated a new era of Greek philosophy. His thoughts have always influenced the western philosophy in Hellenistic Roman times and even later generations.
Socrates famously said, "The secret of happiness is not to pursue more what you want, but to cultivate the ability of abstinence."
Socrates doesn't care about life. He only wears a single coat all year round and often goes out without shoes or even grooming. Don't pay attention to food and other issues. He can't see the trivia of life at all. His heart and blood are in his favorite career.
Now let's go back to the story. Isn't it strange to see his completely different answers from those of the students? Yes, Socrates is such a person, and his heart only has the knowledge he likes. Everything else is just a cloud.
Because human life is limited, so is the energy of natural people. He doesn't want those "floating clouds" to waste his limited life and consume his limited energy. He devoted all his life energy and life to the career he loved and the study he loved.
He loved him and went all out to die.
It suddenly occurred to me that Weidong Yi, a sweeping monk of Peking University, was a smash hit some time ago.
There is a saying in Peking University that students can't ask teachers, and teachers can't ask Wei Dongyi. If Wei Dongyi can't, then this question is a wrong question.
Wei Dongyi is a god-like existence in Peking University. And he is just a post-90 s. After 90, in the eyes of many parents, he is just a child.
In high school, he took part in two international mathematical olympiads? Get full marks in gold medals twice, and the answer is simpler than the standard answer. Major breakthroughs have been made in scientific research, and more than ten papers have been published in international mathematical journals. The research bonus can reach more than one million at a time. He is fully capable and qualified to live a higher life. However, his happiness is not here. He has been immersed in his own mathematics kingdom. In eating, dressing, dressing and other trivial matters of life. He is unwilling to spend time and energy.
At all times and in all countries, there are too many people who have devoted their lives to the cause of mankind like this.
Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher, has never surpassed his accomplishments in calligraphy. He is completely immersed in the world of calligraphy. Once I ate with ink, I didn't even know.
Jia Dao, bent on studying poems, strayed into Han Yu's guard of honor, and there was a legendary story that "birds stay in the trees by the pool and monks knock at the door".
Chen Jingrun was immersed in his own research, and the anecdote of living in the toilet, forgetting to get a haircut and walking into a tree has been passed down as a beautiful talk.
Newton was so obsessed with his work that his pocket watch made an egg by mistake? Boil;
Madame Curie was absorbed in reading, motionless, and the stool set up by her friend stood firm;
Edison was so obsessed with this invention that he wore a worn-out coat for many years and could not change it. ...
Some time ago, a reporter interviewed Tsinghua students. He said that the top students in all provinces in China are all the same: they are dressed simply, their daily necessities and stationery are simple and plain, and none of them are fancy.
On the other hand, where do those people who wear strange clothes, stab dragons and draw tigers, and hide toys in their schoolbags spend their time? Where are they now?
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Having said that, I just want to prove one problem. Where you spend your mind and energy, your achievements are there. People's life and energy are limited, so you must choose between them.
Speaking of this, will there be a "lever essence" coming out and asking: Can't we just make learning machines and even take care of ourselves?
That's a good question
I also declare that I didn't ask you to do that. On the other hand, those who can't take care of themselves by learning machine life are their problems or education problems?
I just want to tell you that you have your pursuit. Do you want to pursue material and animal instinctive desires, or do you want a higher level of spiritual pursuit?
Everyone has his own choice. We have the right and the ability to choose the life we want.
Okay, let's not talk about it. Let's do the thinking training of "finding in the market" according to the routine, also to strengthen understanding and memory.
1. What do you think Socrates wants to tell the students in this story?
He wants to warn his students, where did you spend your mind? Where your mind is spent, where your energy is spent, your achievements will be there.
Don't let those flashy and superfluous things take up too much of your energy.
Second, think about it-what do you want?
I'm not as great as Socrates, but I don't have as many material pursuits as Socrates. I am also a person without desire.
I just want to take care of the people who gave birth to me without regrets; I want to train students well and make contributions to the country; I want to achieve something in my major and not waste my life; I want my hobby and love to benefit more people. ...
Third, talk about the inspiration of this story.
If you want to achieve something, you must make a choice.
Don't just stare at the glory in front of others, but also see the efforts and efforts behind them.