Not long ago, a news that "the family member died and asked for leave from the teacher was rejected" was hotly searched in Weibo, which attracted the attention of netizens.
The vocal music student of Sichuan University was refused leave by the teacher because of his family's death. The teacher said, "You can go back, but I have to deduct points."
In addition, the teacher openly took students' privacy as an example in class and said, "If four people died in your family this semester, you can only take my course again."
Chat records between classmates and teachers.
This incident triggered the collective condemnation of netizens, who thought that university teachers were vicious, unworthy of being teachers and unqualified to teach and educate people. However, through this incident, what should arouse everyone's discussion and attention is a terrible group-people who insist on principles in order to adhere to them.
Such people widely exist in all walks of life, seemingly selfless, decent and trustworthy, but the consequences of adhering to principles at a "critical moment" are even worse than those without principles. This group can be roughly divided into two types.
The first one is called "principle bitch", just like the university teacher mentioned above. On the surface, it is just and domineering, with clear responsibilities, but in fact it is playing its own "small abacus."
As a university teacher, is her quality really so low that "students take funeral leave" will be deducted? Of course not! This is just to "set an example for others" and let the students who participated in the chorus know that we should bear with great events. Who dares to influence the chorus organized by me? They are unforgiven! After all, it's for herself.
Coincidentally, two years ago, a similar incident caused an uproar on the Internet. The grandmother of a university student in Qingdao has terminal cancer, and the students want to take time off to visit. The teacher actually replied: Your grandmother should support your study under any circumstances, which is the correct attitude towards life.
As a university teacher, does he really think that "persisting in studying and not visiting dying relatives" is the correct attitude towards life? Of course not! He did this only because he was afraid that students would get into trouble when they went out, so he simply didn't ask for leave. Whether you go or not is your business. What happens to you has nothing to do with me.
Therefore, the above two university teachers "educate" students under the guise of "stressing principles" in fact for their own small interests. What they hate is that they clearly know what is good and what is responsibility, but they violate and shirk with dignity. Such people are really not suitable for "moral cultivation".
The second kind is collectively called "master slave". The greatest advantage of this kind of people is the uncompromising implementation of principles and rules, and the greatest disadvantage is that they don't know how to treat special problems. In a calm day, they are definitely good employees of the unit and good colleagues of everyone; However, when the storm comes, they often kill you unexpectedly and then laugh.
In this case, the deepest and most painful thing to understand is the German State-owned Development Bank (kfw). In 2008, the economic crisis swept the world. On September 15 of the same year, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy with the court. On the same day, Kfw paid more than 300 million euros to Lehman Brothers through the automatic payment system.
After the "transfer storm" was exposed, German media and government officials lashed out. Bild, the biggest seller in Germany, even called kfw "the stupidest bank in Germany". With the in-depth investigation of the incident, the truth is incredible.
It turned out that kfw knew the news of Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy from top to bottom, but everyone believed that others would react, so no one said a word more and no one cared much. The operator gave the money to Lehman Brothers according to the original agreement, so "the stupidest bank in Germany" was born.
Are kfw people really stupid? Of course not. They are all elites with superior IQ. But where does the "stupidest bank" come from? In the final analysis, it stems from the loss of collective responsibility of a group of elites. They think it must be right to act according to the established principles and rules, but the result is that the collective falls and becomes a laughing stock.
"Bitch of principle" and "slave of principle" are not desirable, so how to stick to the principle is appropriate? The story of "The Defender of the Berlin Wall" may give us some enlightenment.
1991September, East Germany and West Germany were just unified, and the world-famous "Berlin Wall Defender Case" was pronounced in the Berlin court. The East German soldier "Inge Henrik" shot and killed Chris, a young man who secretly climbed the Berlin Wall, and was sentenced by the court to three and a half years in prison without parole.
Eng Henrik's defense lawyer argued that he only obeyed the official orders of East Germany and had no choice at all, so he should not be punished. Inge Henrik in the dock is also very wronged, because everyone knows that "it is the first duty of a soldier to obey orders."
But the judge explained it this way: East German law requires you to kill people, but you know that these people are innocent, and it is guilty to kill him knowing that he is innocent. As a sane person, at this moment, you have the right to raise the muzzle one centimeter, which is your conscience obligation.
Huang Zhizhong, the great god of debate, once said: A person's value depends on his principles. The value of principle lies not in persistence itself, but in how you persist. Please always remember kindness and responsibility, because only under this premise can the principles you adhere to be meaningful and you be valuable.
If one day you meet a "young man who climbed over the Berlin Wall", please remember to quietly raise the "muzzle" by one centimeter to help others and yourself.