What are the advantages and disadvantages of reading

People start to come into contact with books before they go to school, and then go to elementary school, middle school, college, graduate school, and doctoral school, and then take exams one level after another. It must be very tiring, but reading more and reading good books is very good for people. Books are the ladder of human progress. Reading makes people become wiser. There are beautiful women and golden houses in books. There are countless words about the benefits of reading. In fact, if people only know how to read, there will be certain bad factors. Everything has its pros and cons, so we need to understand the advantages and disadvantages of reading.

The benefits of reading and studying are so numerous that they cannot be fully expressed in words. Only by reading diligently and immersing oneself in the book can one experience the fun and mystery contained therein.

1. If we study persistently, we will understand the true meaning of life, be full of love and yearning for a better life and a bright future; we will establish lofty ideals and noble goals, and thus have a lifelong driving force for progress; our spiritual world will be enriched, our ideological realm will be improved, and our moral sentiments will be cultivated, so that all our words and deeds will be beneficial to society and mankind, and we ourselves will become popular and respected people and useful members of society.

2. “Books are the nourishment of the world. Life without books is like life without sunshine; wisdom without books is like a bird without wings.” (Shakespeare). "A new book is like a ship, leading us from a narrow place to the infinite ocean of life." (Keller [Switzerland]). "Without reading, there is no real learning, and there is no and cannot be appreciation, literary talent and broad knowledge. Reading more can broaden your horizons, increase your knowledge, enlighten your wisdom, and enable you to be creative and achieve something in your work; reading more can enrich your knowledge base, further understand life, improve your literary talent and appreciation of art, and change from "vulgar" to "highbrow", thus making your life more colorful and full of interest.

3. "History makes one wise, poetry makes one clever, mathematics makes one careful, science makes one profound, ethics makes one dignified, logic and rhetoric make one eloquent: everything one learns becomes one's character." (Bacon) In other words, people who love reading and have a wide range of knowledge can make themselves wise, smart, thoughtful, profound, dignified, and eloquent, so that they will not make mistakes or make fewer mistakes in their lives and will always be invincible.

The first disadvantage of studying is that it is painful. The ancients had to chisel holes in the wall to borrow light, which caused them to become severely myopic. They also have to study hard with a self-deprecating attitude, hanging their heads on the beam and piercing their legs with a needle. Wang Guowei, a contemporary scholar, said that there are three levels of reading. The first is to go up to a high building alone and look at the end of the world. Second, I will never regret even if my clothes become looser and looser, and I will become haggard for her. On the third day, I looked back suddenly and saw that person standing in the dim light. The first two scenes also vividly illustrate the pain of studying. The loneliness of climbing a tall building alone and the tiredness of having clothes getting looser and looser. If you can gain something when you look back, then the hardship is worth it. But there are probably not many lucky people like Fan Jin, who grew old and finally reached a place where lights were dim, but went crazy. The hard work of studying for fame and fortune is secondary. The hard work you endure when studying for the so-called pursuit of truth and finding the true meaning of life is meaningful. Looking around, the common people were farming and raising children, drinking wine and eating meat, living a leisurely and contented life.

The second disadvantage of reading is emptiness. One is vanity, one is hypocrisy, and one is illusion. "All things are inferior, only reading is superior." This sentence cultivates the high vanity of scholars. Quality means grade and taste. Therefore, it is easy for scholars to have an inflated ego. Haven’t you seen the arrogance of college students, the pretentiousness of higher education institutions, the hot sales of high-level fake diplomas, and the fashionable Chinese and foreign phrases such as “HOW AR YOU”? There are so many PhDs and Masters showing off in TV commercials. It cultivates and reflects the superiority of scholars everywhere. Highbrow and lowbrow divide people into different classes. The scholars' aloofness and vanity of loving face are a habit conditioned by society, and are also a result of their own pampering.

As the saying goes, reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles. It means that if you only know how to bury your head in books at home and don’t go out to see the outside world, then no matter how many books you read, you are just a frog in a well. Above we talked about the advantages and disadvantages of reading, and we know that reading also has a bad side. Studying blindly or reading bad books are not good for people. Therefore, people should choose good books to read and learn to combine work and rest. This is beneficial to physical and mental health.