我亲爱的孩子:你也许会认为,利用有限的零碎时间读书,不会有太大的收获,就像微薄的薪水不能积蓄起巨额的财富。可是事实恰恰相反,许多利用空闲时间学习的人,最后的收获是惊人的。看看这些人的故事吧:爱迪生当报童在火车上卖报时,仍然坚持读书。每次火车在底特律停留的6小时期间,他都泡在青年人协会的阅览室里。有一天,图书管理员问他读了多少书,他说已经读完了第一架上的两层。管理员不明白为什么他刚刚读过的两本书风马牛不相及,他说:“我是按照书架上的次序读的,我只想把这里的书统统读完。” My dear child: You might think that there is not much to gain from using fractional hours of study, just as meager salaries can not save huge sums of money. But on the contrary, many people who make use of free time learn the most amazing result. Take a look at the stories of these people: Edison insists on reading when the newspaper boy sells newspapers on the train. Each time he spent six hours in Detroit, he was soaked in the library of the Youth Association. One day, the librarian asked him how many books he read, and he said he had finished reading the first two floors. The administrator did not understand why the two books he had just read were irrelevant: “I read in the order of bookshelf and I just wanted to read all the books here.”