My child, why would I rather give up half a million to force you to study?

Child: School has started, and you feel sad and have serious resistance. Last night I urged you to do your homework, but you were a little annoyed and said, \”Why are you forcing me? Do you know how painful it is to study?\” Of course I do, kid. But even if I don\’t force you to eat, I still have to force you to study, no matter how painful it is, I won\’t negotiate. I live to be forty, and many of the concepts I had when I was twenty have been completely overturned, but I will probably stick to this matter of \”you must study hard\” until I die. A few days ago, my friends and I did some joking calculations: It takes a total of sixteen years for a child to go from elementary school to undergraduate degree. If he doesn’t study and spend money during these sixteen years, and then goes out to make money, then he will be at least fifty years old inside and outside. Ten thousand. But almost all parents would rather give up the 500,000 yuan and force their children to go to school painfully. We are not stupid, so why do we have to do such a thankless thing that wastes people and money? That\’s because reading is the investment with the highest return and the brightest and best path in the world. You must believe as much as I do: reading is useful. First, of course, you can learn knowledge by reading. Please click here to enter the picture description. This is what the teacher told you on the first day of school, and it is also the standard answer you can blurt out now. But I think you don\’t actually know the real use of knowledge. ——In addition to getting high marks on the test paper. Then let me tell you now, the dead knowledge in your eyes now will come alive in the future. If you learn the word \”spin\” now, you will understand it when it appears on the washing machine manual in the future. If you understand all the words in the manual, you can successfully learn to use the washing machine. Rather than being like the illiterate grandma next door, who had to teach her daughter about how to use a mobile phone for a week before she could barely make a call. She used a rice cooker to call the manufacturer and asked at the top of her lungs for forty minutes but still couldn\’t figure it out. In the end, both she and the customer service staff were confused. collapse. The words you learned in Chinese class can not only help you understand the instructions, but also allow you to express your thoughts appropriately, such as reporting to your boss or writing a love letter to your lover in the future. The formulas in math class can help you quickly calculate the down payment, taxes, and whether a loan or full payment is more appropriate when buying a house. The common sense you learned in geography class allows you to know where the fish is the best and where the coffee is the best. The aesthetics learned in art class let you know that wearing purple with yellow will be ugly, and pink with gold is a taboo… Knowledge is the tool you use to live in this world. When your tool warehouse has everything you need, you will definitely be able to live comfortably – —You have airplanes to travel far away, ships to cross rivers, and off-road vehicles to go to the suburbs. And if you lack knowledge, it means you don’t even have a broken wooden boat, then a three-meter-wide river can block you, and you will never be able to go to a place hundreds of miles away. I dare not say that all the knowledge you learn now is useful, but a considerable part will benefit you throughout your life. In the end, you may forget whether the word \”percent\” was taught by your Chinese or mathematics teacher, but you will use it countless times and can\’t even live without it. Second, people who read more make more money. Many people like to sensationalize and sing the opposite. If you say you are good at studying, he will tell you which master\’s student is working for a boss who graduated from elementary school. Or, an old lady sells sesame seed cakes and earns three houses, while whose son has graduated with a doctorate and is still renting a house. Does such a thing exist? certainly. But this is a special case. Take special cases to deduce the generalReason, not scientific at all. Just like someone choked and died after eating, can you advise everyone not to eat to prevent choking? We must face the fact that there are very few people who can earn three houses by selling sesame seeds, and more people who have three or even thirteen houses are highly educated people. I just checked the statistics: the proportion of wealthy families is thirty times higher among families with a master\’s degree or above than among families with a high school degree. People with a doctorate earn on average six times more than those with a high school degree. That is to say, if you graduate from high school and earn 4,000 yuan a month, then your classmates who are studying for a Ph.D. will earn about 24,000 yuan a month. I am not a vulgar person, but I must tell you seriously: For us ordinary people, money is really important. Money is not necessarily the source of happiness, but lack of money is likely to be the source of pain. Now you spend my money without feeling anything. In the future, when you grow up and no longer depend on me, you will know how important money is in life, and how miserable it will be if you don\’t have enough money. You might go three stops to save a dollar. Maybe you don’t dare to go to a classmate’s dinner because you can’t afford to invite him back next time. Maybe because I can\’t pay the rent, I don\’t know where I will live tomorrow. besides. When you get married in the future, even if the other person is the one you love the most, you will face endless conflicts. While being poor will seriously aggravate conflicts, being rich will be much better. For example, if you don\’t have money, you may have a huge quarrel over buying each other two pounds of fresh cherries, and you may be upset for a week because relatives come to take a bath and waste water, but if you have money, who cares about these things. If you don\’t have money, you might get divorced over who will take care of the baby, but if you have money, you can hire a 24-hour nanny. There are countless similar things. In short, the world is difficult. You will encounter many difficulties in this life, you will often be unable to do what you want, and you will feel lonely from time to time, but it will be much better if you have money. Of course, you don\’t have to make a lot of money. I just hope you try your best to live a better life and not be so embarrassed. Third, studying can make you live a clear and wonderful life. The difference between graduating from elementary school and graduating with a doctorate is not just about earning 4,000 a month and 24,000 a month. What is ten times more important is that these two kinds of people lead different lives. If you think about it with your toes, will the aunt who sells sesame seed cakes have a richer spiritual world than the doctor who rents a house? Last time we went to listen to a lecture by an education expert. When we came back, you were full of praise and said that the expert was so elegant and wise. You must also be able to imagine that behind this elegance and wisdom is erudition. It is the knowledge in her mind that allows her to think clearly and explain many particularly reasonable truths, which makes her look so charming. Otherwise, if a person is ignorant, vulgar, and speaks dirty words, you will not like her no matter how good-looking she is. And erudition is not achieved in a day. It takes a lot of hard work to achieve it bit by bit. This process is very painful. Firstly, it is hard work, and secondly, there are no short-term results. Many people give up because of this. Just like you are studying and studying now, but you don\’t know what the use of learning is, so you are irritable, discouraged, and can\’t find the meaning. I don’t think you have to figure it out. You just need to know that every word you recognize and every mathematical symbol you learn is useful. Because there are countless predecessors who have explored the road for you, and walking along this road will be a scene of brilliant lights. I returned home last yearHome, one day I made an appointment with a cleaner to come to my grandma’s house to clean it. Unexpectedly, the visitor turned out to be my junior high school classmate, and we had a pretty good relationship back then. After we recognized each other, we were confused and embarrassed. To avoid the horrific scenario of her scrubbing the floor while I watched TV, I chatted with her while she worked. She has been working for people since she graduated from junior high school. Over the years, she has sold cold drinks, delivered express delivery, and worked as a waiter in a hotel deli. She stretched out her rough hands to compare with me and said, look, back then we were both listening to classes and writing the same homework in the same classroom, but now there is such a huge gap. She was full of curiosity about my life, asking me if I had ever been abroad, how I made money using computers, and whether I would get airsick when flying… I kept saying that I was actually a very ordinary citizen. But in her eyes, I must be extremely tall. I later thought that the jealousy in her eyes was not because of how tall I was, but because she was too low. I felt that my undergraduate degree was unremarkable, but she felt that college was particularly mysterious. I thought going abroad was as easy as going to the supermarket, but she thought it was as surreal as flying off the earth. She always said that she regretted not studying well when she was a child. She could even tell which semester she regretted the most – the second semester of the third grade of elementary school. Because she had a teacher she didn\’t like, she often skipped classes. If she ran away, she couldn\’t keep up. The more I couldn\’t keep up, the less I liked studying. I barely survived until I graduated from junior high school. I couldn\’t pass the exam anywhere, so I had to go home. Maybe many people who read little are like this. When he was young, he was ignorant and did not understand the importance of learning. He took pleasure in muddle-heading all day long. Later, when he grew up, he realized that he was stupid and it was too late. His life has been narrow and fixed. There are many beautiful doors in this world that others can walk through at will. It can\’t be reached or opened. He cannot understand the most vulgar American dramas, nor can he appreciate the beauty of famous paintings. He had never heard of Steve Jobs\’s Apple, Sanmao\’s Sahara, or Mei Lanfang\’s The Drunken Concubine. He doesn\’t know what emotional intelligence is, he can\’t understand others, and he can\’t speak well. He doesn\’t understand education, so he either beats the children to cry or makes the children cry. He spent his precious life wandering around in trivial matters. My child, I am particularly afraid that you will live like this. Don\’t be afraid of being ordinary, I\’m afraid of your ignorance. Don\’t be afraid of hard work, I\’m afraid of your incompetence. Don’t be afraid of being unique, I’m afraid you’ll be boring. Don\’t be afraid of failure, I am afraid that you will be hopeless. The only way to avoid letting these fears come true is to study hard. Knowledge and books are the most expensive treasures of mankind. They are accumulated by countless of the best brains in the world who have devoted their talents. And you are standing in this treasure now. As long as you are willing to work hard, you can make it your own. have. If you are really smart, you will definitely know that this deal is a good deal. Even if you go through all the hardships, you should hide as much of the treasure here as possible with yourself and take it away with pride. These treasures will increase your value countless times. Without them, your value might be nothing more than a pair of hands and a body of brute strength. Once you have it, you will have the energy of thousands of troops, because there are countless talented people quietly supporting you behind your back. One day in the future, if you work for one day, you can earn someone else a month\’s worth of money, you can win respect that others cannot win in a lifetime, and you can truly make the world a better place… You will find that you have obtained the path to success. This is the ticket to the beauty of the world. All the hard work you have put into studying has been greatly rewarded. PlaceDear, keep working hard. Although it is very tiring now, in the future the flowers will bloom and it will be beautiful.