Chapter 17 Don't wiggle your tongue temporarily

Suddenly, I received a call from a student I taught 30 years ago. He said that he had just returned home from the dental clinic and wanted to call me for some reason. He was overjoyed when he heard that it was me who answered the call; but I was a little dazed, so I couldn't help laughing and asked him, "Why do you think of me when you have teeth problems? I'm not a dentist!" He laughed even more happily, Said: "Do you remember? One time in class, after you had a question, you told us: No one can temporarily wiggle the tip of their tongue..." I couldn't remember it for a while, so he reminded me, ah, I finally remembered it!

To be honest, for my teaching life in middle school, the period before the "Cultural Revolution" is more willing to recall, and I have a special feeling of intimacy with the students I met. Most of the students I taught at that time were enthusiastic when they met me, and some sincerely said to me: "Forgive us for being ignorant at that time." As well as the mental and physical harm to the entire group of teachers, buried in the depths of memory, it is easy not to examine it.The person who called belonged to the so-called "junior third class", that is, the "old third class" who were stranded in school due to the sudden outbreak of the "Cultural Revolution" were all arranged to go to the mountains and the countryside to "change the world", and they had just entered the school. Sitting hot, they were hurriedly sent to the batch of students who entered middle school after the "Sixth and Ninth Classes" of the "Production and Construction Corps" and "Reclamation and Defense Frontiers" left school and before the end of the "Cultural Revolution".Teaching "Primary Three", on the one hand, it is difficult to teach in a social atmosphere where "knowledge is useless". Take some gaps and strive to give students more useful knowledge.I remember that I was in a self-study class at that time, but I didn’t have much knowledge to review, so I would ask some questions verbally, enliven the classroom atmosphere like a game, or engraved with a wax paper stylus, and copied with an ink roller—I’m afraid that young people nowadays can’t do it. Knowing such a tool—the printed text will have some simple but very friendly and interesting questions for the students at that time. These oral or written questions and answers are not scored, and I make an appointment with the students to "don't talk to outsiders "of.Once, I asked them: "Who can tell you exactly how many teeth you have in your mouth?" No one raised their hands for a while, so I continued, "I don't know my body well, how can I do this?" No one should temporarily move the tip of the tongue to lick and count the number of teeth!" The students all laughed, and finally, I allowed them to open their mouths to count each other and get the number, and then told them the incisors, canines, and premolars , The difference between molars, let them analyze the function of each tooth by themselves. The students who called 30 years later recalled more examples on the phone. For example, in the article I sent to them, 30 grids from the first to the 30th day of the lunar calendar were printed, and they were asked to draw in each grid. Figure out the shape of the moon that night; let them fill in the three grids of "trees", "shrubs" and "herbs" with the plants they saw on the way from their home to school; another time they asked them Do you know how many "ji" and "dou" are in the fingerprints of my 10 fingers, but I have never noticed it, so I talked to them about the commonality of groups and the differences of individuals, and when it comes to solving cases The importance of fingerprints, etc.The student who had a successful career 30 years later said to me on the phone: "Thank you for giving us such an enlightenment at that time. These old classmates met and chatted, and they all felt that those things seemed very simple. Little knowledge, bits and pieces, and details actually play an important role in our puberty, I think, that is the most original humanistic influence!" His evaluation seems to be too high, but his phone call Brings out more memories and thoughts for me.It was also when I was teaching the "Primary Three". Once a male cadre was very angry at a few girls who didn't go out to exercise, run, and "study the army" over obstacles. He was even more angry that I allowed them to rest. "One is not afraid of suffering and the other is not afraid of death" to participate in the intense military training drills, menstrual blood flowed from the trouser legs, the male cadre actually reprimanded her for "the military training still carries a bottle of red medicine, it is really a fake revolution"!After this incident happened, I asked them in self-study class one day: "Why are some of you called boys and some of you girls?" When I stepped down, the leader of the "Workers Propaganda Team" came to talk to me after class. He still understood my motives "not to play hooligans", but he solemnly pointed out that the effect of my actions was to "corrode the youth". This is the way of life 30 years ago.

Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi.Hexi is an open space full of footsteps of innovation.However, simple, superficial, original and inspiring knowledge that seems to belong to the details still has charm. I was freed from my blind superstition at once. It turns out that if you want to live a long and healthy life, you must first figure out what is going on with you, just like a teenager who first knows how many teeth he has.Of course, in the current society, it is especially necessary to understand not only oneself, but also others, groups, and the times, and all understanding must start consciously and early from the simplest and most simple starting point, "Don't Temporary tongue wiggle

". That day a white-collar beauty who was related to me came to me and sighed: "So I counted that I have no less than dozens of friends. Now I am in trouble, only to find that there is only one real friend. Moreover, she was previously on the list of my friends. Very late..." I listened to it and thought about it for a long time. Yes, questions like "Who is my truly reliable friend" have to be solved from the simplest and most obvious basis.