关于读书与治学,章太炎在日本东京对中国留学生作的一次演讲中,打了两个非常有趣的比方。第一,本钱和利息的比喻。他说:“大概看前人已成的书,仿佛是借钱一样,借了来,会做买卖,赢得许多利息,本钱虽要还债主,赢利是自己所有。若不会做买卖,把借来的钱,死屯在窖子里头,后来钱还是要还债主,自己却没有一点盈余,那么就算求了一千年的学,施了一千年的教,一千年后的见解,还是和一千年前一 On reading and learning, Zhang Taiyan played two very interesting terms in a speech to Chinese students in Tokyo, Japan. First, the metaphor of capital and interest. He said: ”Probably look at the book already made by the foreman, as if borrowing money, borrowed, will do business, to win a lot of interest, although the principal repayment of capital, profit is all of their own .If you can not do business, put Borrowed money, dead in the cellar inside, and later the money or to repay the creditor, but he did not have a little surplus, then even if a thousand years of learning, applied a thousand years of teaching, one thousand years after the opinion, Or one thousand years ago