Personally, I think the most important thing to read before entering college are books that can answer what kind of university and society it is. Only by truly understanding the university and society can we better develop ourselves.
For freshmen, three books recommended by counselors. (A must-read for students before entering college)
I have read these three books and have indeed benefited a lot from them.
"Upper Society - The Emergence of a New Social Class" Recommendation Index 5 stars ★★★★★
As soon as the term "Upper Society" appeared in Japan, it immediately ignited discussions. This book is based on survey data and uses the consumer market as the entry point to completely analyze the differences in values, consumption patterns, and thinking among various classes of Japanese society. The emergence of the lower class stems from social class differentiation. The polarization of income leads to inequality in learning opportunities and learning abilities. As a result, exchange mobility between social classes becomes increasingly poor, and social class differentiation tends to become fixed. At the same time, the "expectation gap" between different classes is also increasing day by day. People with low desires and low abilities in middle-class society begin to form the "lower class".
This book asks the following questions: Do you just spend every day happily without thinking about the future? Do you find it troublesome, have a loose personality, or have an irregular life? Don’t you get tired of staying at home and playing computer games or surfing the Internet all day? We will analyze the social class differentiation of people who answered yes or no to these questions 10-20 years ago and 10-20 years later. It describes that an excessive and freedom-seeking personality often pushes a person into the "lower" class.
In an era of releasing individuality and going one's own way, this book has very strong guiding significance. This book makes readers feel from a statistical perspective that if a person wants to live a more satisfactory life in the future, it is very necessary to know how to exercise self-restraint, tolerate loneliness, and abide by the mainstream laws of society.
This book brings some thoughts to those young people who release their individuality too much, and also gives some confidence to those who work conscientiously in the mainstream cultural groups (confidence will definitely be better tomorrow).
The biggest feature of this book is that it does not summarize experiences and lessons from personal experience and opinions like many books, but analyzes the flow of social classes from a statistical perspective. Through the data and analysis of this book, we can understand the class mobility of a society from a macro level, which can make readers aware of their own future.
"I'm Crazy About Youth" Recommendation Index 5 stars ★★★★★
This book describes very practical learning methods and important learning concepts for top students. At the same time, by reading this book, readers will understand themselves better and discover what they are good at and what they are not good at.
One sentence from this book describes Chinese education with the finishing touch: Exam-oriented education is a very unequal education model. Under the seemingly equal slogan of "everyone works hard, everyone has hope", this kind of education achieves real inequality. Exam-oriented education is like the tortoise and the hare, forcing children who are not good at racing on land to race on the land platform and race with the hare under "equal conditions". It goes without saying that those fish that are good at swimming on the water and those birds that are good at flying in the sky all lag behind rabbits on this land platform. If you don't want to lag behind the rabbit, you have to work many times harder than the rabbit. Therefore, if some people insist that exam-oriented education is quite equal, then its equality only lies in the same results resulting from different efforts, rather than in the possibility of each person developing his or her own abilities and advantages to become a talent.
After reading this book, you will not only improve your understanding of current Chinese education, but also learn a lot about the relaxed and happy learning methods and learning concepts of top students from Tsinghua University and Peking University, no matter in school It allows you to achieve twice the result with half the effort both in business and in society. In addition, the important thing is that through this book you will understand yourself better, discover the areas in which you are good at, and awaken the giant in yourself.
In addition to benefiting greatly from learning methods and concepts, readers of this book will also receive great help in love and relationships. This book not only explores the advantages and disadvantages of men and women's learning abilities in different fields, but also describes the differences in men's and women's thinking patterns about love and love and their countermeasures in a humorous, sharp, and scientific way.
Overall, this book is very suitable for school students and young people who have just emerged from society. If you are under 15 years old, you still hope to read it under the supervision of your parents, because this book has some too advanced views on love and men and women. I don’t know if it is good or bad for young children. If you are a mother or a father, and your child is still in school, it is also recommended that you buy this book, because this book will also give parents a lot of understanding of education, making it easier and happier for your child to learn and growing up.
"Rich Dad Poor Dad" recommendation index 5 stars ★★★★★
Most people’s willingness to study seriously and work hard is nothing more than to gain financial freedom and be too happy. Life. The book "Rich Dad Poor Dad" analyzes the concept and meaning of money from the perspectives of rich dad and poor dad. Through this book, readers will gain a profound understanding from different perspectives of the concepts of "assets" and "liabilities" that many people think they know. By reading this book, readers will understand that assets and liabilities are not just words in accounting, but also one of the ubiquitous values ??in our lives.
As rich dad famously said: The main reason why most people in the world struggle all their lives for wealth is that although they have studied in school for many years, they have not really learned about money. The result is that they only know how to work hard for money, but never think about how to make money work for them.
This book has caused readers to think about "study hard, find a good job, and live a happy life". This book is not just for young people, but it is one of the great books that everyone who desires financial freedom should read. Through this book you will see how people who may be different from you define and think about wealth. Although this book lacks certain operational shortcomings, it has great ideological guiding significance.
The above three books are the three must-read books recommended by many teachers and successful people to young people. "Upper Society - The Emergence of a New Social Class" is from the perspective of social cognition and self-class positioning; "I'm Mad About Youth" is from the perspective of learning methods, understanding of learning concepts and good self-positioning; "Rich Dad Poor Dad" 》It provides great help to young people from the perspective of the connections and differences between study, work, and making money, as well as their understanding of money.