There are three articles in "Old Friends Talk about Reading".

The first one:

Smart and eager to learn, and not ashamed to ask questions.

Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, this is knowing.

Know it silently, never tire of learning, and never tire of teaching.

——"The Analects of Confucius"

The second sentence:

I often say that there are three ways to read, namely, the heart, the eyes, and the mouth. If the mind is not here, the eyes will not look carefully; if the mind is not focused, it will only read rambles, and it will never be memorized, nor can it be memorized for a long time. Among the three arrivals, I feel the most anxious. Now that the heart is there, won’t the eyes and mouth not care?

——[Song Dynasty] Zhu Xi

The third point:

For Gaishi people to study, they must first be ambitious, secondly knowledgeable, and thirdly There is permanence. If you have ambition, you will never be willing to be inferior; if you have knowledge, you will know that knowledge is endless, and you will not dare to be self-sufficient in one thing. You are like a riverboy looking at the sea, like a frog in a well peering into the sky. They are all ignorant; if you have perseverance, you will never be able to accomplish anything. All three are indispensable.

The translation of the second one is as follows:

I once said that reading should pay attention to the "three things", that is, when reading, you must concentrate, read carefully, and recite. If the mind is not on the book, then the eyes will not read carefully; since the mind and eyes are not focused and united, but just read casually, then they will not remember it, and even if they do, they will not remember it for long. Of these three, the heart is the most important. If the mind is concentrated, will the eyes and mouth still lose focus?

We know that the second one is from Zhu Xi. Let’s briefly introduce Zhu Xi. Zhu Xi, whose courtesy name was Yuan Hui and also had the courtesy name Zhong Hui, was given the nickname Hui'an, later he was called Hui Weng, his posthumous title was Wen, and he was known as Zhu Wengong in the world. His ancestral home is Wuyuan County, Huizhou Prefecture, and he was born in Youxi, Nanjian Prefecture. Zhu Xi was a famous Neo-Confucian, thinker, philosopher, educator, and poet in the Song Dynasty. He was a representative of the Fujian School and the master of Confucianism. The World Honored One called him Zhu Xi. Zhu Xi was the only one who was not a direct disciple of Confucius and was worshiped in the Confucius Temple. He was among the twelve philosophers in the Dacheng Hall who received Confucian sacrifices. In fact, Zhu Xi was a student of Li Tong, the third disciple of "Er Cheng", and together with Er Cheng, he was called the "Cheng-Zhu School". Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism had a great influence on the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and became the official philosophy of the three dynasties. He was another person in the history of Chinese education after Confucius.