Speech at the inaugural meeting of the Reading Club-Dear leaders, teachers and students;
Good evening, everyone!
On the occasion of golden breeze and sweet osmanthus fragrance, with the help of school leaders and teachers, our reading club of Gaobo Moyuan Literature Society was established!
First of all, on behalf of all the members of Gaobo's "Moyuan Literature Society", I would like to express my sincere thanks to the college students who have enthusiastically sponsored the reading club! I would like to express my deep gratitude to the leaders, consultants and instructors who gave full support and selfless help to the reading club! Pay high tribute to Mr. Peng, the founder and general planner of the book club!
Students, do you like reading? "Reading is enough to make people grow up happily" makes people suddenly enlightened, gain new knowledge and cultivate their spirit. Because there is a vast world in the book, there is an immortal spirit. Although things are different, books are always new. The great writer Gorky once said, "Books make me a happy person." Isn't it? Reading brings us the most meaningful pleasure and the most lasting motivation; Reading brings us peace of mind and spiritual comfort.
Dear students, the most important thing is that you are far-reaching and full of poems and books. Today, our younger generation, living in the sun, should strive to enrich their wings. We know that standing on the shoulders of giants, we can see farther; With books as stepping stones, we can climb higher.
"Birds want to fly high and flap their wings first, and people want to study first." The times are calling. In the prime of life, we should have the courage to shoulder heavy responsibilities, read more good books, cultivate self-cultivation, arm our minds with knowledge, regulate our behavior, stay away from vulgar tastes and bad hobbies, consciously resist all kinds of bad social atmosphere, spend others' time indulging in online games on reading, and strive to be a noble person!
Dear students, our time has come and the horn of progress has sounded. The red sun rises, its path is bright, the river flows down and overflows the ocean. Light a reading heart lamp and have a red sun of life.
Students take books as friends, take books as lessons, climb the ladder of human progress, and become rich men of knowledge and giants of spirit. Read classic and beautiful prose, inherit Chinese civilization, and let a wisp of books accompany you and me! Let's study together and move towards a better life together!
Thank you!
First of all, congratulations on the establishment of the book club. I think it is very meaningful to set up a reading club in school now. According to the statistics of relevant departments, in 2009, the reading time per capita in China was less than 15 minutes per day. The overall reading situation of the people is worrying. In society, utilitarianism almost encroaches on people's reading life. With the increasingly fierce social competition, various books such as Du Lala's Promotion, Thirty-six Strategies of Marketing and Sun Tzu's Art of War have been widely sought after by people. The characteristics of utilitarian reading in our time are more and more prominent. It should be for spiritual communication and spiritual reading, but it has turned into seeking practical interests. It has even been suggested that deep reading and thoughtful humanistic reading are no longer important. This kind of reading has actually deviated from the meaning of reading itself and is completely linked to pragmatism. For teenagers, their reading situation is not optimistic. A report in the National Children's Reading Survey shows that children aged 7- 14 in China only read three books per semester on average. A report entitled "Insight into Shallow Reading of College Students" reveals that some college students seldom read classic masterpieces and "voluminous" books, and mainly read popular, fashionable, time-saving and labor-saving, relaxed and interesting "shallow reading", lacking ideological and humanistic connotations.
A nation can't lose its pursuit of reading, which is not only fashion reading, entertainment reading and consumption reading, but also utilitarian and pragmatic reading.
In June 2002, the 3rd 2 1 Century Education Salon was held in Suzhou Convention Center, sponsored by 2 1 Century Education Development Research Institute, China People's Political Consultative Conference Newspaper and Education Online Weekly, and co-organized by Ford Foundation, China Reading Research Association, Wen Hui Reading Weekly and Education Online Website. About 120 people from all over the country, including experts and scholars, government officials, news media, publishing institutions, and teachers' representatives from some new education experimental schools, attended the event. The theme of this salon activity is "building a scholarly campus", and the second meeting adopted a reading declaration: "Reading makes the whole people feel excited". The meeting lasted until after 1 1 in the afternoon, and everyone still didn't want to leave. Reading, such an ancient and young topic, touched the hearts of more than 1000 experts attending the meeting. Why do you support the activity of "building a scholarly campus" so much? I think it is mainly the value of reading itself. Reading is of great significance to the development of individual spirit and the growth of national spirit. If human material civilization can be preserved and continued through materialized forms such as buildings and tools, how can human spiritual civilization be preserved and continued? The spiritual world of the newborn is at best equivalent to human childhood. How does the spiritual world keep up with the development and maturity of the body during his growth? I think reading is the only way to achieve the above goals. In a sense, the history of a person's spiritual development is a person's reading history, and the level of a nation's spiritual development depends largely on the nation's reading situation.
Throughout the world, most people who advocate reading are tenacious. The nation that reads the most books in the world is Jews, with an average of 64 books per person per year. As a Jewish settlement, Israel's human development index (combining life expectancy at birth, adult literacy rate and real per capita GDP into a comprehensive index) ranks 2 1 in the world, which is the highest country in the Middle East. Love of reading is an important reason why Jews can regain their country after two thousand years of national subjugation. The love of reading is an important reason why Jews can quickly establish a modern country after the restoration of the country. The love of reading is an important reason why Jews gave birth to countless outstanding thinkers, scientists and artists such as Marx, Einstein and Mendelssohn during their exile. Love reading can't help but say that Jews are not only one of the richest people in the world, but also have an amazing proportion of Nobel Prize winners. In short, the love of reading makes Jews an excellent nation; A country that loves reading must be a country that is constantly improving.
Enriching campus spiritual and cultural life through reading is the basic way to create a scholarly campus.
In the United States, Clinton launched the "American Reading Challenge" campaign. The plan hopes that parents will pave the way for their children to learn successfully by reading when they are young. In addition to the government's vigorous promotion of reading, many institutions or non-governmental organizations in the United States are also carrying out their own reading projects. "Sequoia City" in California
Organized a reading plan, which is based on volunteers and provides free reading opportunities for adults, children and families; 1998, Washington Center launched "One Book Reading Promotion Plan", also known as "Community Extensive Reading Plan". Universities naturally don't want to fall behind. For example, Wyoming State University has set up a "Free Reading Alliance" to provide reading programs for freshmen and cultivate their professional interests.
Britain's goal is to "build a country where all people are scholars." With the increase of immigrants, laughter has gradually become a multi-ethnic and multilingual country, and the decline of children's literacy rate and language ability has become a major concern. Therefore, it is urgent to cultivate children's interest in Chinese as soon as possible. However, teachers alone cannot improve their reading and writing ability. Schools, families, libraries, enterprises and media must be mobilized to promote the reading movement and immerse the whole people in the atmosphere of loving reading.
The study circle in Sweden has a history of 100 years. "It is an important tool for Swedes to carry out education" and "it is a learning activity where adults naturally gather together". At the same time, "as a method, it attracts people from other countries to follow suit" and "..." have played an important role in promoting adult education in many countries. Sweden has developed from the poorest and backward country in Europe to one of the developed and advanced countries in the world, and the study abroad circle has played an indispensable role. Therefore, it is of great significance to explore the learning circle in Sweden for promoting the development of adult education in China and creating a learning society. The study circle is also called "study group" or "reading club". Foreign experience is worth learning.
Drawing lessons from foreign experience, I think it should be a basic national policy of our country to establish reading clubs at all levels. We set up a reading club to promote the reading atmosphere of the school and establish a scholarly campus, which should be said to have a role in promoting and demonstrating.
I think reading club is an effective organizational form for adult continuing education and lifelong learning. It is very important to improve the humanistic quality of higher vocational teachers through reading. An important way to carry out humanistic quality education for students is to combine humanistic education with scientific education. A large number of studies show that it is often teachers' humanistic quality that has a profound impact on students' learning quality. When the president of Northern Kentucky University and his students conducted an online survey on the characteristics of the most impressive teachers, they found that 75% of the respondents (especially students at school) were more inclined to teachers' humanistic quality, which was one of the important factors affecting students' learning quality.
Reading club can play a positive role in improving teachers' humanistic quality.
What book are you reading?
First, literature books. Chinese and foreign literary masterpieces, Chinese and foreign literary history works.
Second, educational books. Such as Zhou Yong's teaching life, Xiao Chuan's educational ideals and beliefs, and the new concept of international education.
Third, humanities books. Xia, editor-in-chief of university humanities course. Wu Hui encyclopedia of life wisdom-160 life truth.
Fourth, Chinese studies, such as reading of the analects of confucius by Li Zehou.
Five, philosophy books.
It can take the following forms:
1. Listen (expert style): Mainly external experts will give speeches, give special reports, or give reading guidance, and then leave some time for questions and answers. The advantage of this method is that there are many members, there is no pressure to read in advance, and you can learn the essence directly from the experts' speeches. However, due to the lack of real discussion, similar to the general Toastmasters, and because of the high cost, it can occasionally bring changes and new stimuli, or it is suitable to establish an introductory foundation in unfamiliar fields in this way.
2. Reporting method (expression): mainly reporting by members (designated personnel or by turns), supplemented by questions and answers, experience sharing and discussion. In this way, because the speaker should be fully prepared, he gains the most. If reports are made in turn (one number, one number or one number), all members will have the opportunity to play a leading role and increase their sense of participation. At the same time, the number of members can be larger. Members who come to read in advance can understand the main points after listening to the report. This approach is suitable for groups that have not yet formed a discussion culture. Therefore, a considerable number of readers will adopt this method.
3. Discussion (interactive): This method focuses on discussion materials, supplemented by reports, reading guidance or questions and answers, and at least one leader is required to preside over the discussion (either permanently or in turn). In order to produce discussion effect, the number of people should not be too large (15 or so), and leaders should be fully prepared (such as familiarizing themselves with materials and planning discussion topics). If members are unfamiliar with the materials, they should give timely guidance and assistance, and handle the situations in the discussion process (such as silence, lengthy speeches, objections, etc.). ). This way pays attention to the interaction, encouragement and in-depth exploration of members, which is most in line with the original intention of the book club.
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