There is such a case in Talmud:
The priest asked, "There are two Jews who fell from a tall chimney. One is covered in dirt and the other is clean. Who will wash himself?"
The young man said, "Of course it's a dirty person!"
The priest said, "You are wrong! Dirty people look at clean people and think: I must be clean, too; Very clean people look at the dirty people and think, I must be dirty, too. Therefore, it is a very clean person to wash his body! "
The priest then asked, "Two people later fell into the tall chimney. Who will wash themselves?"
the young man said, "of course it's that clean man!" "
The priest said, "You are wrong again! Very clean people find that they are not dirty when they take a shower; The man covered in dirt is the opposite. He understood why the clean man wanted to take a bath, so this time he went to wash it. "
The priest asked again, "Who will take a bath after falling down the chimney for the third time?"
the young man said, "of course, it's still the dirty man."
The priest said, "You are wrong again! Have you ever seen two people fall from the same chimney, one clean and the other dirty? "
This is the essence of Talmud, which encourages people to think independently, without giving people authoritative explanations, and students must express their opinions in a comprehensive way.
Don't be superstitious about authority. Only those who are good at doubting and thinking independently are wise.
"New" means "Deep"
When Einstein was studying in swiss federal institute of technology zurich in p>1899, his tutor was the mathematician Minkowski. Because Einstein is willing to use his brain and loves to think, he won Minkowski's appreciation. Master and apprentice often discuss science, philosophy and life together. On one occasion, Einstein had a whim and asked Minkowski, "How can a person, such as me, leave his shining footprint and make his outstanding contribution in the field of science and on the road of life?"
Minkowski, who has always been quick-witted, was puzzled. It was not until three days later that he excitedly found Einstein and said with great excitement, "I finally got the answer to the question you asked that day!"
"what answer?" Einstein couldn't wait to hold the teacher's arm. "Tell me!"
Minkowski drew a hand-to-hand comparison with the ground for a while, but he couldn't understand it. So he picked up Einstein and walked to a construction site, and went straight to the concrete floor just paved by the builders. In the yelling of the construction workers, Einstein was puzzled and asked Minkowski, "Teacher, didn't you lead me astray?"
"Right, right, wrong!" Minkowski, without other people's accusations, said very intently, "see? Only such a' wrong path' can leave a footprint! " Then, he explained: "Only new areas, only places that have not yet solidified, can leave deep footprints. Those old ground that has been solidified for a long time, those places that have been set foot on by countless people and countless steps, don't want to step on footprints again ... "
Hearing this, Einstein pondered for a long time and said to Minkowski with gratitude," Teacher, I see what you mean! "
From then on, a very strong sense of innovation and pioneering began to dominate Einstein's thinking and action. He once said, "I never remember and think about things in dictionaries and manuals. My head is only used to remember and think about things that haven't been manned with books."
So, just a few years after Einstein left the campus and got involved in the world, as an unknown clerk in Berne Patent Office, he used his spare time to conduct scientific research, and went hand in hand in three unknown fields of physics, boldly and decisively challenging and breaking through Newtonian mechanics. When he was just 26 years old, he put forward and established the special theory of relativity, which initiated a new era of physics, made outstanding contributions to mankind and left a deep shining footprint in the history of science.
Only by breaking through and innovating can we achieve great things. In all fields of human society and real life, there are all kinds of "uncured cement pavements", waiting for people to step on new footprints and embark on a new journey.
Unconventional and independent personality
Twelve-year-old Hillary lives in a small rural community in Maine. She is an academically gifted child. No brothers or sisters. Hillary Clinton has the unique social and emotional characteristics of gifted children not only in her studies, but also in the field of fine arts.
As a straight A student, Hillary was selected by a gifted education program of a local school in the third grade. In addition to normal lessons, the selected students have to attend several hours of extra-curricular classes every week to learn various lessons such as writing and acting. At the age of 11, she took the exam in the gifted youth center, which is a summer class similar to the Math Early Wisdom Youth Training Station, but its learning content is not limited to math. Only those students whose academic test scores reach or exceed 97 are eligible to take the selection examination of the gifted youth center.
Among the 1, excellent students who are qualified to take the test, Hillary is in the top 1, and her language score is the highest in Maine. That summer, she attended a 6-week course organized by the gifted youth center.
One year later, in the standardized test organized by the school, her scores in all subjects, such as reading, language, mathematics, sociology and science, reached above 99 points of the national standard.
Like other academically gifted children, Hillary reads widely, and all of them are adult books. When she was interested in Freud's view of women, she searched all the books about Freud in the library, even Freud's own works. When she found out that she was partly Jewish, she began to study Jewish history carefully again.
She was so fascinated by the TV program "Court at Night" that she read all the articles she could find about the prosecutors in the program. When I met her, she was reading six books, not only novels, but also non-novels, including the autobiographies of many actresses. Hillary can successfully do several things at the same time. She can not only read several books at the same time, but also watch TV while reading or doing homework without affecting the effect of reading or doing homework at all.
Hillary is probably the most talented in languages, and her interest reflects this. She wants to be a director and an actress. She studies musicals with videos, and participates in performances whenever possible. She comments on the directors and performances of all the programs she has seen, and is also familiar with the styles and expressions of many directors.
It is unusual for a child of her age to want to be a director so strongly. Children with extraordinary talents in academic or art fields like Hillary usually have a clear understanding of their own development prospects. These children are very clear about their interests and hobbies, so they devote themselves to this goal.
Hillary is not a person who follows the rules. Her interest in playing first showed this. She refused to play with dolls when she was a little girl. As a teenager, she was not interested in boys and clothes, and she sneered at mainstream culture.
she doesn't care about material comforts and doesn't like spending money. At the age of 12, she became a vegetarian and considered herself a tomboy and a feminist, and she was very proud of it. She criticizes the current disadvantages, paying special attention to social injustice and the unequal status of women. She even carefully calculated and compared the lines of actors and actresses during acting, and then told the director that boys had more lines than girls.
Hillary's strong independent concept and values are also reflected in her criticism of teachers. When she was 6 years old, she went to Sunday school. The teacher told her that God protects everyone, and those who don't obey God's will will go to hell. She came home and "condemned" the teacher for reciting "fairy tales". In the third grade, in a class of distinguishing "facts from opinions", the teacher said that "a cherry tree was planted in Washington" was an opinion, and Hillary raised different opinions on it, on the grounds that since there are facts as evidence, it should be considered as facts. She stressed that it is a verifiable fact that a cherry tree has been planted in Washington. It is not like the abstract concept of "red is better than blue", and it is indeed an opinion to say that a certain color is better than a certain color. Hillary firmly grasped the difference between the wrong statement of facts or the right and subjective views to refute. The teacher didn't understand the difference, saying that the book said it was an opinion, so it was an opinion. The teacher gave her a "B" point, and Hillary was not intimidated, but she no longer respected the teacher.
Even in the summer class of the gifted youth center, she dared to question the teacher. She felt that her drama teacher was unwilling to accept other explanations about Shakespeare's works. "How do critics know what Shakespeare really thinks?" Hillary challenged, "Maybe what he wrote is exactly what he thought." However, like her third-grade teacher, the drama teacher said that what she introduced was the explanation of some authoritative scholars, who knew exactly what they were talking about.
Even in this class which encourages students to dare to challenge the authority, her independent thoughts make teachers angry. "They said we did a great job," Hillary said of the teachers in the gifted youth center. "We will come again next summer." She is even more demanding of herself than such a highly competitive summer school.
Hillary's unconventional and independent personality naturally made her a leader. She is very influential in school. In the gifted youth center, she is the main speaker of the debate and the director of the drama. Obviously, Hillary is very capable of leadership.
people who follow the rules are not easy to make big mistakes, but it is also difficult to achieve great things; People who don't stick to the rules and have their own opinions are easy to achieve remarkable achievements.