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不要抛弃学问胡适 ——中国公学十八年级毕业赠言 诸位毕业同学： 　　你们现在要离开母校了，我没有什么礼物送给你们，只好送你们一句话罢。 这一句话是：“不要抛弃学问。”以前的功课也许一大部分是为了这张毕业文凭不得已而做的。从今以后，你们可以依自己的心愿去自由研究了。趁现在年富力强的时候，努力做一种专门学问。少年是一去不复返的，等到精力衰时，要做学问也来不及了。即为吃饭计，学问绝不会辜负人的。吃饭而不求学问，三年五年之后，你们都要被后进少年淘汰掉的。到那时再想做点学问来补救，恐怕已太晚了。　 有人说：“出去做事之后，生活问题亟须解决，哪有工夫去读书？即使要做学问，既没有图书馆，又没有实验室，哪能做学问？”　我要对你们说：凡是要等到有图书馆方才读书的，有了图书馆也不肯读书。凡是要等到有了实验室方才做研究的，有了实验室也不肯做研究。你有了决心要研究一个问题，自然会撙衣节食去买书，自然会想出法子来设置仪器。至于时间，更不成问题。达尔文一生多病，不能多做工，每天只能做一点钟的工作。你们看他的成绩！每天花一点钟看10页有用的书，每年可看3600多页书，30年读约11万页书。诸位，十万页书可以使你成为一个学者了。可是，每天看3种小报也得费你一点钟的工夫；4圈麻将也得费你一点半钟的光阴。看小报呢，还是打麻将呢，还是努力做一个学者呢？全靠你们自己的选择！易卜生说：“你的最大责任是把你这块材料铸造成器。”学问便是铸器的工具，抛弃了学问便是毁了你自己。再会了！你们的母校眼睁睁地要看你们10年之后成什么器。3. Never Give up the Pursuit of Learning Dear friends to graduate, You’ll soon leave this university. Before departure, I have no other gifts but a word of advice for you. My word is, never give up the pursuit of learning. Before graduation, you might have taken most courses for this diploma instead of true knowledge, but from now on, you will have the freedom to study according to your own will. Try to establish a field of studies in your prime. Youth is so short and will never return. It would be too late to pursue learning when you are old with declining energy. Knowledge will serve you even only for the sake of a living. If you are just satisfied with adequate necessities of life and give up studies, you will be eliminated by young people in a couple of years. Then, you will have no time to acquire new knowledge to make up for your disadvantage. Some people may disagree with me, saying that after graduation you’ll be faced with pressure of work and life, then how you can squeeze time to study. Or, others will ask, without a library or a lab, where to study. Well, my answer to all these is, those who won’t read without a library will still not do reading even if they have an access to a library, and those who won’t do researches without a lab will still not carry out researches even if a lab is available. As long as you w