Chapter 125 Three mail to small readers newsletter three

Dear children: This newsletter has gone too far!I have been busy with other writing these days, in fact, I am thinking of you all the time!Especially at the end of the last few nights of the last school year, I saw that the lights in every window of the dormitory in front of my residence were on until midnight, and I knew that there were many children under the lights preparing for the final exam.I was both happy and worried. After the "Gang of Four" was overthrown, teachers and parents dared to catch your homework, and you yourself know that you have worked hard. However, it is very difficult to make up the debts of several years in a few months and a few days. I am really afraid that you will not be able to sleep well or eat because of your desperate efforts to make up lessons and prepare for the exam. Broke.What's more, our beloved leader Chairman Mao puts forward the "three good" students' hopes for you, the first one is "good health".

But the final exam is over, and the summer vacation is here. Can you take a short rest, take a breath, put the summer homework aside, play happily for a few days, and catch up before school in the fall?I think this is also an unscientific and unrealistic idea. Dear children, on June 12th of this year, our giant in the scientific and cultural circles of China, Grandpa Guo Moruo, bid farewell to us forever.He left us a dazzling article in March this year, titled "The Spring of Science", which I think many children have read.Some children may even recite it.In this article, he solemnly stated: "I wish young people across the country will devote themselves to the majestic cause of communism from an early age, strive to cultivate revolutionary ideals, earnestly learn modern science and technology, be honored by diligent study, and be ashamed by not seeking to make progress." .You are the rising sun, hope rests on you.

The addition of revolution and science will make you even more powerful, and carry on the torch lit by the older generation of revolutionaries and scientists. " Blue out of blue and better than blue, this is "catch up" and "overtake".Grandpa Guo said: "The key to catching up is time. Time is life, time is speed, time is power. "Little friends, regarding the preciousness of time and the rapid passage of time, I'm afraid you don't understand it as deeply as us old people! I often think that I am already in my 80s, so I will use the whole period of 80 years to describe it." Doing the math, there are more than 29,000 days and nights (29,200 days and nights), more than 700,000 hours (700,800 hours), and more than 42 million minutes (42,048,000 hours). minutes), there are more than two and a half billion seconds (2,522,880,000 seconds), how many years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds have I wasted in these eighty years! How much more work would I have done if I had been working so hard in my study and work. When I think about it, how sad and regretful I am!

So, am I saying that apart from the eight hours of sleep and eating time, children must be used for studying and reviewing homework?No, absolutely not.If we want to capture time, we must be good at using the weapon we use to capture time, that is our brain, the most precious weapon of the brain, it will rust if it is not used, it will become more flexible if it is used more, and it will be damaged if it is overused.If it is rusted or damaged, it will not be able to charge forward and climb high for us sharply! Therefore, in order to enable our brains to work reasonably and rest reasonably, we must learn to arrange our time scientifically.The mind, like a child, is very lively and active. It refuses to rest except for sleeping (in fact, it also arranges some fairy tale-like dreams for us during our sleeping time...) , but it does the same job over and over again, and when it does it for too long, it gets impatient and tired.I have a child who is a "three good" student.Once I asked him how to achieve the "three good things", he said with a smile: "The problem lies in the reasonable arrangement of time. Specifically, I strictly abide by the habit of going to bed early and getting up early. I must get up, make the bed and fold the quilt, wash my face and mouth, do morning exercises or run, and before going to school after breakfast, I do more difficult homework, such as arithmetic. The mind is clearest in the morning, and when I do homework, I often get twice the result with half the effort. During class, I insist on listening attentively to lectures and taking notes, which is much less troublesome than asking the teacher or classmates after class. After lunch and before class, I must take a nap on time, so that my mind is rested and I am refreshed in class in the afternoon. When I get home from class, I will do my homework, but I will never make myself dizzy. When I feel tired, I will change it to another job. For example, if I can’t finish my composition, I will get up and look Young people’s books and newspapers, or doing some outdoor games, such as playing ball, running, or doing some housework, such as cleaning the table, washing the dishes, taking out the garbage...” He laughed and said:

"Actually, all my classmates arrange their time in this way now. Each family's situation is different, and the schedule is not exactly the same. However, after defeating the 'Gang of Four', we all worked hard to make use of every minute and every second. , so that we spend every minute and every second on marching towards the "three good". We feel that learning to arrange time reasonably and scientifically is the beginning of improving the level of science and culture!" Today, recalling what he said, I don’t think there is anything particularly surprising about it, nor did he say anything about “ambitions”, such as what kind of “home” he would like to have by the end of this century, etc., but he has a He has the determination and confidence to use every minute and every second to work hard and skillfully, step by step, to the 21st century, to realize the general task of the new era that he wants to accomplish.He is "always ready"!

Let us all learn from him. I wish you good health, good study and good work!Your friend Bing Xin July 27, 1978. (This article was originally published in Issue 6 of "Children's Times" in September 1978.)