In Confucius' famous saying, "learning" means learning "learning" and practicing "thinking" means thinking

1. The original text

Confucius said, "It's not bad to learn from time to time. Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? Isn't it a gentleman to be ignorant and not satisfied? " ? "learning"

Confucius said: "learning without thinking is useless, thinking without learning is dangerous."

2. Translation

Confucius said, "Isn't it pleasant to learn (knowledge) and then review it at a certain time?" Isn't it happy to have like-minded people coming from afar? People don't know me, but I'm not angry. Aren't I also a morally cultivated person? "

Confucius said, "Learning without thinking will confuse you; If you only dream but don't study, you will be confused. "

3. Appreciation

(1) The first sentence is about learning methods. For knowledge, "learning" is only a cognitive process, and "learning" is a consolidation process. In order to acquire more knowledge, it is necessary to unify "learning" and "learning". The second sentence is about learning pleasure. Visiting like-minded people can enhance friendship and learn from each other. The third sentence is about attitude. "people don't know", and the object "zhi" is omitted, which can be translated as "I" or "myself"

(2) This paragraph talks about the dialectical relationship between learning and thinking, and thinks that the two cannot be neglected. Blindly reading without thinking, you will not be able to use the knowledge of books reasonably and effectively because you can't deeply understand the meaning of books, and even get confused. And if you just dream and don't really study and study, you will eventually build a tower on the sand and get nothing. It warns us that only by combining learning with thinking can we learn practical and useful knowledge, otherwise it will have little effect.