The following is an excerpt from his speech.
A friend I know, who graduated from technical secondary school, found that the technical secondary school education was far from enough after working for a period of time. He went to technical secondary school not because he was stupid, but because the conditions at home were really poor. That time should be close to 30 years ago. Middle school is generally a normal college, which doesn't need to pay any fees, so he can only choose middle school. After work, I found that this is far from enough. Later, I began to study hard and went to junior college. After being admitted, he felt that the junior college was still not enough. Now, generally speaking, you have to go to an undergraduate course to take the postgraduate exam, but at that time, you can take the postgraduate exam as long as you graduate from college. Therefore, after graduating from junior college, he made up his mind to take the postgraduate entrance examination and go to the best school. So the ultimate goal is to lock in Peking University. He quit his job, rented a house outside Peking University and studied hard for three years. Finally, he was admitted to Peking University Graduate School of Political Science. After graduating from Peking University, I became a civil servant and entered a very good central unit in Beijing. When I was working in the central unit, I felt that a cup of boiled water and a newspaper were not my goal, so I came to New Oriental to study TOEFL and GRE in my spare time, with the goal of attending a world-famous university. I studied in New Oriental for almost two years, passed these two exams, and finally entered the Kennedy School of Politics of Harvard University through hard work. After working abroad for a period of time after graduation, I happened to meet the opportunity of China government to recruit some people who want to work in China after graduation. After I came back, I soon joined the ranks of bureau-level management cadres in China. Because of his ambition, his efforts and his background of integrating Chinese and Western cultures, he soon became one of the more important management cadres in China.
There are countless middle school students who end their lives as middle school students. But we can see that there is a middle school student who can struggle to graduate from Harvard University. This is a journey of struggle. We often say that the conditions of people in famous universities seem to be relatively rigid, but as I said just now, not everyone in famous universities can succeed.