Inspirational story of the oath of youth

One day in 1796, at the University of Gottingen in Germany, a 19-year-old finished dinner and began working on the two daily mathematical problems that his tutor had assigned him alone. As usual, the first two questions were completed smoothly within two hours. But the young man found that his tutor assigned him an extra problem today. The third question, written on a piece of paper, was to make a 17-sided shape using only a compass and a ruler without a scale. He didn't think much about it, he just did it. However, the young man found it very difficult.

At first, he thought, maybe my tutor made it harder for me. But as the minutes ticked by, no progress was made on the third question. The young man racked his brains and felt that what he had learned in mathematics was of little help in solving the problem. Difficulties aroused the fighting spirit of the youth: I must make it! He picked up a compass and ruler, drawing on the paper, trying to use some unconventional ideas to solve the problem... When a glimmer of light appeared in the window, the young man breathed a sigh of relief. He had finally solved the problem! When he met his mentor, the young man felt some guilt and remorse. He said to the tutor: "you gave me the third problem I did a whole night, I failed to live up to your cultivation......" The tutor took over the students' homework and was shocked. His voice trembled as he said, "It's... It's really you... Made it?" The young man looked at the excited tutor with some doubts and replied, "Yes, but I am so stupid that it took me a whole night to make it."

The teacher sat him down, took out the compasses and ruler, spread out the paper on the desk, and asked the young man to do the problem in front of him. The young man soon solved the problem. The tutor said excitedly to the young man, "Do you know that you have solved a mathematical problem with a history of more than two thousand years? Newton didn't solve it, Archimedes didn't solve it, you did it in one night! What a genius you are! I've been working on this problem lately, and when I was giving you a problem yesterday, I accidentally put a little piece of paper with this problem in it." Later, whenever the young man recalled the incident, he always said, "If someone had told me that this was a mathematical problem more than two thousand years old, I might not have been able to solve it. The young man was Gauss, the prince of mathematics.

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Most children have little sense of conformity and little fear. Children are often better at some things when they don't know how hard they are. In fact, the fear of difficulties is not afraid of difficulties, but afraid of their own, have no confidence in themselves. Therefore, in the process of educating children, do not instill the fear of difficulties to children with their own vision; Children should be encouraged to think and act boldly to build self-confidence.

In a slum in India, there were two unfortunate little brothers. Their mother died when they were young, and their father spent his days on drugs or drinking too much to care whether the brothers lived or died. Later, in order to raise drug money, my father went to prison for stealing.

After their father went to prison, the brothers picked up trash to survive. At first, they just picked up other people's leftovers to eat, and then learned to pick up some waste products and take them to recycling.

Whenever he got a little money from selling garbage, he would either go to a restaurant to eat and drink, or go to an underground casino to gamble.

The younger brother cherished the hard-won money and saved every penny he could for tuition.

Because the elder brother is mixed together in casino for a long time, drink, fight, take drugs, follow a gang of small mix every day stealthily touch pick up rob, stem all bad things. His younger brother studied hard. He attended classes in school during the day and worked in restaurants and hotels at night. He also learned to write articles.

More than a decade later, the older brother went to prison on charges ranging from robbery to drugs. The younger brother became a well-known writer in the area.

A newspaper reporter went to the prison to interview his brother. The reporter looked at him in dismay and asked, "What do you think made you come to this point?"

The elder brother said with great certainty, "Suffering! The suffering of my childhood is like a heavy stone. It weighs heavily on my heart and makes me unable to lift up my head."

After interviewing his brother, the reporter went to interview his brother. The reporter asked, "Your brother said he went to prison because of the hardships in his life. What do you think made you achieve this?"

The younger brother said with certainty, "Childhood misery."

Puzzled, the reporter asked, "You both grew up together and suffered the same hardships as children. Why is it that your brother became a criminal and you became an admirable writer?"

The younger brother said, "The suffering of childhood weighs on our hearts like a heavy stone. The difference was that the elder brother kept the stone on his heart, so that he could not see the blue sky. But I have kept this stone under my feet, and suffering has been the step up in my life."