Composition of Unity of Knowledge and Action (I)
Unity of Knowledge and Action is the core of traditional education in China. We often say that knowledge and action are one and actions speak louder than words. But these are just words, and they have not been translated into practical actions and guidelines for our study, life and work. But to be honest, this article is the focus of China culture, and it is also the focus of China education and culture. There is a saying in The Doctrine of the Mean: "If a gentleman follows the Tao and gives up halfway, I will be able to do it." The simple meaning is: some people understand the truth and follow it, but because of their strength, they give up halfway, but I (Confucius) will not stop.
When speaking the composition, some mothers said: The truth is understood, but it is so difficult to do it! This is a problem. In life and work, you will also encounter such a problem: you understand the truth, but you just don't do it. Even if you do, you will give up halfway. If a person wants to make a difference, he must first understand and understand ideologically and consciously. Understanding ideologically and consciously is only the beginning. Without action, understanding ideologically and consciously is only half-understood or understood. As the saying goes: knowing without doing, especially if you don't know.
in the Analects of Confucius, Confucius once admitted that he had made mistakes in knowing people. He said that when he first inspected people, he listened to their words and believed in their actions. Later, this view was corrected. To understand a person, we should listen to his words and observe his actions. We usually make the following mistakes: First, we prefer smart people to relatively stupid people. Second, I like to judge whether a person is smart or stupid through his language. Identifying and judging people in this way often leads to great misjudgment. It is one thing to look at a person's language expression and ideological understanding, but more importantly, it depends on whether his actions are effective and whether he can prove his thoughts and consciousness. You can't judge a person's quality and intelligence simply by the expression of his language.
some mothers said that the truth was understood, but it was so difficult to do it! This is the same as not saying it. The truth is clear-it seems that I want to deny that I am stupid, but it is so difficult to do it-it seems that I am denying that I am smart. On the other hand, the truth is understood-that is, saying that you are very smart; But it's so hard to do it-in fact, it further proves that you are stupid. The reason is actually very simple. An accomplished person is by no means a person who only understands ideologically; An accomplished person is often the one who carries out actions. As the saying goes: the heart is not as good as action, which is also the truth. And a low-level mistake we often make is: I know, I know, but I just don't implement it in action. When we know people and things in life, we will also make a simple and low-level mistake. We often listen to others and foreign things and believe in their actions. For myself, I often talk about my words and don't do it. So in our life, we have three kinds of bullying: self-deception, deceiving others and being bullied. We usually say: JUSTDOIT in English, not JUSTTHINKIT, which fully illustrates the importance of action. How deep and wonderful you think, but it doesn't mean anything if you can't translate it into action. Just as a person who can't swim, no matter how profound swimming theories and textbooks he writes, such theories and textbooks are useless.
From the viewpoint of knowledge and action, the story of "the foolish man moved mountains" shows that the foolish man's folly is that he moved mountains instead of moving. Zhisou's wisdom-Zhizai does have reason to think that such a mountain-moving behavior is stupid. But on the other hand, the final conclusion proves that the foolish man is not stupid, but he is not wise. That's because the foolish old man is smart and smart in action, while the wise old man's stupidity is manifested in his bright head and slippery mouth, but he has no action. Therefore, don't just stay in the wisdom of thought and consciousness, and don't just stay in the knowledge of mouth. We should turn the wisdom and knowledge of thought, consciousness and mouth into wisdom of action. This is what smart people do.
the integration of knowledge and practice is the focus of education in China. In the past, it was necessary to put this idea through the study of the ancients. For example, in the first chapter of San Zi Jing, it is said that people do not learn and do not know righteousness. Teacher or peer, Hold them dear. In this chapter, I didn't talk about how to know a certain number and a certain article at first. "People don't learn and don't know righteousness" is about the purpose of learning-to know righteousness. How do you know righteousness? Be "close to teachers and friends, and learn etiquette." "Learning etiquette by learning from teachers and friends" is not a category of knowledge, but a category of action.
in our generation, we are always talking about knowledge. Our next generation knows even less about the importance of doing things. And there is even less learning about the idea of doing. Our next generation, they are all talking about knowledge when doing math and exercises, but how many of them can do chemistry experiments well? Can you take physics experiments seriously? They memorized everything from north to south, left to west and right to east, but nine times out of ten, they couldn't find grandma's door if they threw him into the downtown area. The ability to do problems is very strong, but the ability to do it is very poor. The choice of answers is very good, but the ability to innovate is almost lost.
"Four Books" or "Five Classics", in classical culture, the integration of knowledge and practice is a very important educational concept. Earlier, we talked about "listening to his words and observing his actions" in the Analects of Confucius and so on. For another example, there is a poem in "Reading on a Winter Night and Showing Your Son": It's too shallow to get it on paper, and you never know how to do it. For another example, we read The Warring States, the armchair strategist Zhao Kuo. Knowing these allusions is very, very important for understanding this concept.
Nowadays, education does a lot of harm to people. In today's educational philosophy, the idea of action has long been thrown aside, which is too harmful. Just like the growth of a tree, it is necessary to have both "knowledge" and "behavior", and both are indispensable. Now we only emphasize "knowledge", but almost ignore "line", so the tree that grows out must be deformed. In the Three Character Classics, why do you want to talk about being close to teachers and friends and learning etiquette from the beginning? On the basis of "being close to teachers and friends and learning etiquette", we will know a certain number, know a certain article, and talk about the unity of knowledge and action. Education with knowledge but no action is a deformed education. Just turning knowledge around in your mind and showing it between your eyebrows-when your eyebrows are wrinkled, you will suffer. To put it more seriously, it is unlucky. Therefore, in The Doctrine of the Mean, Confucius said-a gentleman follows the Tao, gives up halfway, and I can do nothing. I won't do such a person. Don't say that I can't just know, but I can't do it if I know everything. A person's success is definitely made. This truth is very simple, but because of our lack of influence on traditional culture, how many people can know it and how many people can know it by talking every day and shouting every month? The unity of knowledge and action, the seed of this concept, must be planted in the hearts of children from an early age. If you don't plant this seed from childhood, there will be a problem when you grow up.
Some well-known things are popular in the network now. Let me give you two examples: one is the poison capsule incident not long ago, and an expert actually said that eating six such capsules a day is harmless to the human body. Such intellectuals can be said to have lost their conscience as intellectuals. Theoretically, it may not matter, but in terms of "action", it is a challenge to the public's common sense of life. In the second example, there is a place in Hunan where five or six people died because of the collapse of the flood bridge, and the collapsed bridge can hardly see any steel bars from the internal structure. But actually, experts will come out and say that bridge collapse is normal and the public need not make a fuss.
They are playing with knowledge, numbers, concepts and science, which belongs to listening to their words. For the line, for the people's psychological endurance, for the people's psychological concern-"line", they are simply idiots. Fundamentally speaking, these people are all educated by "knowledge", but the education of "action" is almost blank. Just like Ma Su in the Three Kingdoms period, they are articulate and polite, but in fact, they have no social common sense, no moral common sense and no ethical common sense. These people who only know data, science and concepts are people who endanger society.
Therefore, we should really let children have the consciousness of unity of knowledge and action and actions speak louder than words at an early age. The establishment of this awareness should start with our parents present here. You can't just say: I know, but I just won't do it. The reason for learning composition is the same. We can't simply say: after listening to the class, I know all the principles, methods and skills the teacher said, but I just don't practice them myself. There is a difference between knowledge and knowing. Knowledge only exists in the memory of the brain, and knowing "Tao" is an ability that has been transformed through practice. Knowing only what you can't do is knowledge; Doing what you know means knowing the Tao. Knowing and not doing it, there are thousands of reasons in the world, all of which are understood, and it doesn't work. Only knowing and doing it can produce true knowledge! This is the way to learn composition, and it is also the way to gain enlightenment in work and life. Executive power should be emphasized in work, and learning composition is absolutely impossible without executive power and action.
combination of knowledge and action (2)
As the name implies, knowing what to do should be combined with action to become perfect. As the saying goes, "It's better to retreat and form a net than to fish in the forest. "
When you have a good idea, you should act immediately. Of course, there will be many problems before action. Although we don't know whether we can remove obstacles before action, I can overcome difficulties in action. Tell myself I can't do it. That must be impossible unless there is a miracle. If you really think so? That's all wet! I believe there will be miracles in the world, because you are a miracle yourself, and you are your own God. If you don't act, miracles can't help you succeed.
I'm always waiting, waiting for a good opportunity, waiting for a 1% certainty about the conditions needed for success, but I'm stuck in an eternal wait. Even for a small matter, I always have to wait until all the conditions are met before starting to act. What are we waiting for? Can it really wait? What can we do when we get there? Maybe it will take us a lifetime to wait, and then do you still have a chance to refute it? No, I don't believe it, because "success stays forever? Those who are prepared ",not for those who only know how to wait forever. If we just wait for the right time, I'm afraid we will miss the best opportunity all our lives. Because of this, many people can't do one thing in their lifetime. Only those who think and do can change the status quo.
There is such a little boy, with ordinary qualifications and nothing extraordinary. He wanted to be a monitor when he was a child, and as a result, he was re-elected as monitor for three years; In college, he liked the beauty queen and finally became her husband in the jealous eyes of many boys. After graduating from college, he wanted to start a company. Three years later, the company became a TV station. When he was in his thirties, he suddenly wanted to learn painting. As a result, he successfully held an art exhibition in his forties.
When others admired him, he said, "I am ordinary, with no intelligence or lofty ambition, but I just do it when I think about it. No matter what the result is, I think I didn't lose. "
He is Mr. Yu Danqing, a famous painter in China.
The saddest sentence in the world is: I should have done that, but I didn't.
I used to just think about it, but I didn't take any action. It's her, Wang Yuhan Lulu, a beautiful girl. As the name implies, she is not beautiful, but ... It's her who gives me the motivation to know that I can never indulge myself again. I have to do it all day, act when I think about it, and I can't wait for tomorrow. "Tomorrow will be tomorrow, how many tomorrows will there be?" How many tomorrows do I have? Thousands of days have slipped away from me.
I am happy for myself, because I have achieved the unity of knowledge and action. At first, it was really not easy, but I am not afraid of having such an opponent who makes me feel pressured. I sincerely say thank you ~! I hope one day we can be friends who talk about everything.
composition of knowing and doing in one (3)
The word knowing and doing was put forward as early as the third year of Zhengde, Emperor Wu of Ming Dynasty. Wang Shouren, a master of psychology, gave a lecture at Guiyang Civilization College and put forward the theory of knowing and doing in one for the first time. The so-called knowledge is the knowledge in your mind, and action is practice. The unity of knowing and doing is to combine knowledge with practice.
Knowing and doing are almost everywhere in contemporary society. From the bosses of big enterprises to ordinary electricians, they are using their knowledge in their heads to practice and explore. And only by moving their mouths, people who get rich by moving their hands are rare. Even liars have to innovate ways to cheat.
The story of an armchair strategist in 28 BC has long been a household name in China. It tells the story of Zhao Kuo, the son of Zhao She, Zhao, who led troops to fight, but did not change according to the art of war, thus losing the battle. This story tells us directly how important it is to combine knowledge with practice. Only empty talk can't solve any practical problems. Just like people improved the steam engine at that time, if we just talked about his improved method without solving its problems in actual production, there would be no later Watt and the industrial revolution that changed the world. Joule, a British physicist, invented the perpetual motion machine after sleepless nights. It took ten years, but he didn't succeed. Because "perpetual motion machine" cannot exist at all, this assumption itself violates the law of conservation of mass in physics, so it is meaningless for the purpose of inventing perpetual motion machine alone.
As a scientist, Joule's knowledge is far more profound than that of ordinary people, but she was confused when she decided to do this research, which violated the laws of nature and finally came back in vain. Children must have burned their hands to know that the fire is hot, iced their hands to know that the snow is cold, eaten sugar to know that the sugar is sweet, and touched a stone to know that the stone is hard. All these feelings are driven by "walking". Only "knowing" can let them know that fire can't be touched, ice can't be held often, sugar can't be eaten more, and stones can't be touched hard. Only by combining knowledge with practice can you get real knowledge. In fact, the combination of knowledge and practice is actually an attitude of doing things. Don't start making things up in your mind before you do it, but sum up while doing it, and finally make yourself stronger step by step.