Sentence source: Song Zhangzai's Classics and Temperament, a famous sentence of cautious independence and self-discipline.

Original text:

moral education

Zhang zai

Talent is not enough for merit, but it is merit to be kind to good and lazy.

If people are not far from their interests and absent-minded, they will learn nothing. People are lazy and not complacent. If you are not a virtuous person, you must be encouraged. Only when you do what you want can you let go. People with weak virtues will never learn. Talent is not worth being regarded as success. Only by correcting bad habits into good deeds and treating laziness as diligence can we be regarded as success.

If a person's interest is not high and his mind is not on study, even if he studies, he will not succeed. If people are lazy on the way forward, they will naturally be unable to reach their destination. If you are not a gentleman in Xiu De, you must be very diligent and do what you want to do without overstepping the bounds before you can let go. People with bad morals will not succeed in their studies in the end.

Comments: Zhang Zai's two paragraphs are all explaining the truth of "learning to be an excellent official". Where is virtue embodied? Zhang Zai mentioned two points here: First, we should change bad habits into good habits and laziness into diligence. Secondly, we should aim high and concentrate on our studies. In other words, be ambitious, have high taste, have good conduct and be single-minded in learning. These are the prerequisites for learning well, and they are also the truths repeatedly verified by countless successful learners at home and abroad.

Our teachers and parents should not only pay attention to children's IQ, but also teach them cultural and scientific knowledge and skills. Ignore students' EQ and relax ideological and moral education. Otherwise, you will not only fail to learn knowledge and skills well, but also go astray easily.