为什么要读书?

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本贴将分为3个部份.

1 原由

最近正在看燕园早年提到的一本书,train your mind, 里面提到：文字的东西让你的思维工作，而图片音像则让思维休眠。下面论证这个观点。

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2 请阅读

        当你老了，头发白了，睡意昏沉，
　　　　炉火旁打盹，请取下这部诗歌，
　　　　慢慢读，回想你过去眼神的柔和，
　　　　回想它们昔日浓重的阴影;
　　　　
　　　　多少人爱你青春欢畅的时辰，
　　　　爱慕你的美丽，假意或真心，
　　　　只有一个人爱你那朝圣者的灵魂，
　　　　爱你衰老了的脸上痛苦的皱纹;
　　　　
　　　　垂下头来，在红光闪耀的炉子旁，
　　　　凄然地轻轻诉说那爱情的消逝，
　　　　在头顶的山上它缓缓踱着步子，
　　　　在一群星星中间隐藏着脸庞。

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3 请欣赏倪萍 脊梁 照。

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挺红的一件事，老F非要往黄里带。请搜索“倪萍脊梁脊背”，如有不雅照，请闭眼。

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iCloud? 还是秋爸爸in，前阵子刚在北京看过海，现在大热天烈日当空的，又开始玩儿看云了，一朵书做的云。

train your mind 是本讲怎样实施home school 的书，从1年级到12年级，书的标题也就是为了好卖，不能太当真。其中的前言很好，深刻地接漏了美国教育的愚昧和黑暗，我准备翻译出来作为81献礼。

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云老师的诗真好，让我们对着3楼的脊梁一起吟诵：

     那一世
　　 我们翻遍十万大山不为修来世
　　 只为路中能与sxy的师姐相遇

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不看爱情的书，理解，因为都去看费城勿扰了。

不看励志的书，也理解。其实很多时候一句励志的话就够了， 哪需一本书呢？我有一阵子特郁闷，后来读了一个流氓导演的话就开心很多。他说：我的生活只有两种状态，一种挺没劲的，另一种没有一点劲。

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----老王都回家了，网民们谁还相信爱情啊？

我想了半天谁是老王，想起来了，呵呵，差点儿被你带到沟里，应该是：老王都回家了，网民们谁还不相信爱情啊？

回到题目，我见到有人列举了10个不读书的理由，然后给了40个解决办法。总之，还是要读，一言以蔽之，Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.  Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

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60 percent of Texans suspended before high school graduation

A new study by the by the Council of State Governments finds that 60 percent of Texan students were suspended, expelled or faced in-school suspensions by the time they graduated high school.

The researchers followed every Texas seventh grader into high school, the New York Times reports, studying almost 1 million students.

Fifteen percent of the students were disciplined 11 times or more over the six years. And the more frequently a student faced suspension or expulsion, the greater the chances would be that the disciplined student would eventually drop out, according to the Council of State Governments analysis.

"African-American students and those with particular educational disabilities experience a disproportionately high rate of removal from the classroom for disciplinary reasons," study author Mike Thompson told NPR. Seventy percent of black female students were expelled or suspended, compared to 37 percent of white girls, he said.

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穿红衣服好像是伤口百惠。

倪姐其实也是为党国操劳地过分了一点，所以那个了。说到美容， 晓庆，阿冲都是当年的小花出身，瘦死的骆驼比牛大，风韵犹存没什么稀罕的。要说白手起家第一人，还得首推芙蓉姐姐，真美啊！

哪位能帮忙贴张照片吗？

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老话说，做人不能太邓文迪。不过她跳起的那一计五指扇，的确迷人，不服不行。

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谢谢麦吉。我端详27楼的芙蓉8分钟，千言万语汇成一句话：多么好的脊梁啊！

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张老师真会总结，我担心那QBB会追到这里跟你闹，说：错，嫁人至少需要两次，生孩子不能忘记科学，保养身材我比她更有发言权， 两个字，抽烟。

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你说的是“当年抽烟一天一包”，现在不抽了，对吧？ 很多事情是需要坚持的。

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黑色的周末。国内的门户网站都进不去。温州，奥斯陆。死者安息。

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回到一楼燕园提到的那本书（确切地书名是well trained mind), 里面提到一个now or never 的观点。作者是susan bauer. 目前正给儿子读她的另外的一本书，the story of the world. 我的中文今天有点短路，所以原文照抄如下：

why are the first four grades a paticularly fruitful time to concentrate on content?

this is the first time your child will encounter Egyptian embalming rites or the atmospher of Venus; this is the first time he will understand what light is made of or why Americans rebelled aganinst the British. He will never get a second chance to read 'the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe', or hear 'the Hobbit' read for the first time .

Size this early excitement. Let the child delve deep. Let him read, read, read. Don't force him to stop and reflect on it yet. Don't make him decide what likes and doesn't like about ancient Rome; Let him wallow in gladiators and chariot races. He wants to find out how things work, how ancient people lived, where Mount Vesuius is located, and what Pompeii looked like, covered with volcanic ash. This thirst for sheer accumulation won't ever die completely, but it is mor easily satified later on .

And the wonder of that first encunter with a strange civiliaztion will never come again.