《论语》开篇就是“学而时习之”。朱熹说“学之为言效也”:学是照着做,不只是读书。
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- 1.1Learning and practising it in season
子曰:学而时习之,不亦说乎?有朋自远方来,不亦乐乎?人不知而不愠,不亦君子乎?
What you learned, keep taking out to practise and to do. Today: watching the tutorial ten times is watching another bird fly.
- 1.6A young man at home is filial
子曰:弟子入则孝,出则弟,谨而信,汎爱众,而亲仁。行有余力,则以学文。
This is about order, not about choosing one and dropping the other. Today: the capable person who never studied has nothing to check himself against when he is wrong.
- 1.7Honouring the worthy over good looks
子夏曰:贤贤易色,事父母能竭其力,事君能致其身,与朋友交言而有信。虽曰未学,吾必谓之学矣。
Someone who never studied but does all this — Zixia says he has studied. Today: the elders who had only a few years of schooling.
- 1.8A gentleman without weight has no dignity
子曰:君子不重则不威,学则不固。主忠信。无友不如己者。过则勿惮改。
Zhu Xi takes the words as they stand and does not talk his way around them. Today: the one person willing to tell you to your face tells you twice; if you don't change, the third time he says nothing.
- 1.14A gentleman does not seek to eat his fill
子曰:君子食无求饱,居无求安,敏于事而慎于言,就有道而正焉,可谓好学也已。
Not going hungry on purpose; simply too occupied to mind.
- 2.4At fifteen I set my heart on learning
子曰:吾十有五而志于学,三十而立,四十而不惑,五十而知天命,六十而耳顺,七十而从心所欲,不逾矩。
Not a certificate issued automatically at a certain age, but a road of learning.
