Books are young people's inseparable life companions and mentors-Gorky.

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

The more you read, the more empty you feel-Shelley.

Every book is a soul printed in black and white. As long as my eyes and my reason touch it, it will live-Gorky.

Time gives us experience and reading gives us knowledge-ostrovsky.

Love books-this is the source of knowledge! Only knowledge is useful, and only knowledge can make us strong, loyal and rational, and become a person who can truly love human beings, respect human labor and sincerely appreciate the beautiful fruits produced by human uninterrupted great labor-Gorky.

Books of rational thinking are the key to wisdom-Leo? tolstoy

Keep company with books and never sigh-romain rolland

Reading makes a full person; Speech makes people agile; Writing and taking notes make people precise. Historical lessons make people wise; Poetry makes people wise; Mathematics makes people fine; Natural history is profound; Ethics makes people solemn; Logic and rhetoric make people eloquent-Bacon

Books-Real Universities in Contemporary Times-Thomas? Carlyle

All kinds of stupid things melt like baking on a fire under the influence of reading good books every day-Hugo

Life without books is like life without sunshine. Wisdom without books is like a bird without wings-Shakespeare.

Living in our world, it is impossible to understand people without reading-Gorky.

The more books you read without thinking, the more you will feel that you understand. But when you read more and think more, you will clearly see that you know very little-Voltaire

Reading is my only entertainment. I will not waste my time on hotels, gambling or any bad games; My diligence in my career is still necessary and unremitting-Franklin.

Books-the most beautiful sound made by human beings. -Levin

Books are the legacy of great geniuses. -Addison

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

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

Books are breast milk that nourishes 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 an agile man, and writing makes an exact man. bacon

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

Books are good companions. It is full of knowledge, but it doesn't chatter.

When you are eager, it will give detailed advice.

But don't pester me. Beecher

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

Good books are very important for teenagers' growth and even their lives.

Will have a profound impact.

Reading is only the material that provides knowledge for the mind;

Thinking makes what we read our own. -Locke

Experienced people read books 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- 10 books in his life. What books should I read? To know this, you have to read at least 15000 books.

Babida

Just browsing letters, words and pages-this is not reading. Reading and memory-not reading. Reading should be emotional, aesthetic, give good advice to others, integrate and put into practice.

-Ba Jin

I feel that when books tell people, feelings, thoughts and attitudes 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 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

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

—— Yan Wenjing

A good book is the most precious treasure-belinsky.

Books are the only immortal things.

Books make man the master of the universe-Pavlenko

This book is the soul of the whole past-Carlyle.

People's influence is short and weak, while books have a wide and far-reaching influence-Pushkin

Man can't live without books any more than he can live without air-Korolev.

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 let us know the great wise man-smile.

Books are such a tool to transform the soul. What mankind needs is enlightenment nutrition. And reading is this kind of cultivation.

Materials. Hugo

All the souls of the past are in this book. -Carlisle

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

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

There can be no real education without reading, and there can be no discrimination at the same time. Aleksandr Herzen

When reading, I am willing 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 generations. ——

bacon

Humanistic education appears in reading.

Recently, teenagers have become the focus of attention in all aspects. When discussing teenagers' problems, people tend to think that all these problems are only part of the result of the dilemma of contemporary humanities education. Some scholars have pointed out that the plight 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 are so many violent acts in American campus, 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, thinking 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; Third, spiritual education, mainly through humanistic education. This last item often takes a lifetime, which is regarded as lifelong education. If teenagers' problems occur more in their minds, it at least 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? Perfecting our humanistic education is an indispensable part.

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 bookshelves of bookstores, and various books for teenagers have emerged one after another, hoping that the reading situation of teenagers can be improved. However, according to a recent survey, the reading situation of teenagers is not optimistic. Among primary and secondary school students, the number of people who have 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, entertainment and relaxation; Third, there are few humanities books suitable for teenagers.

In view of this situation, the number of humanities books specially edited and published for teenagers has increased recently. Earlier, there were Guangxi Education Edition's new language reader, Guangxi Normal University Edition's college humanities reader and Hainan Edition's humanities knowledge reader. Recently, People's Literature Publishing House published "A Reading Book on Adolescent Sex Education" (four volumes) and "American Students' Extracurricular Reading Series" (35 kinds). The former emphasizes the concept of "human nature education", selects articles suitable for primary school, junior high school, senior high school and university students, and collects them into a book. The main readers of Good Boys and Bad Boys are primary school students, aiming at improving the construction of children's virtues such as character, self-cultivation, freedom and responsibility, and entertaining through education. I have a dream for junior high school students, aiming at stimulating 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 Enemy is high school students. It takes the ultimate concern for human beings as the starting point and inspires children's human feelings, spiritual rationality and social responsibility. The main target audience of Smell of History is college students. The book runs through universal values such as freedom, democracy, fraternity and science, and aims to cultivate contemporary college students' civic awareness and sense of identity with universal human values. The latter was introduced and published by People's Literature Publishing House according to 300 kinds of extracurricular reading materials recommended by the National Humanities Foundation of the United States to American students. The publisher said: "Readers can not only enjoy excellent literary and artistic edification, but also experience the sublimation of life experience and wisdom. The publication of this series of books will certainly play an important role in changing the reading status of children in China and making up for the lack of extracurricular reading of contemporary works of middle school students in China. "

Advocate teenagers to help themselves through reading.

For a long time, people are not satisfied with the current situation of youth humanities education, mainly in two aspects, one is the method, the other is the content. The method is mostly indoctrination, and the content is monotonous and superficial. Wang Xuetai, a researcher at the Institute of Literature, China Academy of Social Sciences, said at a recent symposium on "A Reading Book on Youth's Human Nature Education": "The liberal arts education in primary and secondary schools failed, and the political lesson became a political lesson, the Chinese lesson became a political lesson, and the history lesson became a viewpoint lesson. No history class, 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 people; Not creating ideas, but killing them; It is not to cultivate morality, but to cultivate abstract morality. " Their statement may be a bit extreme, but Chi Jiali, a senior teacher in the middle school attached to Beijing Normal University, described the problem as "a serious tendency ahead of the times". At the press conference of "American Students' Extracurricular Reading Series" held by People's Literature Publishing House, she said: "The books we provide to our children are limited at first, and secondly, they are not suitable for his age. Children need to learn, just as people need nutrition. Nutrition should be rich and varied and coordinated. We have some shortcomings, so everyone regards Harry Potter as the only food. A Harry Potter, a Japanese animation, is a satire on China's publishing or writing. "

Now many books for teenagers, or books recommended by teenagers, hope to make up for this deficiency. In addition to this extra-curricular reading bibliography recommended by the National Humanities Foundation of the United States, which was launched by People's Literature Publishing House, the Book of the Century, recently published by Beijing Publishing House, recommended a selected bibliography of the New York Public Library in the centenary to China readers. This book is called "The Book of the Century" and is said to be one of the most influential books in the 20th century. Some people say that no book can cover the achievements of literature, natural science, sociology, political history, psychology, popular culture, feminism, economics, idealism, war history, children's literature, etc. 12, including the humanistic essence of the whole 20th century. Although this bibliography is not aimed at teenagers, it really opens our eyes. Many books, such as My Life by Helen Keller, Het Achterhuis by Anne Frank, 1984 by George Orwell, 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.

Similar reading materials include The Big Book by Jiangsu People's Publishing House. The author David Danby is a film critic of new york magazine. He called himself an "old student" because at the age of 48, he suddenly returned to his alma mater, Columbia University, and took two compulsory courses for all undergraduates, namely literature, humanities and contemporary civilization. There are two reasons for the author to go back to school to take these two courses. One is the author's growing personal crisis. He said, "I need to start writing this book, in part 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. " Secondly, 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 college students aged 65,438+08 read the works of Homer, Plato, Sophocles, Augustine, Kant, Hegel, Marx and Virginia Woolf, and wrote down their own feelings. Mr. Cao Yaxue, the translator, said, "What do you mean by reading big books? First of all, these books can let you stretch yourself and pull your own books. Not all books can make you like this. Only a few books can make you like this. What you face 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 of reading. Our desire to study 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, as well as the books of Confucius and Mencius, eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, Zhu, Wang Yangming, Wang Fuzhi, Gu, Liang Qichao, Lu Xun, because we need to revive ourselves and long for a broader life. We hope to find something to nourish ourselves from these books and let ourselves grow into real people. In fact, this is the real self-help.

Some books need to be read repeatedly.

In the discussion, there is a view that the books recommended to teenagers are a little ahead of their actual age, and some books may be difficult for them to understand and accept, so they advocate lowering the standards and paying more attention to relaxation and fun. This is actually a cognitive bias. As far as young readers are concerned, the main problem lies not in depth, but in preaching too much, ignoring young readers' acceptance psychology and reading habits. The reading characteristics of middle school students and college students are relatively relaxed and entertaining, but not so serious and profound. I have read a required reading list for American senior high school students, which includes not only Hamlet, Odyssey, Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, Leaves of Grass, The Scarlet Letter, Crime and Punishment, but also Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Politics and Tocqueville's American Democracy. We don't have to care too much about this bibliography. It may not be suitable for us, but the basic idea embodied in this bibliography should attract our attention. If teenagers want to establish world outlook, outlook on life and social values, these books can't be bypassed. It is these books that have accumulated the spiritual foundation of mankind. In fact, there is no problem of being ahead of time in reading. Some books need to be read repeatedly. If you don't understand them now, you can read them again in the future. If you don't understand it once, you can watch it twice, three times or even more. Many people's experiences have proved that reading a number of valuable books carefully when young is conducive to coping with the hardships on the road of life, at least it can make us more tenacious.

For a long time, our life was boring, and so was reading. After a great change, we found that impetuousness and shallowness have become lingering things in our lives. The pallor and fragility of the spirit is just one of the many by-products it brings.