Growth shows that the life of educators is full of inner vitality. The desire for growth stems from the dignity and persistence of life, the impulse and mission of upward goodness, and through the organic cycle inside and outside life, it constantly absorbs and gives up, verifying the meaning and value of teachers' life. The happiness of life comes from this metabolic process that keeps pace with the times. The value of teachers' life is not solidified in the grades of graduating classes in a few years, nor in the future achievements of graduates, but in the "present" and in the growth of themselves, schools and students. Although we often say that teachers' pride lies in "teaching students they appreciate", it is terrible to be divorced from the present and reality and put the value of life elsewhere. The expectation of "I want to trade this life for tomorrow" often makes people lose themselves. Grasp today to grasp tomorrow, and achieve yourself to achieve others. Therefore, teachers should learn to devote themselves to self-questioning and self-seeking.

In the life value orientation of teachers, we have always put too much emphasis on "dedication" and "sacrifice", and created many super-stable professional images such as "red candle", "ferry" and "ladder", which makes people feel miserable and shabby at once when they think of teachers, misleading teachers' static, passive and negative life orientation. The education department is setting an example, selecting ten outstanding figures and recommending model workers. I forgot to encourage teachers to achieve themselves while achieving students, and to serve themselves while serving the society. I forgot that a good teacher should first be an ordinary person with worldly desires and a happy life. The repeated accumulation of this group "stereotype" makes teachers bear a heavy psychological burden, the quality of life drops sharply, and their living conditions deteriorate seriously. At present, teachers have become one of the most serious employees with mental illness and job burnout. Imagine a teacher who only has students and schools in mind. Under all kinds of expectations and pressures, he is too busy to care about life, family and himself. Of course, he often ignores his own growth, especially his career growth. Most teachers are on-the-job, just like a battery begins to discharge, never charging or maintaining. A teacher with poor spirit and stagnation can only be isolated from the rapidly developing information society. In an era when information continues to explode, the half-life of knowledge is shortened, and economic development is increasingly dependent on innovation, how can we carry out quality education without teaching ourselves, and how can we carry out educational innovation without our own innovative spirit? Teachers must not send students to the other side like a ferry in the torrent of social development, while they are swaying from side to side and stagnating. Such a "ferry" teacher, even a skilled worker who "crosses the river", has become a "one-off" substitute with low added value because of the lack of scientific and technological content. Because talented people are easily consumed products, the negative impact on education and teachers themselves is hidden, but the harm is enormous. We should be alert to their "conservative spirit" and "agricultural thinking" in time, so that students can pay more for the same success, and how much the sustainable development of students will be hindered after landing. At the same time, this static orientation is far from the orientation that teachers should be collaborators, leaders, interlocutors and "equal chiefs" in the new era.

A teacher who never wants to grow up, no matter how touching his deeds are and how outstanding his achievements are, his life lacks vitality and vigor. His mind is only "stagnant water" and there is no "deep sea of clouds". This kind of life is a flawed life. Education in the new period cannot be competent by accumulating knowledge and skills. Education should have the call of the soul, the communication of the spirit, the response of the soul and the appeal of personality, which requires teachers not only to pay attention to professional growth, but also to become people with full spirit, sound personality and rich soul. This is beyond the power of "red candle", "ferry" and "ladder" A teacher who is out of the "growth" state is a constraint and drag on education, and his life value and happiness are limited. With the graduation of students, the value of teachers will become thinner and thinner, and there will be little left in the end. Secondly, the aging of knowledge and the lack of ability, with the focus on mental atrophy and gloomy mind, outdated thinking and backward ideas, all of which have led teachers to a dead end of development and also predicted the decline of educational life. At ordinary times, when we emphasize professionalism, dedication and team spirit, we overemphasize the growth and success of schools and students, and rely on the efforts of teachers to gradually extend to "abandoning small families and achieving everyone" and "only sacrificing teachers can we achieve students and schools". This seemingly irrefutable truth actually implies a serious misunderstanding of thinking. "Teachers, schools and students" can't be "satisfied", otherwise there will be individualistic tendencies. This mechanical "zero-sum game" thinking has been rampant in the field of education for many years, which has seriously hampered the growth of education and teachers' spiritual life. Why can't we advocate the benign interaction and win-win cooperation between schools and teachers? The development of students and teachers is not only incompatible, but also promotes and depends on each other at a higher level. When a teacher is about to retire, it should not be a time when he is deprived of his professional dignity and life glory, but when he grows up with his students and time. He has both "the brilliance of spring flowers" and "the quiet beauty of autumn leaves". Being with young people is cheap, which makes us younger, not only physically, but also psychologically. This "young heart" is the "material foundation" for the continuous growth of intelligence, ability and thinking. This "on the road" state takes into account the future and the present, taking into account the collective and the individual. It is an inevitable choice for teachers to improve their quality of life and the best strategy for education to move towards humanity and tomorrow.

Let the fixed life flow and the stagnant life grow continuously, which is the lifeblood of teachers' success and the key to teachers' happiness.