if the water is not thick, it will be powerless to bear the big boat.

-"Be a Good Teacher Satisfied by the Party and the People-Speech at a Talk with Teachers and Students Representatives of Beijing Normal University" and other articles quoted

■ Interpretation

* * Comrade quoted this famous saying in Zhuangzi's "Happy Travel", which vividly expressed the important role of teachers' knowledge accumulation. In the collective portrait described by Comrade * * * as a "good teacher" of our time, "having a solid knowledge" is an important content. The ancients said that they were teachers, so they preached and taught to solve doubts. If a teacher lacks a solid knowledge base, how can he complete the mission of preaching, teaching and dispelling doubts with his stupefaction? The three-foot platform conveys knowledge and flows culture. Students can forgive the teacher for being strict and rigid, but they can't forgive the teacher for being shallow in knowledge.

In the information age, knowledge is being updated at the speed of geometric progression. If teachers don't pay attention to updating the knowledge system, it is inevitable that their knowledge will be aging, their ability will be rigid and their thinking will be dull, and it will be difficult for them to shoulder the responsibility of "educating talents in the world". Modern education is not only the indoctrination of professional knowledge, but also the cultivation of comprehensive quality and personality and conduct. Teachers should broaden their horizons and learn from others. As the saying goes, "in order to make students get a little light of knowledge, teachers should suck in the whole ocean of light."

■ The original code

and the product of husband and water is not thick, it is powerless to bear the big boat. Cover a cup of water on the depression hall, and the mustard will be the boat. If you put a cup on it, it will be glue. The water is shallow and the boat is big. If the wind is not thick, its negative wings will be weak. Therefore, in Wan Li, the wind is next, and then the wind is cultivated today; Those who are burdened with the blue sky and are unwilling to die, and then they will figure out the south today.

—— The Warring States Period —— Zhuangzi's Zhuangzi Xiaoyao Tour

■ Interpretation

This passage in Zhuangzi Xiaoyao Tour shows the importance of doing a good job in basic work through a series of metaphors. The first sentence "if the water is not thick, it will be powerless to bear the big boat", which means that if the water is not deep enough, it will not have the strength to load the big boat. Then Zhuangzi used two sets of figurative metaphors to illustrate this truth: pour a glass of water in the low-lying part of the court hall, then a grass can be used as a boat, while a cup can't stick, because the water is shallow and the boat is big. If the strength accumulated by the wind is not strong, it will be unable to bear huge wings. Therefore, Pengniao flies high in Wan Li, and the wind is just below it, and then flies to the South China Sea with the wind and clear sky.

In this regard, another representative figure of Taoism, Lao Zi, has a similar statement. Chapter 39 of Laozi says: "The value is based on meanness, and the following is the basis." Warn people to be "inferior", "backward" and "humble", and to achieve great things, we must start from the foundation.