title: 让孩子背诵古诗词、古文有什么意义？
desc: 这个问题曾经和同事争论的很激烈，今天又争论了一番。之前讨论是因为语文教材要删除鲁迅的某些文章，今天争论是因为上海小学一年级要删除古诗词。不过习大大发话了，说他不赞同小学教材删除古诗词，所以啊，所以北京那边就传出消息了：下个学年要大幅增加中小学教材中古文诗词的篇幅，好像是说要增加两倍。我不太确定这些消息是不是媒体断章取义，但无论是全部删除古诗文，还是因习大大的话要增加两倍的古诗词，我都不赞同。<br>再回过头来，说我的问题。同事一直说：
topic: 教育
content: We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine， law， business， engineering -- these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry， beauty， romance， love -- these are what we stay alive for. 我们读诗写诗，非为它的灵动，而是因为我们是人。人是充满激情的。医
answerer_tags: 不得慕虛名而處實禍。