Recently, Zhang Xifeng, the headmaster of Hengshui, gave a speech in Super Speaker, which attracted controversy from countless people, and it can be said that it was an uproar. The focus of the controversy stems from the sentence "I am a native pig from the countryside, and I also want to inspire Chinese cabbage in big cities". At first glance, it's really a little hard to understand.
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So, I read his whole speech, and I felt very inspirational on the whole. For most people, a person born in poverty, reading has become the most important way, even the only way, to jump out of the farm and change his destiny. His ideas exist in many people's minds, but they are not revealed, or there is no chance to say them on such a bright stage as a super speaker.
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Some people just watched the intercepted video, attacked it wantonly, and took it out of context as an excuse. I think this is extremely unfair to a senior three student and a school.
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20 1 1 Before the college entrance examination, a student named Song Li from Hengshui was interviewed by the media. Song Li in front of the camera said: "The college entrance examination is very severe. One more point will overwhelm the province 1000 people or even more, so every minute is very important to us. "
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In 10 years after the speech, Song Li became a diplomat, although he failed to get into Tsinghua University, which he was determined to attend. 10 years later, he spoke again and wished his alma mater and teachers all the best as permanent diplomats to the United Nations.
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In Hengshui, the number of people going north for the college entrance examination reaches more than 100 every year, and attending 985, 21/colleges and universities is the basic goal. Among them, in terms of students, there will be a phenomenon of pinching tips and gathering seedlings. But it is undeniable that both teachers and students go all out for their ideals and goals.
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Of course, I don't support the way Hengshui talks to its students.
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Just a few weeks ago, we happened to be in the "Speech" unit, and I specially played a video of Zhang Xifeng on "Youth and Dreams" for students. Zhang Xifeng, who is still in the first year of high school, has flashing eyes and a smile on her mouth from time to time. He is extremely humorous, his body language is appropriate, his speech content is vivid and his speech style is full. My classmates and I both exclaimed his talent and talent.
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But this recent speech, from the style point of view, is really a completely different person. I obviously want to express my inspiration, but it's a bit ugly and cynical. I think another important reason for the waves: "I am a native pig from the countryside, and I also want to stimulate cabbage in big cities." It is really inappropriate to compare yourself to a "local pig" and someone in the city to a "cabbage". Isn't this to let people who struggle to take root in the city lie down and shoot? Who wants to say that he turned out to be a "local pig"? And so-and-so in the city is willing to say that he is a "cabbage"?
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Therefore, the appropriateness of words is extremely important. You can't be arrogant or full of gunpowder for the effect of your speech or to achieve a certain goal.
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At this time, someone compared China student He Jiang's graduation speech at Harvard University-an anecdote about spider bites. The following are the reasons for Jiang's speech:
Anecdotal stories of spider bites
In junior high school, a poisonous spider once bit my right hand. I asked my mother what to do-instead of taking me to the doctor, she decided to treat my wound with fire therapy.
She wrapped several layers of cotton in my hand, sprayed white wine on the cotton, put a pair of chopsticks in my mouth and lit the cotton. The heat gradually penetrated through the cotton and began to burn my right hand. The burning pain makes me want to shout, but the chopsticks in my mouth make me speechless. I can only watch my hands catch fire for a minute or two until my mother puts it out.
You know, I grew up in the countryside of China. At that time, my village was still a traditional village similar to the pre-industrial era. When I was born, there were no cars, telephones, electricity or even running water in the village. Naturally, it is not easy to obtain advanced modern medical resources. At that time, there was no suitable doctor who could help me deal with spider bites.
If you have a biological background here, you may have understood the basic principle of this simple treatment used by my mother: a high fever can denature protein, and spider venom is also a kind of protein. This traditional indigenous method actually has its theoretical basis, and it's interesting to think about it. However, as a doctor of biochemistry at Harvard University, I now know that in my junior high school, there was a better, less painful and less risky treatment. So I can't help asking myself, why didn't I enjoy these more advanced treatments at that time?
Fifteen years have passed since the spider bite accident. I am very happy to report that my hand is still intact. However, the problem I just mentioned has been stuck in my mind for many years, and I sometimes feel troubled by the unequal distribution of advanced scientific and technological knowledge in different parts of the world. Now we humans have learned how to edit human genes and studied the causes of many cancers. We can even use a beam of light to control the activity of neurons in our brain. Every year, biomedical research will bring us different breakthroughs and progress-many of them are exciting and revolutionary. However, although we human beings have made numerous achievements in scientific research, we sometimes fail to do a satisfactory job in how to bring these cutting-edge scientific research to the areas in the world that need this technology most. According to World Bank data, about 12% of the world's population still lives on less than $2 a day. Malnutrition kills 3 million children every year. Nearly 300 million people are still affected by malaria. Around the world, we often see that poverty, disease and lack of natural resources bring similar obstacles to the dissemination of scientific knowledge. The common sense of life-saving that modern society takes for granted is often not popularized in these underdeveloped or underdeveloped areas. Therefore, in many parts of the world, people can only rely on the simple and rude way of fire treatment to control spider bites.
When I was studying at Harvard, I personally realized that advanced scientific and technological knowledge can help many people in society simply and profoundly. At the beginning of this century, bird flu was rampant in many Asian countries. At that time, the farmers in the village were afraid of bird flu, just like the devil's spell. Rural indigenous medical methods are also helpless for such diseases. Farmers are not sure about the difference between the common cold and the flu. They don't understand that the flu may be more deadly than the common cold. In addition, most people don't know that the influenza virus discovered by scientists can spread between different species.
Therefore, when I realized the background of this knowledge, and simply isolated the infected different species to slow down the spread of the disease, and decided to pass this knowledge to my village, I had a sense of mission as a future scientist for the first time in my heart. But this sense of mission does not stop at the knowledge level, it is also an important turning point in my personal moral development, and I understand my sense of responsibility as a member of the international community.
Harvard education teaches our students to dare to have their own dreams and change the world. On such a special day as graduation ceremony, all the graduates present here will imagine our great journey and adventure in the future. For me, it is inevitable to think of my hometown at this moment. My growing experience tells me how important it is as a scientist to actively pass on our knowledge to those who are in urgent need. Because we can easily help thousands of similar villages in my hometown and Qian Qian by using the scientific and technological knowledge we already have, and make the world they live in become a place that our modern society seems to take for granted, and such a thing can be done by every graduate.
But the question is, are we willing to make such efforts?
Our society places more emphasis on science and innovation than ever before. But our society also needs to pay attention to distributing knowledge to those places that really need it. Changing the world doesn't mean that everyone has to make a big breakthrough. Changing the world can be simple. It can simply become a communicator in different parts of the world and find more creative ways to transfer knowledge to groups like my mother or farmers. At the same time, changing the world also means that our society as a whole can more clearly realize that a more balanced distribution of scientific and technological knowledge is a key link in the development of human society, and we can also work together to turn this goal into reality.
If we can do this, perhaps, one day, teenagers bitten by poisonous spiders in rural areas may not treat their wounds in such a rude way as fire therapy, but go to see a doctor and get more advanced medical care.
In the whole speech, He Jiang not only described the superficial fire treatment after being bitten by poisonous spiders, but also sincerely called for the balanced distribution of medical resources in the world. Some people say: Both of them came from the countryside. He Jiang's purpose in studying was out of affection, while Zhang Xifeng killed people. It is also said that this cannot be directly compared. The difference between them is that there is a world-class university.
So personal dreams and feelings will naturally be different.
Here, I don't make comparisons, just talk about my own growth experience.
I was born in a very remote village in Guilin. No, it should be called Dashan. When I was in college, two teams nearby each paid 500 yuan to build roads for the team. At that time, the driving force for building roads was "to be rich, build roads first". Anyway, it's finally the place to cross the road.
Therefore, it was not until I went to college that I really left the mountain village and had the opportunity to walk into the city.
Going to college is my family's wish, not my dream. Because, I am determined to go out of the countryside, so far let me remember.
At that time, I was in junior high school and went home on holiday, around 1 1 in the morning. I met my mother who was weeding in a nearby rice field. I naturally go with my mother.
It's past noon 12, and we haven't finished pulling the grass. My mother is a good worker. I think it's delayed to leave some tails. I also have plans in the afternoon.
The vicious June sunshine makes me feel that every inch of my face and hands are burning, and He Miao's diaphragm is hurting.
I suddenly said to my mother, "Er Nian (Mom), I must go to college. I don't want to spend my life in the farmland. " My mother said, "As long as you are willing to study, selling iron will also support you to study." .
Now, where do I feel when I go to college? This is the only way to jump out of the farm.
If you want to talk about dreams, you will no longer be like your parents, for food and clothing, for sun and rain, for harvest, and see if God is happy.
It is a problem to have enough food and clothing for one person. If you want him to talk about his dreams and feelings, is this a ascension? Of course, there is a dream, that is, to eat and wear warm clothes.
Today, I seem to have some dreams and even some feelings. Even though I am an ordinary teacher, I want to be a teacher who thinks he has some ideas. For example, the students I teach are not afraid of writing, but regard writing as a natural thing to eat, drink and sleep.
Of course, I know this is extremely difficult or even impossible to achieve, but at least, I have such an idea and pursuit.
Therefore, for people like Zhang Xifeng, please give them more time. Who doesn't want to be a person with dreams and feelings?