Chapter 108 I request

I ask every literate citizen in China to read the first reportage of the ninth issue of "People's Literature" this year. . I get several literary and artistic publications every day, and I probably read them in a hurry. When I open the book, the first thing I notice is the author's name, and then the title of the article.But for "People's Literature", because I participated in the editing work for a period of time in the past, I read it more carefully.Unexpectedly, the ninth issue came. When I saw the title and subtitle of the first article, I was tempted and shocked.Although I don't know these two authors, this topic kept me reading it wholeheartedly, and it made me cry like rain!It was so well written, so good!

I have always cared about everything about primary and secondary school teachers: such as their heavy tasks, low salaries, and the hardships of life. I once wrote a novel "Everything is Top Grade..." based on a few facts I heard and witnessed.Euphemistically and indirectly referring to the bad luck of an associate professor, this "urgent chapter" was almost pulled from the printing plate—this was the first "setback" I encountered in my 60-year creative career .It is said that there was a notice from the "superior", saying that this kind of issue is not allowed to be discussed in the press.If it wasn't for the reasoning of the editor who submitted the manuscript, saying that it was a novel and not a reportage, why wouldn't it be published?After that, I deleted a few harsh sentences before I barely got on the board.Because of this "experience", I have to pay the highest respect to the two brave authors of reportage and all editors of "People's Literature"!

This "Sacred Concern" is widely read, and the words are painful. The sentences that can be introduced to readers are really too numerous to copy.Regarding this "report" article on the most important issues concerning the future of our country and nation, I still invite readers to carefully consider and ponder for themselves, but I would also like to quote a few facts that readers should pay special attention to: "Comrade Xiaoping said: to realize the four modernizations, science is the key, and education is the foundation, but this spirit has not been recognized, understood, and accepted by people. They often arrange plans and always consider projects first. The remaining money is given to education. …The Japanese say that education now is the industry ten years from now. We are the other way around, … Teachers, especially elementary school teachers, are paid too low, and they are so gentle! The World Bank sent a delegation to inspect loans to China, and they couldn’t Understand: How can you manage education well with such low wages? But when we were negotiating with others, the various projects mentioned at the beginning did not include education. They said, why didn’t you mention education? The development of human resources is important. Later They put education as a priority and listed it as the first item. We have to wait for someone to come and teach us!"

As a Chinese, don't we feel "ashamed"?I recalled that in the winter of 1946 after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, we were the first to go to Japan. At that time, Japan was really full of rubble and devastated.However, during the several friendly visits since then, I have seen that Japan is becoming more prosperous and stronger year by year, and today it has become a major economic power in the world.Why?The reason could not be simpler!Because Japan deeply understands that "education is a hen"! Primary and secondary school teachers in Hong Kong also told me personally that their pay is higher than that of ordinary civil servants.

At the end of 1984, Xinhua News Agency issued a press release - Minister of Education He Dongchang was very happy to point out when he was interviewed by our reporter: "The Party Central Committee and the State Council have been caring about and studying the problems of teachers, and teachers will gradually become the most envied by society. one of the professions." However, it is really easy to say, it sounds exciting, in fact: "After the anti-rightist movement in 1957, the intellectuals were deflated. Later, the 'Cultural Revolution' broke out. Teachers committed more crimes than anyone else, and their status has plummeted since then. Later, the chaos was rectified. It is a blessing among misfortunes that the world is clear and clear, but the status of teachers, with all due respect, is said to be rising, but it is actually falling. Salaries in other industries have increased, but teachers have been slow to get promoted. . . . Teacher, the monthly salary is only one hundred and ten yuan, which is not as high as the waiter in a big hotel, what is going on?"

This is a question asked by an old middle school teacher!Another teacher said full of emotion: "The teaching profession is sacred, and the sacredness lies in being willing to suffer losses. But if the society despises such disadvantaged people, the sacredness will disappear. There are many teachers who are not afraid of tiredness and hardship. They are not jealous of money, but there is only one thing that they can’t get rid of, that is, the love for students. Except for students, they have nothing. They even have no patience with their own children when they go home, and they don’t want to play the social role of teachers anymore, but no matter their mood How bad, as soon as I got on the podium, I threw everything away and entered the country.

How many people in the society understand this mentality? ..." This kind of mentality, my wife and I can understand thoroughly: life and death can not get rid of, is the love for students.But it is also like what another teacher said: "As we were back then, the society was so dirty, and I could still be noble, with that high salary to support me..." But now our two daughters (both of whom are university teachers) are not supported by high salaries like ours at that time, and they cannot get rid of the career of teachers.They have the love for the students, and they also get the love of the students just like us.

"Love" is great, but it can only satisfy spiritual needs. As for the material aspect, we can only find another way. There are many ways to do it. Will someone "jump out" and leave the team of teachers? Everyone come to think of a way, I can only go back to the author's inscription before the article: "We have always had a shoulder handed over by our predecessors to step on. Suddenly, that shoulder slipped away, making us almost step on nothing." Written in a sunny morning on October 10, 1987