As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of adequate nutritious food. Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual capacity. Constant learning supplies us with inexhaustible fuel for driving us to sharpen our power of reasoning, analysis, and judgment. Learning incessantly is the surest way to keep pace with the times in the information age, and reliable warrant of success in times of uncertainty.

　　Once learning stops, vegetation sets in. It is a common fallacy to regard school as the only workshop for the acquisition of knowledge. On the contrary, learning should be a never ending process, from the cradle to the grave. With the world changing so fast, to cease learning for just a few days will make a person lag behind. What’ s worse, the animal instinct dormant deep in our sub-conscious will come to life, weakening our will to pursue our noble ideas, undermining our determination to sweep away obstacles to our success and strangling our desire for the refinement of our character. Lack of learning will inevitably lead to the stagnation of the mind, or even worse, its fossilization. Therefore, to stay mentally young, we have to take learning as a lifelong career.

　　食物之于身體,所以學習思想。我們的身體得以生長而肌肉得以發達的攝入足夠的營養的食物。同樣地,我們應該日復一日不斷地學習以保持我們敏銳的心智能力,并擴充我們的智力容量。不斷的學習提供我們用不盡的燃料,來驅使我們磨利我們的推理、分析和判斷。持續的學習是最可靠的方法與時俱進在信息時代,也是在變動的時代中成功的可靠保證。

　　一旦學習停止,植被。這是一個常見的謬誤作為學校知識的唯一場所。相反地,學習應該是一個永無止境的過程,從搖籃到墳墓。與世界變化的如此之快,停止學習幾天就將使人落后。什么更糟的是,蟄伏在我們潛意識深處的動物本能就會復活,削弱我們追求我們高貴的想法,破壞我們決心掃除障礙我們的成功和扼殺我們渴望的細化我們的品格。缺少學習將不可避免地導致心靈的停滯,甚至更糟的是,它的僵化。因此,為了保持心理年輕,我們必須將學習作為終身職業。