He, Benjamin Franklin, only attended primary school for two years, but that didn't stop him from achieving such an extraordinary life. Is he a genius?
I didn't understand why until I read Franklin's autobiography. This autobiography was originally written by Franklin to his son William Franklin. This book covers his "family anecdotes", his main work and important events. What impressed me most, however, was that in the first dozens of pages, the word "like reading" appeared more than ten times, which shows that reading plays a very important role in his life.
Franklin once said, "Reading is my only entertainment. I never waste my time on hotels, gambling or any bad games; For the hard work of the cause, it is necessary and tireless. "
He not only said so, but also did so. At the age of eight, he was sent to grammar school by his father. In less than a year, he changed from an average level to a top student and jumped a grade. It's a pity that his father dropped him out of school considering the living conditions at home.
But this did not affect Franklin's love of reading. He once said in his autobiography that he liked reading since he was a child, and what little money he had was often used to buy books. He is so hungry for knowledge that most of the books in his father's small library have been read. Among them, Plutarch's Biography taught him a lot, Defoe's On Planning and Mather's On Doing Good changed his mind and had a great influence on some important events later.
Franklin also likes to make friends who like reading. When he was studying printing with his brother, he met some friends who were apprentices in bookstores and often borrowed books from them. In order to borrow again, he often reads until midnight. Then he met Matthew Adams, a businessman who owns a library and can borrow any books from him. Since then, Franklin has been fascinated by poetry.
He has a child who also likes reading. They often exchange letters and argue about some opinions. After reading these letters, his father instructed him to correct the problems, which made Franklin have a new understanding of writing and determined to improve his writing ability.
Franklin is good at thinking in the process of reading, as he himself said, "reading is easy, thinking is difficult, and it is useless without both." So how did he combine thinking with reading?
Franklin once bought a broken newspaper just because he thought the articles in the newspaper were beautiful and wanted to imitate its style. He first selected several articles, picked out the general idea of each sentence and put it aside. A few days later, he retelled the original text with the help of his memory of the main idea and tried to be consistent with the original text. As a result, Franklin found that his vocabulary was poor, so he had to learn and master a lot of vocabulary and pay attention to using it.
In addition, in order to train the order of thinking, Franklin deliberately disrupted the gist of his own records, tried his best to restore the best order after a few weeks, and then sorted out the whole sentence and article, and then compared it with the original text to correct it.
It can be seen that Franklin's achievements did not fall from the sky, nor were they predestined, but were the result of his efforts step by step.
In real life, maybe we don't expect ourselves to be like Franklin, but who doesn't want to be better? Especially in the era of fierce competition, thousands of parents in Qian Qian pin their unfulfilled dreams on their children, expecting them to become outstanding people in society. Then let your children fall in love with reading like Franklin! Even if he is not so outstanding, he will certainly gain a different life.
However, "how to love reading?" But this is a difficult problem. Let me give you some advice:
1. As a parent, you should first love reading, because "what kind of person do you want your child to be, what kind of person do you want to be first."
2. Take children to bookstores, libraries and other places with strong reading atmosphere regularly, so that children can feel the good feeling of being with books. When a child asks which book he wants to read, don't interfere too much, just let him choose for himself. This process not only satisfies children's interest in reading, but also improves children's self-esteem, because children are most confident when they can make their own choices in front of their parents.
3. For books purchased or borrowed, it is best for one of the parents to read them with their children, so that they can exchange the contents of the books with their children, and at the same time enhance the parent-child relationship and improve their expressive ability.
In the process of communication, parents can take the opportunity to educate their children to distinguish right from wrong, understand the truth, goodness and beauty in the world, and cultivate their children's correct values invisibly.
In this case, are you still worried that children don't like reading? As Shakespeare said: "Life without books is like life without sunshine;" Wisdom without books is like a bird without wings. "
Let children plug in the wings of reading and fly freely!