Reading the Classics: Enlightenment or Ignorance?

Author: Hu Xiaoming, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Reading classics is neither "ignorance" nor necessarily "enlightenment"; it is an important supplement to modern education. This book collects over sixty essays on this topic, organized into sections such as "Origin," "Ideological Background," "Campus Intellectual Exercises," and "Folk Educational Practices," providing a comprehensive reflection of various viewpoints. Several articles in the book are worth reading, including "The Need for Classical Chinese Influence on Vernacular Literature" and "Without Classical Chinese, You Will Be Blind to This World" by Long Yingtai, "On Reading Classics: Returning to Common Sense and Reality" by Yang Dongping, "The Dilemma of Reading Classics" by Xu Jilin, and "Review of Reading Classics: Why Should Chinese People Die for Confucian Culture?" by Yuan Weishi. This book explores how to teach children to "read" classics correctly, allowing them to develop a strong foundation in this language early on. It is undoubtedly the "childhood training for moral life" and the "foundation-building for spiritual maturity."