Lead: Teachers who can grasp the key points in universities are very popular with students, that is, those who can help you not fail are all good teachers. However, is the teacher's duty only to help students get good grades? I don't think so. Dong Zhongli's speech "The Meaning of Education" can tell you, teacher, what does it do? What is education? What is the use of education? The following is a speech by super speaker Dong Zhongli. Welcome to read.
Dong Zhongli, a famous online teacher of New Oriental, is a meritorious teacher of the 20th anniversary of New Oriental. Lecture on CET-4 Synthesis and Vocabulary. Teaching trainer of New Oriental Education Science and Technology Group, excellent teacher of New Oriental Education Group. Graduated from Jilin University and joined Shenyang New Oriental School in 2007. Teaching domestic examination courses, spanning comprehensive, vocabulary and reading courses. English is profound, the course is full and compact, the examination analysis is thorough, and the test sites are accurate. 20 13 human resources consultant of "Super Interview" column of Liaoning Satellite TV North Channel.
Full text of the speech:
Hello, my name is Dong Zhongli, and I am an English trainer. The number of students I trained should be at least 1.5 million. I once taught the first postgraduate student in the city, and countless people have passed CET-4 and CET-6 every year. My classmates all trust me and love me. They call me Miss Xiaodong, and I especially like this name myself.
However, as a teacher, I sometimes have some confusion. Most of what I talk about are exam courses, CET-4 and CET-6, postgraduate English and so on. Once when I was talking about CET-4 translation, I talked about how Mr. Lin Yutang translated Jia Dao's "When I asked your students under a pine tree", and he replied, "My teacher went to collect herbs"; On how Mr. Xu Yuanchong translated Li Qingzhao's Search, Lonely and Sad; Speaking of Mr. Wang Zuoliang's translation of Samuel ullman's Youth as "getting old, not getting old, abandoning ideals and falling into old age", I can't help dancing, and my pride as a teacher is bursting. However, at this time, a girl directly questioned me and said, what's the use of talking about this thing? Can I get points? You are wasting our time. I thought I had a glib tongue, but I was speechless at that moment.
Yeah, she's right. It's no use. Can't get points However, dear students, I am not wasting your's time, because at that moment, I was not teaching you how to take exams, I was doing education! As a teacher and educator, I hope that what I teach in class is not only practical knowledge, because if we just spell knowledge and memory, we have already lost!
1997, the computer Deep Blue developed by IBM Company of the United States challenged Kasparov, the world's first chess master who claimed to fight for human dignity, and lost to Deep Blue with a record of one win, two losses and three draws. At that time, some people said that this chess game was too simple. Look at our Go, which is profound and changeable. Please let the computer play a game of Go. Today, 20 years later, in the first half of this year, the artificial intelligence program developed by the legendary alpha dog Google beat the world Go champion Li Shishi Jiuduan with a record of 4- 1. This man-machine war once again ended in the failure of the machine, which is really a slap in the face.
Artificial intelligence, smart; Network information, excellent knowledge; Computers are extremely agile, as we have heard now. Some parents have said that you can find all the information about the history of China online now, and you don't need to memorize it at all. You don't need artificial intelligence to count math and physics at all. Translation software is becoming more and more advanced, and there is no need to learn a foreign language at all. What is the use of education? What is the use of education? Yes, what's the use of educating it?
Some time ago, a joke was popular on the Internet, saying that the reason why we should read more books and get more education is because when we see a flock of birds flying over the lake, we can recite a sentence "Sunset and lonely Qi Fei, autumn waters and sky are the same color" instead of quarreling there. If I go, it's all birds! When we traveled to the Gobi, we rode a galloping horse and said to ourselves, "The desert is lonely and the long river sets the yen", instead of shouting, "Alas, it's all sand. Go back quickly! " Of course, this is a kind of ridicule, but unconsciously, it reveals the core significance of education. Education is not only to impart knowledge to people, but more importantly, to improve personal cultivation and sensitivity to life, so as to better understand themselves and constantly improve themselves. I think this is the core purpose of education and a beacon of hope to guide us forward.
In fact, not only students, but also our teachers, because of the pursuit of fame and fortune, lost themselves and began to become impetuous. We bet questions before the exam, predict after the exam, say how many questions we bet, and how many students improve their scores because of their studies, creating an illusion that teachers are smart, students are superb and parents are happy. At that time, I enjoyed learning exam skills. How to choose the options, students should remember, three long and one short, three short and one long, choose 2B hand in hand, and choose 4D irregularly, right? The students especially bought it and asked me why I tested gods, idols and life mentors. Slowly, they began to ask me something that was not directly related to my study. The teacher doesn't want to work very much. Well, I think all my classmates have gone to the postgraduate entrance examination, so I'd better take the postgraduate entrance examination. Teacher My father wants me to go abroad, my mother is a little worried, and I am a little scared myself. Teacher, do you think I should go abroad? Teacher, I am a master of economics and environmental engineering. What do you think I should do after graduation? ...
Teacher, what should I do in the future? This confusion has become a common phenomenon. We have been teaching for more than ten years, and students have been studying for more than ten years, but you don't know what you want to do. Western sages have long put forward three ultimate problems of philosophy. where i was from? Who am I? where am I going? The reason why I don't know what I want to do is because I don't know who I am, which is a great lack and sorrow of education.
Since ancient times, powerful countries have always attached importance to education. The education in Israel, Germany and Japan is an example for us to learn from all over the world. Religious classes are offered in Israeli primary schools; Philosophy is a compulsory course for middle school students in Germany; When we visited Japan, we saw that Japanese college students had to take part in tea ceremony training, art appreciation and other activities besides heavy studies. One of our colleagues asked a particularly classic question at that time. What's the use? That Japanese teacher doesn't care, saying that these activities are an important part of education and cultivate the mind! Only in this way can students know themselves better. Yes, how can you know what you want to do in the future if you don't know yourself? If individuals don't know what they want to do, countries and nations don't know what they want to do. How can there be Israel that is still strong in the war? How did Germany and Japan rise on the ruins of World War II?
Our country and our nation are even more so. China is regarded as an ancient civilization. After thousands of years of turmoil, it has always been reborn. Because we attach importance to education and respect teachers. As early as the origin of our culture, the great educator Confucius was established as the spiritual totem of our culture. As for the obsession with education, even in the most difficult years and days, there are always people who will never give up, and there are always people who will pick up education and wipe it again and put it back on our altar!
We once said that reading is useless, and knowledge is not proportional to wealth, which has created the impetuous state of this society. However, everything can be impetuous, and education can't! What is education? Education is the bottom line of social conscience, the pure land of human soul and the foundation of building a strong country. What is the use of education? Education is to help us know ourselves personally and this nation know ourselves, so that we can control our own personal destiny and create the future of this country. As educators and educatees, we should always bear in mind that the ultimate goal of education and reading is to make a heart for the world, make a life for the people, carry forward the past and forge ahead into the future, and make the world peaceful!
So the next time I give a lecture, I will teach students the methods and skills to answer questions within the time specified in the course, but I will talk for five more minutes, five more minutes about Lin Yutang, five more minutes about Xu Yuanchong and five more minutes about Wang Zuoliang ... Please don't ask me, what's the use? I won't teach you a five-minute exam, please allow me to do an education! Thank you!
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