Books are the carrier of countless talents of human beings for hundreds of years, recording the knowledge and lessons that human beings have remembered for decades. With the development of society, there are more and more books in society. When I am faced with an avalanche of books, I can't help wondering why we should study.

Gorky said: "Books are the ladder of human progress." In order to survive and study hard, some people even say that books are a stepping stone to make a living, and you can get rid of books if you have a career. I don't agree with this view. As Bacon said, "Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people witty, mathematics makes people think deeply, physics makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, and logic makes people eloquent." In my opinion, the purpose of reading is not to study for exams, but to study. If you study just for the exam, it will become a book. I think the real purpose of reading should be the following four points:

First, reading makes people acquire knowledge. This is the most obvious function.

The purpose of the textbooks we read since childhood is also greater than this. It makes people gain rich knowledge, profound knowledge, degrees and jobs, which are insignificant "by-products". This level of reading is only for life and knowledge. It is undeniable that the acquisition of knowledge is also very important. After all, is it "familiar with 300 Tang poems, even if you can't write poems?" ?

Second, reading makes people improve their self-cultivation.

Reading a good book is like talking to a knowledgeable scholar. Every word of "he" is full of sparks of wisdom and conveys noble accomplishment. The cultivation and improvement of character learned from a book are far more profound and thorough than those experienced in life training. As Lin Yutang said, if readers get the "taste" in the book, they will show it in their words. If his speech has flavor, he will show it in his writing. Isn't the subtle "taste" here the quality you appreciate in reading?

Third, reading broadens people's horizons.

Human life is limited in the chain of space and time. When he can only talk with people around him, his knowledge is superficial and his knowledge is rough. But when he opens a book, time and space can no longer be limited to him. He can sit at home and look around the world, savoring ancient and modern China and foreign countries. He can appreciate the grandeur of "horses flying like flies and bows like thunderbolts" on the ancient battlefield, and the vitality of "cattle and sheep blowing on the grassland". I can understand the anxiety of "the old vines are crying faintly and the bridges are flowing" at dusk; You can feel the joy of "singing in the daytime requires drinking, and let me go home in the green spring". In the book, man can soar in the sky of wisdom, and his vision will not only exist in a province, a city, a county or a country, but in the whole universe and space. Maybe it's the pleasure of reading.

Fourth, reading makes people understand things.

Han Yu once said: "If people are not born, who can be nothing?" I think the biggest doubt is ignorance. Celebrities who read books may just find the answer, but we can learn many ways from watching the behaviors of world celebrities, which should be very important for understanding things.

Taste the broad spirit of knowledge in books. Cultivate elegance and propriety in the book, broaden your horizons and see the world in the book, and learn the methods and principles of being a man and doing things in the book. This may be the real purpose of reading.