How to destroy smart young people?

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How to destroy smart young people?

  

I  was almost shocked when I read about how former French president Nicolas Sarkozy left his home for prison.

He had brought two books with him to prison.

One is a religious book, and the other book shocked me:  It was Count Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas (père) which I had mentioned not long ago.  I had finished reading that book since I were 10 or 11 years old.   I thought that must be a very good book because I can remember some of the scenes until now.  If I were in prison in the future,   I believe I will do the same as the Monte Cristo,  the hero in the book.

And now President Sarcozy  was about to enter prison, and he was bringing the same book with him.

What is left in my mind is not how good is the book, but how important is reading.

You will never know how important is a book which can help you activate your own brain,  but how important it is to activate your whole nation with good brains by reading.

It is a task more and more difficult now.

It is almost impossible to encourage young people to read.

Most of the young people were obsessed by TV or mobile games.

Of the three important functions of the brain:  receiving,  processing,  and delivering.......first important is receiving.

You will be far more smarter than other people if you can read.

You will be much smarter than other people if you can avoid the negative effects of videos. Videos provide color, images, sound, and other means to prevent your brain from working. You do not need to engage your brain for scenarios; they will provide everything, and you will remain a fool for the rest of your life if you only consume videos and never use your own brain to create anything.

When I was reading  Monte Cristo in a Chinese translation,  I can imagine how he managed to use a spoon to dig a channel to excape his prison room and found he had not exited the prison but entered the next prison room......

I cannot stop here because the story was too exciting.

He had entered the room of a very old prisoner who had taught him many things about life before he die.

Monte Christo disguised himself as the dead old man and let the prison guards put his own living corpse into a canvas bag to throw him into the sea and  excaped under water by cutting open the bag with his knife which was made by a sharpened spoon when he was in the prison room.

Why I can remember it after all this years?

It is because I have received the story through reading.

It was not received through a TV channel,  but a book in three volumes.

I still remember I finished one volume in one day and exchange it the other day from the school library.

And today I am worried about my own country young people who were given too many video stimulations to replace their ability to produce their own inner stories through reading.

There will be less smart young  people in the future,  if their interest in reading were destroyed.

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