Siheyuan: Returning from studying abroad, with extraordinary understanding

The five people were very confused when they heard this.

Is content really unimportant?

"If the content is not important, then, Comrade Changqing, why did you ask us to do this homework?"

"Yes, we did learn some knowledge and used it in our homework, but after you read it, you said the content is not important. What does that mean?"

“The content of the homework records what we have learned. This is the result of our learning. How can it not be important?”

The five people were confused and expressed their doubts one after another.

Lin Changqing didn't get angry after hearing this. He smiled slightly and said:

"You have a point, but this is not what I want to teach."

“Knowledge is endless. If you only focus on content, I ask you, how much can you learn?”

"This?" Song Jiajia shook her head and said, "I'm a little stupid. With so much knowledge, I don't think I can finish learning one subject in my lifetime."

"It's the same for me. No matter whether it's Chinese, mathematics, physics or chemistry, there's always a lot to learn." Li Qingyue also agreed with Song Jiajia's statement. She has self-knowledge.

The other three also nodded.

"What should we do then? Don't we need to learn the content? Without the content, what should we learn?"

Fang Yongji didn't understand what Lin Changqing said, but he knew that if he didn't have content, how could he learn anything!

Lin Changqing did not give them an answer immediately, but continued to ask them:

"You have been to school, so how much of what you learned in school do you remember, and how much of it is useful to you now? Comrade Jia Jia, tell me!"

"Well, let me think about it." Song Jiajia thought for a moment and continued, "Chinese is about literacy, and mathematics is about simple arithmetic. Some of them are useful at work, but some are not."

Lin Changqing nodded: "Comrade Qingyue, what about you?"

"Me? I work in the archives. I deal with documents mostly and write articles. Math is rarely used."

"Then did you learn the document you wrote when you were in school or after you started working?"

Li Qingyue said: "I learned it while working."

"Yes, I understand! Comrade Yongji, what about you!"

Lin Changqing nodded and continued to call the roll.

Fang Yongji replied: "I don't need to write articles, I just need to be able to read. Mathematics can be used when calculating wages and money."

"Comrade Zhao Hu, what about you?"

"I'm pretty much the same. I use it for writing documents, but apart from literacy, I don't think most of it is useful."

Zhao Hu answered truthfully.

"Comrade Kejie, what about you?" Lin Changqing pointed to Gao Kejie, the last one.

"I will need to use it more. When I inspect, I need to record and calculate. If I don't understand these, I can only do other work."

The same is true for Gao Kejie.

Lin Changqing nodded and said:

"Language can help us learn to read and write, read newspapers, and know about national affairs so that we won't be deceived. Mathematics can help us calculate and know the exact number of things."

"These two subjects can basically solve most of our problems. However, reality and what is in the textbooks are two completely different things."

“Moreover, when it comes to mathematics, we use it in our daily lives, using the method of calculation rather than the content.”

“So, what we need to learn is the method, not the content.”

“The content is only used to show the method. When we study, we should focus on the method.”

"Instead of nitpicking on words and nitpicking on text. If you memorize certain articles and content by rote, you won't learn anything at all."

"How do you study an article or a math formula?"

"Comrade Qingyue, you speak first."

Li Qingyue stood up and said:

"I learned from my teacher. When studying an article, I read it through to see what the main idea is. Then I study the key paragraphs sentence by sentence to understand their meaning."

"If it's a math formula, of course you look at the letters that make up the formula, find out how the formula is used from examples, remember the formula, and then do exercises. Once you're proficient in it, you've learned it!"

After hearing this, Lin Changqing's expression did not change, and he said, "Okay, sit down first. Comrade Jia Jia, how about you?"

"Ah? I... I'm about the same as Qingyue." Song Jiajia stood up and said, "However, when I study an article, I read it from beginning to end. If I don't understand something, I read it again. If I really don't understand it, I mark it and continue reading."

"I read many articles several times, but I still don't know what they are about. Am I stupid?"

"The same goes for math formulas. I memorized them by rote and then did more exercises. But there were so many formulas that it was easy to forget them. I had to memorize them over and over again. I'm really too stupid!"

After saying that, Song Jiajia lowered her head dejectedly.

"It's not your fault! Comrade Jia Jia, in fact, most people are just like you."

Lin Changqing comforted.

But Song Jiajia was a little unconvinced. She looked at Lin Changqing, as if saying, are you comforting me?

"You can ask Fang Yongji, Zhao Hu and Gao Kejie to see if they are the same?"

Are they really the same as me? Song Jiajia looked at the three men.

Fang Yongji stood up immediately and said:

"Comrade Changqing is right. Comrade Jiajia, when we were in school, our teacher would first have us read the article and then explain it paragraph by paragraph."

"If it's a key paragraph, we are required to recite it. If we can't recite it, we will be slapped on the palm of our hands!"

Gao Kejie also stood up and expressed his opinion:

"Yeah! Me too! You don't know, those ancient texts are hard to understand and don't flow smoothly. It's almost fatal for me to memorize an article!"

"I memorized the math formulas by rote. When I got the questions wrong, the teacher always scolded me. We were so stupid that we couldn't even memorize such a simple formula!"

Zhao Hu also spoke up after hearing this:

"Yes! It was the same when I was in school. There was only one smartest student. He understood everything the teacher taught very easily and had a very good memory."

"Most of us were ordinary people. We didn't study very well and were often scolded!"

After listening to the words of the three male comrades, Song Jiajia felt much better instantly.

Unexpectedly, everyone is the same as me!

"Not to mention you, I'm the same! I've been in school for more than ten years, and all the teachers taught me the same way!"

Lin Changqing smiled and said, "However, my memory is quite good. I remember most of what the teacher said, and I even reviewed it after class!"

"In mathematics, I also studied it after class. At that time, I was just thinking about why the formula was like this. It was because I asked one more question that I learned more."

After hearing what Lin Changqing said, the five people felt much more relaxed. It turned out that everyone was the same!