颜之推在这儿谈学习,是谈到学习的本质意义上来了。他一针见血地指出,古代求学的人一是为了充实自己的学问,提高自己的修养,二是为了推行自己的学说、主张,从而造福社会。——他们都把时间用在这两个方面上了,如同树木种下去以后,便全心全意天天生长,逢春开花,到秋结果,循环往复,螺旋上升。问题在于,一旦学习被功利所染,便失去了它原有的单纯。有的人把学习当作炫耀自己、夸夸其谈的 Yan Zhitui talk about learning here is about the essence of learning came. He pointed out sharply that one of the people who studied in ancient China was to enrich their own knowledge and improve their self-cultivation. The second reason was to promote their own doctrines and ideas so as to benefit the society. - They all spend their time on these two aspects. As the trees planted, they devoted themselves to the growth of every day, flowering every spring, returning to the autumn, spiraling upward. The problem is that once it is learned, it loses its original simplicity. Some people regard study as flaunting themselves and rhetoric