"He is really a good teacher worthy of students' respect! First of all, his academic research spirit and academic level are commendable; Secondly, he is strictly responsible for students, but he is the most approachable and good teacher. " This is Yang Dong in the eyes of students. Yang Dong himself said, "I didn't do anything, just what a teacher should do. "He said that he is an ordinary teacher-this is his position for himself. But behind this sentence is Yang Dong's efforts over the years. It is easy to be a teacher, but difficult to be a good teacher. Professor Yang Dong from the College of Literature of Jilin University has taught the history of European and American literature, the history of western literary criticism, the theory of 20th century western literature and the theory of modern western novels for 25 years. Among them, the undergraduate course History of European and American Literature was rated as an excellent course of Jilin University, and its teaching achievements won the first prize of school-level teaching achievements and the second prize of Jilin higher education teaching achievements. 65438-0998 Professor Yang Dong was awarded "Excellent Teacher of Jilin University". In 2002, he was hired as the full-time person in charge of the first batch of "Hundred Excellent Courses Construction Project"-"Course Construction of European and American Literature History". In the long-term teaching practice, he has formed his own teaching philosophy and style. Today, 25 years later, when Yang Dong's class is mentioned, the students who have listened to his class still relish it. Yang Dong was admitted to the Chinese Department of Jilin University 1978, 1982. After graduating from college, he did not return to his hometown in Shanghai, where his living conditions were relatively comfortable, but stayed in school to teach under the mobilization of his teacher. Soon, he took on the heavy responsibility of teaching the history of European and American literature and the newly revised history of western literary criticism, which was unprecedented in China universities at that time. Since then, he has taken root here. Twenty-five years later, Yang Dong has also moved from youth to middle age. He has deeply fallen in love with this hot land for which he once worked, and deeply loves the sacred profession of teachers.

Although he has been teaching for 25 years, he still prepares lessons carefully before each class. Based on the nearly 800,000-word manuscript written by Yang Dong himself, the review materials are filled with new knowledge. In order to provide students with cutting-edge academic information, he subscribes to Wen Hui Reading Weekly, Bookstore, Reading and other newspapers all the year round, and goes to the bookstore to check the listing of new books when he has time. In class, Yang Dong always brings a lot of books, because he will introduce some classic theoretical books to everyone in every class. In fact, bringing reference books is not only for the convenience of introduction, but more importantly, he wants to tell students that these books have been translated and introduced and can be bought in the market.

be genuine and sincere

Although he is a doctoral supervisor, Yang Dong has never missed a class in his 25-year teaching career, whether undergraduate, graduate or doctoral. No matter what happens, he will choose to go out between classes and never delay class. Yang Dong attends classes strictly according to the teaching time, even if he teaches doctoral students, he will stick to it until the end of the semester. At the end of 2006, the day before his last class, he also withdrew from the meeting invited by China People's Congress in time to complete his duties as a teacher.

The students all said, "Few teachers can really be absent from class now. It may be easy to do, but if you want to stick to it all the time, it will not be as simple as ordinary majors. From Teacher Yang, we really realized the weight of' responsibility' and saw the best interpretation in reality! "

Respected and exemplary

Communicating with Yang Dong will make you feel that "teacher" should be a noble word. Some students said with emotion that Mr. Yang Dong's nobility should be bred from simplicity. His life is not hard, but he didn't wear expensive watches or gorgeous clothes, but he just dressed neatly. Some students also think that this nobility is born of respect. Teacher Yang Dong will arrive in the classroom ahead of time before class, and is often the last one to leave the classroom. After class, she always humbly asks students whether they need to improve and whether the progress of the class is appropriate. Some students even said that this nobility should be born of wisdom. Teacher Yang will always come up with many tricks to let us feel the knowledge in the textbook and broaden our horizons. He taught not only the exam-oriented knowledge in textbooks, but also social reality and dealing with people. Although Yang Dong is a teacher who studies western literary criticism theory, many students majoring in British and American literature, Japanese literature and even modern and contemporary literature will talk to him. He also takes pains to listen to everyone's ideas on the paper and put forward his own opinions. There was once a doctoral student in modern and contemporary literature who happened to talk to Yang Dong about the idea of her thesis, but after listening to it, he directly said that he was sorry, because he felt that he was not familiar with that field enough to make valuable comments. However, four days later, Yang Dong returned to school from Tongliao and immediately called his students, saying that he wanted to talk about the thesis with the doctoral students of modern and contemporary literature. In fact, during the rest on the train or back to the hotel, Yang Dong seriously thought about that topic in order to give students an effective suggestion.

Yang Dong often warns students: "There is no shortcut to learning, and if you want to do it, you will sink. To learn, you must read classic works, and you must sink your heart and read them again and again. " Although critical theory is profound in the eyes of ordinary people, Yang Dong always reads first-hand theoretical books several times before writing a manuscript. At the same time, he often asks students to carefully write the reading notes of each book, communicate with students seriously and express their views.

Yang Dong is always meticulous in correcting students' papers, and he is never careless even if he is a self-taught student. The paper handed in will get his sincere and suggestive comments. Sometimes he even sacrifices his precious time and puts forward revision suggestions to students. Yang Dong is very responsible for every student, including the specific thinking and reading situation on weekdays, and is familiar with the topic selection of each student. Usually reading books, as long as he sees relevant book information or abstracts of papers, he will call students. While other teachers are trying to expand their enrollment, Yang Dong is always calm. He often says: they are very happy to recruit all the students now, and maybe it is the real responsibility to let them all go out. Yang Dong believes that whether the country can cultivate outstanding talents is an important criterion to measure "teachers' morality". He said: "Students with high moral character and outstanding ability are the foundation of career continuation. Teachers should lead by example, practice, teach students righteousness, and teach students what they know and learn. "To this end, he has been influencing students with his words and deeds. In his mind, he always adhered to the belief that "teaching by example is more important than teaching by words" and made the best annotation on it with actions.

In life, Yang Dong treats students like a loving father and discusses problems with students approachable. He always sees students' mood swings, bad spirits and difficulties in life, and guides and helps them in time, always keeping them in mind. Every time he goes back to his hometown in Shanghai to visit relatives, he will bring some special products to his classmates, including going to Korea as an exchange teacher for half a year. After returning home, he will also bring a set of exquisite oil pens from South Korea to more than a dozen students, so that every student is deeply moved. "Love is implicit and strictness is strict", and Yang Dong, who has a good temper, is also very strict with his students. His strictness is mainly reflected in asking students to abide by academic ethics and beware of academic fraud. He influences students with a rigorous attitude, and the paper should be revised repeatedly. Writing a paper will never be published immediately, but it will be published for at least a year or two, because he hopes that his article can be precipitated in time, so that the paper can be improved. While instructing students how to conduct academic research, Yang Dong also instructs students to learn to be human beings and helps them to establish academic ethics necessary for learning. To this end, he set an example for his classmates with his own practical actions. Yang Dong never wrote his own papers, nor did he co-write them with others. He personally studied and thought with a realistic and serious scientific attitude. Other people's research results, including opinions and conclusions, used in academic papers all indicate the source of the original documents one by one, even to which page. Because Yang Dong insisted on being sloppy in his study, in order to get more authoritative information, he personally took his students to the Peking University Library and the National Library to consult materials, hoping that the students would also develop a solid style of study, academic honesty and resist impetuousness.

He will revise every student's paper word for word, but he will never sign his name first. His attitude towards this is very firm: "What students do by themselves is their grades. Today, he saw that the teacher used his power to take advantage of himself, and he will take advantage of others in the future. We should pass on good qualities from generation to generation, instead of teaching students a style that violates academic ethics. " "shine on you is better than blue, and students are better than me, which shows that our discipline has been recognized. This is my happiest point. " Yang Dong said so. Speaking of the history of western literary criticism, Yang Dong became interested in this field that was rarely touched at that time when he was a student. Yang Dong insisted on theoretical research for nearly 20 years, relying on the initial ideals and the efforts and tenacity of young people. The course "History of Western Literary Criticism" he offered in Jilin University is the first in China. For theoretical research, bookstores have played an important role in Yang Dong's life for many years. Never go shopping, he only chooses his own shoes, because only his own feet know whether the shoes are suitable or not. The History of Western Literary Criticism is the most suitable pair of shoes for Yang Dong. Many things happen. After nine years of painstaking research, he independently wrote and published the History of Western Literary Criticism 65438-0998. Some scholars commented on this book: it opened the door to western literary criticism and realized the long-cherished wish of several generations of scholars in China for nearly a century. Since then, China scholars have their own textbooks in the lecture hall of the history of western literary criticism of China University. It is a masterpiece in the study of the history of western literary criticism in recent years, which shows that the academic strength of China scholars is enough to occupy their own place in the world academic forest.

The study of "the history of western literary criticism" is Yang Dong's lifelong pursuit. He thinks he is full and happy. After all, it is not easy for a person to really pursue his ideal career, so he feels lucky. Although theoretical research is inevitably boring, it is the happiest thing to get results through your own efforts. Yang Dong thinks writing is the most suitable way of life. Now, Yang Dong is expanding the contemporary part of his General History of Western Literary Criticism. His works of several million words contain his countless painstaking efforts.

In order to make his book more authoritative and accurate, even if he wrote tens of thousands of words, Yang Dong often consulted hundreds of thousands of words. Yang Dong's efforts are well known to the students. The students all want to help the teacher, even if they just collect some information, but he never asks for it. 10 For many years, Yang Dong has always emphasized and adhered to the independent spirit of research. Just like this, what students really learn from Yang Dong is not only the specific connotation of knowledge, how to acquire knowledge, how to improve the ability of logical thinking, but also how to be a man.

At the beginning of the interview, when the author and Yang Dong mentioned the example of teachers' morality, he shook his head and said, "I was wrong, not me. In fact, many teachers have paid silently. I am just an ordinary scholar who happens to be a teacher. " From the standpoint of others, the author may wonder if he is too modest. However, anyone who knows Yang Dong knows that he is sincere. In the interview, most of his things were learned from students. For this interview, Yang Dong's classmates even rushed back from Shenyang to provide information for reporters, because they hoped that such a teacher who was not good at promoting himself, who was always hiding in his inner corner in obscurity in this noisy world and guarding the most common and easily overlooked duties, could get more recognition from everyone. The students all said, "Teacher Yang is such a person who is indifferent to fame and fortune. He always refuses to select outstanding and advanced students every year. Teacher Yang is modest and upright, and he is a good teacher with great personality charm, both in academic spirit and personality quality, and is widely respected and praised by everyone! " In Yang Dong's own view, to be a good teacher is to be able to endure poverty and loneliness, to be practical in learning, and not to be utilitarian and impetuous. Yang Dong is such a silent dedication, with no regrets to practice his promise with practical actions.

Yang Dong's students have graduated from one session to another, but the most precious friendship between teachers and students will always be cherished in the hearts of teachers and students. One of Yang Dong's happiest things is to receive calls from students and continue to preach, teach and solve problems for them. Chunhua Qiushi, how can the hard-working land be barren? With the accumulation of years, Yang Dong will continue to persist and gain more.