Chapter 7 you are in any grade

At that time, no one forced me to become a "talent" all day long, but the teacher didn't stop me when I was jumping around in school, but just said to me: "As long as you can pass the exam, you can go to any grade." ——Zhang Yaqin Looking back now, the situation at that time is ironic: it was not like reading at all, but more like a game. The game lasted for two years, and the little boy finished six years of elementary school. In 1972, Yaqin also reached the school age and returned to her mother in Taiyuan.My mother is a middle school teacher, and the school where I work is connected with an elementary school, so Yaqin went to study in her mother's school.

At that time, schools were not as formal as they are today, and teachers were not as strict with students as they are now.This child was in class with a level of freedom that today's students can hardly imagine.He listened whenever he wanted to, and he didn’t listen if he didn’t want to. He listened desperately to the class he liked. If he didn’t like a class, he would change it.Sometimes in class, listening to it feels boring, so I go out to play, and the teacher doesn't care about him.No one criticized him, and no one called his mother into the office to lecture.There are endless cases of teachers beating and scolding students in schools now, which was unheard of at that time.As long as the teacher is not scolded by the students for a day, he will be thankful.

In addition to lecturing, my mother also compiled some handouts at school. Seeing that my son didn't like what the teacher said in class, and didn't force him to listen, she gave him lectures at home.Yaqin has always missed the time when his mother taught him: "My mother can teach everything, mathematics, physics, politics, history, and I listen to whatever she tells. It's really interesting." Mom not only teaches everything, but also in a strange way.She never pays attention to any step-by-step, nor does she follow the normal teaching progress.Seeing that the child understands the lessons of the lower grades, he will immediately go to the higher grades.Before the elementary school textbooks were finished, the middle school textbooks were interspersed.

Yaqin just jumped between various subjects and grades without any restraint, without any rules.This semester I'm still in the first grade, and the next semester I'll go to the third grade classroom, and the next semester I'll be in the fourth grade.Originally six years of primary school courses, he finished all in the second year. In the third year, Yaqin felt that there was no new thing taught in any classroom.Classes are boring, so I don’t listen at all. Sometimes I can’t sit still, so I go outside the classroom to play. One day his mother said to him: "Since you don't like listening to elementary school, you should go to middle school."

Yaqin was greatly encouraged by such encouragement, so he sneaked into his junior high school class and sat in the last row.Fortunately, the primary and middle schools are all in the same yard, and the teachers are all acquaintances of the mother, so they are lenient to this child. Listen and listen, he became an official first-year junior high school student.This year, he was 9 years old. At that time, the "Cultural Revolution" had not yet ended, the school was in chaos, and the teaching was irregular.Yaqin once again benefited from this "informality": "I feel that I have not received formal education in primary and secondary schools. I go to school in the first semester and may not go in the second semester."

Mom still gives him lectures at home.Yaqin can still enter any classroom she wants.After finishing the first grade of junior high school, I went directly to the third grade of junior high school.I went to participate in the math competition while attending class, and half a year later, I went to the first year of high school.I went to the first semester of the first year of high school, and then went to the second semester of the second year of high school.It is said that I am in the second year of high school, but I actually studied the courses of the third year of high school.In this way, he finished junior high school in one and a half years, and finished high school in another year. In 1978, he graduated from high school.This year, he was 12 years old.

This is really a strange "school system", which is unimaginable for current schools and students.The teachers in that era had just come out of the "cowshed". The old rules in their minds had been broken long ago, and the new rules had not yet been established, so they were particularly indulgent towards students. "At that time, no one forced me to be a 'talent' all day long, but seeing me jumping around in school, the teacher didn't stop me, but said to me: 'As long as you can pass the exam, you can go to any grade' .” Although Taiyuan is a provincial capital, it is not very big. The birth of such a child who never attended class seriously, but jumped up and down, soon became known all over the city.

Yaqin became a role model promoted by the teachers, and the whole city was talking about him. The "Cultural Revolution" is over, and everything is left to be done. The Chinese have smashed schools and burned books for 10 years. Now everyone is eager to go to school and study.The teacher began to mobilize the child to talk about "experience" and teach others how to study hard and become a talent as soon as possible.Many people sat below and listened to him. There were teachers and classmates who were a head taller than him.One day he went to a school and saw a blackboard hanging there, which read: "Set off a new climax of learning from Zhang Yaqin."

He thought it was kind of funny, and kind of funny.Until many years later, he thought of those big slogans and the audience sitting below, "I still find it very interesting." "Actually, I didn't have any experience to speak of, so I went to high school quite confused." Yaqin said. He only remembered that everything around him was in turmoil at that time, there was no sense of stability, no normal life, and no formulaic learning. It was not at all like today's children. "line" life.His only trouble is that he has never had any good classmates. His good friends are not classmates, but neighbors' children, and even friends he met on the street.Because "I have never stayed in a class for more than one year, and my age is always much lower than my classmates, and my stature is even worse." This makes it difficult for him to establish a close and lasting relationship with his classmates. relation.The classmates don't bully him, they are very friendly to him.In the eyes of his classmates, he is a loner, clever, mischievous, and somewhat mysterious.

"I'm a little clever. But I don't think I can be so much better than others just in terms of talent." Zhang Yaqin said. When others asked about his experience, he said: "Fortunately, there were very few reference books in middle school and elementary school at that time. Unlike now, the streets are full of colorful colors. Otherwise, my childhood and youth might not be so happy, at least I would not have so much free time to play. .” The listener felt that it was not satisfying, so he asked again and again, and he said: "The key to learning is not how much you remember, but how much you understand. When you understand the most fundamental definition, you actually simplify the complicated things, not the other way around. So I think, what do you spend your time on It is very important. You have filled your mind with so many useless things, and you can’t find those useful things. In fact, in elementary schools, middle schools, and universities, there are only a few useful things. You don’t Spend a lot of time thinking about those complicated issues, as long as you understand the most basic principles, and your mind is very clear, so that the pressure generated per unit area of ​​your brain is much higher than others, and the time you spend may be someone else's One out of ten, but you figured out the most important stuff."

All the data we have at hand proves very clearly that the casual, tolerant, and resigned attitude towards education has completely disappeared today.People who bear the responsibility of education have become more and more deliberate and arbitrary.They tend to treat education as a rigid set of procedures.If a person wants to achieve something, he must receive strict training from infancy, even in the mother's womb, painstakingly, closely linked, meticulous, and every link is in the pre-set plan.Others resist this educational concept. They say that those parents do not regard their children as human beings, but as a product, just like carefully crafting a car or a TV set on a production line. Key schools", they sarcastically said that it was just a "concentration camp for child prodigies", and the children in it would not feel real happiness.When it comes to their own educational ideas, they don't have that systematic rationale to speak of, they just tend to indulge their children's wishes.Even if they cannot be allowed to do whatever they want, they should be allowed to have their own childhood.But the voice of the latter was very weak, and it sounded like the self-consolation of a group of losers. Someone told Zhang Yaqin about these two situations and asked him what he thought.He smiled: "It's hard for me to say which kind of education I received when I was young, as if it was neither of the two." Seeing the puzzled expression on the other party's face, he went on to say, "Mom lets go of any of my interests, but refuses to let go of my bad habits." In Yaqin's heart, the mother has two images of tolerance and strictness.He is the only son in the family, like all only children, he is the center of the family, everyone spoils him, but if he runs out to play before finishing his homework, Mom will show her strictest side. Like all boys, Yaqin is also playful.At that time, there were few homework and no exams, so I had a lot of time to go out and play.He has a wide range of interests, learning to paint, playing Go, and playing badminton.Every interest gets encouragement from Mom. But no child is born with the ability to control himself. Children with intelligence are more likely to look around and show a kind of "can't sit still" from time to time.Yaqin likes to treat all learning as a game. He is not regular in all games, likes the new and dislikes the old, and has no interest to persevere. One day, the mother asked her son to sit in front of her, and she spoke in an unprecedentedly serious tone: "You are a child of an ordinary family, you have no background, and you will always have to support yourself in the future. So you must have perseverance in doing things from now on. Do a good job. One thing is not difficult, the difficult thing is to persevere.” The mother is a teacher, and she knows that it is more important for the child to develop a good habit than to give him a lot of knowledge, so she said to her son: “First Do what you should do, and then do what you want to do." Yaqin thinks about this and thinks it makes sense.So when I come home at three o'clock every afternoon, the first thing I do is to finish the homework left by my mother and grandma. He hopes to finish his homework quickly and then go to play.So whenever this happens, I always concentrate and be serious.He does it quickly, never taking more than an hour, which gives him plenty of time to play.When there is no homework to add to him, he feels relaxed and has a lot of fun, which makes him finish his homework more seriously and quickly next time.Finally one day, my mother couldn't come up with any questions for him to do, because he had finished all the exercises in all the reference books at home. Therefore, if you want to stand on the starting line of "E-students", the fourth idea to establish is: not afraid of being naughty, but afraid of not having a good habit.