Chapter 3 talk out

Look at the classmates around you, especially the Jews and Chinese, don’t they all try their best to give their children tutoring, ask their children to volunteer in hospitals, find various topics for their children on the Internet, participate in science competitions, and even find teachers for their children to teach tennis , fencing, swimming, and ice skating to build up winning records so you can get into the Ivy League? Because of this, the Chinese can become the ethnic group with the highest average education in the United States, and have made outstanding achievements in all aspects.

Desperately be a master "It's not just me who can procrastinate, the teacher can too." You are protesting today while reading the article I wrote yesterday: "The teacher taught slowly at the beginning of the semester, talking a lot of nonsense, and then rushed desperately before the end of the semester. I was very busy before the exam." After finishing speaking, you continue to look down, then raise your head and ask, "Then why does the Taiwanese kid need to sleep first? What is the purpose of sleeping? It makes him unable to fall asleep at night." I just laughed and said that you are "satisfied and hungry. If you only sleep for five hours at night, even if you go home and sleep for an hour and a half, it will only add up to six and a half hours. You will not be able to sleep at night." I’ll tell you how hard it is for children in Taiwan. They often have to read several different versions of textbooks for the same subject. point to go home.

You just widen your eyes and ask why it is so painful. Children! I also often blame why the Chinese force their children so hard, forcing them to wear myopia glasses early, and even forcing them to commit suicide by jumping off a building. I also made a comparison and found that the health of my generation is not as good as that of the previous generation.The reason is that the previous generation was in the environment of World War II, often had to avoid bombing, change schools, and had a lot of opportunities for "breathing in the middle".In contrast, I was born in Taiwan in 1949. The war was over, but there were few schools, many students, and the pressure of entrance examinations was great, so there was so-called "bad money".

When I was a child, I often had to stay in school for tutoring. In my memory, there is always the picture of carrying a heavy schoolbag with "Graphic Arithmetic" in it, and going home in the dark. Can you imagine that when you were learning to dance, learn to sing, learn to play the piano, and the violin, and you were in the sixth grade of elementary school every day, many Taiwanese children had already gone to cram schools for tutoring? It's not just children from Taiwan! It's the same in mainland China. I once went to a well-known middle school, and the principal proudly said that more than 90% of their graduates can be admitted to key universities.He also said that they specially built a house on the side of the mountain, and all the third-year students were sent there to live on campus, just like scholars used to study hard in temples deep in the mountains.

Not only famous schools, but one year I went to a primary school in a poor area in the deep mountains of Guangxi. The school buildings there were dilapidated, and the children wore colorful "hundreds of clothes".But did you know that the children there actually said to me that they only see lights and moonlight? They said that they would get up before dawn to study every day, and they would stay in school for tutoring after the sun went down, so it was rare to see the sun.It is said that because of the barren land, some students’ families only have one set of clothes that can go out, and everyone wears them in turn; some people are even poor enough to have no clothes to wear, no quilt to cover, and hide in haystacks when it is cold.

But those parents are still desperately trying to send their children to school, and have to pay "tuition fees" and "substitute teacher fees" for their children. In the past few years, I have visited many schools in remote areas of mainland China. In addition to the Hope Primary School we donated to build, I also went to the minority areas in Guizhou and schools built in cave dwellings in Shanxi. They are all too miserable. The monthly salary of a teacher may not be enough to watch two movies; two children in a family may go to school in turn because they cannot pay the tuition fees.

However, I found that they all worked hard. Their parents may not be able to read, but they all know how to force their children to study. Gradually, I understood that the concept of "no one asks for ten years of hard work, and becomes famous in one fell swoop", "the book has its own golden house, and the book has its own Yan Ruyu", and the concept of studying hard to get ahead has been deeply rooted in the Chinese people. heart.Even if there are more schools now, and the admission rate in Taiwan even exceeds 100%, everyone still has to fight. why? Because you have to work hard to get into a good school, because you have to "get ahead".

In fact, what are you puzzled about, kid? Look at the classmates around you, especially the Jews and Chinese, don’t they all try their best to give their children tutoring, ask their children to volunteer in hospitals, find various topics for their children online, participate in science competitions, and even find teachers for their children to teach tennis , fencing, swimming, and ice skating to build up winning records so you can get into the Ivy League? Because of this, the Jews were able to grow from being excluded everywhere from World War II to today. Although they are a minority in American society, they still play a pivotal role; Achievement.

The United States is free, so free that you can choose to be a scavenger or a university professor; the United States is also open, a scavenger can earn more than a university professor, the United States is still equal, there is no distinction between positions, as long as you are willing to work hard Can have a good life. However, there are some nations, especially those who have experienced suffering, no matter in China or the United States, they naturally have a strength in their hearts—— Work hard to be a master!