Oct 23 2022

Walking Ten Thousand Miles

In our old Chinese saying: “Walking ten thousand miles is better than reading ten thousand books.” It is wrong. How can we have the same knowledge from walking and reading. We need reading.
Walking can be done by a farmer but reading must be done in the university, plus primary school education for 12 years. If a person reads a lot of books first and started travels. Then he understand the practical scene on his travel.
After he travels, he can write a book about his travel experiences. In such case he must read first. We need reading to get knowledge to handle our affairs in our life. Without knowledge, we are ignorant people, fools.
Books are the experience of our ancestors from whom we learn the ways of their success and the pains of their failure.