Reading report of The Republic

At the first, this article gives an example of the following. A dog will turn nasty when it sees someone it doesn’t know, even if the person haven’t badly treated it in the past. On the contrary, when it sees someone familiar, even though it has never been at all well treated by him, it will welcome him.

Thus it can be seen, love of learning and love of wisdom is one thing. And they start to launched a discussion about education.

My favorite sentence in the article is “you are aware that it is the beginning of any undertaking which is the most important part-especially for anything young and tender.” Generally speaking, this is the time when each individual thing can be most easily moulded, and they will account everything you give and become what you would like to see. This is what we usually call First impression are strongest.

Consequently, we should educate our children from the beginning of the childhood, and try our best to make them hear the most beautiful and noble story, in order to foster them virtue. In the way of education, they give a clear answer. The answer is “of physical education for the baby, and music and poetry for the mind or soul.” In my opinion, the education of spirit and morality are indeed more important than physical education, so we should pay more attention to enrich the spiritual world of students, Especially, for us Chinese students, it is necessary to improve the moral quality. Respect the old and cherish the young is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, however, in today’s society, how many people saw the old man fell not to help, waste food and water resources, carve on the cultural relics. The most important reason is that too much emphasis on academic performance and neglect the improvement of moral quality. In a word, I am very in favor of cultivate virtue, start to tell the children the most noble stories for children.

Another topic that interests me is we should support law. Using laws to regulate people’s behavior. So that we can maintain the stability of the society. As we know, in ancient times, Han Feizi who is the representative of the Legalist School advocated the application of laws to govern the country. Nowadays, state leaders are also actively promoting the construction of the legal system. The law can regulate people’s deportment and behavior. To make society work well, make people get along well with others. What’s more, in some ways we have on choice but to use the law to regulate, because these may relate to the safety of the country and the interests of the people. For example, we have liberty of speech, but that is not an absolute freedom. For instance, the person of Qin Huohuo, who is suspected of spreading rumors, was arrested by the police, because of his remarks seriously endanger the social order.

After reading this article, I am very encouraged. Socrates’s views for thousands of years ago are still applicable today. We should absorb the essence and reject the dross, and carry forward humanistic spirit.

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