青春·视野·梦想

东朔的《提升你的意志力》勾起了我这段回忆，发了评论，对于我这个很少原创blog的人来说，想想还可以充当一篇我的blog：）

我记得，我第一次在高中校运会报名参加 3000米比赛的时候，我从来没有长跑过，我也不知道练习，每次跑累了就休息，一般只有800米左右，从来没有练习过3000米的距离。
然后到了正式比赛，枪声一响，我就当头猛冲，以为只要坚持，我就能第一个到达，大概4圈以后（那时我们的操场250米一圈），我的双腿就开始不听使唤，我只知道我在跑，跑的甚至和快走的速度差不多，很机械的，很茫然的，很无意识的，而且感觉没有尽头，但是我知道我不能停下来。
总共7个人的比赛，到最后一圈，我已经从第一个落后到最后一个了。在最后冲刺的时候，我突然惊醒，突然，鼓起了所有的力量，跑向终点，超越了距离我前面的1.5个人，因为还有一个人相差半个身子，在终点线。

我想，一个人的坚持，也是需要积累的，也是需要能力的。战胜自己不是意识的战胜，而是行动的战胜。

后来，长跑，我总是第一的，从领跑到冲刺，在大学的岁月里。

因为我知道，行胜于言，而且我懂得坚持，懂得积累，懂得克服和压制内心的懦弱和放弃。更因为我懂得，这是我的强项，我不能输。

In the morning today, I read an article in Metro express newspaper, that is "Confucius in classroom come back, critics call the sage irrelevant".
The first sentence of the article is  striking, it is:

IS confucius as valuable to students as computer science?

Standpoint 1. the sage is enjoying new popularity that sees virtues in his call for social stability. More than 10 local(shanghai) schools have offered basic Confucian reading courses and teachers say ancient principles can be applied in their daily lives.
Standpoint 2. Now the complaints from parents and some educators are that Confucious is irrelevant, tiresome, too complicated and deflects students from practical studies. Some one said reading such difficult ancient works won't help young children understanding the world.

I have a question that Amercan students don't know confucious, so they don't read confucian books. they don't lost anything.  However, whether that means they don't read American ancient literature？

I support one should know a little about the culture born from oneself's country.  It is not equal to the computer skills.
And you?