In people's life and the long river of history, the gains and losses, success or failure of the moment are not so important. The key is that we can face ourselves honestly and maintain our principles of being a human being. In our reality, we do shake a lot, and you find yourself having a hard time living because not everyone else is like you: "Well, can I say, Mr. Hundert, who gives a shit? Honestly. Who out there gives a shit...about your principles and yourvirtues? "But we should still have a sense of confidence. Because: "Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated and drunkenness sobered, but stupid...Iasts forever."
I think if I were a teacher, I would like to bring something to my students: they can learn to think independently, and they can make their own judgments in the face of diverse, complex, and changing realities; They also need to survive in this world, but I hope they can relatively preserve some of their own things. This is the principle. The failure of our current education is that we always, just blindly educate our students to adapt to reality, no matter how good or bad; so we cultivate our students generally do not have a principled, and a principled courage; When they leave school and face a society that is diverse, complex, changeable, but at the same time cruel and rigid, it is even more difficult for them to develop a principled courage; It becomes a vicious circle without knowing that students are the future of our society. Our education, or our teachers, seldom can tell us the truth of reality at the same time, and at the same time show, or at least announce, we can still have another possibility, instead of blindly telling the reality Compromise, compromise without principle, until there is no way out.
Moruo said in "The Ballad of Freedom" "A Noble Life - Remembering My Classmate and Enlightenment Teacher Mr. Wu Hongsen": "Remember that the youngest in our class was born in 1963, just 15 years old, the oldest was born in 1945 and is 33 years old, and the disparity has more than doubled. At that time, the people who came to the podium to give us lectures basically abandoned their studies for a whole ten years during the terrible Cultural Revolution, which can also be said to be abandoned. A whole life of people. They have long been thrown beyond human dignity and expertise by fate. Moreover, their hearts are covered with the shackles imposed on them by that absurd age. , and could not go beyond the shackles to teach us the teachings. Against such a background, it was the educated youth who truly became our teachers and gave us the edification of literature and spiritual enlightenment. Among those older classmates, in that whole dark and barren environment, the most radiant and shining figure was Wu Hongsen. Because of his appearance, because of his decisive influence on my life for twenty years, now, When I regret that I didn't go to a better university, I always think from the bottom of my heart: Don't be too sorry, at least I met Wu Hongsen here, this is by no means easy to meet in any environment. Between a great person and a great university, I have at least one thing, and that's already amazing luck. Not everyone has that kind of luck."
Therefore, in fact, if a student cannot meet a good school, it is very important to meet a good teacher, or it can even be said that among the two, for a specific individual, the later may be more important. And our reality is undoubtedly that we have very few good schools and few good teachers. I think maybe every teacher should remember this quote from Teacher Hundert at the end of the film: "I had come here in the hope that I had been wrong about Sedgewick Bell. Or rather, that I had been right--right to believe in him all those years ago.But this is a story without surprises.As a student of history,I could be shocked…neither by his audacity,nor his success.I had failed Sedgewick.But the worth of a life is not determined… by a single failure, or a solitary success. My other students taught me that. However much we stumble, it is a teacher's burden always to hope...that with learning, a boy's character might be changed. And, so, the destiny of a man." And this is the confidence of a teacher, or the confidence of education; and this is why we still need education and teachers: because no matter what, there will always be students who are willing to accept and accept change . (31 December 2009)
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