Chang Zengyi, who studied in the United States for 10 years, recalled his 16 age with such an opening remark. Now he is a professor of life science in Tsinghua University. The audience he faced was 100 middle school students in Beijing Jingshan, 166 Middle School and No.4 Middle School, and 100 scientists who had passed the flower season. In 2002, China Association for Science and Technology started the first hand-in-hand activity in the form of "Talking about my 16 years old" during the Spring Festival.
Wang Shouguan, an astronomer who just celebrated his 79th birthday and an academician of China Academy of Sciences, wrote poems in calligraphy, saying that Xinsong did not hate thousands of feet rotten bamboo and should be exterminated. He gave it to his young friends as a Spring Festival gift, hoping that they would have talents in the future.
Sun, a professor at the Institute of Microbiology of China Academy of Sciences, told a story when 16 years old: when I was 16 years old, my family was very poor in the countryside. When I was in middle school, my father hoped that I wouldn't learn to be a tailor. When the teacher heard about it, he ran 120 miles to my home and persuaded my parents to let me continue my studies. When I was a freshman, I got 100 in mathematics, physics, geometry and algebra, and only got 99 in chemistry. I took the paper and asked the teacher what was wrong. The teacher said that your cobalt co and o should be written in lowercase if it is big. If you write it too big, it will become carbon monoxide. In science, this is hardly the case. You must remember this. I can't remember what else I took in the exam at that time, but this O made me unforgettable and benefited a lot in my later scientific research.
At the forum, Liu Ou, a junior in chemistry department of Peking University, was invited back by his alma mater Jingshan Middle School. At the age of 16, Liu Ou was selected into the first batch of 1 1 middle school students, entered the State Key Laboratory, and studied under the academician of China Academy of Engineering and Professor Liu Depei from the Institute of Basic Medicine of China Academy of Medical Sciences to carry out basic research on transgenic therapy. She said: "At that time, I was a senior one student, and my biochemical knowledge was far from professional level. Faced with numerous experiments and boring operations, I fell down and got up again and again, constantly asked professors and experts for advice, and spent all my time in the laboratory. After 18 months' efforts, my thesis finally passed the defense of the expert group composed of academicians of the two academies and won the gold medal of the ninth national youth scientific and technological thesis. That experience made me grow up and taught me that only those who dare to face failure will succeed, and only those who persevere will succeed. I will think of those days when I encounter difficulties in the future. "
Like Liu Ou, many middle school students who participated in the talk have won various youth science and technology awards. Facing the achievements, Chang Zengyi said to them: It's good to win the prize, but it's not enough. You are just studying now and haven't made any contribution to society. Just because you're smart doesn't mean you have to contribute. Life has to go through hardships. What is written in the book, what scientists say, and even those who won the Nobel Prize may be wrong. We should dare to challenge authority and tradition. Learn to be a man first, then learn to do things. I give you Tsinghua's school motto "Strive for Self-improvement, Be Virtuous and Carry Things" for encouragement.
Wei Yu, Vice Minister of Education and Director of the Youth Science Education Working Committee, sat among the children as a scientist today. She asked Li's side: Do you usually surf the Internet? Li said to him, yes, but there is not much useful information. Li, a senior one student in No.4 Middle School, asked: Should we practice one science or both now?
Answered Li's questions for all middle school students. Wei Yu said that the development of science in the future must be cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary, and natural science and social science should also cross. International brain science research has proved that people's value orientation is inseparable from people's decision-making and feelings, and feelings are the basis of people's values, which we didn't know in the past. Nowadays, teenagers must develop in an all-round way, exercise your emotional ability, communication ability and cooperation ability, and go out to participate in world exchanges, which is a big weakness of our education. I think specific knowledge is not very important, because knowledge can't be learned. What matters is your ability to acquire knowledge and lifelong learning. Useful information is your knowledge, and using this knowledge is your wisdom.
Wei Yu said: 2 1 century science should not be a privilege. Science is not for good children or rich children, but for all children. Science should go to the west and poor areas, so that children who have no chance to receive a good education can learn knowledge, cultivate scientific spirit and participate in the development of 2 1 century like children in cities. It has become a world trend that science enters the main channel of education, not only in universities, middle schools and kindergartens. Popularizing science is very important for our country to train citizens after 20 years and 30 years. This popularization is not to spread knowledge, but to cultivate a scientific spirit, advocate respect for facts, pursue truth and seek truth and beauty. Today's teenagers should have a more scientific growth path.
Students from three middle schools used self-directed programs to look forward to their imagined scientific prospects in the next 50 years. In 166 Middle School, Guo Fei and his classmates recited a poem entitled "Cutting Thorns with Big Hands, Selflessly Holding with Small Hands", thanking many scientific predecessors for their high hopes.