Our ancestors have many moving stories of diligent study, such as hanging beams and piercing strands, chiseling walls to steal light, sacs and fireflies reflecting snow, etc., which have been passed down as beautiful stories, and this spirit of hard study is worth remembering. Everyone should settle down, concentrate on reading and studying, and conduct in-depth discussions. "If you learn without thinking, you will be reckless, and if you think without learning, you will die." Confucius said this well. Learning and thinking, diligence and thoughtfulness are interrelated and mutually reinforcing, and the two should not be separated. In the process of studying, we should combine our own work reality, often put a few questions in our minds, and think about it repeatedly. This is good for cultivating and improving one's theoretical thinking and strategic thinking skills. In the teaching arrangements of the Central Party School every semester, there are student forums and political experience exchange activities, which will help everyone to study in depth and exchange experience in governance. You can also take advantage of the recess and tea and dinner to exchange learning experiences, and share experiences in mutual communication and mutual inspiration.

-- "On the Study of Party School Students: Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Autumn Semester of the Central Party School" (September 1, 2012)

Further reading:

Xunzi said in "Persuasion": "If you don't climb the mountain, you don't know the height of the sky; Not near the deep stream, I don't know the thickness of the ground. "Learning is a powerful weapon to change the fate of the individual and gain insight into the world around him. Diligent study has been regarded as an excellent quality since ancient times.

"Warring States Policy" records that when Su Qin was young, he was angry and tried hard to study, "he fell asleep while reading, and stabbed himself in the thigh, bleeding to the feet." "Hanshu" also has a story of diligent study: "Sun Jing, the word Wenbao, studious, morning and evening." When you are tired of sleeping, tie your head with a rope and hang the roof beams. The two stories of "head cantilever beam" and "cone piercing strand" are combined to give rise to the idiom of "cantilever piercing strand".

"Chiseling the wall and stealing the light" tells the story of Kuang Heng, a great writer in the Western Han Dynasty, who chiseled through the wall when he was a child and borrowed the candlelight of his neighbor's house to read. According to the Xijing Miscellaneous Records, Kuang Heng's family was poor and there were no candles for him to study at night, so he carved a hole in the wall to attract the light of his neighbors to read at night. is also a poor family, the same is to cherish time to read more, the Jin Dynasty Che Yin's "trick" is to grab a firefly to illuminate the reading, Sun Kang uses the reflection of snow to read. This is the story of "Bag Firefly Reflecting Snow". Working day and night, they studied tirelessly and became their collective portrayal.

There are many similar stories, such as "Wei Compile Three Uniques", Confucius repeatedly broke the cowhide belt of the bamboo slips in order to read "Zhou Yi"; "Smell the chicken and dance", in order to serve the country when the ancestor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was young, as soon as he heard the rooster in the middle of the night, he got up in his clothes and drew his sword to practice martial arts; "Chengmen Lixue", Yang Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty and his friend You Xing asked Cheng Yi for advice, in order not to disturb Cheng Yi to rest in the house, the two stood quietly at the door, and let the goose feathers snow fall all over the body.

Learning also needs to pay attention to ways and means. In this regard, the proposition of the Analects is quite valuable for reference. In "The Analects of Politics", it is said: "If you learn without thinking, you will be reckless, and if you think without learning, you will die." "If you only study without thinking, you will gain nothing because of confusion; If you only think and don't learn, you will be mentally tired and have nothing to gain. "The Analects of Zizhang" also proposes: "Erudite and ambitious, inquisitive and thoughtful, benevolence is in it." "Benevolence can be achieved by studying broadly, being ambitious, asking questions earnestly, and thinking more about what is in front of us.

Xi Jinping told the deeds of the ancients who were studious and how to learn, so as to encourage the students of the Central Party School to study diligently and think well. When he was working in Zhejiang, he proposed to "take the initiative to have a 'learning revolution'". Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the role of "thinking" in learning, "thinking is the deepening of reading, the inevitability of cognition, and the key to reading books alive." It's like Albert Einstein said, "To learn knowledge, you have to be good at thinking, thinking, and thinking, and that's how I became a scientist."