Health is more important than Excellence. The purpose of education is not to cultivate social elites, but to cultivate workers who are physically and mentally healthy and fully developed. If children really have the will and wisdom like Yu and Ma Yun, I believe they can also become social elites through their own efforts.
Yu and Ma Yun are both grassroots and children of ordinary people. Although workers and peasants have no culture, they don't encourage others, love vanity and blindly compare with others. They know how to respect children and love labor. They set an example for their children with their diligence and kindness. Example is the best education.
I taught a student named Wang Bing. When he was a freshman, he told me that his mother worked as a cleaner at school, and he was very grateful to the school for letting his mother work as a cleaner at school. After I know his mother, I often give her the waste paper from the office. It was a small matter, and his mother was grateful every time.
Wang Bing is simple-minded and hard-working. He didn't do well in the third diagnostic examination in March and May. The school hopes that he can be admitted to Peking University in the college entrance examination and win glory for the school. Wang Bing likes playing table tennis. After the third exam, I once asked him to play table tennis alone and asked him about his failure in the third exam.
Bing Wang put it this way: "Teacher, I'm still very sad because I failed the third diagnostic exam, but it won't be difficult soon. I analyzed the reasons for losing points and found my own problems. I will check the leaks and fill the gaps in time. I believe I can do well in the college entrance examination in June. I don't care if I can get into Peking University. This is what the school cares about. I'll wait until my college entrance examination scores come down before I consider filling in my volunteers. Give me a reference! " I admired Bing Wang's psychological quality at that time. He also had his own independent thoughts and sound personality.
God rewards hard work. That year, Bing Wang was admitted to Peking University in the college entrance examination. After graduating from Peking University, he can walk the graduate students of Peking University. However, in order to go to Shenzhen for development, he applied for a postgraduate degree at Shenzhen University, and was admitted to the postgraduate degree at Shenzhen University as he wished. Now working in Shenzhen, the work is relatively smooth.
I still remember I used Yu's story to educate Wang Bing. He said calmly, "I am worth learning, but I will only be the best myself." Even if I can't get into Peking University, I won't feel inferior. I just want to strive for a better life for my parents in the future, and I believe I can do it. In your eyes, you think Yu is great, but in my eyes, my mother is even greater. You are a political teacher, and you will understand why my mother is greater. I don't study to win glory for anyone, but to make my life and my family better. "
After reading Yu's inspirational speech "Free from Fear", I was thinking that Bing Wang is the son of a farmer and a temporary cleaner recruited by the school. Why did he develop so well? Because he has no vanity, jealousy and fear.