——Speech at the 80th Anniversary Celebration Conference of the Central Party School and the Opening Ceremony of the Spring Semester of 2013

■Interpretation

Huang Zongxi, a thinker during the Ming and Qing dynasties, once concluded, "If you learn, you will be wise, and if you don't learn, you will be foolish; If you learn, you will be governed, and if you don't learn, you will be chaotic. Since ancient times, the sages and sages of Shengde have not learned from others." It can be seen how important it is to learn for an official and govern a party. It is precisely for this reason that the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the important task of building a learning-oriented, service-oriented and innovative Marxist ruling party. As far as leading cadres are concerned, whether or not they study is not only their own business, nor is the size of their skills just their own business, but a major matter that has a bearing on the development of the cause of the party and the country. Comrade Xi Jinping also used the saying "a blind man rides a blind horse, and is in a deep pool in the middle of the night" to explain that if you don't study, you may lose your way and fall into a crisis. With rapid development and increasingly complex work, how to make good decisions without scientificity, foresight and initiative? Ignorance and confusion, ignorance and blindness, ignorance and confusion are precisely because there is no active learning; Lack of skills, panic skills, and backward skills are precisely because they do not actively study. Learning, only by continuous learning, can we open up a new situation in our work and grasp the initiative.

■Original text

A gentleman can benefit from the reputation of the top and lose the worries of the bottom. If you can't live in it, you will be falsely accused; Accept it without benefit, and steal it. Scholars are not necessarily scholars, but scholars must be scholars.

——(Warring States) Xunzi "Xunzi Da Luo"

■Definition

"Scholars are not necessarily scholars, but scholars must be like learning" is a famous sentence in "Xunzi", and now the original text of "such as learning" is used as "for learning". This sentence expounds the relationship between becoming an official and learning, which means that those who study do not necessarily have to be officials, but those who are officials must insist on reading and studying.

In this passage, Xunzi mentions three kinds of people: "gentlemen", "scholars" and "scholars". It is easy for a scholar to be transformed into a scholar, but it is not easy for a scholar or a scholar to reach the realm of a gentleman. Xunzi believes that a gentleman can make the king's reputation better through his political achievements, and at the same time reduce the sorrow of the people under his rule. If you fail to do this, and steal a high position, it will be tantamount to deception; And the corpse who still enjoys the rich state fortune is tantamount to theft. Therefore, officials should constantly improve their abilities through continuous learning, do practical things for the country and the people, and truly live up to what they have learned.

This passage of Xunzi emphasizes that learning is the basic lesson for officials, and continuous learning is a cultivation method for officials to be honest and sincere, and to cultivate Qi and Zhiping, so it has become a proverb for officials in the past dynasties.