Improve yourself where you stand. -Edward Everett Helmet The purpose of life is self-development. -Oscar Wilde Our youth are a growing and rising force, and their mission is to create new lifestyles and living conditions according to the logic of history. Gorky: Nothing is more encouraging than improving your life wholeheartedly. Thoreau Most people want to change the world, but few people want to change themselves. -Wang Shaonan Hawking's story scientist Hawking didn't seem to have a strong learning ability when he was a child. He learned to read very late. After school, his grades in the class have never reached the top 65,438+00, and because his homework is always "untidy", teachers all think he is "hopeless" and his classmates regard him as the object of ridicule. When Hawking 12 years old, two boys in the class took a bag of candy and bet that he would never succeed. The classmates ironically nicknamed him "Einstein". Who knows, after more than 20 years, the little boy who was not outstanding in those days really became a master of physics. What is the reason? As it turns out, with the growth of age, Hawking became interested in how everything works. He often takes things apart to get to the bottom of them, but when he reassembles them, there is nothing he can do. However, his parents didn't punish him for it, and his father even served as a "coach" in mathematics and physics for him. At the age of thirteen or fourteen, Hawking found himself very interested in the study of physics. Although middle school physics is too easy and simple, it is particularly boring, but he thinks it is the most basic science, which is expected to solve the problem of where people come from and why they are here. Since then, Hawking has started a real scientific exploration. During the Han Dynasty, Kuang Heng, a teenager, was very studious. As his family is poor, he has to do a lot of work during the day to earn money. Only at night can he sit down and read. However, he can't afford candles, so he can't read when it is dark. Kuang Heng was heartbroken at this time-wasting behavior, and his heart was very painful. His neighbor's family is very rich. At night, light candles in several rooms to make them bright. One day, Kuang Heng summoned up his courage and said to his neighbor, "I want to study at night, but I can't afford candles. Can I borrow an inch of your house? " Neighbors have always looked down on people who are poorer than their family, so they said viciously and sarcastically, "Since you are too poor to buy candles, what books are you reading?" Kuang Heng was very angry, but he decided to read the book well. When Kuang Heng came home, he quietly cut a small hole in the wall, through which the neighbor's candlelight came in. With this faint light, he eagerly began to read books and gradually finished reading all the books at home. After reading these books, Kuang Heng felt that his knowledge was far from enough, and his desire to continue reading more books was even more urgent. There is a big family nearby with many books. One day, Kuang Heng rolled up his bedding and appeared in front of a big house. He said to his host, "please take me in, and I will work for you at home for free." Just let me read all your books. " The host was moved by his spirit and agreed to his request to borrow books. This is how Kuang Heng studied diligently. Later, he became the prime minister of the Han and Yuan emperors and became a famous scholar in the Western Han Dynasty. Lincoln's Steps A little boy about/kloc-0 years old was led by his young mother to the square of the park, and he wanted to climb more than ten steps. The little boy broke free from his mother's hand and tried to climb up by himself. He climbed up with chubby little hands, and his mother didn't mean to carry him up. When he climbed two steps, he felt that the steps were very high. He looked back at his mother, who didn't mean to help him, but her eyes were full of love and encouragement. The little boy looked up again. He gave up the idea of letting his mother hold him and climbed up carefully with his hands and feet. He climbed very hard. Little ass lifted himself up, his face flushed with fatigue, the doll's clothes were covered with dirt and his hands were dirty, but he finally got up. The young mother patted the dirt on her son and kissed his red face. This little boy is Lincoln, who later became 16 president of the United States. His mother is Nancy Hanks. Lincoln's father was a farmer and his family was very poor. Lincoln received formal education intermittently, which added up to less than 1 year. But from an early age, Lincoln developed the good qualities of loving knowledge, pursuing knowledge, being kind and upright, and being fearless of difficulties. He couldn't afford paper and pens, so he wrote on the board with charcoal and practiced writing on the ground with a small stick. He seized all the time to read and practice speaking. Lincoln lost his job and worked as a worker and lawyer. From the age of 29, he began to run for parliament and president. He tried 1 1 times and failed 9 times. 5 1 year-old, finally won the White House, made brilliant achievements, and was called "the hero of the world" by Marx. Mother Nancy died when Lincoln was 9 years old. But there is no doubt that she raised Lincoln with a strong and great maternal love, making him bravely and firmly move towards the future. It goes without saying that there are countless steps in a person's life-living, studying and working. How to face and climb these steps of life? For children, is it holding hands, holding hands, or holding hands? Different parents will have different answers. Obviously, if parents hold and help their children, they will make them dependent, and often regard their parents as crutches, making it difficult to stand on their own feet. If parents hold their children on the steps and in their infancy, then the children will become the "big generation", which will be more difficult to stand on in society without wind and rain. Usually, children are full of food, clothes reach out, pick up and drop off at school, accompany them at night, and even their parents have to be "nannies" after they are admitted to college. When a child graduates from college and finds a job, his parents have to be "employment agents" ... in this way, it is difficult for a child to make great achievements on his own. No matter how rich you are, you can't make a child rich. You might as well let the child suffer a little and have "steps" for him to climb. In this way, children may be able to "muster" and climb to the top of glory. Behind the flowers, applause and cheers are hard work, harsh conditions and terrible tests. For the sake of money and honor, Albery asked little Mozart to perform in public at any time, no matter how tired the journey was. In order to publicize his son's genius, he used his children to listen to all kinds of unexpected and whimsical suggestions. For example, live performance of difficult music that has never been touched; Improvise the composition according to the bass that the audience imagined temporarily, and immediately play it according to the specified tonality. Cover the keyboard with handkerchiefs without affecting the piano. Play your own works from beginning to end at the concert, and so on. And such performances often last for four or five hours. 1772, 16-year-old Mozart finally ended his wandering life for 10 and returned to his hometown of Salzburg as the chief musician in the archbishop's court band. This 10 year is an extremely important stage of exercise, accumulation and learning for Mozart, both in art and life. He wrote three symphonies and several sonatas at the age of eight. /kloc-when he was 0/2 years old, he composed the opera "False Silly Girl" for the Vienna Opera House. /kloc-when he was 0/4 years old, he wrote operas for Milan Opera House in Italy and personally conducted performances. He performed 20 performances in a row, and the venue was full. This outstanding achievement, which caused a sensation in Europe, made Mozart win the title of academician of Bologna College, the Italian music center, at the age of 14, and was awarded the "Golden Wheel" medal by the Pope. My father followed the principle of gradual progress in teaching young Mozart music. At first, I only taught some simple songs, but Mozart was very receptive, and many songs were easy to remember after listening once. My father was afraid that his son was overburdened and didn't teach him to compose music early, but Mozart, 5, watched his father compose music and began to learn to compose music. Once, my father and friends walked into Mozart's room and saw the child writing on five lines of paper. "Mozart, what are you writing?" He picked up what his son had written and looked at it. He was surprised. It turns out that his son is writing a piano concerto, which is completely in line with the law. He deliberately teased his son and said, "You know, you can't play this song!" " Little Mozart replied angrily, "I know which song should not be modified before playing!" " "The father was asked speechless. Mozart's Growth Story The father was surprised by his son's musical talent, and then began to teach him some difficult composition exercises. Little Mozart is very clever and studious. When other children are playing, he stays at home all day, either practicing the piano or composing music. Children aged five or six are as immersed in music as adults. In order to broaden his son's horizons, old Mozart achieved something in his youth. 176 1 Since the autumn of, he has been performing in Vienna, Austria, with his 6-year-old son Mozart Junior and his daughter Anna. The performance was a great success. Then, my father took them to Germany, France, Britain, the Netherlands and Switzerland to perform, and wherever they went, they were well received by the audience. However, in this travel performance, the old Mozart also clearly saw his son's shortcomings: although he has excellent musical talent, he has a poor cultural foundation because he has no formal general education. After returning from the trip, the father systematically made up lessons for his son and taught him Latin, Italian, French and English. It was under the strict requirements of the old Mozart and the efforts of the young Mozart that Mozart finally became a world-famous musician, made great contributions to world music and became an important representative of the Vienna classical music school.