In Confucius' famous sayings, "learning" refers to learning, "xi" refers to practice, and "si" refers to thinking

1. Original text

Confucius said: "Learning" Isn’t it just right to learn it now? Isn’t it nice to have friends from far away? Isn’t it true that a person who doesn’t know and is stupefied is not a gentleman?” If you don’t think about it, you will be in vain; if you don’t think about it, you will be in danger.” "Wei Zheng"

2. Translation

Confucius said: "Learn (knowledge) and then review it at a certain time." , Isn’t it also very happy to have like-minded people coming from afar? If I don’t get angry when others don’t understand me, isn’t that a morally cultivated person?”

Confucius Said: "If you just study without thinking, you will be confused; if you just dream without studying, you will be confused."

3. Appreciation

(1) What is said in the first sentence It's a learning method. Regarding knowledge, "learning" is just a cognitive process, and "learning" is a consolidation process. If you want to obtain more knowledge, "learning" and "learning" must be unified. The second sentence talks about the fun of learning. Visits by like-minded people can enhance friendship, learn from each other and improve together. The third sentence talks about attitude. "People don't know", after omitting the object "zhi", it can be translated as "I" or "myself"

(2) This paragraph talks about the dialectical relationship between learning and thinking, and believes that the two cannot be neglected. . If you just read without thinking, you will not be able to make reasonable and effective use of the knowledge in the book because you cannot deeply understand the meaning of the book, and you may even fall into confusion. And if you just dream without actually studying and studying, you will end up building a tower on sand and gain nothing. It warns us that only by combining learning and thinking can we learn practical and useful knowledge, otherwise we will have little effect.