Wang Siming is a special-grade teacher of Luozi Shanxi Qu School in Yanchang County, an advanced individual of work-study program in China, a model worker and an excellent teacher in Shaanxi Province.
Luozi Mountain is in the east of Yanchang County, more than 100 miles away from the county seat. There is a big ditch between Xiaxiqu and Luozi Mountain. More than 40 villagers are scattered in several earth kilns on the ridge.
Wang Siming, a native of northern Shaanxi, has the qualities of simple farmers, hard work, honesty and frankness, and the characteristics of young people returning home who study hard and demand progress.
1968, Wang Siming was appointed as a teacher in the village. At that time, the school had only two holes of earthen kiln, which was east-west and dimly lit. Wang Siming resolutely accepted the great trust of the whole village, but the cave didn't cooperate well with him. Sunlight always leaks in after 10 am. Only when Wang Siming lights an oil lamp and dangles in front of the blackboard can the students see the words clearly. This made his heart ache. He wants to build a new school, but where did the production team get the money in those years when "socialist grass is better than capitalist seedlings"? Don't talk about repairing the school, you can't even collect the tuition fee of 50 cents. For this fifty cents, 67% of the children dropped out of school! Wang Siming doesn't like to show his feelings. He is in a state of chaos and can't be calm day and night. He remembers 1962, didn't he drop out of school because his family was poor? Can this poverty and backwardness last forever in the mountain village? Can no culture change the face of mountainous areas?
How does this school go on? "Self-reliance, ample food and clothing", Wang Siming remembered Chairman Mao's teaching, why not do it yourself like the 359th Brigade in Nanniwan?
1970 In the spring, with the support of the production team, Wang Siming led only 14 students to ask for food from barren hills and money from loess, and was determined to moisten this thirsty campus with his diligent sweat. They used an old hoe to open an acre of land on the cape and planted "millet valley". This kind of grain can explode popcorn and sell for money. In autumn, this acre of land earned 67 yuan, plus the wheat ears picked up by students, totaling more than 100 yuan, which was quite rich at that time. With the support of this money, with the consent of the school management Committee, Wang Siming announced: "There is no teaching fee for going to school!" Suddenly, all school-age children are in school.
Wang Siming has found a new way to run schools in mountainous areas. Small farms have expanded year by year and become more and more prosperous. They plan to build and plant sunflowers and castor, and their income will increase year by year. 1973, when 300 yuan was admitted, Wang Siming announced: "Students are free of books, miscellaneous fees and stationery fees, and teachers' office expenses are borne by the school." Since then, "three exemptions and one self-sufficiency" have been implemented.
In order to have a stable income, Wang Siming planted more than 900 apple trees and peach trees around the school.
1974, Wang Si ordered three dangerous buildings to be demolished with beams, bricks and tiles, and hired craftsmen to build new classrooms with brick and wood structures. In order to save money, I have to do a lot of work by myself. The heavy work falls on Wang Siming, who needs sand to build a house. Wang Siming took students to the river and transported them back and forth for 65,438+00 kilometers. Students carry 65,438+00 kilograms, and Wang Siming carries 40 kilograms. The earthen kiln should use slate, and Wang Siming is the only one. He got up early and went to the ditch 2.5 kilometers away in the dark to pry. His hand was smashed and wrapped in cloth. Hungry, eat cold jiaozi; Thirst, filled with a piece of ice. New Year's Eve is still dry, and there is no rest on the first day of the first month. The whole winter vacation, 45 days, 145 square meters of slate was finally lifted from the ditch to the top of the kiln. 1975, a classroom, three-hole earthen kiln, gate and fence were all built. Wang Siming began to paint more than 20 sets of newly made desks by himself. These projects, according to the cost at that time, cost about 3500 yuan. The state subsidizes 400 yuan, the production team contributes 1 100 yuan, and the work-study programs are given to 800 yuan, Wang Siming and students 1200 yuan. In order to reduce the collective burden, the school paid for the materials of 200 yuan production team. At 198 1, the school in the lower west zone has two earthen caves and built a toilet. After several expansions, the school covers an area of 1000 square meters with a building area of 200 square meters. The sweat of Wang Siming and the students has merged into a brand-new school.
1977 in the summer, Wang Siming bought a book "Clothing Cutting Law", and he wanted to learn cutting? Everyone is very strange. It turned out that he wanted to make school uniforms for students with the income from work-study programs. He measures and cuts clothes, and his wife steps on the sewing machine. This can save money. From then on, it will be done every two years, and one person will do one set. By 1990, it has been done 7 times, with an average of 30 sets per year. Each set of discount 15 yuan, totaling 3 150 yuan.
Wang Siming will also equip this remote mountain village primary school with modern teaching equipment. Before he 1986 went to Yan 'an Institute of Education for further study, the school had 1500 books,1Kloc-0/newspapers, 100 teaching AIDS, dozens of wall charts, four computers, radios, loudspeakers, wall clocks and stoves. 1988, Wang Siming returned to school after graduation. 1989 bought a 350-watt wind power generation equipment in Lintong and a 20-inch color TV and projector in Xi 'an. Wang Siming should use the ever-changing external world to enlighten these villagers who have been facing the loess for several lives.
After 20 years of hard work, Xiaxiqu School has a reliable source of income. There are more than 5000 useful materials on the hillside, 4 mu of reeds in the depression and 180 apple trees on the flat land. Farms, forest farms, nurseries and orchards cover an area of 40 mu. The cumulative income from 1979 to 1988 is 13489 yuan. 1989, the income is more than 4,000, and the per capita income is 200. 1990, the income is more than 5,000 yuan, and the per capita income is 240 yuan. Exceeded the per capita income level of the village for two consecutive years.
Wang Siming participated in the national symposium on model workers. Comrade He Dongchang, then Minister of Education and later Vice Minister of Education, listened to Wang Siming's report and said happily, "You have done a good job. All schools are like you, and things in China will be easy. "
1989, Xiaxiqu Primary School was included in the list of famous primary schools in China. The editor praised the school for "stepping out of a new path of primary education and improving the quality of education in mountainous rural areas."
This new road is a road of self-reliance, a road of hard struggle and a road of carrying forward the spirit of Yan 'an. This new road is of universal significance. To this end, Yanchang County launched the activity of "establishing Wang Siming-style schools and striving to be Wang Siming-style teachers", which made this model an example for schools at all levels in the county. Yan 'an prefectural party committee, administrative office, Yanchang county party committee and county government called on the people, especially the comrades on the education front, to carry forward Wang Siming's entrepreneurial spirit and popularize Wang Siming's school-running experience. Its significance lies not only in the realization of compulsory education and the hope that the project can be completed as soon as possible, but also in the change of people's mental outlook and the improvement of the cultural quality of the next generation, and in the construction of socialism with China characteristics.