Chapter 21 students taking flight

The Chinese are well-informed, and they tend to disapprove of the Koreans who have a strong sense of superiority.But there is one thing that the Chinese must admit, that is, South Korea's emphasis on education is significantly higher than that of China.This is not only reflected in the government's measures, but also in the consciousness of ordinary people.This year, I was sent by Peking University to teach in the Chinese Department of Ewha Womans University in Seoul. There is a postgraduate course on "Research on Chinese Modern Fiction".There was one student in the class who made me feel a little bit out of the ordinary from the start.She is petite and exquisite, with delicate and agile eyebrows, and a thin and charming figure.She often laughed as much as the other students, even more lively, but her every move revealed a mature elegance, a natural delicacy, and a habitual upbringing.So although her skin is younger than others, I concluded that she must be older than other students.

My guess is not wrong.One day, she told me that her home is not in Seoul, but in Gwangju, and she comes to class by plane every week.It turned out that she had graduated from Ewha Womans University for many years.With the Chinese she learned, she has done a lot of work in the society.Now, together with her sister, she has opened a Chinese language school in Gwangju. She herself is the dean and a teacher, taking care of management and teaching.In the heavy work, she felt more and more that she needed to enrich her knowledge and improve her level.So, she once again stepped into the gate of her alma mater to "charge" her future.

In China, many successful people return to school nowadays.But that majority is "gold-plated".Some are for promotion, some are for boredom, and some are arranged by the leaders and paid by the unit.And it is hard to say that there are no such people who enter the campus "to suffer twice and be punished again" entirely out of their own consciousness and purely for the sake of seeking knowledge, but there are very few of them.What's more, she pays out of her own pocket and "falls from the sky" once a week? "Why don't you come by train or by car?" I asked her.

"It takes more than four hours by car, but only one hour by plane." She answered seriously. "I concentrated my courses on these two days. I concentrated on studying during the half week, and concentrated on work during the half week when I went back." "Then aren't you too tired? When are you going to rest?" "I will go to Canada for two weeks in a while, and concentrate on rest." Concentrate on studying, concentrate on work, concentrate on rest.This is the secret of her mature and elegant appearance.I originally wanted to ask her how to keep young, but now that I understand her general attitude towards life, I can imagine those little things without asking, it is nothing more than "concentrating on maintenance".

Not long ago, I and a group of other teachers took a 4-hour train ride to Gwangju to attend an international academic conference in the Korean Chinese literature circle.After getting off the train, she invited us to the famous "Dongshan Restaurant" to eat barbecue.In addition to the delicious meat, the restaurant also has another unique skill to attract customers: when the young servants are mixing rice for the guests, they are flying steel spoons up and down, knocking the stainless steel rice bowls loudly, scaring the girls one by one to "cover their heads". Listen to the bell".As a native of Gwangju, she was also beaming with excitement.I said, "If I'm laid off at Peking University, I can work in your college. You just need to invite me here to eat barbecue every week." Her starry eyes flashed and she said, "No problem, okay, okay. "

When visiting the 5.18 cemetery in Gwangju, I asked her how old she was that year.She said she was in 6th grade.All of a sudden, there was no liveliness and agility in her eyes.I didn't ask any more questions.I thought to myself, on the street run over by the rumbling tanks, in the square that was once full of blood and blood, now such a mature woman has grown up, and she flies to study Chinese literature every week.She learned from me Lu Xun, Lao She, and Shen Congwen, and from other teachers Li Bai, Du Fu, and Bai Juyi, but what should we learn from her? From Gwangju back to Seoul, we took the express bus and it still took more than 4 hours.In the car, I told my friend that people around the world fly to eat, gamble, and prostitute, but when it comes to education, some people don’t even talk about flying, they can’t even pay for the ride. Refuse to take money.In Zhang Yimou's movie "Not One Less", the substitute teacher has to find a student, can't he even afford a bus ticket?

Flying to class is not a kind of style, not a kind of showing off, but a kind of spirit.With this spirit, education can be done well even by walking. The student who came to class by plane is named Lu Chengjuan.With a beautiful body, she assumed a spirit worth looking up to. (To commemorate Mao Zedong's "May 7th Instructions" on education, written in the early morning of May 7th. Published on several Chinese and Korean newspaper websites.)