Books are inseparable life companions and mentors of young people-Gorky

Reading a good book means talking to many noble people-Descartes

The more he reads, the more he feels empty in his stomach-Shelley

Every book is a soul printed in black on white paper, as long as my eyes are concerned. Only knowledge is useful, and only it can make us mentally strong, loyal and rational people, people who can truly love human beings, respect human labor, and sincerely appreciate the beautiful fruits produced by the uninterrupted great labor of human beings-Gorky's thought books are the keys to wisdom-Leo? Tolstoy

lives with books and never sighs-romain rolland

Reading enriches people; Talks make people agile; Writing and taking notes make people precise. Historical lessons make people wise; Poetry makes people clever; Mathematics makes people fine; Natural history makes people deep; Ethics makes people solemn; Logic and rhetoric make people eloquent-Bacon

Books-The Real University of the Contemporary-Thomas? Carlyle

Under the influence of reading good books every day, all kinds of stupid things gradually melt like being baked on a fire-Hugo

Life without books is like having no sunshine; Wisdom without books is like a bird without wings-Shakespeare

lives in our world, and it is impossible to understand people without reading-Gorky

The more books you read without thinking, the more you will think you know; But when you read and think more, you will clearly see that you know very little-Voltaire < P > Reading is my only entertainment. I don't waste my time in hotels, gambling or any kind of bad games; And my diligence in my career is still as necessary and tireless-Franklin's book-the most beautiful voice made by human beings. -Levin

Books are the legacy of great geniuses. -Addison

The essence of all the past times is in the book. -Carlyle

Books are the spiritual wealth of mankind and the ladder of human progress.

Books are the breast milk that nurtures the soul and the key to enlightenment.

reading all good books is like talking to the most outstanding people in the past. -Descartes

Reading makes a full man, conversation makes a quick man, and writing makes an exact man. -bacon

reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. -Addison

Book is a good partner. It is full of knowledge, but it doesn't chatter.

when you are eager, it comes to give detailed advice,

but it never pesters you. -Beecher

Reading a good book is like making a good friend. -Cang Kejia

Good books will have a far-reaching impact on the growth of teenagers and even their lives.

Reading is only the material to provide knowledge for the mind;

thinking makes what we read our own. -Locke

Experienced people read with two eyes, one eye sees the words on the paper, and the other eye sees the back of the paper.

-Goethe

Every knowledgeable person should read 8-1 books well in his life. What books should I read? If you want to know this, you have to read at least 15, books.

-Barbida

only browses through letters, words and pages-this is not reading. Reading and memorizing-not reading either. Reading should have feelings, aesthetic sense, and good advice to others, and it should be integrated and put into practice.

-Ba Jin

I feel that when books tell me about people, feelings, thoughts and attitudes that I have never seen before, it seems that every book opens a window in front of me and shows me an incredible new world.

-Gorky

books make people think freely.

-Gratkov

Books make people masters of the universe.

-Pavlenko

All the excellent qualities in me belong to books.

-Gorky

Life without books is like no sunshine, and wisdom without books is like a bird without wings.

-Shakespeare

Read more books, read good books, and then write your own feelings, which is the beginning of writing a good composition.

-Bing Xin

book can keep our childlike innocence; Books can keep us young.

-Yan Wenjing

Good books are the most precious treasure-belinsky

books are the only immortal thing-Chute

books make people masters of the universe-Pavlenko

books lie the soul of the whole past-Carlyle

people's influence is short and weak, while books' influence is extensive and far-reaching. We can't live without air-Kololev

books are not only life, but also the source of present, past and future cultural life-Kufayev

books introduce us to the best society and make us know the great wise men of all ages-Smiles

books are such tools to transform the soul. What mankind needs is enlightening nourishment. And reading, it is this kind of nourishment. -Hugo

The book lies the soul of the whole past. -Carlyle

A good book is the rich blood of a great mind. -Milton

Reading a good book is talking to many noble people. -Goethe

If you don't study, you won't have real education, and at the same time you can't have any discrimination. -herzen

When studying, I would like to stay in front of every beautiful thought, just as I stay in front of every truth. -Emerson

Books are ships of ideas sailing in the waves of the times, and they carefully transport precious goods to generation after generation. -

-Bacon

Humanistic education appears in reading

Recently, teenagers have become the focus of attention in all aspects. When discussing the problems of teenagers, people tend to think that all these problems are only part of the result of the plight of humanities education in the contemporary era. Some scholars have pointed out that the predicament of humanistic education exists in all countries in the world, which is inseparable from the world trend of overemphasizing technical knowledge education in the process of modernization. There have been so many violent acts on American campuses, which is essentially the result of attaching importance to technical knowledge education and ignoring humanistic education. People of insight in Japan are also worried when discussing this issue, and think that the crisis of humanities education in Japan is also quite serious.

a person should complete three kinds of education in his life, one is life education, which is completed through family and society; The second is knowledge education, which is generally completed by schools; The third is spiritual education, which is mainly accomplished through humanistic education. This last item often takes a lifetime, which is regarded as lifelong education. If the problems of teenagers occur more in the mind, then at least it shows that our humanities education is imperfect or flawed. How can we make teenagers' personality more sound, their spiritual world broader, their humanity more beautiful and their spirit more independent and free? Improving our humanities education is an indispensable link.

The next question is, how should our humanities education be improved? Many people have noticed the lack of teenagers' reading in recent years and the connection between them. Recently, many books recommended to teenagers have been added to the shelves of bookstores, and various reading books for teenagers have emerged in succession, hoping that the reading status of teenagers can be improved. However, according to a recent survey, teenagers' reading is not optimistic. Among primary and secondary school students, the number of people with reading habits is declining; In the choice of reading materials, practicality and entertainment account for the vast majority, and few people choose to read humanities books. This situation is also quite serious among college students. There are three reasons: first, exam-oriented education takes up most of the students' time; Second, the society encourages reading to be entertaining and relaxed; Third, humanities books suitable for teenagers are rare.

In view of this situation, there have been more humanities books specially edited and published for teenagers recently. Earlier, there are Guangxi Education Edition's New Language Reader, Guangxi Normal University Edition's College Humanities Reader and Hainan Edition's Humanities Knowledge Reader. Recently, there are "A Reading Book on Youth Sex Education" (four volumes) and "American Students' Extracurricular Reading Series" (35 kinds) published by People's Literature Publishing House. The former highlights the concept of "human nature education", and selects articles suitable for students in primary schools, junior high schools, senior high schools and universities, and collects them into a book. The main readers of Good Boys and Bad Boys are primary school students, aiming at perfecting the construction of children's virtues such as character, cultivation, freedom and responsibility, and entertaining and entertaining; I have a Dream is aimed at junior high school students, aiming at inspiring children's love for teachers, parents, nature and animals, and enhancing children's understanding of society, life and life under the guidance of determination to succeed; The main target audience of Love Our Enemies is high school students. It takes the ultimate concern of human beings as the starting point to stimulate children's human feelings, spiritual rationality and social responsibility. The main target audience of "Breath of History" is college students. The book runs through universal values such as freedom, democracy, fraternity and science, aiming at cultivating contemporary college students' civic awareness and their sense of identity with universal human values. The latter was introduced and published by People's Literature Publishing House according to 3 kinds of extracurricular reading books recommended to American students by the National Humanities Foundation. The publisher said: "Readers can not only enjoy excellent literary and artistic edification, but also realize the sublimation of life experience and wisdom. The publication of this series of books will definitely play an important role in changing the current situation of children's reading in China and making up for the lack of extracurricular reading of contemporary works by domestic middle school students. "

Advocating self-help by reading among teenagers

For a long time, people have been dissatisfied with the current situation of humanistic education for teenagers, mainly in two aspects, one is the method, and the other is the content. The methods are mostly indoctrination, while the contents are monotonous and superficial. Wang Xuetai, a researcher at the Institute of Literature of China Academy of Social Sciences, said at a recent symposium on "Reading Books on Youth's Human Nature Education": "Primary and secondary schools have failed in liberal arts education, and the political class has become a political class, the Chinese class has become a political class, and the history class has also become a viewpoint class. There is no history class, and there is no historical view of historical facts. The main reason for the failure lies in the content of the textbook." Huang He, president of Beijing Xingzhi School, also believes: "At present, school textbooks are not training people, but killing them; Not to create ideas, but to stifle them; It is not to cultivate morality, but to cultivate abstract morality. " Their statements may be a little extreme, but Chi Jiali, a senior middle school teacher attached to Beijing Normal University, described this problem as "a serious tendency to be ahead of the times". She said at the press conference of "American students' extracurricular reading series" held by People's Literature Publishing House: "The books we provide to children are limited in the first place, and the second is that they are not in line with his age. Children need to study, just as people need nutrition. Nutrition should be rich and varied, and it should be coordinated. We have some shortcomings, so everyone regards Harry Potter as the only food. A Harry Potter, a Japanese animation, is an irony to China's publication or writing. "

At present, many books for teenagers or recommended books for teenagers hope to make up for these shortcomings. In addition to this extracurricular reading bibliography recommended by the National Humanities Foundation of the United States, which was introduced by People's Literature Publishing House, the Book of the Century, which was recently published by Beijing Publishing House, recommended a bibliography selected by new york Public Library on the occasion of its centenary, to readers in China. This book, called "Book of the Century", is said to be one of the most influential books in the 2th century. Some people say that no book can cover the achievements of 12 disciplines, such as literature, natural science, sociology, political history, psychology, popular culture, feminism, economics, idealism, war history and children's literature, and contain the humanistic essence of the whole 2th century. Although this bibliography is not aimed at teenagers, it does open our eyes. Many books, such as My Life by Helen Keller, Anne Frank's Diary of Anne, George Orwell's 1984, Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Bible and the Charter of the United Nations, and even quotations from Chairman Mao, are well worth reading.

A similar reading is The Great Book by Jiangsu People's Publishing House. The author David Danby is a film critic of new york magazine in the United States. He calls himself an "old student" because at the age of 48, he suddenly returned to his alma mater, Columbia University, to take two compulsory courses for all undergraduates, namely, literature, humanities and contemporary civilization. There are two reasons that induce the author to go back to school to take these two courses. One is the growing personal crisis in the author. He said, "I need to start writing this book, partly because I don't know what I know. I have information but no knowledge, I have opinions but no principles, I have instinct but no faith. " Second, the author hopes to rethink the value and function of traditional cultural classics and find something to nourish himself. In this book, the author and 18-year-old college students read the works of Homer, Plato, Sophocles, Augustine, Kant, Hegel, Marx and Virginia Woolf, and wrote down his feelings. Mr. Cao Yaxue, the translator, said, "What does it mean to read great books? These books are first of all books that can make you stretch yourself and pull yourself. Not all books can make you like this. Only a few books can make you like this. What you are facing is a bigger world and a richer mind; The encounter with it is also to discover yourself, nourish yourself and polish yourself. " What is emphasized here is not only the choice of books, but also the autonomy and initiative in reading. Our desire to read should come from our growing sense of personal spiritual crisis, not from anyone's coercion and indoctrination. We need to read the works of Homer, Plato, Sophocles, Augustine, Kant, Hegel, Marx and Virginia Woolf, and we also need to read the books of Confucius, Mencius, eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming, Wang Fuzhi, Gu Yanwu, Liang Qichao, Lu Xun and Mao Zedong, because we need to revive ourselves and long for a broader life; We hope to find something to nourish ourselves from these books, so that we can grow into real people. In fact, this is a real self-rescue.

Some books need to be read repeatedly

In the discussion, there is a view that the books recommended for teenagers are a little ahead of their actual age, and some books may be understood and accepted by them.