作文书读后感范文（精选多篇）

推荐第1篇：作文书读后感800字

作文书读后感800字

在黑暗的人群中脱颖而出，在孤独的世界中不屈不挠，强忍着一切痛苦，创造一个又一个奇迹的或许只有他们了，《名人传》中的英雄。

《名人传》的作者罗曼·罗兰是20世纪上半叶法国著名的人道主义作家。他痛感19世纪与20世纪的欧洲是一个骚动不安，弥漫着腐败风气的社会，是一个需要伟人的社会，所以他写下了《名人传》，以此来叙述德国音乐家贝多芬，意大利画家和雕塑家米开朗琪罗，俄国作家列夫·托尔斯泰的苦难和坎坷的一生。他们的事业，贡献，所处的时代国家都不同，却以他们高尚品格和顽强奋斗的精神使我印象深刻。当然这其中少不了他们的杰作。

在《名入传》中，让我印象最深的是贝多芬。在我看来贝多芬是最伟大的人。身为一位耳聋的音乐家却创造了许多不朽的音乐，而且在书中可看出，贝多芬因耳聋不但影响了工作，而且还使他从此过着孤独凄凉的生活。但他的音乐却为苦难的人而写的，他隐忍自己的痛苦，却用他以痛苦换来的欢乐来安慰人们，给人们勇气和力量，他的精神使我震惊。在当时可怜而自私的世界里，贝多芬把音乐当成一种寄托。在我看书的过程中，看到了最气愤的事:贝多芬在去世前有十分严重的病，他每天都受到病魔的折磨，他终于投降了。他让他的侄儿去找医生，可这个麻木不仁的侄儿两天后才去找医生，医生到了，贝多芬却治不了了，可悲的是贝多芬去世时他的侄儿不在他身边而是一个陌生人为他合上了眼。贝多芬明明付出那么多的爱，却没有回报。他还那么伟大，这比他所受到一切痛苦还让人心酸。这可怜的人啊!在孤独和痛苦中死亡，死亡前还要做不屈不挠的斗争。或许死亡对于贝多芬来说是一种解脱。

面对这三位名人的生活经历，想想自己的生活，我们真幸福啊!我们虽不是名人，但是名人其实与常人一样，他们与我们一样痛苦，挣扎和矛盾。然而他们以自己伟大的意志打败困苦，而我们却生生抱怨。表面我们说是打败敌人的人是英雄，事实上呢不是，《名人传》作者罗曼·罗兰认为英雄的伟大不在于他的体魄，而在于他的心灵和品格，唯有真实的苦难，才能使人不抱幻想，直面人生;唯有与苦难的搏斗，才能使人经受残酷的命运。是啊，人生不可能一帆风顺，终要走上这条崎岖的道路，对于我们来说面对人生大道上的种种困难应勇往直前，当然硬拼是不行的，所以让我们坚强起来面对现在的生活。

《名人传》是值得我们阅读学习的好书，希望我们成为有坚强意志的人。

寒假我读了《文明美德，伴我成长》这本书，从书中深受启发。这里面的每一课我都非常喜欢，其中最喜欢的就是第七课讲述邓亚萍姐姐的故事。

我先把邓亚萍姐姐的故事简单的给大家介绍一下：邓亚萍姐姐是我国的乒乓球运动员，曾获得过18个世界冠军，连续2届4次获得奥运会冠军，赢得4枚奥运会的金牌。也是我国第一个蝉联奥运会乒乓球女子单打项目获得金牌的人，还被我们称为“乒乓皇后”。但是邓亚萍姐姐由于忙于训练所以学业并不高，只上过二年级。1997年邓亚萍姐姐退役后，以英语学科进入了清华大学，但她只会26个字母。在平常人看来比登天还难的事情，并没有难倒她。从此以后，邓亚萍姐姐就加倍努力，发奋图强。她的成绩也在悄悄不断进步，进步，更进一步，最后终于获得经济学博士学位，戴上了博士帽。但是，邓亚萍姐姐眼睛的视力从降到了。邓亚萍付出了多么大的辛苦和努力呀!

邓亚萍姐姐的故事让我从中深受启发，我明白了，做事要有决心，有信心，有恒心，还要有平常心。正是因为她不懈努力、勤奋好学才能创造出这样常人难以想象的一个又一个奇迹!古今中外，也有许多名人也是靠着这种滴水穿石的精神才取得成功的。比如：王羲之练字练的池子变成了墨池;白居易写出的诗稿读给不识字的老太太听，直改到她们也理解诗意;曹雪芹写《红楼梦》……他们都是我们学习的榜样。

邓亚萍这四个优点启发我，在以后的学习中先给自己定好目标，朝着目标有计划地努力。不要放过平时一点一滴的时间，脚踏实地地多努力多积累。想要取得成绩就要自强不息，就要吃得起苦，敢于在逆境中经受磨练，练出坚强的意志，就如那大诗人郑燮笔下的竹“千磨万击还坚劲，任尔东西南北风。”是的，就要像这竹一样宁折不屈，勇敢顽强。即使失败了也不气馁，不对自己失去信心，下一次继续努力。正如我想起的一句格言：勤能补拙是良训，一分辛苦一分才。同学们，你们也和我一样记住这句话吧，只有付出辛勤的含水才能真正实现我们美好的理想!

推荐第2篇：作文书600字读后感

作文书600字读后感

作文书600字读后感

前几天，我读了一位外国作家写的一篇文章——《狩猎》。读完以后，我真是感慨万千。

这篇文章主要讲了一个叫小伊的男孩子，他为了通过成人仪式去森林中狩猎。不一会儿他发现了一个单独出来觅食的猎物，看上去很是凶猛，但小伊为了通过成人仪式，还是勇敢地扣动扳机。没想到，枪里面没有子弹，而他这一举动却激怒了那头猎物，最后那头猎物把小伊杀死了，看到这儿真让我同情小伊，为了那愚昧的仪式失去了生命。

这篇文章的结尾，有一句话发人深省：“现在扣动扳机的人太多了，跟咱们那个时代不一样了。”是啊，现在的人，为了利益，可以不顾别人的生命，为了掠夺，可以亲手灭掉一个个鲜活的生命……可是，一但扣动了扳机，就无法回头了。就像张爱玲小说《半生缘》中的一句话“我们回不去了”。现在的人，远不如以前的人那样纯真，战争的一次次爆发，更是说明了这一点。日本侵占钓鱼岛，菲律宾侵占黄岩岛，哪一次不是为了利益?为了金钱，曾一次次丢掉自己的良知，每一次的理由都冠冕堂皇：“良知能值几个钱?”可是，当你达到权力的顶端时，才发现自己已经踏入了孤独，没有人尊敬你，没有人爱戴你，有的只是害怕和仇恨……也许，你也想和他们说说话，可是他们对你说的永远不是实话，也不会相信你，这时，你才发现，我们的良知已经所剩无几了。

为了让世界和平起来，我们不能失去良知，要让痛苦变成幸福，让悲伤变成快乐!

作文书600字读后感

今天，我读了由人民出版社出版的日籍华人陈舜臣先生的作品《曹操》，我对曹操这个人又有了新的认识。

每当人们想起曹操，就会想起白脸奸臣，想起“挟天子以令诸侯”这句话。可读了《曹操》后我明白了，这只是对曹操的片面评价个很有本事的人，在政绩上，有过一定的贡献。比如：经过战争的冲洗，中原地区出现了“白骨蔽平原”的悲惨景象，农业生产遭受极其严重的破坏，是曹操采用屯田方针，才使中原农业得以恢复。

还有，曹操打破了汉末以来依照门第高低用官吏的标准，宣布重用那些出生微贱、门第低下，虽有偏短但有专长的人，只要有真才实学，就是生活有些小缺点的人，都可以量才任用。如：曹操手下的张辽、徐晃……他们虽然出身低微，但有一技之长，都被提拔成了大将。

曹操不仅爱惜人才，而且在战斗中能以人之长，补己之短，把被动改为主动，化劣势为优势，以少胜多，以弱胜强。比如：公元199年袁绍想以10万大军的优势兵力，一举消灭曹操。曹操那时才两万兵力，当他得知敌人要发动总攻时，同谋士分析形势，利用了袁绍的弱点，平定了北方。

通过读了这本书，我了解了许多课本上没有的知识，知道了怎样看一个人。我还要提醒大家，以后可千万别轻易说曹操是一个大奸臣了，在我心目中，他可是一个很了不起的人物。最后，我得到了一个结论：凡事不能只看片面，一定得看全面。

作文书600字读后感

前几天，我们学习了一篇课文，那就是就在开学的一个星期后，我们的董老师给我们交了一篇课文，那就是《山洪一样的掌声》。文章描写周总理不顾余震的危险去看望受灾群众，自己迎风伫立，不管风沙怎样掀起中山装的衣襟，也不能让群众定纷风沙，群众被周总理的所作所为感动了并且报以热烈掌声。

事情大概是这样的，周总理要去刚发生完地震的邢台地区，他不顾余震危险来看望大家，给大家送来了温暖，所以，大家为了总理都面对着风坐，他们虽然对着风坐，可是总理方便，他们知足了。总理发现了之后，高喊：“向后——转!”就这样，大家发出了一阵热烈的掌声和欢呼声，这欢呼声比任何一次都响亮，它在冀南平原这个普普通通的村庄上空回荡着，回荡着……

像周总理这样和蔼可亲的人可不止一个，毛主席也是这样的人，他把心都给了群众，就算是一件小事也不放过。他的警卫员为了不影响他，把群众们请到别处碾米，虽然这对毛主席有好处，可主席想到了群众，所以又命令警卫员把群众们给请了回来，这说明了什么?这说明了毛主席的一切以群众为主的精神。而且，毛主席每天喝的是河水，吃的没有多少蔬菜，只有一点土豆下饭，而且还得熬夜，急需茶叶，可就在这种时候，主席都不喝，而是把沏好的茶水都给了群众们，可以看出主席的和蔼可亲。

学完这课，总理那不顾个人，心系群众，平易近人的高尚品格深深地震撼着我们的心灵。

推荐第3篇：作文书

书

“读一本好书,就是在和高尚的人对话。”这句家喻户晓的名言，我不知道出自谁之口，但我知道，我们要热爱读好书，做一个爱读书的人。

开国元勋毛泽东、美国总统里根、俄国十月革命领导人列宁、英国著名作家、哲学家培根等人，都是爱读好书的人，可见，成就一番大事业都离不开读好书。每个人都读过许多好书，从呀呀学语时期看的连环画《西游记》,到

一、二年级时读的《鲁宾逊漂流记》,再到

五、六年级时看的《钢铁是怎样炼成的》，我们所读的书越来越多，书的深度和广度也在加深，知识面也拓得越来越宽，书这个无形的朋友所带给我们的收益也越来越大。

儿时的我并不真懂《西游记》，只知道一只精灵的猴子拿了根金箍棒所向披靡，令许多神通广大的妖精闻风丧胆，乐得我拍手大叫。小学时对书本有了更进一步的认识，感悟也越来越深。《鲁宾逊漂流记》让我懂得无论身处怎样的境地，都要有一个坚定的信念，有一颗勇往直前的心;无论遇到怎样的困难，都不能有丝毫的气馁，只要双手还在，信念还在，披荆斩棘，继续生存下去的意义和价值就一定在！《钢铁是怎样炼成的》，保尔.柯察金的那段举世熟知的至理名言让我没齿不忘，要成就一番伟业，拒绝碌碌无为的一生，就要磨练钢铁般的意志，有时刻准备为崇高理想和事业而献身的精神!

作为学生，我们的每一本书也都是来之不易的。书，将是我们一生的良师益友，它引领着我们的成长，我们也一定要珍惜它。

好书伴我成长，好书促我进步，没有书，我的世界将可能是一片迷茫，找不着前进的方向。

“读一本好书,就是在和高尚的人对话。”书，是我一生的朋友！

推荐第4篇：作文书

作文书

这本书让我知识增加，作文也好了许多。

在这一本书中，让我最难忘的是看，我第一次知道原来一个小小的看字，可以写成一大篇文章，这让我十分惊讶，而看有许多种，有盯、瞄、瞧等等之类。而且句子非常优美，比如有一句；哦，多少次了，每当我向前眺望，种觉得满目葱翠，心里宛如注进了一泓碧水，可舒畅了。在这一句里作者用了比喻的手法描写了看，让句子的字变多了许多，还有一句，也是运用了比喻的手法：她的一双眼睛像黑洞洞的枪口一样，紧紧的盯着我。还有一句，不是运用比喻而是运用成语，把句子变得更加具体优美：入夜，我们站在宾馆的露台上，沐浴着这深山的芳香。这句也是运用成语；小朋友长时间仰望着天空，和平鸽迎着阳光在天空中自由的飞翔，五颜六色的气球系着红色的飘带，冉冉升腾，将蓝天打扮得绚丽多彩。气球越飞越高、越飞越远像夜晚天空的星星，大家依然仰望着，真想一眼望穿那无边的天空……

这一本书让我知道了，原来一个小小的字，可以扩大成一连串的字，甚至变成一篇文章。

四年级:喜羊羊2002

推荐第5篇：作文书序

人文絮语

当星光隐退在浩瀚的天际里，此刻已是夜深人寂时，白日的喧嚣嘈杂倏然退去，心灵静谧得如一泉清水。若在此时，独坐在书桌前，灯光如豆，一卷在握，可以和屈子同愤，跟李白同醉，与东坡同发少年狂！ 慢慢地品着书中的韵味，或随手写上几句随笔，这或许就是人生最美的一种境界、一种享受吧！亲爱的同学们，你有过这样的体会吗？ ”细细地想想，人生好比一次长长的跋涉，在走过的每一段历程中，我们都会有欢乐、有困苦；也会有所思、有所想。这苦、乐、思、想的源头便是我们写作的灵感，便是我们对生活的体验，便是我们对生活的真情告白。

“对酒当歌，人生几何”，人生的短暂从志多慷慨的曹操口中娓娓道出；“先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐”，人生的价值从范仲淹笔端流露；“出师未捷身先死，长使英雄泪满襟”，人生的无奈从杜甫对鞠躬尽瘁的诸葛亮的叹息中表达；“人生自古谁无死，留取丹心照汗青”，人生的伟绩从英勇无畏的文天祥的悲歌中流传！ 当我们读着那满页的文字，再透过那文字背后的栅栏时，我们会看到那人世的沧桑、历史的变迁，还有那祖辈的身影。

亲爱的同学们，当你捧着这本简朴而又充满无限期望的作文书时，你会欣喜地发现：噢，这里有你，有我，有他，有那么多熟悉的佳作，这里展示的是一个丰富的童心世界。欢迎你加入到写作的行列，有童心写童真、童趣，用我手写我心，写你眼中的世界。

让写作充实我们的生活，伴我们走过有“有书相伴心自香”的人生，高扬起生命长河的风帆。其实每个人拥有怎样的人生历程，是牢牢把握在自己手中的，请你们时刻牢记：天道酬勤----------上天总是青睐有准备的人，所以请你们从现在就开始准备——为自己的明天。

推荐第6篇：学生作文书

读《黑虎泉的早晨》有感

《黑虎泉的早晨》

河两岸是郁郁葱葱的树林，晨雾缭绕，清翠欲滴。一排成行的柳树随风摇摆，婀娜多姿，如同一队美丽的少女在翩翩起舞；梧桐树是那样高大、挺拔，像忠诚的卫士，给黑虎泉站岗；枫树林一片紫红，仿佛是绒的帷幕；冬青树被修整得圆滚滚、齐整整的，像一个个绿色的大绣球。晨风温柔地唤醒沉睡的小鸟，小鸟欢快地唱着，歌声清脆悦耳，婉转动听，报告着新的一天开始。

人们迈着轻盈的脚步来黑虎泉锻炼身体。做气功的人随着轻柔的乐曲，时而伸腿，时而弯腰，乐曲声和小鸟的叫声融合在一起，形成了一曲无比美妙的交响晨曲，刚刚还十分寂静的黑虎泉，刹那间变得生机勃勃。

沿着石头铺成的羊肠小道往前走，可以看到新落成的“天下第一狮”。这是一石、一铜两只巨大的狮子，坐落在黑虎泉东侧的石阶上，与解放阁隔岸相望。狮身足有三四米高，人们看它时，只能高仰着头看，它们眼睛瞪得大大的，嘴里露出尖硬的牙齿，身上有一撮撮的毛，尾巴高高地翘上天空，神气活现，栩栩如生，

1 仿佛在显示自己的威严。

太阳升起来了，一抹朝霞为黑虎泉的早晨披上了美丽的红纱。啊！黑虎泉的早晨是那样地充满魅力，那样地惹人喜爱，令游客们流连忘返。

读后感：这篇课文是从远到近的，先是远处那郁郁葱葱的树林，又看见不远处有人在锻炼，使平静的早晨，又变得生机勃勃，近处写了“天下第一狮”，给它们做介绍，最后，写了这里的场景令游客流连忘返。其中，作者用几种树突出了黑虎泉远处的景象，又用小鸟的叫声和乐曲联合在一起，十分动听，十分美妙，最后用一句话为本篇课文完美的添上句号，如果我们中国有许多个黑虎泉这个地方，会把我们中国装扮得更加美丽，更加漂亮。要使那些外国人民知道，我们中国并不比你们差，虽然你们高楼十分高，又十分多，但是始终比不上我们中国的黑虎泉啊！这样，美丽的中国在世界上大放光彩，使外国人民刮目相看，这里的风景会让那外国游客流连忘返，依依不舍，随口就可以听到中国十分美丽，听了这句，中国人十分自豪！

民族之骄傲

我们中国共有56个民族，每个民族都有各自的特色，如果少了那些几个民族，中国也就不算是强大了。

56个民族当中，许多族的人十分多，比如说蒙古族，它的分布地区十分广，有内蒙古、辽宁、新疆、黑龙江、吉林、青海、河北、河南等地，这些数字让人目瞪口呆，但更惊奇的在下边。回族是中国的大壁江山，因为它的地区有宁夏、甘肃、河南、新疆、青海、云南、河北、山东、安徽、辽宁、北京、内蒙古、天津、黑龙江、陕西、吉林、江苏、贵州等地，几乎占了整个中国的95%，我最喜欢傣族，因为他们的节日是泼水节，泼水节在中国十分流行，每当泼水节来临的时候，人们总是拿着桶浇来浇去，可爱的孩子们用水枪打来打去，十分好玩。这是我为什么喜欢傣族的原因之一。

我十分希望中国的民族再多一些，那国家更能蒸蒸日上，更能让别人相信中国是当知无愧的好国家，那些小瞧我们的外国儿，给他们一次教训。

3

善意的谎言

星期六的下午，老师的讲了一片课文，使我感触很深，正是那位残疾青年给了我们一个启示。

课文的题目叫《别饿坏了那匹马》，讲的是一个小青年，想买书看，可是他身无分文，只要装作选书，偷看几则小故事。一次，被父亲发现了，父亲教育他，叫他每天卖马草攥着的毛票，去买书看。小青年知道了后，就去扯马草。日子一天一天过去，马草基本上卖不出去，走到书摊时，他强忍着不看书，此举被残疾青年人看见，就撒了谎，把他扯得马草卖给自己，然后让小青年看书，终于，有一次事实揭穿了，小青年自己把马草提进去，残疾青年可急了，连忙阻了上来，可惜晚了，小男孩看见了他拔的马草。此时的他强忍着，小青年真的希望有一匹马，如果没有马，马草又没有用处，白看书别人的书，一毛都不要，心里十分不舒服，此时残疾青年叫那位小青年继续看书。

此中，我知道了题目的寓言是《别饿坏了那匹马》就是别浪费自己宝贵的时间，要好好学习，要天天读书，残疾的用意是善良的，他肯定有加倍的回报。我最喜欢文中的残疾青年，他知道小青年十分喜欢看书，但没有钱，就用一个善良的谎言来哄他，

4 让他读上书，他那乐于助人，关爱小青年的精神令人赞叹不已。

读《校园春色》有感

《校园春色》

沿着小径走着，才觉察到有微风吹来，春风像妈妈温和的手，她轻轻地抚摸着我的面庞，也吹拂着散尾葵的新衣，一会儿扬起她的长袖，一会儿飘动她的彩裙。太阳公公把金色的光辉铺满校园，头上的小鸟欢快地歌唱，在呼朋引伴，卖弄着清脆的喉咙，唱出婉转的曲子。啊！大地的一切都苏醒了，一切都在争着更换春装。这时候，在静悄悄的校园里，到处似乎响着“沙沙”声，那里新出土的小草，新抽芽的小树，新开放的花朵，正和春天在悄悄说话，在议论着这个焕然一新的世界。小树刚刚从冬眠中醒来，就舒展开嫩嫩的小叶，为校园增添点点新绿，近旁有许多玫瑰花，一朵朵五颜六色的玫瑰争相怒放，有的才展开两三片花瓣，有的像快要破裂似的，有的全部都开了。几只春燕在自由自在地从校园上空飞过。我来到天堂鸟旁边，它那苍翠的叶子伸展着，青色的花朵像一只快乐的小鸟，在落日的金辉中，显得更加素雅、纯

5 净。我深深地呼吸着这带着春天气息的清新的空气，陶醉在春色中。那绵绵的细雨，是它润醒了小草，润绿了大树，润红了花朵，润开了报春，告诉我们春天来了。雨后，湿润的空气夹杂着泥土的芳香，随着融融的风迎面扑来。

读后感：这片文章写得十分很优美，很动人，语句十分通顺。文中的比喻十分多，好词好句让人眼花缭乱，文中把天堂鸟这种花来比喻成一只快乐的小鸟。它们显得素雅、纯净。片段后部，写了那绵绵的春雨使万物复苏，春雨是它的甘露来哺育正在长大的小草，用河流冲流大树，用那清香的空气，使花朵控制不住，慢慢地开了下来，最后，春雨告诉我们冬天已经过来，来到了精神饱满的春天。

6

李 主 任

李老师是我们班的数学老师兼班主任，我总觉得他一直对我有偏见。但最近发生的一件事，却使我改变了对他的看法。

有一次，我在写作业，李老师走到我的旁边，我感觉到我的厄运来了，我就像一只无可奈何的动物进入了虎口。我立刻检查计算题，结果有5道题错了，我专心地写作业，考试结果我的成绩不理想，李老师对我十分关心，说：“回家要好好练习自己的计算，那么难的题目，你把算式写出来了，为什么计算就写错了呢？做计算时要细心呀，考试时别做完了就在那画画，你呀！全栽在这个计算上了。”我回家以后认真做计算题，天天练，成绩果然提高了。

啊，原来这“偏见”却是我自己对老师的偏见，李老师真是一位关心学生爱护学生的好老师啊！

7

我的开学感受

开学了，我升到了六年级了，即将面对的将是升学考试了。我5年级的学习成绩虽然不好了，但是在六年级我会更加努力取得好的成绩。在六年级表现突出。

昨天，我们六年级的英语、语文和数学进行了模拟考试了，我心想：这次的成绩怎么样呢，我对自己很没有信心，因为考的是五年级的学习知识，所以我感觉考不好，但是这学期会好好努力取得好的成绩。我会加倍努力。

以前，我自己都勉励自己学习但是我就是不想学，就是贪玩，我从六年级起我决定很认真的学习，完成老师布置的每一项作业，英语也天天听磁带，读英语。现在我的作业只有几个错误的，我尽量争取没有错误，我会从现在开始好好学习的，保证取得好的成绩。

8

9月9日 星期五 晴

明天是老师们的节日，也就是教师节，教师节是一年一度的节日。

我虽然没有送给老师礼物，但是我认为最好的礼物是成绩，你送的礼物再好，那你成绩呢？成绩那么差，礼物送得再好也没有用，我决定这次送给老师的最好礼物那就是我的成绩，我这次的目标决定丁雅宝，因为他的数学比我好，这次考试又高了我两分，每次的错误我很少全对，虽然他有时候抄别人的，但他懂了，如果我战胜了丁雅宝的数学，就决定下一个对手是李潮，我决定在教师节取得优秀的成绩，让全班同学和老师刮目相看，这学期我会好好学习，我最头疼的就是数学和英语，句型和单词老出错，数学题目复杂的让人眼花缭乱，其中一部分出错，后面就接二连三的出错，真是头疼。

9

今天我读了一篇文章《聂将军》

好词有：抗日、指挥、关心、照料、反映。

好段有：1992年参加旅欧中国少年共产党。抗日战争时期，任八路军一五师师长、政委，参加指挥平型关战役。后任晋察冀军区司令员兼政委，参加了创建晋察抗日根据地。

主要内容：写出了聂将军的职位以及关于聂将军和日本人的战斗。

我的感受：抗日战争时期，大多数中国人不屈不挠，英勇地冲锋陷阵，今年是抗日战争的60周年纪念年。我心中十分感谢那些烈士们，是他们创造了我们中国，是他们的精神保卫了我的祖国，烈士们不在了，但他们依然活着，因为他在我们每一个人的心目中，我们应该好好学习，为祖国的建设与发展做出最大的贡献，成为国家必不可少的人。

10

听曹文轩讲座授书

今天，是北京大学教授曹文轩在南一小讲座、授书、签名的日子。

南一小希望剧场座无虚席，几千名教师和同学恭恭敬敬地听曹文轩教授讲座，讲座内容共分五大点分别是：我与故事同出生；有意思和有意义；无中生有；世界只属于那些细心的人；什么都可以丢，但书不可以丢。他还讲了自己的童年故事。讲座一完，同学们就一窝蜂而上，但在老师的带领下，我们秩序井然地排成一条长龙。经过长达两小时的签书授书后，书就全部签完了。

相信过了八九年之后，曹教授就能在北京大学的门口看见他家乡的孩子了。

11

深秋的美丽

深秋是万花凋谢的时期，唯独只有菊花在秋风中怒放。我在这个季节里，看了一次菊花展。

这里的菊花可多了，有银针、紫矛、金绣球、鸳鸯菊和“高山流水”等许多品种，五彩缤纷，美不胜收，犹如一个小型的大自然。

在这一次的花展中我特别喜欢的是金绣球和鸳鸯菊。它们各有各的特点。比如说金绣球，它的花朵很像一只圆滚滚、金黄色的小皮球，摸上去柔柔的很舒服。它那墨绿色的叶子，像一位位低头的女孩，正在那里接受严厉的训斥。它的枝干弯弯曲曲的，但也不是菊花中最矮的。它花瓣像一个个大荷叶，一层包着一层，层层叠叠地向里收缩。在最外边的花瓣是最大的，越往里边就越小，可美丽啦！

鸳鸯菊也非常美丽。它弧形的枝干旁长着肥大稠密的枝叶，枝头顶端长出一朵有两种颜色的花朵，一边是黄色的，一边是红色的。黄色的让我想到男生，红色的让我想到女生。它们已结为连理，在一起生活，甜甜美美。鸳鸯菊花朵两边的花瓣都乱得不可开交。这边长的是黄色的偏偏长出一根红色的出来，这边是红色的花瓣，又偏偏长出一根黄色的，宛如花上有调皮的娃娃，真美丽！

这些在秋风中怒放的菊花。这种不畏严寒的精神，不是很值得我们学习吗？

菊花，我永远永远地喜爱你，我会让全世界的人，去学习你

12 不畏严寒的精神。我赞美你，我歌颂你。

妈妈又回到她身边

盖慧玲同学九岁那年，亲妈妈得了肺炎不幸死了。十一岁时，爸爸又为她找了一个新妈妈，三十多岁，披着一头短发，雪白的皮肤，还有一双炯炯的大眼睛，非常和蔼。盖慧玲早就听人家说了，当后妈的心很狠，所以新妈妈见面的第一天，递给她一只苹果时，被她甩手打在地上。新妈妈却没有说什么。

新妈妈刚来的一个多月中，盖慧玲总是躲着她。可是新妈妈并不计较，对她很关心。一次，新妈妈发现盖慧玲没有毛衣和收录机时，便每一天晚上“加班”给她织毛衣；省吃检用，聚钱给盖慧玲买收录机。原来破破烂烂的家收拾得干干净净，井井有条，桌椅板凳擦得一尘不染。盖慧玲看见了，好几次想喊“妈妈”，可总是喊不出口。

一次，盖慧玲着凉了，呕吐了。弄得身上、地上、整个房间都是秽物和难闻的气味。新妈妈给她换洗衣服，清扫房间里的脏物。晚上，还专为她做汤面，并温柔地说：“慢点喝，小心点。”盖慧玲再也忍不住了，激动地搂着新妈妈的脖子，喃喃地叫了一声“妈妈！”

世界上只有妈妈好。妈妈又回到了盖慧玲的身边。她是不幸中的幸运儿，因为她拥有了人间最珍贵的东西——母爱。

推荐第7篇：小学生作文书

书

书，是一面镜子，照亮我们的心田，书是一艘非凡的战舰，带我们到书的王国遨游，书，是一只花，让我们永远闻着它的芳香，书，是一位朋友，是你伤心时的伴侣„„ 回忆幼年时的美好时光，让我不经想起了七岁时的一件事。七岁时，我上一年级，就开始学了拼音，到八岁就开始看带拼音的《安徒生童话》，读了二三天没意思了，就嚷嚷着让爸爸给我买更多的拼音版的童话书。

到我九岁时就开始看《作文》、《一株小草》、《十万个为什么》《神话故事》„„它们为我的写作水平有了很大的帮助，让我的作文提高了，老师看了心里都舒服，家长看了心里都美滋滋的。

到我十一岁时，就看了《三国演义》，《三国演义》里的人物栩栩如生，诸葛亮足智多谋，关羽打仗百战百胜，张飞有个侠义之心。它们的故事深深吸引着我的目光。

俗话说：书是人类进步的阶梯，只要好好读书，读一本好书，读有益的书，才能让我们畅游书的海洋。

读书是人类生命中最大的快乐，因为书是一把打开知识大门的钥匙；书可以开阔视野、增长知识，书是陶冶情操，提升我们的精神境界的工具。有了书才有美好的未来，你们认为呢？

王福平

真诚

“真诚”无处不在，有人传播的是友谊，有人传播赞美，有人传播的是感谢，有人传播的是劝告，有人传播的是感激„„ 星期天，我清晨起来，听见门外面“唰唰唰”的声音，我正疑惑？出门一看，一位老人弯着腰，提着扫帚“唰唰”地扫着，她的白发像一根根银色白线，她那浓浓的眉毛下镶嵌着一双炯炯有神的眼睛，她那额头上的一条条皱纹像一条条深深的小沟。我就看出了她在别的地方扫完过来刚不久，她慢慢地直起腰来，好像很痛的样子，又用拳头砸了砸疼痛的腰，又接着扫了起来。 我连忙跑了过去，亲切地对奶奶说：“奶奶，我来帮你扫吧。”我三下五除二就扫完了，累得我满头大汗，尽管这样，我还是免强打起精神来，跑到奶奶跟前说：“奶奶，我帮你扫完了，还有什么要帮忙的吗？”奶奶嫣然一笑地说：“小朋友，谢谢你帮我扫地，再没有扫的了。”说完就骑着那垃圾堆积如山的三轮车走了，我看着那老人家远去的背影，心里觉得充满了欢笑，她给我留下了一个深刻的印象——只有真诚的为别人服务，才能赢得大家的赞美。

回家后，我把事情给爸爸说了一遍，爸爸高兴地说：“你帮助了别人，才能赢得别人对你的尊重，给别人带来温暖，这是人与人之间一种真诚的交流，你明白了吗？”

我终于知道帮助别人是多么快乐的事，既给别人减少麻烦，又给人带来了温暖，还给自己赢得了无价之宝——“真诚”。 “真诚”是人与人之间桥梁的纽带，是人与人之间心灵的窗户。只要多一点信任，少一点猜疑，多一份欢乐，少一些悲伤，真诚胜似千言万语，让我们用自己的行动去给别人做一些事，这不是很好吗？

王福平

推荐第8篇：作文书序

序

前些天，XXX董事长找到我，非常诚恳地邀请我为该校第六集《学生优秀作文选》写序，并将该集《作文选》的初稿交于我。出于对民办学校的支持，对董事长工作的肯定，更是对孩子们成长的鞭策，我便应允了。

当我伏案一口气读完了孩子们的近百篇习作之后，脑海中突然冒出了冰心老人在《繁星〃春水》中的一句话：童年是真中的梦，是梦中的真，是回忆时的微笑。的确，我为作文中传达出的天真、纯美、快乐、进取等情愫所折服。

阅读本册作文选，我感受到了孩子们的内心世界丰富多彩，妙不可言。引人入胜的故事，栩栩如生的形象，与众不同的思维，丰富细腻的情感，天真无邪的语言，自信彰显的个性，使你为之神往而着迷。读这些优美的文字，仿佛看到了他们灿烂如花的笑脸，皎洁如月的眼睛，纯真善良的心灵，因此从内心深处油然生出一种自豪感——不仅为孩子们的文字表达能力和感悟生活能力而自豪，更为培养造就这些小作者的老师们感到骄傲！我不由得惊叹：如今的小学生真是了不得！这也使得我在“观赏”这些文章的过程中真切感受到：读孩子们的文章是一种享受，更是人格的升华。

童年是七彩的、充满欢乐的，在这段美好的时光里，有多少美丽的记忆曾经被珍藏在心里，成为终身最宝贵的梦境。在这近百篇文章里我看到了孩子们个人的成长，也听到了春天里生命的拔节，虽然有些文章文笔尚显稚气，还有这样或那样的不足，但其中也不乏文笔细腻、文质兼美、见解独特的优秀作品。孩子们用稚嫩的双手描绘心中 1

的梦想，抒发对真善美的追求和热爱，以文字的形式奉献给他人，希望与他人分享对生命的认识，以及成长的快乐，相信会给读者带来不一样的感受。

我衷心希望孩子们能够笔耕不辍，用笔尖流淌出发芽的春，结实的秋，抑或天空美丽的虹，地上清澈的泉，抑或人生百态和世事风貌等等；衷心希望双语小学的《学生优秀作文选》能激发孩子们的习作兴趣、提高他们的写作水平；同时，更期待着“笋芽”的攀高，期待着又一个收获的季节，期待着更多成功的作文在你们手中诞生，也期待着我们的下一期作文选更加精彩。

愿《学生优秀作文选》这双翅膀能带着孩子们越飞越高、越飞越远，去实现伟大的“中国梦”！

2014年5月6日2

推荐第9篇：推荐作文书for and against

1.It’s high time men ceased to regard women as second-cla citizens

This is supposed to be an enlightened age, but you wouldn’t think so if you could hear what the average man thinks of the average woman.Women won their independence years ago.After a long bitter struggle, they now enjoy the same educational opportunities as men in most parts of the world.They have proved repeatedly that they are equal and often superior to men in almost every field.The hard-fought battle for recognition has been won, but it is by no means over.It is men, not women who still carry on thee sex war because their attitude remains basically hostile.Even in the most progreive societies, women continue to be regarded as second-rate citizens.To hear some men talk, you’d think that women belonged to a different species!

On the surface, the comments made by men about women’s abilities seem light-hearted.The same tired jokes about women drivers are repeated day in, day out.This apparent light-heartedne does not conceal the real contempt that men feel for women.However much men sneer at women, their claims to superiority are not borne out by statistics.Let’s consider the matter of driving, for instance.We all know that women cause far fewer accidents than men.They are too conscientious and responsible to drive like maniacs.But this is a minor quibble.Women have succeeded in any job you care to name.As politicians, soldiers, doctors, factory-hands, university profeors, farmers, company directors, lawyers, bus-conductors, scientists and presidents of countries they have often put men to shame.And we must remember that they frequently succeed brilliantly in all these fields in addition to bearing and rearing children.

Yet men go on maintaining the fiction that there are many jobs women can’t do.Top-level political negotiation between countries, busine and banking are almost entirely controlled by men, who jealously guard their so-called ‘rights’.Even in otherwise enlightened places like Switzerland women haven’t even been given the vote.This situation is preposterous! The arguments that men put forward to exclude women from these fields are all too familiar.Women, they say, are unreliable and much on intuition and instinct to arrive at decisions.They are not even capable of thinking clearly.Yet when women prove their abilities, men refuse to acknowledge them and give them their due.So much for a man’s ability to think clearly!

The truth is that men cling to their supremacy because of their basic inferiority complex.They shun real competition.They know in their hearts that women are superior and they are afraid of being beaten at their own game.One of the most important can be sure that if women were allowed to sit round the conference table, they would succeed brilliantly, as they always do, where men have failed for centuries.Some things are too important to be left to men! 2.World governments should conduct serious campaigns against smoking

If you smoke and you still don’t believe that there’s a definite link between smoking and bronchial troubles, heart disease and lung cancer, then you are certainly deceiving yourself.No one will accuse you of hypocrisy.Let us just say that you are suffering from a bad case of wishful thinking.This needn’t make you too uncomfortable because you are in good company.Whenever the subject of smoking and health is raised, the governments of most countries hear no evil, see no evil and smell no evil.Admittedly, a few governments have taken timid measures.In Britain, for instance, cigarette advertising has been banned on television continues to puff its way to smoky, cancerous death.

You don’t have to look very far to find out why the official reactions to medical findings have been so lukewarm.The answer is simply money.Tobacco is a wonderful commodity to tax.It’s almost like a tax on our daily bread.In tax revenue alone, the government of Britain collects enough from smokers to pay for its entire educational facilities.So while the authorities point out ever so discreetly that smoking may, conceivably, be harmful, it doesn’t do to shout too loudly about it.

This is surely the most short-sighted policy you could imagine.While money is eagerly collected in vast sums with one hand, it is paid out in increasingly vaster sums with the other.Enormous amounts are spent on cancer research and on efforts to cure people suffering from the disease.Countle valuable lives are lost.In the long run, there is no doubt that everybody would be much better-off if smoking were banned altogether.

Of course, we are not ready for much drastic action.But if the governments of the world were honestly concerned about welfare of their peoples, you’d think they’d conduct aggreive anti-smoking campaigns.Far from it! The tobacco industry is allowed to spend staggering sums on advertising.Its advertising is as insidious as it is dishonest.We are never shown pictures of real smokers coughing up their lungs early in the morning.That would never do.The advertisements always depict virile, clean-shaven young men.They suggest it is manly to smoke, even positively healthy! Smoking is aociated with the great open-air life, with beautiful girls, true love and togetherne.What utter nonsense!

For a start, governments could begin by banning all cigarette and tobacco advertising and should then conduct anti-smoking advertising campaigns of their own.Smoking should be banned in all public places like theatres, cinemas and restaurants.Great efforts should be made to inform young people especially of warning-say, a picture of a death’s head-should be included in every packet of cigarettes that is sold.As individuals we are certainly weak, but if governments acted honestly and courageously, they could protect us from ourselves.3.Television is doing irreparable harm

‘Yes, but what did we use to do before there was television?’ How often we hear statements like this! Television hasn’t been with us all that long, but we are already beginning to forget what the world was like without it.Before we admitted the one-eyed monster into our homes, we never found it difficult to occupy our spare time.We used to enjoy civilized pleasures.For instance, we used to have hobbies, we used to entertain our friends and be entertained by them, we used to go outside for our amusements to theatres, cinemas, restaurants and sporting events.We even used to read books and listen to music and broadcast talks occasionally.All that belongs to the past.Now all our free time is regulated by the ‘goggle box’.We rush home or gulp down our meals to be in time for this or that programme.We have even given up sitting at table and having a leisurely evening meal, exchanging the news of the day.A sandwich and a gla of beer will do ---anything, providing it doesn’t interfere with the programme.The monster demands and obtains absolute silence and attention.If any member of the family dares to open his mouth during a programme, he is quickly silenced.

Whole generations are growing up addicted to the telly.Food is left uneaten, homework undone and sleep is lost.The telly is a universal pacifier.It is now standard practice for mother to keep the children quiet by putting them in the living-room and turning on the set.It doesn’t matter that the children will watch rubbishy commercials or spectacles of sadism and violence---so long as they are quiet.

There is a limit to the amount of creative talent available in the world.Every day, television consumes vast quantities of creative work.That is why most of the programme are so bad: it is impoible to keep pace with the demand and maintain high standards as well. When millions watch the same programmes, the whole world becomes a village, and society is reduced to the conditions which obtain in pre - literate communities.We become utterly dependent on the two most primitive media of communication: pictures and the spoken word.

Television encourages paive enjoyment.We become content with second-hand experiences.It is so easy to sit in our armchairs watching others working.Little by little, television cuts us off from the real world.We get so lazy, we choose to spend a fine day in semi-darkne, glued to our sets, rather than go out into the world itself.Television may be a splendid medium of communication, but it prevents us from communicating with each other.We only becoe aware how totally irrelevant television is to real living when we spend a holiday by the sea or in the mountains, far away from civilization.In quiet, natural surrounding, we quickly discover how little we mi the hypnotic tyranny of King Telly.4.Any form of education other than co-education is simply unthinkable

Imagine being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in society which consisted only of members of your own sex.How would you react? Unle there was something definitely wrong with you, you wouldn’t be too happy about it, to say the least.It is all the more surprising therefore that so many parents in the world choose to impose such abnormal conditions on their children—conditions which they themselves wouldn’t put up with for one minute!

Any discuion of this topic is bound to question the aims of education.Stuffing children’s heads full of knowledge is far from being foremost among them.One of the chief aims of education is to equip future citizens with all they require to take their place in adult society.Now adult society is mad up of men and women, so how can a segregated school poibly offer the right sort of preparation for it? Anyone entering adult society after years of segregation can only be in for a shock.

A co-educational school offers children noting le than a true version of society in miniature.Boys and girls are given the opportunity to get to know each other, to learn to live together from their earliest years.They are put in a position where they can compare themselves with each other in terms of academic ability, athletic achievement and many of the extra-curricular activities which are part of school life.What a practical advantage it is to be able to put on a school play in which the male parts will be taken by boys and the female parts by girls! What nonsense co-education makes of the argument that boys are cleverer than girls or vice versa.When segregated, boys and girls are made to feel that they are a race apart.Rivalry between the sexes is fostered.In a co-educational school, everything falls into its proper place.

But perhaps the greatest contribution of co-education is the healthy attitude to life it encourages.Boys don’t grow up believing that women are mysterious creatures-airy goddees, more like book-illustrations to a fairy-tale, than human beings.Girls don’t grow up imagining that men are romantic heroes.Years of living together at school dispel illusions of this kink.There are no goddees with freckles, pigtails, piercing voices and inky fingers.There are no romantic heroes with knobbly (粗糙的)knees, dirty fingernails and unkempt hair.The awkward stage of adolescence brings into sharp focus some of the physical and emotional problems involved in growing up.These can better be overcome in a co-educational environment.Segregated schools sometimes provide the right conditions for sexual deviation.This is hardly poible under a co-educational system.When the time comes for the pupils to leave school, they are fully prepared to enter society as well-adjusted adults.They have already had years of experience in coping with many of the problems that face men and women.5.Camping is the ideal way of spending a holiday

There was a time when camping was considered to be a poor way of spending a holiday: Ok for boy scouts and hard-up students, but hardly the thing for sophisticated, comfort-loving adults.The adults have at last discovered that the boy scouts havereally been on to a good thing all these years.If you go camping, it no longer means that you will be bitten to death by mosquitoes; suffocate or freeze in a sleeping-bag; hump gargantuan weights on your back.Camping has become the great pursuit of motorists the world over.All the discomforts aociated with it have been miraculously whisked away.For a modest outlay, you can have a comfortable, insulated tent.For a not-so-modest outlay, you can have an elaborate affair which resembles a portable bungalow, complete with three bedrooms, a living-room, a kitchen and a porch.The portable furniture is light and comfortable; the gas stove brews excellent coffee or grills a tender steak; the refrigerator keeps the beer and ice-cream cold; and as for a good night’s rest, well, you literally sleep on air.What more could you want?

No wonder the great rush is on.You see, camping has so much to offer.You enjoy absolute freedom.You have none of the headaches of advance hotel booking or driving round and round a city at midnight looking for a room.There are no cold hotel breakfasts, no surly staff to tip.For a ludicrously small sum, you can enjoy comforts which few hotels could provide.Modern camping sites are well equipped with hot and cold running water and even shops and dance floors! Low-cost holidays make camping an attractive proposition.But above all, you enjoy tremendous mobility.If you don’t like a place, or if it is too crowded, you can simply get up and go.Conversely, you can stay as long as you like.You’re the bo.

And then there’s the sheer fun of it—especially if you have a family.Moping around a stuffy hotel room wondering what they are going to give you for dinner is a tedious busine.By comparison, it’s so exciting to arrive at a camp site, put up your tent and start getting a meal ready.You are active all the time and you are always close to nature.Imagine yourself beside some clear stream with mountains in the background.Night is falling, everything is peaceful—except for the delightful sound of chops sizzling in the pan! Camping provides you with a real change from everyday living.You get up earlier, go to bed earlier, develop a hearty appetite.You have enormous opportunity to meet people of various nationalities and to share your pleasures with them.People are so friendly when they are relaxed.How remote the strained world of hotels seems when you are camping! How cold and unfriendly the formal greetings that are exchanged each day between the residents! For a few precious weeks in the year, you really adopt a completely different way of life.And that’s the eence of true recreation and real enjoyment.6.New fashions in clothing are created solely for the commercial exploitation of women

whenever you see an old film, even one made as little as ten years ago, you cannot help being struck by the appearance of the women taking part.Their hair-styles and make-up look dated; their skirts look either too long or too short; their general appearance is, in fact, slightly ludicrous.The men taking part in the film.On the other hand, are clearly recognizable.There is nothing about their appearance to suggest that they belong to an entirely different age.

This illusion is created by changing fashions.Over the years, the great majority of men have succefully resisted all attempts to make them change their style of dre.The same cannot be said for women.Each year a few so-called’ top designers’ in Paris or London lay down the law and women the whole world over rush to obey.The decrees of the designers are unpredictable and dictatorial.This year, they decide in their arbitrary fashion, skirts will be short and waists will be high; zips are in and buttons are out.Next year the law is reversed and far from taking exception, no one is even mildly surprised.

If women are mercilely exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame.Because they shudder at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are annually blackmailed by the designers and the big stores.Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be discarded because of the dictates of fashion.When you come to think of it, only a woman is capable of standing in front of a wardrobe packed full of clothes and announcing sadly that she has nothing to wear.

Changing fashions are nothing more than the deliberate creation of waste.Many women squander vast sums of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn.Women who cannot afford to discard clothing is this way, waste hours of their time altering the drees they have.Hem-lines are taken up or let down; waist-lines are taken in or let out; neck-lines are lowered or raised, and so on.No one can claim that the fashion industry contributes anything really important to society.Fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and durability.They are only interested in outward appearance and they take advantage of the fact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, providing they look right.There can hardly be a man who hasn’t at some time in his life smiled at the sight of a woman shivering in a flimsy dre on a wintry day., or delicately picking her way through deep snow in dainty shoes.When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion, the conclusions to be drawn are obvious.Do the constantly changing fashions of women’s clothes, one wonders, reflect basic qualities of ficklene and instability? Men are too sensible to let themselves be bullied by fashion designers.Do their unchanging styles of dre reflect basic qualities of stability and reliability? That is for you to decide.7.We should all grow fat and be happy

Here’s a familiar version of the boy-meets-girl situation.A young man has at last plucked up courage to invite a dazzling young lady out to dinner.She has accepted his invitation and he is overjoyed.He is determined to take her to the best restaurant in town, even if it means that he will have to live on memories and hopes during the month to come.When they get to the restaurant, he discovers that this ethereal creature is on a diet.She mustn’t eat this and she mustn’t drink that.On, but of course, she doesn’t want to spoil his enjoyment.Let him by all means eat as much fattening food as he wants: it’s the surest way to an early grave.They spend a truly memorable evening together and never see each other again.

What a miserable lot dieters are! You can always recognize them from the sour expreion on their faces.They spend most of their time turning their noses up at food.They are forever consulting calorie charts; gazing at themselves in mirrors; and leaping on to weighting-machines in the bathroom.They spend a lifetime fighting a losing battle against spreading hips, protruding tummies and double chins.Some wage all-out war on FAT.Mere dieting is not enough.They exhaust themselves doing exercises, sweating in sauna baths, being pummeled and maaged by weird machines.The really wealthy diet-mongers pay vast sums for ’health cures’.For two weeks they can enter a ‘nature clinic’ and be starved to death for a hundred guineas a week.Don’t think it’ s only the middle-aged who go in for these fads either.Many of these bright young things you see are suffering from chronic malnutrition: they living on nothing by air, water and the goodwill of God.

Dieters undertake to starve themselves of their own free will so why are they so miserable? Well, for one thing, they’re always hungry.You can’t be hungry and happy at the same time.All the horrible concoctions they eat instead of food leave them permanently diatisfied.‘ wonderfood is a complete food,’ the advertisement says.‘ Just diolve a teaspoonful in water…’ a complete food it may be, but not quite as complete as a juicy steak.And, of course, they’re always miserable because they feel so guilty.Hunger just proves too much for them and in the end they lash out and devour five huge guilt-inducing cream cakes at a sitting.And who can blame them? At least three times a day they are exposed to temptation.What utter torture it is always watching others tucking into piles of mouth-watering food while you munch a water biscuit and sip unsweetened lemon juice!

What’s all this self-inflicted torture for? Saintly people deprive them selves of food to attain a state of grace.Unsaintly people do so to attain a state of misery.It sill be a great day when all the dieters in the world abandon their slimming courses; when they hold out their plates and demand second helpings! 8.The younger generation knows best

Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were.The same comment is made from generation to generation and it is always true.It has never been truer than it is today.The young are better educated.They have a lot more money to spend and enjoy more freedom.They grow up more quickly and are not so dependent on their parents.They think more for themselves and do not blindly accept the ideals of their elders.Events which the older generation remembers vividly are nothing more than past history.This is as it should be.Every new generation is different from the one that preceded it.Today the difference is very marked indeed.

The old always aume that they know best for the simple reason that they have been around a bit longer.They don’t like to feel that their values are being questioned or threatened.And this is precisely what the young are doing.They are questioning the aumptions of their elders and disturbing their complacency.They take leave to doubt that the older generation has created the best of all poible worlds.What they reject more than anything is conformity.Office hours, for instance, are nothing more than enforced slavery.Wouldn’t people work best if they were given complete freedom and responsibility? And what about clothing? Who said that all the men in the world should wear drab gray suits and convict haircuts? If we turn our minds to more serious matters, who said that human differences can best be solved through conventional politics or by violent means? Why have the older generation so often used violence to solve their problems? Why are they so unhappy and guilt-ridden in their personal lives, so obseed with mean ambitions and the desire to ama more and more material poeions? Can anything be right with the rat race? Haven’t the old lost touch with all that is important in life?

These are not questions the older generation can shrug off lightly.Their record over the past forty years or so hasn’t been exactly spotle.Traditionally, the young have turned to their elders for guidance.Today, the situation might be reversed.The old—if they are prepared to admit it—could learn a thing or two from their children.One of the biggest leons they could learn is that enjoyment is not ‘sinful’.Enjoyment is a principle one could apply to all aspects of life.It is surely not wrong to enjoy your work and enjoy your leisure; to shed restricting inhibitions.It is surely not wrong to live in the present rather than in the past or future.This emphasis on the present is only to be expected because the young have grown up under the shadow of the bomb: the constant threat of complete annihilation.This is their glorious heritage.Can we be surprised that they should so often question the sanity of the generation that bequeathed it? 9.only stricter traffic laws can prevent accidents From the health point of view we are living in a marvellous age.We are immunized from birth against many of the most dangerous diseases.A large number of once fatal illnees can now be cured by modern drugs and surgery.It is almost certain that one day remedies will be found for the most stubborn remaining diseases.The expectation of life has increased enormously.But though the poibility of living a long and happy life is greater than ever before, every day we witne the incredible slaughter of men, women and children on the roads.Man versus the motor-car! It is a never-ending battle which man is losing.Thousands of people the world over are killed or horribly mutilated each year and we are quietly sitting back and letting it happen.It has been rightly said that when a man is sitting behind a steering wheel, his car becomes the extension of his personality.There is no doubt that the motor-car often brings out a man’s very worst qualities.People who are normally quiet and pleasant may become unrecognizable when they are behind a steering-wheel.They swear, they are ill-mannered and aggreive, willful as two-year-olds and utterly selfish.All their hidden frustrations, disappointments and jealousies seem to be brought to the surface by the act of driving.

The surprising thing is that society smiles so benignly on the motorist and seems to condone his behavior.Everything is done for his convenience.Cities are allowed to become almost uninhabitable because of heavy traffic; towns are made ugly by huge car parks; the countryside is desecrated by road networks; and the ma annual slaughter becomes nothing more than a statistic, to be conveniently forgotten.It is high time a world code were created to reduce this sensele waste of human life.With regard to driving, the laws of some countries are notoriously lax and even the strictest are not strict enough.A code which are universally accepted could only have a dramatically beneficial effect on the accident rate.Here are a few examples of some of the things that might be done.The driving test should be standardized and made far more difficult than it is; all drivers should be made to take a test every three years or so; the age at which young people are allowed to drive any vehicle should be raised to at least 21; all vehicles should be put through stringent annual tests for safety.Even the smallest amount of alcohol in the blood can impair a person’s driving ability.Present drinking and driving laws ( where they exist) should be made much stricter.Maximum and minimum speed limits should be imposed on all roads.Governments should lay down safety specifications for manufacturers, as has been done in the USA.All advertising streing power and performance should be banned.These measures may sound inordinately harsh, but surely nothing should be considered as too severe if it results in reducing the annual toll of human life.After all, the world is for human beings, not motor-cars.10.Parents are too permiive with their children nowadays Few people would defend the Victorian attitude to children, but if you were a parent in those days, at least you knew where you stood: children were to be seen and not heard.Freud and company did away with all that and parents have been bewildered ever since.The child’s happine is all-important, the psychologists say, but what about the parents’ happine? Parents suffer constantly from fear and guilt while their children gaily romp about pulling the place apart.A good old-fashioned spanking is out of the question; no modern child-rearing manual would permit such barbarity.The trouble is you are not allowed even to shout.Who knows what deep psychological wounds you might inflict? The poor child may never recover from the dreadful traumatic experience.So it is that parents bend over backwards to avoid giving their children complexes which a hundred years ago hadn’t even been heard of.Certainly a child needs love, and a lot of it.But the exceive permiivene of modern parents is surely doing more harm than good.

Psychologists have succeeded in undermining parents’ confidence in their own authority.And it hasn’t taken children long to get wind of the fact.In addition to the great modern claics on child care, there are countle articles in magazines and newspapers.With so much unsolicited advice flying about, mum and dad just don’t know what to do any more.In the end, they do nothing at all.So, from early childhood, the kids are in charge and parents’ lives are regulated according to the needs of their offspring.When the little dears develop into teenager, they take complete control.Lax authority over the years makes adolescent rebellion against parents all the more violent.If the young people are going to have a party, for instance, parents are asked to leave the house.Their presence merely spoils the fun.What else can the poor parents do but obey? Children are hardy creatures(far hardier than the psychologists would have us believe) and most of them survive the harmful influence of extreme permiivene which is the normal condition in the modern household.But a great many do not.The spread of juvenile delinquency in our own age is largely due to parental laxity.Mother, believing that little Johnny can look after himself, is not at home when he returns from school, so little Johnny roams the streets.The dividing-line between permiivene and sheer negligence is very fine indeed.

The psychologists have much to answer for.They should keep their mouths shut and let parents get on with the job.And if children are knocked about a little bit in the proce, it may not really matter too much.At least this will help them to develop vigorous views of their own and give them something positive to react against.Perhaps there’s some truth in the idea that children who’ve had a surfeit of happine in their childhood emerge like stodgy puddings and fail to make a succe of life.11.Advertiers perform a useful service to the community Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they’re always coming in for criticism.Their critics seem to resent them because they have a glair for self-promotion and because they have so much money to throw around.‘It’s iniquitous.’ They say, ‘that this entirely unproductive industry( if we can call it that) should absorb millions of pounds each year.It only goes to show how much profit the big companies are making.Why don’t they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods? After all, it’s the consumer who pays…’

The poor old consumer! He’d have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn’t create ma markets for products.It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap.But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods.Another equally important function is to inform.A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods derives largely from the advertisements we read.Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about.Supposing you wanted to buy a washing-machine, it is more than likely you would obtain details regarding performance, price, etc., from an advertisement.Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted.It is hardly poible not to read advertisements these days.And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements.Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading railway bye-laws while waiting for a train? Would you like to read only closely-printed columns of news in your daily paper? A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a drab wall or a newspaper full of the daily ration of calamities.We must not forget , either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets.Newspapers, commercial radio and television companies could not subsist without this source of revenue.The fact that we pay so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many broadcast programmes is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers.Just think what a newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price! Another thing we mustn’t forget is the ‘ small ads.’ Which are in virtually every newspaper and magazine.What a tremendously useful service they perform for the community! Just about anything can be accomplished through these columns.For instance, you can find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to be called the ‘hatch, match and dispatch’ columns; but by far the most fascinating section is the personal or ‘agony’ column.No other item in a newspaper provides such entertaining reading or offers such a deep insight into human nature.It’s the best advertisement for advertising there is! 12.Pop stars certainly earn their money Pop stars today enjoy a style of living which was once the prerogative only of Royalty.Wherever they go, people turn out in their thousands to greet them.The crowds go wild trying to catch a brief glimpse of their smiling, colourfully-dreed idols.The stars are transported in their chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royces, private helicopters or executive aeroplanes.They are surrounded by a permanent entourage of managers, pre-agents and body-guards.Photographs of them appear regularly in the pre and all their comings and goings are reported, for, like Royalty, pop stars are news.If they enjoy many of the privileges of Royalty, they certainly share many of the inconveniences as well.It is dangerous for them to make unscheduled appearances in public.They must be constantly shielded from the adoring crowds which idolize them.They are no longer private receive for this sacrifice cannot be calculated, for their rates of pay are astronomical.And shy not? Society has always rewarded its top entertainers lavishly.The great days of Hollywood have become legendary; famous stars enjoyed fame, wealth and adulation on an unprecedented scale.By today’s standards, the excees of Hollywood do not seem quite so spectacular.A single gramophone record nowadays may earn much more in royalties than the films of the past ever did.The competition for the title’ Top of the Pops’ is fierce, but the rewards are truly coloal.It is only right that the stars should be paid in this way.Don’t the top men in industry earn enormous salaries for the services they perform to their companies and their countries? Pop stars earn vast sums in foreign currency-often more than large industrial concerns-and the taxman can only be grateful for their maive annual contributions to the exchequer.So who would begrudge them their rewards? It’s all very well for people in humdrum jobs to moan about the succees and rewards of others.People who make envious remarks should remember that the most famous stars represent only the tip of the iceberg.For every famous star, there are hundreds of others struggling to earn a living.A man working in a steady job and looking forward to a pension at the end of it has no right to expect very high rewards.He has chosen security and peace of mind, so there will always be a limit to what he can earn.But a man who attempts to become a star is taking enormous risks.He knows at the outset that only a handful of competitors ever get to the very top.He knows that years of concentrated effort may be rewarded with complete failure.But he knows, too, that the rewards for succe are very high indeed: they are the recompence for the huge risks involved and if he achieves them, he has certainly earned them.That’s the eence of private enterprise.13.Vicious and dangerous sports should be banned by law When you think of the tremendous technological progre we have made, it’s amazing how little we have developed in other respects.We may speak contemptuously of the poor old Romans because they relished the orgies of slaughter that went on in their arenas.We may despise them because they mistook these goings on for entertainment.We may forgive them condescendingly because they lived 2000 years ago and obviously knew not better.But are our feelings of superiority really justified? Are we any le blood-thirsty? Why do boxing matches, for instance, attract such universal interest? Don’t the spectators who attend them hope they will see some violence? Human beings remain as blood-thirsty as ever they were.They only difference between ourselves and the Romans is that while they were honest enough to admit that they enjoyed watching hungry lions tearing people apart and eating them alive, we find all sorts of sophisticated arguments to defend sports which should have been banned long ago; sports which are quite as barbarous as, say, public hangings or bear-baiting.It really is incredible that in this day and age we should still allow hunting or bull-fighting, that we should be prepared to sit back and watch two men batter each other to pulp in a boxing ring, that we should be relatively unmoved by the sight of one or a number of racing cars crashing and bursting into flames.Let us not deceive ourselves.Any talk of ‘ the sporting spirit’ is sheer hypocrisy.People take part in violent sports because of the high rewards they bring.Spectators are willing to pay vast sums of money to see violence.A world heavyweight championship match, for instance, is front page news.Millions of people are disappointed if a big fight is over in two rounds instead of fifteen.They feel disappointment because they have been deprived of exquisite pleasure of witneing prolonged torture and violence.Why should we ban violent sports if people enjoy them so much? You may well ask.The answer is simple: they are uncivilized.For centuries man has been trying to improve himself spiritually and emotionally-admittedly with little succe.But at least we no longer tolerate the sight madmen cooped up in cages, or public floggings or any of the countle other barbaric practices which were common in the past.Prisons are no longer the grim forbidding places they used to be.Social welfare systems are in operation in many parts of the world.Big efforts are being made to distribute wealth fairly.These changes have come about not because human beings have suddenly and unaccountably improved, but because positive steps were taken to change the law.The law is the biggest instrument of social change that we have and it may exert great civilizing influence.If we banned dangerous and violent sports, we would be moving one step further to improving mankind.We would recognize that violence is degrading and unworthy of human beings.14.Transistor radios should be prohibited in public places We have all heard of the sort of person who drives fifty miles into the country, finds some perfectly delightful beauty spot beside a quiet lake and then spends the rest of the day cleaning his car.Compared with those terrible fiends, the litter-bugs and noise-makers, this innocent creature can only be an object of admiration.He interferes with no one’s pleasure.Far from it: after all, cleanline is said to be next to godline.It is the noise-makers who invade the quietest corners of the earth that must surely win the prize for insensitivity.They announce their arrival with a flourish that would put the Royal Heralds to shame.Blaring music(never claical) seems to emanate mysteriously from their persons and their poeions.If you travel up the remotest reaches of the Amazon, surviving attacks by crocodiles and vicious piranha, don’t be surprised if you hear cheering crowds and a football commentary shattering the peace of the jungle.It is only one of our friends with his little transistor radio.The transistor radio, that great wonder of modern technology, often no bigger than a matchbox, must surely be the most hideous and diabolic of all human inventions.People are arrested, fined, imprisoned, deported, certified as insane or executed for being public nuisances.You can’t loiter outside a shop for five minutes or sing the opening bars of Figaro in public without arousing the suspicion of every policeman in the neighbourhood.But you can walk on to a beach or into a park and let all hell loose with your little transistor and no one will turn a hair-no one in authority, that is.Most of the people around you will be writhing in agony, but what can they do about it? Have you ever tried asking the surly owner of a transistor to turn it off? This is what will happen if you do: you will either be punched on the nose for your impertinence, or completely ignored.After that you can be sure that the radio will be turned up louder than ever before.Noise is one of the most unpleasant features of modern life.Who knows what it invisibly contributes to irritability and stre? Governments everywhere go to tremendous lengths to reduce noise.Traffic sounds are carefully measured in decibels; levels of tolerance are recorded and statistics produced to provide the basis for future legislation.Elaborate and expensive tests are conducted to find out our reactions to supersonic bangs.This is all very commendable, but surely the interest in our welfare is misplaced.People adjusted to the more obvious sources of noise ages ago.It is the le obvious sources that need attention.And the transistor radio is foremost among them.It is impoible to adjust to the transistor radio because the noise it produces is never the same: it can be anything from a bra band to a news commentary.Being inconsiderate is not a crime.But interfering with other people’s pleasure certainly should be.It is ridiculous that the law should go on allowing this indecent aault on our ears.15.The only thing people are interested in today is earning more money Once upon a time there lived a beautiful young woman and a handsome young man.They were very poor , but as they were deeply in love, they wanted to get married.The young people’s parents shook their heads.‘you can’t get married yet,’ they said.‘wait till you get a good job with food prospects.’ So the young people waited until they found good jobs with good prospects and they were able to get married.They were still poor, of course.They didn’t have a house to live in or any furniture, but that didn’t matter.The young man had a good job with good prospects, so large organizations lent him the money he needed to buy a house , some furniture, all the latest electrical appliances and a car.The couple lived happily ever after paying off debts for the rest of their lives.And so ends another modern romantic fable.We live in a materialistic society and are trained from our earliest years to be acquisitive.Our poeions, ‘ mine’ and ‘yours’ are clearly labeled from early childhood.When we grow old enough to earn a living, it does not surprise us to discover that succe is measured in terms of the money you earn.We spend the whole of our lives keeping up with our neighbours, the Joneses.If we buy a new television set, Jones is bound to buy a bigger and better one.If we buy a new car, we can be sure that Jones will go one better and get two new cars: one for his wife and one for himself.The most amusing thing about this game is that the Joneses and all the neighbours who are struggling frantically to keep up with them are spending borrowed money kindly provided, at a suitable rate of interest, of course, by friendly banks, insurance companies, etc.It is not only in affluent societies that people are obseed with the idea of making more money.Consumer goods are desirable everywhere and modern industry deliberately sets out to create new markets.Gone are the days when industrial goods were made to last forever.The wheels of industry must be kept turning.‘ Built-in obsolescence’ provides the means: goods are made to be discarded.Cars get tinnier and tinnier.You no sooner acquire this year’s model than you are thinking about its replacement.This materialistic outlook has seriously influenced education.Fewer and fewer young people these days acquire knowledge only for its own sake.Every course of studies must lead somewhere: i.e.to a bigger wage packet.The demand for skilled personnel far exceeds the supply and big companies compete with each other to recruit students before they have completed their studies.Tempting salaries and ‘fringe benefits’ are offered to them.Recruiting tactics of this kind have let to the ‘brain drain’, the proce by which highly skilled people offer their services to the highest bidder.The wealthier nations deprive their poorer neighbours of their most able citizens.While Mammon is worshipped as never before, the rich get richer and the poor, poorer.16.Compulsory military service should be abolished in all countries Believe it or not, the Swi were once a warlike people.There is still evidence of this.To this day, the guards at the Vatican and Swi.But the Swi discovered long ago that constant warfare brought them nothing but suffering and poverty.They adopted a policy of neutrality, and while the rest of the world seethed in turmoil, Switzerland, a country with hardly any natural resources, enjoyed peace and prosperity.The rest of the world is still not ready to accept this simple and obvious solution.Most countries not only maintain permanent armies but require all their young men to do a period of compulsory military service.Everybody has a lot to say about the desirability of peace, but no one does anything about it.An obvious thing to do would be to abolish conscription everywhere.This would be the first step towards universal peace.Some countries, like Britain, have already abandoned peace-time conscription.Unfortunately, they haven’t done so for idealistic reasons, but from a simple recognition of the fact that modern warfare is a highly profeional busine.In the old days, large armies were eential.There was strength in numbers; ordinary soldiers were cannon fodder.But in these days of inter-continental ballistic miiles, of push-button warfare and escalation, unskilled manpower has become redundant.In a mere two years or so, you can’t hope to train conscripts in the requirements and conditions of modern warfare.So why bother? Leave it to the profeionals! There are also preing personal reasons to abolish conscription.It is most unpleasant in times of peace for young men to grow up with the threat of military service looming over their heads.They are deprived of two of the best and most formative years of their lives.Their careers and studies are disrupted and sometimes the whole course of their lives is altered.They spend at least two years in the armed forces engaged in activities which do not provide them with any useful experience with regard to their future work.It can’t even be argued that what they learn might prove valuable in a national emergency.When they leave the services, young men quickly forget all the unneceary information about warfare which they were made to acquire.It is shocking to think that skilled and unskilled men are often nothing more than a source of cheap labour for the military.Some people argue that military service’ does you good’.‘ two years in the army,’ you hear people say, ‘ will knock some sense into him.’ The opposite is usually the case.Anyone would resent being pushed about and bullied for two ears, all in the name of ‘discipline’.The military mind requires uniformity and conformity.People who do not quite fit into this brutal pattern suffer terribly and may even emerge with serious personality disorders.There are many wonderful ways of spending two years.Serving in the armed forces is not one of them! 17.Childhood is certainly not the happiest time of your life It’s about time somebody exploded that hoary old myth about childhood being the happiest period of your life.Childhood may certainly be fairly happy, but its greatest moments can’t compare with the sheer joy of being an adult.Who ever asked a six-year-old for an opinion? Children don’t have opinions, or if they do, nobody notices.Adults choose the clothes their children will wear, the books they will read and the friends they will play with.Mother and father are kindly but absolute dictators.This is an adult world and though children may be deeply lover, they have to be manipulated so as not to interfere too seriously with the lives of their elders and betters.The eential difference between manhood and childhood is the same as the difference between independence and subjection.For all the nostalgic remarks you hear, which adult would honestly change places with a child? Think of the years at school: the years spent living in constant fear of examinations and school reports.Every movement you make, every thought you think is observed by some critical adult who may draw unflattering conclusions about your character.Think of the curfews, the martial law, the times you had to go to bed early, do as you were told, eat disgusting stuff that was supposed to be good for you.Remember how ‘gentle’ preure was applied with remarks like ‘ if you don’t do as I say, I’ll…’ and a dire warning would follow.Even so, these are only part of a child’s troubles.No matter how kind and loving adults may be, children often suffer from terrible, illogical fears which are the result of ignorance and an inability to understand the world around them.Nothing can equal the abject fear a child may feel in the dark, the absolute horror of childish nightmares.Adults can share their fears with other adults; children invariably face their fears along.But the most painful part of childhood is the period when you begin to emerge from it: adolescence.Teenagers may rebel violently against parental authority, but this causes them great unhappine.There is a complete lack of self-confidence during this time.Adolescents are over-conscious of their appearance and the impreion they make on others.They feel shy, awkward and clumsy.Feelings are intense and hearts easily broken.Teenagers experience moments of tremendous elation or black despair.And through this turmoil, adults seem to be more hostile than ever.What a relief it is to grow up.Suddenly you regain your balance; the world opens up before you.You are free to choose; you have your own place to live in and your own money to spend.You do not have to seek constant approval for everything you do.You are no longer teased, punished or ridiculed by heartle adults because you failed to come up to some theoretical standard.And if on occasion you are teased, you know how to deal with it.You can simply tell other adults to go to hell: you are one yourself.18.Untidy people are not nice to know You don’t have to be a genius to spot them.The men of the species are often uncombed; their ties never knotted squarely beneath their collars.The women of the species always manage to smear lipstick on their faces as well as their lips; in one hand they carry handbags which are stuffed full of accumulated rubbish; with the other, they drag a horde of neglected children behind them.With a sort of happy unconcern, both the male and female species litter railway stations, streets, parks, etc., with sweet wrappings, banana-skins, egg-shells and cast-off shoes.Who are they? That great untidy hand of people that make up about three-quarters of the human race.An unending trail of rubbish pursues them wherever they go.It is most unwise to call on them at their homes-particularly if they aren’t expecting you.You are liable to find socks behind the refrigerator, marbles in the jam and egg-encrusted crockery.Newspapers litter the floor; ashtrays overflow; withered flowers go on withering in stale water.Writing-desks have become dumping grounds for piles of aorted, indescribable junk.And as for the bedrooms, well, it’s best not to say.Avoid looking in their cars, too, because you are likely to find last year’s lolly sticks, chewing-gum clinging to the carpets and a note saying’ Running In’ on the rear window of a ten-year-old vehicle.Yes, but what are they really like? Definitely not nice to know.They are invariably dirty, scruffy, forgetful, impatient, slovenly, slothful, unpunctual, inconsiderate, rude, irritable and (if they’re driving a car) positively dangerous.Untidine and these delightful qualities always seem to go together, or shall we say that untidine breeds these qualities.It’s hardly surprising.If you are getting dreed and can only find one sock, you can only end up being irritable and scruffy.If after a visit to a lovely beauty spot you think that other people will enjoy the sight of your orange peel, you can only be inconsiderate and slovenly.If you can’t find an important letter because you stuck it between the pages of a book and then returned the book to the library, you can only be forgetful.If you live in perpetual, self-imposed squalor, you must be slothful-otherwise you’d do something about it.What a delightful minority tidy people are by comparison! They seem to have a monopoly of the best human qualities.They are clean, neat, patient, hard-working, punctual, considerate and polite.All these gifts are reflected in their homes, their gardens, their work, their personal appearance.They are radiant, welcoming people whom you long to meet, whose esteem you really value.The crux of the matter is that tidy people are kind and generous, while untidy people are mean and selfish.The best proof of this is that tidy people, acting on the highest, selfle motives, invariably marry untidy ones.What happens after that is another story! 19.The only way to travel is on foot The past ages of man have all been carefully labeled by anthropologists.Descriptions like ‘Palaeolithic Man’, ‘Neolithic Man’, etc., neatly sum up whole periods.When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twentieth century, they will surely choose the label ‘Legle Man’.Histories of the time will go something like this:’ In the twentieth century, people forgot how to use their legs.Men and women moved about in cars, buses and trains from a very early age.There were lifts and escalators in all large buildings to prevent people from walking.This situation was forced upon earth-dwellers of that time because of their extraordinary way of life.In those days, people thought nothing of traveling hundreds of miles each day.But the surprising thing is that they didn’t use their legs even when they went on holiday.They built cable railways, ski-lifts and roads to the top of every huge mountain.All the beauty spots on earth were marred by the presence of large car parks.’

The future history books might also record that we were deprived of the use of our eyes.In our hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to see anything on the way.Air travel gives you a bird’s-eye view of the world-or even le if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way.When you travel by car or train a blurred image of the countryside constantly smears the windows.Car drivers, in particular, are forever obseed with the urge to go on and on: they never want to stop.Is it the lure of the great motorways, or what? And as for sea travel, it hardly deserves mention.It is perfectly summed up in the word of the old song:’ I joined the navy to see the world, and what did I see? I saw the sea.’ The typical twentieth-century traveler is the man who always says ‘ I’ve been there.’ You mention the remotest, most evocative place-names in the world like E1 Dorado, Kabul, Irkutsk and someone is bound to say ‘ I’ve been there’—meaning, ‘ I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else.’

When you travel at high speeds, the present means nothing: you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place.But actual arrival, when it is achieved, is meaningle.You want to move on again.By traveling like this, you suspend all experience; the present ceases to be a reality: you might just as well be dead.The traveler on foot, on the other hand, lives constantly in the present.For him traveling and arriving are one and the same thing: he arrives somewhere with every step he makes.He experiences the present moment with his eyes, his ears and the whole of his body.At the end of his journey he feels a delicious physical wearine.He knows that sound, satisfying sleep will be his: the just reward of all true travelers.20.Examinations exert a pernicious influence on education We might marvel at the progre made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person’s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were.It really is extraordinary that after all these years, educationists have still failed to devise anything more efficient and reliable than examinations.For all the pious claim that examinations test what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite.They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme preure, but they can tell you nothing about a person’s true ability and aptitude.

As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none.That is because so much depends on them.They are the mark of succe or failure in our society.Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day.It doesn’t matter that you weren’t feeling very well, or that your mother died.Little things like that don’t count: the exam goes on.No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleeple night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do.The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where succe and failure are clearly defined and measured.Can we wonder at the increasing number of ‘ drop-outs’: young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students? A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself.The examination system does anything but that.What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize.Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge, but induce cramming.They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedom.Teachers themselves are often judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques which they despise.The most succeful candidates are not always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under dure.The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective aement by some anonymous examiner.Examiners are only human.They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes.Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time.They work under the some sort of preure as the candidates.And their word carries weight.After a judge’s decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner’s.there must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of aeing a person’s true abilities.Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable busine for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis.The best comment on the system is this illiterate meage recently scrawled on the wall: ‘ I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire.’ 21.Books,plays and films should be censored Let us suppose that you are in the position of a parent.Would you allow your children to read any book they wanted to without first checking its contents? Would you take your children to see any film without first finking out whether it is suitable for them? If your answer to these questions is ‘ yes ‘, then you are either extremely permiive, or just plain irresponsible.If your answer is ‘no’, then you are exercising your right as a parent to protect your children from what you consider to be undesirable influences.In other words, by acting as a censor yourself, you are admitting that there is a strong case for censorship.Now, of course, you will say that it is one thing to exercise censorship where children are concerned and quite another to do the same for adults.Children need protection and it is the parents’ responsibility to provide it.But what about adults? Aren’t they old enough to decide what is good for them? The answer is that many adults are, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that all adults are like yourself.Censorship is for the good of society as a whole.Highly civilized people might find it poible to live amicably together without laws of any kind: they would just rely on good sense to solve their problems.But imagine what chaos there would be if we lived in a society without laws! Like the law, censorship contributes to the common good.Some people think that it is disgraceful that a censor should interfere with works of art.Who is this person, they say, to ban this great book to cut that great film? No one can set himself up as a superior being.But we must remember two things.Firstly, where genuine works of art are concerned, modern censors are extremely liberal in their views—often far more liberal than a large section of the public.Artistic merit is something which censors clearly recognize.And secondly, we must bear in mind that the great proportion of books, plays and films which come before the censor are very far from being ‘works of art’.

When discuing censorship, therefore, we should not confine our attention to great masterpieces, but should consider the vast numbers of publications and films which make up the bulk of the entertainment industry.When censorship laws are relaxed, unscrupulous people are given a licence to produce virtually anything in the name of ‘art’.There is an increasing tendency to equate ‘artistic’ with ‘pornographic’.The vast market for pornography would rapidly be exploited.One of the great things that censorship does is to prevent certain people from making fat profits by corrupting the minds of others.To argue in favour of absolute freedom is to argue in favour of anarchy.Society would really be the poorer if it deprived itself of the wise counsel and the restraining influence which a censor provides.22.People should be rewarded according to ability, not according to age and experience Young men and women today are finding it more and more neceary to protest against what is known as the ‘Establishment’: that is , the people who wield power in our society.Clashes with the authorities are reported almost daily in the pre.The tension that exists between old and young could certainly be leened if some of the most obvious causes were removed.In particular, the Establishment should adopt different attitudes to work, and the rewards it brings.Today’s young people are ambitious.Many are equipped with fine educations and are understandably impatient to succeed as quickly as poible.They want to be able to have their share of the good things in life while they are still young enough to enjoy them.The Establishment, however, has traditionally believed that people should be rewarded according to their age and experience.Ability counts for le.As the Establishment controls the pursestrings, its views are inevitably imposed on society.Employers pay the smallest sum consistent with keeping you in a job.You join the hierarchy and take your place in the queue.If you are young, you go to the very end of the queue and stay there no matter how brilliant you are.What you know is much le important than whom you know and how old you are.If you are able, your abilities will be acknowledged and rewarded in due course—that is, after twenty or thirty years have paed.By that time you will be considered old enough to join the Establishment and you will be expected to adopt its ideas.God help you if you don’t.

There seems to be a gigantic conspiracy against young people.While on the one hand society provides them with better educational facilities, one the other it does its best to exclude them from the jobs that really matter.There are exceptions, of course.Some young people do manage to break through the barrier despite the restrictions, but the great majority have to wait patiently for years before they can really give full rein to their abilities.This means that, in most fields, the views of young people are never heard because there is no one to represent them.All important decisions about how society is to be run are made by people who are too old to remember what it was like to be young.President Kennedy was tone of the notable exceptions.One of the most tragic aspects of his aaination is that mankind was deprived of a youthful leader.Resentment is the cause of a great deal of bitterne.The young resent the old because they feel deprived of the good things life has to offer.The old resent the young because they are afraid of losing what they have.A man of fifty or so might say, ‘ why should a young rascal straight out of school earn more than I do?’ But if the young rascal is more able, more determined, harder-working than his middle-aged critic, why shouldn’t he? Employers should recognize ability and reward it justly.This would remove one of the biggest causes of friction between old and young and ultimately it would lead to a better society.23.The tourist trade contributes absolutely nothing to increasing understanding between nations The tourist trade is booming.With all this coming and going, you’d expect greater understanding to develop between the nations of the world.Not a bit of it! Superb systems of communication by air, sea and land make it poible for us to visit each other’s countries at a moderate cost.What was once the ‘grand tour’, reserved for only the very rich, is now within everybody’ grasp.The package tour and chartered flights are not to be sneered at.Modern travelers enjoy a level of comfort which the lords and ladies on grand tours in the old days couldn’t have dreamed of.But what’s the sense of this ma exchange of populations if the nations of the world remain basically ignorant of each other? Many tourist organizations are directly responsible for this state of affairs.They deliberately set out to protect their clients from too much contact with the local population.The modern tourist leads a coeted, sheltered life.He lives at international hotels, where he eats his international food and sips his international drink while he gazes at the natives from a distance.Conducted tours to places of interest are carefully censored.The tourist is allowed to see only what the organizers want him to see and no more.A strict schedule makes it impoible for the tourist to wander off on his own; and anyway, language is always a barrier, so he is only too happy to be protected in this way.At its very worst, this leads to a new and hideous kind of colonization.The summer quarters of the inhabitants of the cite universitaire: are temporarily re-established on the island of Corfu.Blackpool is recreated at Torremolinos where the traveler goes not to eat paella, but fish and chips.The sad thing about this situation is that it leads to the persistence of national stereotypes.We don’t see the people of other nations as they really are, but as we have been brought up to believe they are.You can test this for yourself.Take five nationalities, say, French , German, English, American and Italian.Now in your mind, match them with these five adjectives? Musical, amorous, cold, pedantic, na?ve.Far from providing us with any insight into the national characteristics of the peoples just mentioned, these adjectives actually act as barriers.So when you set out on your travels, the only characteristics you notice are those which confirm your preconceptions.You come away with the highly unoriginal and inaccurate impreion that, say, ‘Anglo-saxons are hypocrites’ or that ‘Latin peoples shout a lot’.You only have to make a few foreign friends to understand how absurd and harmful national stereotypes are.But how can you make foreign friends when the tourist trade does its best to prevent you?

Carried to an extreme, stereotypes can be positively dangerous.Wild generalizations stir up racial hatred and blind us to the basic face—how trite it sounds! ---that all people are human.We are all similar to each other and at the same time all unique.

24.Only a madman would choose to live in a large modern city ‘Avoid the rush-hour’ must be the slogan of large cities the world over.If it is, it’s a slogan no one takes the least notice of.Twice a day, with predictable regularity, the pot boils over.Wherever you look it’s people, people, people.The trains which leave or arrive every few minutes are packed: an endle proceion of human sardine tins.The streets are so crowded, there is hardly room to move on the pavements.The queues for buses reach staggering proportions.It takes ages for a bus to get to you because the traffic on the roads has virtually come to a standstill.Even when a bus does at last arrive, it’s so full, it can’t take any more paengers.This whole crazy system of commuting stretches man’s resources to the utmost.The smallest unforeseen even can bring about conditions of utter chaos.A power-cut, for instance, an exceptionally heavy snowfall or a minor derailment must always make city-dwellers realize how precarious the balance is.The extraordinary thing is not that people put up with these conditions, but that they actually choose them in preference to anything else.Large modern cities are too big to control.They impose their own living conditions on the people who inhabit them.City-dwellers are obliged by their environment to adopt a wholly unnatural way of life.They lose touch with the land and rhythm of nature.It is poible to live such an air-conditioned existence in a large city that you are barely conscious of the seasons.A few flowers in a public park ( if you have the time to visit it) may remind you that it is spring or summer.A few leaves clinging to the pavement may remind you that it is autumn.Beyond that, what is gong on in nature seems totally irrelevant.All the simple , good things of life like sunshine and fresh air are at a premium.Tall buildings blot out the sun.traffic fumes pollute the atmosphere.Even the distinction between day and night is lost.The flow of traffic goes on unceasingly and the noise never stops.

The funny thing about it all is that you pay dearly for the ‘privilege’ of living in a city.The demand for accommodation is so great that it is often impoible for ordinary people to buy a house of their own.Exorbitant rents must be paid for tiny flats which even country hens would disdain to live in.accommodation apart, the cost of living is very high.Just about everything you buy is likely to be more expensive than it would be in the country.In addition to all this, city-dwellers live under constant threat.The crime rate in most cities is very high.Houses are burgled with alarming frequency.Cities breed crime and violence and are full of places you would be afraid to visit at night.If you think about it, they’ re not really fit to live in at all.Can anyone really doubt that the country is what was born for and where he truly belongs? 25.Equality of opportunity in the twentieth century has not destroyed the cla system These days we hear a lot of nonsense about the ‘ great clale society’.The idea that the twentieth century is the age of the common man has become one of the great clichés of our time.The same old arguments are put forward in evidence.Here are some of them: monarchy as a system of government has been completely discredited.The monarchies that survive have been deprived of all political power.Inherited wealth has been savagely reduced by taxation and, in time, the great fortunes will disappear altogether.In a number of countries the victory has been complete.The people rule; the great millennium has become a political reality.But has it>close examination doesn’t bear out the claim.

It is a fallacy to suppose that all men are equal and that society will be leveled out if you provide everybody with the same educational opportunities.( It is debatable whether you can ever provide everyone with the same educational opportunities, but that is another question.) The fact is that nature dispenses brains and ability with a total disregard for the principle of equality.The old rules of the jungle,’ survival of the fittest’, and ‘might is right’ are still with us.The spread of education has destroyed the old cla system and created a new one.Rewards are based on merit.For ‘aristocracy’ read ‘meritocracy’; in other respects, society remains unaltered: the cla system is rigidly maintained.

Genuine ability, animal cunning, skill, the knack of seizing opportunities, all bring material rewards.And what is the first thing people do when they become rich? They use their wealth to secure the best poible opportunities for their children, to give them ‘ a good start in life’.For all the lip-service we pay to the idea of equality, we do not consider this wrong in the western world.Private schools which offer unfair advantages over state schools are not banned because one of the principles in a democracy is that people should be free to choose how they will educate their children.In this way, the new meritocracy can perpetuate itself to a certain extent: an able child from a wealthy home can succeed far more rapidly than his poorer counterpart.Wealth is also used indiscriminately to further political ends.In societies wholly dedicated to the principle of social equality, privileged private education is forbidden.But even here people are rewarded according to their abilities.In fact, so great is the need for skilled workers that the least able may be neglected.Bright children are carefully and expensively trained to become future rulers.In the end, all political ideologies boil down to the same thing: cla divisions persist whether you are ruled by a feudal king or an educated peasant.26.No one wants to live to be a hundred It’s only natural to look forward to something better.We do it all our lives.Things may never really improve, but at least we always hope they will.It is one of life’s great ironies that the longer we lives, the le there is to look forward to.Retirement may bring with it the fulfillment of a lifetime’s dreams.At last there will be time to do all the things we never had time for.Form then on, the dream fades.Unle circumstances are exceptional, the prospect of growing really old is horrifying.Who wants to live revert to that most dreaded of all human conditions, a second childhood? Well, it seems that everybody wants to.The Biblical span of three score years and ten is simply not enough.Medical science is doing all it can to extend human life and is succeeding brilliantly.Living conditions are much better, so many diseases can either be prevented or cured that life expectation has increased enormously.No one would deny that this is a good thing—provided one enjoys perfect health.But is it a good thing to extend human suffering, to prolong life, not in order to give joy and happine, but to give pain and sorrow? Take an extreme example.Take the case of a man who is so senile he has lost all his faculties.He is in hospital in an unconscious state with little chance of coming round, but he is kept alive by artificial means for an indefinite period.Everyone, his friends, relatives and even the doctors agree that death will bring release.Indeed, the patient himself would agree—if he were in a position to give voice to his feelings.Yet everything is done to perpetuate what has become a meaningle existence.The question of euthanasia raises serious moral iues, since it implies that active measures will be taken to terminate human life.And this is an exceedingly dangerous principle to allow.But might it not be poible to compromise? With regard to senility, it might be preferable to let nature take its course when death will relieve suffering.After all, this would be doing no more than was done in the past, before medical science made it poible to interfere with the course of nature.There are people in Afghanistan and Ruia who are reputed to live to a ripe old age.These exceptionally robust individuals are just getting into their stride at 70.cases have been reported of men over 120 getting married and having children.Some of these people are said to be over 150 years old.Under such exceptional conditions, who wouldn’t want to go on living forever? But in our societies, to be 70, usually means that you are old; to be 90, often means that you are decrepit.The instinct for self-preservation is the strongest we poe.We cling dearly to life while we have it and enjoy it.But there always comes a time when we’d be better off dead.27.Capital punishment is the only way to deter criminals Perhaps all criminals should be required to carry cards which read: Fragile: Handle With Care.It will never do, these days, to go around referring to criminals as violent thugs.You must refer to them politely as ‘social misfits ‘.The profeional killer who wouldn’t think twice about using his cosh or crowbar to batter some harmle old lady to death in order to rob her of her meager life-savings must never be given a dose of his own medicine.He is in need of ‘ hospital treatment’.According to his misguided defenders, society is to blame.A wicked society breeds evil-or so the argument goes.When you listen to this kind of talk, it makes you wonder why we aren’t all criminals.We have done away with the absurdly harsh laws of the nineteenth century and this is only right.But surely enough is enough.The most sensele piece of criminal legislation in Britain and a number of other countries has been the suspension of capital punishment.The violent criminal has become a kind of hero-figure in our time.He is glorified on the screen; he is pursued by the pre and paid vast sums of money for his ‘ memoirs’.Newspapers which specialize in crime-reporting enjoy enormous circulations and the publishers of trashy cops and robbers stories or ‘murder mysteries’ have never had it so good.When you read about the achievements of the great train robbers, it makes you wonder whether you are reading about some glorious resistance movement.The hardened criminal is cuddled and coeted by the sociologists on the one hand and adored as a hero by the maes on the other.It’s no wonder he is a privileged person who expects and receives VIP treatment wherever he goes.Capital punishment used to be a major deterrent.It made the violent robber think twice before pulling the trigger.It gave the cold-blooded poisoner something to ponder about while he was shaking up or serving his arsenic cocktail.It prevented unarmed policemen from being mowed down while pursuing their duty by killers armed with automatic weapons.Above all, it protected the most vulnerable members of society, young children, from brutal sex-maniacs.It is horrifying to think that the criminal can literally get away with murder.We all know that ‘life sentence’ does not mean what it says.After ten years or so of ‘good conduct’, the most desperate villain is free to return to society where he will live very comfortably, thank you, on the proceeds of his crime, or he will go on committing offences until he is caught again.People are always willing to hold liberal views at the expense of others.It’s always fashionable to pose as the defender of the under-dog, so long as you, personally, remain unaffected.Did the defenders of crime, one wonders, in their desire for fair-play, consult the victims before they suspended capital punishment? Hardly.You see, they couldn’t, because all the victims were dead.

28.The space race is the world’s biggest money waster

Almost every day we see something in the papers about the latest exciting developments in the space race.Photographs are regularly flashed to the earth from thousands and even millions of miles away.They are printed in our newspapers and shown on our television screens as a visible proof of man’s newest achievements.The photographs neatly sum up the results of these maive efforts to ‘conquer space’ and at the same time they expose the absurdity of the undertaking.All we can see is an indistinguishable blob which is supposed to represent a planet seen from several thousand miles away.We are going to end up with a little moon-dust and a few stones which will be put behind gla in some museum.This is hardly value for money when you think that our own earth can provide countle sights which are infinitely more exciting and spectacular.The space race is not simply the objective search for knowledge it is often made out to be.It is just an extension of the race for power on earth.Only the wealthiest nations can compete and they do so in the name of pure scientific research.But in reality, all they are interested in is power and prestige.They want to impre us, their spectators, with a magnificent show of strength.Man has played the power game ever since he appeared on earth.Now he is playing it as it has never been played before.The space race is just another aspect of the age-old argument that ‘ might is right’.We are often told that technological know-how, acquired in attempting to get us into orbit, will be utilized to make life better on earth.But what has the space race done to relieve the suffering of the earth’s starving millions? In what way has it raised the standard of living of any one of us>as for as the layman is concerned, the practical results of al this expenditure of money and effort are negligible.Thanks to space research, we can now see television pictures transmitted live half-way acro the globe and the housewife can use non-stick frying-pans in the kitchen.The whole thing becomes utterly absurd when you think that no matter what problems man overcomes, it is unlikely that he will ever be able to travel even to the nearest star.Poverty, hunger, disease and war are man’s greatest enemies and the world would be an infinitely better place if the powerful nations devoted half as much money and effort to these problems as they do to the space race.For the first time in his history, man has the overwhelming technological resources to combat human suffering, yet he squanders them on meaningle pursuits.If a man deprived himself and his family of food in order to buy and run a car, we would consider him mad.Individuals with limited budgets usually get their priorities right: they provide themselves with neceities before trying to obtain luxuries.Why can’t great nations act in the same sensible way? Let us put our house in order first and let space look after itself.29.Violence can do nothing to diminish race prejudice In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has so come to be taken for granted as a means of solving differences, that it is not even questioned.What is really frightening, what really fills you with despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch, we have made no actual progre at all.We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged.The whole of the recorded history of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taught us absolutely nothing.We have still not learnt that violence never solves a problem but makes it more acute.The sheer horror, the bloodshed, the suffering mean nothing.No solution ever comes to light the morning after when we dismally contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder what hit us.The truly reasonable men who know where the solutions lie are finding it harder and harder to get a hearing.They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted by their own kind because they advocate such apparently outrageous things as low enforcement.If half the energy that goes into violent acts were put to good use, if our efforts were directed at cleaning up the slums and ghettos, at improving living-standards and providing education and employment for all, we would have gone a long way to arriving at a solution.Our strength is sapped by having to mop up the me that violence leaves in its wake.In a well-directed effort, it would not be impoible to fulfill the ideals of stable social programme.The benefits that can be derived from constructive solutions are everywhere apparent in the world around us.Genuine and lasting solutions are always poible, providing we work within the framework of the law.Before we can even begin to contemplate peaceful co-existence between the races, we must appreciate each other’s problems.And to do this, we must learn about them: it is a simple exercise in communication, in exchanging information.’ Talk, talk, talk,’ the advocates of violence say, ‘ all you ever do is talk and we are none the wiser.’ It’s rather like the story of the famous barrister who painstakingly explained his case to the judge.After listening to a lengthy argument the judge complained that after all this talk, he was none the wiser.‘ Poible, my Lord,’ the barrister replied, ‘ none the wiser, but surely far better informed.’ Knowledge is the neceary prerequisite to wisdom: the knowledge that violence creates the evils it pretends to solve.30.The most important of all human qualities is a sense of humor Biologically, there is only one quality which distinguishes us from animals: the ability to laugh.In a universe which appears to be utterly devoid of humor, we enjoy this supreme luxury.And it is a luxury, for unlike any other bodily proce, laughter does not seem to serve a biologically useful purpose.In a divided world, laughter is a unifying force.Human beings oppose each other on a great many iues.Nations may disagree about systems of government and human relations may be plagued by ideological factions and political camps, but we all share the ability to laugh.And laughter, in turn, depends on that most complex and subtle of all human qualities: a sense of humour.Certain comic stereotypes have a universal appeal.This can best be seen from the world-wide popularity of Charlie Chaplin’s early films.The little man at odds with society never fails to amuse no matter which country we come from.As that great commentator on human affairs, Dr.Samuel Johnson, once remarked,’ Men have been wise in very different modes; but they have always laughed in the same way.’

A sense of humour may take various forms and laughter may be anything from a refined tinkle to an earth quaking roar, but the effect is always the same.Humour helps us to maintain a correct sense of values.It is the one quality which political fanatics appear to lack.If we can see the funny side, we never make the mistake of taking ourselves too seriously.We are always reminded that tragedy is not really far removed from comedy, so we never get a lop-sided view of things.This is one of the chief functions of satire and irony.Human pain and suffering are so grim; we hover so often on the brink of war; political realities are usually enough to plunge us into total despair.In such circumstances, cartoons and satirical accounts of somber political events redre the balance.They take the wind out of pompous and arrogant politicians who have lost their sense of proportion.They enable us to see that many of our most profound actions are merely comic or absurd.We laugh when a great satirist like Swift writes about war in Gulliver’s Travels.The Lilliputians and their neighbours attack each other because they can’t agree at which end to break an egg.We laugh because we are meant to laugh; but we are meant to weep too.It is no wonder that in totalitarian regimes any satire against the establishment is wholly banned.It is to powerful a weapon to be allowed to flourish.The sense of humour must be singled out as man’ s most important quality because it is aociated with laughter.And laughter, in turn, is aociated with happine.Courage, determination, initiative—there are qualities we share with other forms of life.But the sense of humour is uniquely human.If happine is one of the great goals of life, then it is the sense of humour that provides the key.

推荐第10篇：我的作文书

我的作文书

我有一本作文书叫“名师手把手”，那是妈妈给我买的，我很喜欢它。如果你想不出作文或日记，它就像你的作文老师一样教你，会让你轻轻松松的爱上写作。而且每一篇作文和日记下面都有意思讲解给我们听。自从有了这本书以后我的作文和日记都提高的很快很快。老师和同学都说我作文和日记写得好，妈妈也是这么说的。不过我还是想对妈妈说：“妈妈谢谢您给我买了这本书。”

台州市黄岩区高桥中心小学二年级:黄荟洋

第11篇：作文书的序

平凡人见证奇迹，英雄缔造奇迹。十年，一段山高水远的路途；十年，一曲震撼人心的赞歌，新少年的执着和勇气将不可能变为现实，用实际行动塑造了一段传奇。

十年，向前走，就这么走。不曾想过前方的崎岖泥泞，只因心中有信念；不在回望身后的美景，那已成过往。就好像一段朝圣的旅途，踏下一个个稳当的脚步，一步一步就这么走了十年。回首时，尽管身后的脚印早已看不到尽头，却未曾忘记当初为什么出发。

十年已过，抖去一身风尘仆仆，才发现新少年的翅膀早有鲲鹏之势，其背不知几千里也；其翼，犹若垂天之云；振翅而飞，可扶摇直上九万里也。

翻开手中的这本书，我们看到的是一群少年背负着自己的梦想扬帆出发，这是一次认识自我的旅途，这是一段发现世界的征程。

这一段段旅途，不仅是用脚迈过的距离，是地理上的穿越，更是用心灵和回忆丈量的旅程。也许是当身体放归大自然时，心灵更容易找到最本真的记忆，更容易从流逝的光阴中中寻回隐匿的自我；也许是因为扩大的视角、开放的交流容易让人在接受和思辨中学到更多。旅途中的孩子们不仅渐渐读懂了人生，学会了珍重最珍贵的亲情、爱情、友谊，更是认识了未知的自己。

走出教室，孩子们看见牦牛正在草地上晒太阳，听见浪花冲刷海岸的声音……所有曾被忽略了的事物在孩子们眼里突然变得新奇、动人。他们开始用真情抒写生活，兴许没有华彩明丽的辞藻，没有工整通畅的行文，可那词句背后的画面与故事，越平凡质朴越令人动容——前行路上老师高大的背影，海滩边没过脚踝的浪花与大树上垂下的柳条，破旧小屋中那些腼腆的笑脸，深深浅浅的脚印落在柔软的细沙上，送孩子们远去而挥动的小手，那些满脸汗珠却饱含笑意的面容……画面在一个人物身上定格，停顿一下，又跳到另一个场景上，再停顿。一放一停，一停一放，时间滴答滴答的往前飞奔，一转眼就过去了十年。十年，新少年一下就有了形象，有了精气神，不再抽象，不再单一，所有的感想，唯有经过时间的沉淀，才能体会出来，张扬也好，内敛也罢，每一个字背后都是深切而诚恳的情感，新少年背负了太多的过往和未来，只有经历了十年的风雨兼程，才能承载住这许多的故事与期望。

翻开这本书，你就走进了一个个美丽的心灵世界。在孩子们的身边，每天都有无穷的事物等待他们去发现、去探索、去描述、去以自己特有的方式表达。

一段时光的日夜朝夕，汇聚成这一篇篇话语，我爱这夏天的美丽，也爱这夏天的迤逦，纵手一释，光阴如流水般流走，站在原地，记下所感所觉，轻轻合上扉页，指腹仍残墨香……

第12篇：一本作文书的“味道”

一本作文书的“味道”

大家好，我的名字叫＂作文书＂，那些小朋友们都叫我＂作文的源泉＂久而久之，这个小名儿也在我短小的生命中留下了一道美丽的＂弧线＂，深刻的印象．当然，我的生命中也。有许多酸，甜，苦，辣，下面，请看>：

拍案一

――甜

今天，老师把我放到了讲台上，我美美地睡了一觉，叮铃铃，叮铃铃！下课了，同学们一拥而上，将我争来争去，＂哎哟！＂正在美梦的我一下子美梦的我一下子被吵醒了，在这几番挣扎中，虽然我被他们弄得疲惫不堪，但是我也觉得挺满足的，毕竟，这还是头一回有人为我“拼搏”地如此激烈吗！最后，一位主人经过“血战”将我夺了过来，看着他读的津津有味，我也满足了，甜甜地笑了起来。

拍案二

――酸

第二天，我正在安然入睡，美梦使我不由得“哈哈大笑”起来，梦口水“滴哒滴哒”地“流”到了我那精致的书皮上。“你看你！„„”杨老师的吼把我惊吓了一跳，哎！不管！因为每天都会有杨老师的吼声，好！只好用老方法了――不理不睬。恩――恩――恩，继续睡觉，可这次却恰恰相反，杨老师不顾三七二十一地将我拿了起来，正在我丈二和尚――摸不着头脑的时侯，杨老师一甩，砸中了那个调皮的小男孩，“啊！”我和那个小男孩几乎同时叫了起来。那些人都去安慰他，我也在哭啊！可怜我呀！没人可怜！结果在地下喝了一节课的“西北风”。酸酸的眼泪流了下来：“咋没人可怜我？”

哎！苦和辣以后在给你们讲吧！虽然生活有酸有苦也有辣，不过生活总应该丰富多彩你说是吗？

第13篇：文书瑶读后感

读《巴黎圣母院》有感蓬莱市实验中学 初

二、九班 文书瑶指导老师 唐秋梅伟大的小说不仅仅在于它情节的曲折惊险刺激，更在于它塑造的人物、揭露的事实、反映出的人性带给人的巨大震撼。名作家雨果的经典著作《巴黎圣母院》就做到了这一点，这也是我喜爱这部作品的原因。

这是一部写人的小说。没有神，也没有神性。没有人是完美的，所有人都带着缺陷。没有人是完全理智的，都带着或多或少人类本身的疯狂。这是一场正义和邪恶，美丽和丑陋，纯洁和肮脏的较量，是一幅光怪陆离又鲜血淋淋的爱情悲剧画卷，又是一部上至法王路易十一下至乞丐贱民的史书。

整个小说展示了一幅15世纪的巴黎市井百态图，其中描写的“奇迹王朝”是一个非常大的广场，居住着许许多多的下层人民，他们来自不同的国家、不同的地方，他们有不同的宗教信仰，是一群被生活所迫的行乞者。而主人公波西米亚少女艾丝美拉达是这群流浪人的宠儿，她与她可爱的小羊靠街头卖艺为生。她纯真善良，富有同情心。因为不忍心看着无辜的诗人甘果瓦被乞丐们杀死，便自愿接受他做自己名义上的丈夫，以此来保住他的性命。看着奇丑无比的撞钟人加西莫多在烈日下受着鞭刑，只有她会心生怜悯，把代表关爱的清水送到因口渴而呼喊的撞钟人干裂的唇边。就是这样一个善良高贵的女子，却被可憎的圣母院副教主弗洛罗陷害，被法庭诬蔑为女巫，杀人犯，

被判处绞刑。一个善良纯真的灵魂，就这样被腐朽的封建统治和那些内心阴暗丑陋的所谓“社会上层人”蹂躏和毁灭了。

作者所塑造的艾丝美拉达，不仅仅是外表貌若天仙，美丽动人，而且她的心灵也是无比的高尚，她是美与善的化身。就是因为心灵美与外在美的完美统一，才引起了读者对她的无限同情与赞美甚至是敬佩，同时也更加衬托出了副教主弗洛罗等人的丑恶阴暗，加强了对封建社会与王权的强烈憎恶之情。

《巴黎圣母院》的特点就是有着鲜明的美与丑的对比，令人沉思，发人深省。除了艾丝美拉达，便是撞钟人加西莫多与副教主弗洛罗的对比。

他们是两个截然相反的角色。弗洛罗表面上道貌岸然，过着清苦的修行生活，其实他内心渴求淫乐，对世俗的享受充满妒忌与羡慕，他自私，阴险，为达目的不择手段，尤其是见过艾丝美拉达之后，这一点就更加突出。他被她的美貌迷得神魂颠倒，竟让撞钟人去劫持她，想把她占为己有，事不成，竟把刺杀弗比斯队长的罪名嫁祸于她，使她被判死刑。而撞钟人加西莫多，是个驼背、独眼、又聋又跛的畸形人，从小受到别人的歧视与欺凌。但因为艾丝美拉达在自己受刑时唯一没有嘲笑自己，并给自己递了一碗水，使他感受到了温暖与爱。从此，这个外表粗俗野蛮的怪人，把自己全部的生命和热情寄托在艾斯梅拉达的身上，可以为她赴汤蹈火，可以为了她的幸福牺牲自己的一切，在小说的结尾，因为艾丝美拉达的死，加西莫多愤然将弗洛罗从教堂顶楼摔落地下，最后他抚着艾斯梅拉达的尸体殉情。由此可以看

出，与虚伪阴暗的弗洛罗相比，加西莫多虽然有着一个让人生厌的可怖的丑陋外表，但是他善良，勇敢，懂得感恩，具有内在的美。作者通过这两个人物讽刺了那些贪婪、自私的道貌岸然的伪君子，同时也赞扬了那些平凡但内心淳朴善良的人们。

另两个特色人物，一个是徒有华丽外表、内心却无比阴险的弗比斯队长，他以极其恶劣的手段玩弄了艾斯梅拉达；另一个人是落魄诗人甘果瓦，一个在夹缝中苟且偷生的家伙，为了生存可以抛弃爱情、抛弃尊严、抛弃责任，作者对这两个人物的描写同样充满了鄙夷和嘲讽。

这本书里还有很多鲜活传神的人物，和精彩的故事情节。作者以极大的同情心描写了巴黎最下层的人民、流浪者和乞丐。他们衣衫褴褛、举止粗野，却拥有远远胜过那个所谓有教养、文明的世界里的人的美德——互助友爱，正直勇敢和舍己为人的美德。

雨果用他辛辣又浑厚的笔，表达了对在封建社会压榨下苦苦挣扎的奇迹王朝里的乞丐们的悲天悯人，对金玉其外，败絮其中的弗比斯队长的嘲讽，对苟且偷生的潦倒诗人甘果瓦的鄙夷，对虚伪狡猾又残酷的副教主弗洛罗的憎恶，和对卡西莫多和艾斯美拉达这对外表有天壤之别，内心却如一善良纯洁的悲剧人物的褒扬与惋惜。它让我们真真正正地目睹了什么是美与丑，什么是善与恶，让我们重新审视了自己与周围的一切，让我们明白了， 内在的心灵美是多么的高尚与重要。

人们不应该过分追求外在的美，不应该过分追求荣华富贵与权势，这些都不是真正的必须拥有的东西，人们真正该拥有的，是一颗善待他人、无私奉献、珍惜生命、热爱生活、充满责任的心灵，是彼此之间的平等、互助、尊重、真诚。构成了多姿多彩的生命的东西，不是所谓的权势、金钱，而是这些美好又朴实的美德，它们才是人这一生中真正的闪光点，它们才是人这一生中真正宝贵的财富。

这就是《巴黎圣母院》这部经典著作告诉我们的，也是我所学到的永远不变的真理。

第14篇：第八次作文书的**扩写

原文： 小刚在楼下踢球，不小心把王伯伯家的玻璃踢碎了。逃回家后经过思想斗争，主动地向王伯伯承认了错误。

指导列提纲：

1、小刚在楼下踢球时，当时是什么时间？在什么地方？什么样情况？ 午睡无人 无聊

2、怎样踢球？怎样踢破玻璃的？十分开心大汗淋漓用脚带着往前跑练习过人 对着墙飞脚射门飞起一脚球像

一个旋转的飞盘飞向……越飞越高“砰”的一声哗啦吓 心提起来 怦怦直跳躲听到逃

3、不安和矛盾心理的描写你一言，我一语议论纷纷心情沉重坐立不安羞愧脸热辣辣的怎么办？ （矛盾：承认：告诉爸爸 ……不承认：知错不改不诚实 ……）

4、承认错误敲门低头不敢看小声说等着王伯伯痛骂一顿可是知错就改心情轻松明白

原文：

小刚在楼下踢球，不小心把王伯伯家的玻璃踢碎了。逃回家后经过思想斗争，主动地向王伯伯承认了错误。

指导列提纲：

1、小刚在楼下踢球时，当时是什么时间？在什么地方？什么样情况？ 午睡无人 无聊

2、怎样踢球？怎样踢破玻璃的？十分开心大汗淋漓用脚带着往前跑练习过人 对着墙飞脚射门飞起一脚球像

一个旋转的飞盘飞向……越飞越高“砰”的一声哗啦吓 心提起来 怦怦直跳躲听到逃

3、不安和矛盾心理的描写你一言，我一语议论纷纷心情沉重坐立不安羞愧脸热辣辣的怎么办？ （矛盾：承认：告诉爸爸 ……不承认：知错不改不诚实 ……）

4、承认错误敲门低头不敢看小声说等着王伯伯痛骂一顿可是知错就改心情轻松明白

第15篇：焦作市中考满分作文书是一面镜子

书是一面镜子

阳光明媚的午后，独自一人在阳台上看书，泡上一杯香茗，静静地品味着书中的悲欢离合、酸甜苦辣。

唐代皇帝曾以人为镜，而我则是以书为镜。这面镜子伴随着我走过春夏秋冬，引领我走出困境，照出我的内心世界。

书是一面镜子，是一面教我如何生活的镜子。读《论语》让我明白了“三人行，必有我师焉”的道理，从此我总是能够虚心向人学习，从而取得了不断的进步；读《爱的教育》让我懂得应真心待人，从此我学会了把关爱送给身边的人；读《儒林外史》让我懂得了功名利禄乃身外之物，从此我不再和他人盲目攀比。我无法想象，如果没有了书，我将会过着怎样无聊的生活！

书是一面镜子，是一面能显现处事之法的镜子。与父母有代沟了，“慈母手中线，游子身上衣”告诉我，父母育儿是多么的艰辛，不该因为一时的沟通有碍而伤害父母的心；与师长有误会了，“落红不是无情物，化作春泥更护花”告诉我，师长对后辈的爱是无私的，不该因为一次的误解而与师长赌气；与朋友吵架了，“有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎”告诉我，朋友是难得的，友情是珍贵的，不该因为一点小事而埋藏友谊。这一切告诉我，一旦没有了书，我将会失去至亲至爱的人。

书是一面镜子，是一面能照出我性格的镜子。当我遇到困难想要退缩时，书说：“天将降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨„„”，于是在书的引领下，我学会了挑战困难。当我徘徊在人生的十字路口，不知所措时，书说：“走自己的路，让别人说去吧”，于是，在书的鼓励下，我学会了慎重考虑，自己选择，自己承担。当我烦恼一大堆，意志消沉时，书说：“抽刀断水水更流，举杯消愁愁更愁”，于是在书的教诲下，我学会了用剪刀剪除烦恼，重新整装待发。

读书使人明礼，有了书，我们才能学会正确的待人接物的方法读书使人明理，有了书，我们才能健康成长，拥有卓尔不凡的气质；读书使人明智，有了书，我们才能得以发展，创造出一个又一个奇迹。

书是一面镜子，经常照照这面镜子吧，你将会开创出另一个人生，一个“腹有诗书气自华”的人生。

第16篇：商务文书写作教程读后感

商务文书教程读后感

当今社会是市场经济社会，商务活动则是各种社会活动的基础。伴随着经济改革的深入发展，商务文书写作已成为当前应用写作的一个热点，企业内部的大部分沟通也是以商务文书的形式进行。

《福布斯》杂志的创始人——马尔克姆·福布斯曾经说“一封好的商务信函可以让你得到一次面试的机会帮助你摆脱困境或者为你带来财富”也就是说写好商务文书在一定程度上能够给大家带来很大的经济利益。 从另一个角度来看商务文书写作与其它任何文本的撰写一样其作用和最终目的都是为了与别人进行某种形式的交流与沟通。而需要强调的一点是沟通并不仅仅是所传递出来的信息而是被别人理解的信息。如果理解了这一点那么我们就可以认识到在日常工作及生活中大家所普遍谈及的所谓“沟通的障碍”其实就都是来自于简单传递的单向沟通。 因此在商务文书写作方面最为重要的一点就是要避免陷入单向沟通的误区时刻站在读者的角度来思考问题并形成最后的文字表现让文书接收方能够理解自己的意图这样才能发挥出写作商务文书的沟通作用。

商务文书按形式分为固定格式的商务文书和非固定格式的商务文书；按照内容用途分为通用的商务文书和礼仪性的商务文书。

商务文书写作的核心内容包括以下几个部分：

 商务文书的写作步骤以及相应的重点

 商务文书的写作技巧

 商务文书写作的注意事项

 商务文书写作应掌握的范例。

商务文书写作特点：

 简明，正所谓“句中无余字，篇内无赘语”，“简明”是商务文书首要特

点。

 准确，而所谓“准确”就是要求商务文书要做到“一字入公文，九牛拔

不出”，不要像“关门闭户掩柴飞”这样的表达一样将同样一个意思重复三次。在意思清楚的前提下商务文书写作应追求尽量用一段话、一句话甚至是一个词将核心意思表达出来。

 朴实，所谓“朴实”就是指在商务文书写作中不要去刻意地堆砌辞藻，

一代文豪白居易尚且不这样做，我们就更不必在这个方面显示自己的实力和水平了。

 庄重，所谓“庄重”是指在商务文书中对整体风格的把握不要过于诙谐

幽默太多的玩笑会极大地影响文书的严肃性。

 规范，商务文书写作在很多方面还具有规范性强的特点，其中标点符号

的规范性就尤为重要但是却往往被大家所忽视。

商务文书写作有以下四个要素：

 主旨；

 材料；

 结构；

 语言。

商务文书写作的6个步骤：

1、制定正确的行动目标；

2、决定文章的正式程度；

3、设定文章的总体风格；

4、选择文章的层次结构；

5、列出文章的大纲；

6、撰写初稿。

第17篇：昆虫记读后感作三年级

昆虫记读后感作三年级

导语：《昆虫记》的英文名称是《The Records about Insects》，是法国杰出昆虫学家法布尔的传世佳作，亦是一部不朽的著作。它不仅是一部文学巨著，也是一部科学百科。以下是聘才本人为大家搜索整理的，欢迎大家阅读。 (一)昆虫记读后感作三年级

法布尔写的《昆虫记》是一部世界昆虫的史诗、是一群昆虫共同谱写的生命乐章、是一部永远解读的书。正如法国戏剧家罗斯丹所说，“法布尔拥有哲学家一般的思维、美术家一般的看、文学家一般感受与抒写。”我在读他写的文章时，我感到每一只虫子都不是孤独的，有着人们的思维，正如蝉天真善良螳螂杀人不眨眼这样的特点，法布尔给予了虫子们人的特点。

在法布尔的文章中，我读出了他对大自然的热爱，对虫子的喜爱，仿佛空气与他融在一起，我也如同生临其境，目睹了一场又一场虫子们的彼此较量，重新认识了虫子。

读着一个个栩栩如生的昆虫故事，我身临其境，仿佛与法布尔一起拿着放大镜观察着小昆虫的喜怒哀乐，让我感受到昆虫世界的奇妙。

《昆虫记》向我们介绍了法布尔迷恋昆虫研究，揭开了昆虫世界的许多奥秘，这是一部不朽的世界名著，它将昆虫世界化作供人类获取知识、趣味、美感和思想的葆文。面对它的引领，我明白了人与自然、人与动物都需要和谐与友谊。只有学会热爱自然、热爱小生命，人类才会有光明的前景。 (二)昆虫记读后感作三年级

一缕明媚的阳光从窗外探进头来，轻轻地告诉我新的一天开始了。星期天我最开心的事就是看书，今天的精神食粮该轮到《昆虫记》了。

走进《昆虫记》犹如走进了神奇有趣的昆虫世界，有充满想象的建筑家白蚁，有美丽杀手螳螂，伪装家竹节虫„„其中的歌唱家—蝉深深吸引了我，当火辣辣得阳光烤的大地都快熔化时，只有蝉还在树枝上引吭高歌“知了”“知了”。人们常以为蝉的歌声是为了呼唤同伴，但是法国昆虫学家法布尔经过多次观察，发现好几只蝉在一起时，它们仍在高声唱歌。这时法布尔脑海中闪过一个想法：不会是整天高歌的蝉没有听觉吧?为了证实自己的想法，法布尔用二支猎枪同时射击，震耳欲聋的枪声连他自己都堵上了耳朵，可在几步之遥的蝉却没丝毫动静，像是什么事也没发生过。这样，法布尔证明蝉原来一天生聋子。但是人们为什么不容易抓到蝉呢?是因为没听力的蝉却有着发达的视觉。

在我们日常生活中，如果能养成对每件事多细心观察的好习惯，那么你就会发现些前所末有的新东西。让我们感受一下科学家的发现吧，就请你和我一起走进《昆虫记》。 (三)昆虫记读后感作三年级

《昆虫记》是法国著名昆虫学家法布尔用一生的时间与精力，通过仔细观察昆虫的生活，并且详细的记录编写的。介绍了昆虫的本能、习性、劳动、繁衍和死亡。全书包括10大册，暑假里我读了一小部分。

通过读书使我们真真实实地感觉到了法布尔观察得仔细，就连小小的萤火虫怎样捕食他都看得清清楚楚。他还不辞辛苦，追踪观察了迷宫蛛是怎样产卵和养育宝宝的。为了观察石蚕的生活习性，他亲自养了一些，讲述了石蚕室如何利用简易房子金蝉脱壳。法布尔这种坚持不懈、探索大自然的精神多么值得我们学习呀!

读了《昆虫记》使我增长了很多知识，例如：蚂蚁和蝉之间的斗争，知道了蚂蚁是顽强的乞丐，蝉才是勤劳的生产者;螳螂善于运用心理战术，是一个真正的心理专家，但它却自食同类，凶残的很;还有在各种昆虫当中，蟋蟀是地道的哲学家，有高超的建筑技术„„

从《昆虫记》这本书的描写，可以看出作者的独具匠心。他语言生动、活泼，而且充满了情趣。他把感情融入到观察当中，使我们了解到昆虫与环境息息相关。以后我也要像法布尔那样仔细观察身边的事物。

第18篇：五年级状物作文书伴我成长800字

刀豆文秘助手(www.daodoc.com)之五年级状物作文 :书伴

我成长_800字

如果你需要一样东西来陪伴你成长，你会选择什么？一个好玩的玩具，一个游戏机，一本令自己开怀大笑的书，一个会唱歌的音乐盒，还是一幅美丽的图画……

似乎很难决定。

要是你问到我，我会毫不迟疑地告诉你：“我会选择一本书，来陪伴我成长。”

其实，一本书就像你的老师，也像一位可以倾心交谈的朋友。一本书，可以哺育你知识；一本书，可以当你的良师益友，教给你许多智慧；一本书，可以传授给你许多有用的技巧；一本书，可以……

我的生活离不开书，书，也离不开我。我们两个就好像一对姐妹一样，互相帮助。有时，我需要书来帮助我学习；有时，书的“衣服”破了，我就会帮它再做一件“衣服”，给它穿上。

我非常喜欢书。有时，我会因为看书，而翻起一场家庭大**。有一次，我坐在沙发上看我爱看的小说。我妈妈看见我又在看小说，就拿起我的小说，对我喋喋不休。爸爸一听到妈妈又对我喋喋不休的，就问妈妈：“发生什么事啦？”妈妈怒气冲冲地说：“你看看你的好女儿。那些作文书不看，偏偏看这些小说！”爸爸和蔼可亲地说：“不就是看小说嘛！让孩子多看小说，可以让孩子提高作文水平。”没想到爸爸的话不但没有平息妈妈的怒火，反而火上浇油了！让人更加没有想到的是，妈妈火了，这下就连爸爸也火了！晚上，爸爸妈妈都让我和弟弟先睡觉，他们有事要商量。我想：他们应该是还在为我在看小说的事情而吵架吧？

书虽然有时会惹出一些麻烦来，但是有时会让我喜出望外。

有一次，我以“榕江大河”为主题写了一篇作文。老师在我的作文本上表扬了我，使我兴高采烈了一整天。这个功劳可不是我一个人的，书的功劳才最大呢！

不久前的一次作文比赛，我总担忧我的作文会写不好而拿不到成绩，让爸爸妈妈又为我没获奖而伤心流泪。所以，我一定要把作文写好！果然，功夫不负有心人。我参加比赛的那篇作文，获得了二等奖。

你们看！多看书有多少好处啊！所以，就让书来陪伴着我们一生吧！

五年级:夏日之风水瓶

第19篇：小学一年级叙事作文书——无声的老师

刀豆文秘助手(www.daodoc.com)之小学一年级叙事作文：书——无声的老师！

书，是一位可以与我倾心而谈的朋友，书，是在我郁闷时变快乐的同学，书，是一位可以帮助我们解决问题的家长，而对于我来说，书籍是一位无声的老师。

不记得是哪一次了，那天妈妈捧着一本好似砖头的书，向我一步步逼近。就在书“砰”的一声落在桌子上时我全身上下的鸡皮疙瘩也一起落下了。我抬起头偷瞄了一下，妈妈的表情严肃，手指着那个“砖头”对我说：二孩，你到4年级了，一点书都不看怎么行？你看看人家幼儿园就有一柜子的书了。阿姨推荐我买几本“数学通”给你，要认真看哦！拜拜。”妈妈拍拍我的背转身就走了。

留下了孤独的我和那本“邪恶”的“砖块”。我疲惫的躺在床上，不情愿地看了几页，因为无耐，便枕在“砖头”上睡了。

留下了孤独的我和那本“邪恶”的“砖块”。我疲惫的躺在床上，不情愿地看了几页，因为无耐，便枕在“砖头”上睡了。

我要感谢你——无声的老师！

一年级:高旭小龙人

第20篇：文书

清纪„2011‟3号

中共清苑县纪委

关于印发谢占斌同志在中共清苑县第十届纪律检查委员会第六次全体会议上的工作报告的通知

各乡镇（城区）党委、政府（办事处）、纪委，县委各部委，县直各党委、党组、支部、纪委（纪检组），县直各部门：

县委常委、县纪委书记谢占斌代表县纪委常委会在中共清苑县第十届纪律检查委员会第六次全体会议上所作的•以人为本 执政为民 努力取得党风廉政建设和反腐败斗争新成效‣的工作报告，已经全会审议通过，现印发给你们，请认真组织学习，并结合实际抓好贯彻落实。

中共清苑县纪委

2011年3月15日

- 1导干部的教育和监督，加强制度建设和创新，全县党风廉政建设和反腐败工作取得了显著成效。特别是农村“三个三”监督管理的做法得到各级领导肯定，被•中国纪检监察报‣头版刊发，纪检监察工作创新、开展“岗位练兵”和查办案件三项工作得到省委常委、省纪委书记臧胜业肯定性批示。主要做到了“四个一”：

（一）强化一项职能：纪律保障。重点做到了“两个围绕”：①围绕县委、县政府总体工作部署，严格维护党的政治纪律，严查有令不行、有禁不止行为。加强对结构调整、推进新农村建设、保障和改善民生等重大政策措施落实情况及项目建设、节能减排、三年大变样、环境保护等工作情况监督检查，共牵头或配合有关部门开展巡察问效40多次，开展执法监察14项，确保了政令畅通和各项决策部署落实。我县巡查问效的做法作为全省巡视工作理论与实践交流会典型材料进行了书面交流。②围绕清苑特殊政情，全力维护社会稳定。针对清苑特有的“五月制非”工作，开展了全方位、全天候督导检查，保障重大敏感日平稳度过。认真做好纪检监察信访工作，2010年，共接待群众来访来电来信共361件次，均进行了妥善处理。加强信访案件责任追究力度，对13起进京赴省到市信访案件进行了责任倒查，给予党政纪处分15人，诫勉谈话17人，组织处理2人。

（二）贯穿一条主线：惩防体系建设。重点做到了“五抓”：①高压态势抓惩处，查办案件工作取得新进展。通过建立“无缝隙”责任链条明压加责、畅通多种渠道拓案挖源、推行“总账＋明细账”制度调动推动，我县查办案件工作取得新进展。2010（1）

- 3好专项资金综合治理工作，对1.5386亿元专项资金安排使用情况进行了检查，确保了资金使用安全有效。加强县行政服务中心建设，理顺管理体制，落实人员编制，完成“三网并轨”建设，实现了与市联网运行。④专项治理抓深入，促进了执纪执法部门依法行政。集中开展了治理“小金库”、机关效能建设、行政权力公开透明运行、专项资金综合治理、治理商业贿赂、工程建设领域突出问题、收支两条线等专项治理工作，对发现问题，逐一通报，全程跟踪纠正，促进了依法行政。⑤围绕基层抓创新，扎实推进了农村党风廉政建设。着力推进了农村“三个三”监督管理机制建设。充分发挥乡镇纪工委监察分局作用，加强对村“两委”干部的教育管理，扎实推进了农村基层组织建设和党员干部队伍建设。进一步健全监控机制，研究起草了•村级人事权、事务权监督管理办法（试行）‣，有效杜绝了重大事项“少数人甚至个别人说了算”，把“三权”臵于有效监督之下。2010年，全县18个乡镇基本完成规范化建设，共清理“三资”近3亿元，解决遗留问题53个。“三个三”工作得到了上级领导的充分肯定，•中国纪检监察报‣头版对我县的作法给予了关注和报道，市电视台•清风‣栏目介绍了我县经验。

（三）抓好一个重点：作风建设。突出做到了“三个注重”：①注重环境优化。围绕县委“解放思想、优化环境、大上项目、加快发展”大讨论活动，下大力优化发展环境。认真开展“回归创业”、“亲商重商”、“承诺践诺”、“行政执法规范年”等活动，严格落实优化环境各项制度。特别是制定出台了•党员干部、国

（5）（4）

- 5质量和效率明显提升。明确“活动有载体、有叫法，监督有形式、有方法，机制有制约、有延伸，办案有线索、有力度，工作有记载、有反馈”十有要求，推行周调度、月通报和专项督导制度，一些重点工作实现新突破、新进展。

一年来，县委、县政府对我们的工作给予了正确领导和深切关怀，各乡镇、县直各单位、县纪委各位委员对我们的工作给予了真诚帮助和大力支持，我代表县纪委常委会向大家表示衷心感谢，希望大家对我们的工作提出意见和建议，帮助我们把工作做得更好。

在看到成绩的同时，也要清醒地认识到，当前党风廉政建设和反腐败斗争面临许多新情况、新问题，反腐倡廉形势仍然严峻，任务依然艰巨。个别单位和部门对反腐倡廉建设的认识还不到位，一些工作抓得还不实；少数党员干部廉洁自律意识不强，违纪违法问题仍时有发生；个别党员干部作风不硬，损害群众利益的不正之风还一定程度存在；反腐倡廉制度执行力需进一步增强，纪检监察机关自身建设也需进一步加强等等。对这些问题，我们要高度重视，认真研究，采取更加有力的措施，切实加以解决。

二、2011年党风廉政建设和反腐败工作主要任务

2011年是全面实施“十二五”规划的开局之年，是中国共产党成立90周年，是推进惩治和预防腐败体系建设五年规划的关键一年，也是省市县乡四级党委集中换届之年。县委十届六次全会已经吹响了建设全市经济发展强县的“冲锋号”，全县各方面工作任务繁重，纪检监察工作责任重大。今年工作总体思路是：

- 7信访稳定、保障和改善民生等重大战略实施和重点工作推进中，充分发挥职能作用，加强监督和检查，确保政令畅通。深入贯彻实施新修订的•行政监察法‣，切实加强和改进行政监察工作，健全完善针对重点工作开展全程效能监察机制，变事后查纠为事前、事中、事后全程监控，确保各项工作高效优质完成。②保障换届风清气正。认真贯彻中央、省、市、县•关于严明纪律保证换届风清气正的通知‣，会同组织部门加强监督，坚决整治拉票贿选、跑官要官、买官卖官等问题，严肃查处违规违纪用人问题及背后的腐败问题。认真落实•党政领导干部选拔任用责任追究办法†试行‡‣等4项监督制度，规范和强化对拟提拔干部的廉政考察，防止和纠正“带病上岗”、“带病提拔”等问题，确保党委换届工作风清气正、健康进行。

（二）强化作风建设，锻造优良的干部作风

按照“突出重点、多措治理”的要求，全力抓好作风建设，一以贯之，一抓到底。

突出整治三个重点：①围绕各级干部的思想作风、工作作风、生活作风，重点纠正纪律松散、效能低下、工作懈怠以及公款吃喝、公费旅游、公款娱乐等方面的突出问题。②围绕权力运行的重点单位、重点岗位、重点环节，重点整治“门难进、脸难看、事难办”以及“不作为、乱作为、慢作为”问题。③围绕“以人为本、执政为民”要求，重点查纠群众意识不强、服务职能不发挥、民生工作落实不到位等问题。

突出用好四项措施：①抓好效能监察。强化对行政许可事项、

- 9制度，进一步增强各级干部反腐倡廉意识这根弦。

认真贯彻执行党内监督条例。严格执行领导干部述职述廉、诫勉谈话、函询、罢免或撤换等制度。加强对民主集中制执行情况的监督检查。认真落实党政主要领导干部经济责任审计规定。抓好•廉政准则‣的贯彻落实，全面执行•关于领导干部报告个人有关事项的规定‣，严肃查处违规违纪问题。

（四）强化案件查办，始终保持惩治腐败的强劲势头 严肃查办七类案件：①发生在领导机关和领导干部中贪污贿赂、以权谋私、失职渎职的案件。②重点领域和关键环节中违纪违法的案件。③严重违反政治纪律和组织人事纪律的案件。④重大责任事故和群体性事件涉及的失职渎职及背后的腐败案件。⑤商业贿赂的案件。⑥发生在基层政权组织和重点岗位贪污贿赂、滥用职权的案件。⑦以案谋私、贪赃枉法和为黑恶势力充当“保护伞”的案件。

落实好四项保障措施：①在拓展案源上下功夫。注重从审计监督、项目稽查、执法监察、专项检查以及社会热议、网络舆情、媒体关注的问题中发现违纪违法案件线索，及时组织核实，回应社会关切。②在协调配合上下功夫。认真贯彻中共中央办公厅、国务院办公厅•转发国务院法制办等部门†关于加强行政执法与刑事司法衔接工作的意见‡的通知‣，进一步健全纪检监察、公检法、审计、组织等部门之间的协调配合机制，抓好案件移送、联合办案、协同办案制度的落实，形成办案合力。③在治本功能上下功夫。对查办的典型案件，进行深入剖析，总结经验教训，

- 11落实到位。

3、扎实推进基层组织党务公开。按照中央•关于党的基层组织实行党务公开的意见‣，出台具体实施办法，抓好贯彻落实。深入推进政务公开、厂务公开、村务公开、公共企事业单位办事公开。

4、深化改革和制度创新。继续做好反腐倡廉法规制度的清理、修订和完善工作，认真开展制度廉洁性评估工作。围绕解决反腐倡廉建设中的实际问题、群众反映强烈的突出问题和容易滋生腐败的重点领域和关键环节，建立健全监督机制，创新监督方式，加大对反腐倡廉法规制度落实情况的监督检查，提高制度执行力。

（六）强化专项治理，切实解决人民群众反映强烈的突出问题

1、工程建设领域突出问题专项治理。继续抓好排查整改工作，严肃查办在土地矿产资源审批、项目实施、工程质量、资金使用、政府采购、招标投标及执纪执法中的案件。深化对国有建设用地使用权和矿业权出让制度执行情况的清理，大力推进工程建设、土地使用权市场体系建设和信息公开、诚信体系建设，探索建立健全政府投资项目监管长效机制。

2、专项资金综合治理。加强对扶贫开发、政府支农、企业养老保险、就业再就业、环保等资金的重点审计和检查，严肃查处违法违纪案件，确保专项资金安全使用。

3、“小金库”专项治理。巩固党政机关和事业单位的治理成果，继续深化社会团体、国有企业治理工作，完善防治“小金

- 13有评测、有追究。在村级层面：在遵循“四议两公开”程序的基础上，重点抓好•村级人事权、事务权监督管理办法（试行）‣的修改完善，抓好试点，确保年内全面推开。

3、管好农村“三资”，继续深入推进委托代理服务制。研究出台•关于进一步加强和改进农村“三资”管理工作的实施意见‣，进一步深化农村集体“三资”管理委托代理服务制，着力在清产核资、规范运行上下功夫。在稳步推进“三个三”工作的同时，要注意总结和推广基层工作中好的做法和经验，及时解决工作中出现的新问题。通过制作专题片、形成资料汇编、召开经验交流会等形式，大力推广创新性经验做法，全面提升服务、保障农村发展稳定的能力和水平。

三、切实抓好反腐倡廉各项任务的落实

今年党风廉政建设和反腐败工作十分繁重。全县各级、各部门党委（党组）要切实加强领导，纪检监察机关要认真履行职责，按照科学发展观的要求，以更加坚决的态度，更加有力的措施，更加扎实的工作，确保反腐倡廉各项任务落实。

（一）严格落实责任。各乡镇、各部门要以贯彻落实新修订的•关于实行党风廉政建设责任制的规定‣为契机，坚持和完善反腐败领导体制和工作机制，形成党政齐抓共管，群众支持参与的良好局面。各级领导班子要切实担负起领导责任，把党风廉政建设和反腐败工作纳入整体工作布局，与中心工作紧密结合，一起部署、一起落实、一起检查、一起考核。各乡镇、县直各部门党委（党组）每年都要按时向县委和县纪委专题报告执行党风廉

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- 15作风优良的纪检监察干部队伍。

同志们，完成好今年的反腐倡廉各项工作部署，任务艰巨、责任重大、使命光荣。让我们在上级纪委和县委、县政府的正确领导下，奋力拼搏，不断进取，开拓创新，扎实工作，全面推进党风廉政建设和反腐败工作，为建设全市经济发展强县做出新的更大贡献，以优异成绩迎接建党90周年！

主题词：县纪委十届六次全会 谢占斌 工作报告 通知 中共清苑县纪委办公室 2011年3月15日印

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