When you dream, someone is always trying.
Frankly speaking, as a person who thinks highly of himself, there are not many people who can make me respect from the heart. But one of the seemingly ordinary teachers left an unforgettable memory for my youth.
My alma mater, Urumqi No.1 Middle School, is located in the most prosperous section of the city center, with a small area and high popularity.
In the morning, the sun shines into the campus bit by bit, dew is hung on the green grass, and there is no one over the school road. However, there was a sound of basketball hitting the ground from the stadium. The player is a man, wearing an old but clean sportswear. The figure of 180 stands out in the lonely stadium. This is my math teacher, Miss Chen. When I was in high school, he was almost 50 years old, the oldest of all the teachers who had taught me. After coming to this school for nearly 20 years, he has always kept the record of arriving earlier than cleaning aunt.
1 hour later, when he appeared in class, he had changed into a straight suit. Standing on the stage, I acted like an English gentleman, even with my arrogance. "Dear classmates, I have nothing to do with your study. I have been teaching for so many years, and I don't need your grades to prove how good I am. I have taught students all over the world, Harvard and Yale. You must realize that you are not sitting here for my study. " This teacher really has an accent, I thought to myself silently.
He went on to say, "You know, graduating from junior high school means the end of your nine-year compulsory education. In high school, it was naive to want to learn from parents and teachers. Remember, from now on, you will only study for one person, and that is yourself. " After saying this, he turned gracefully and drew a standard coordinate system and a nearly perfect circle without relying on rulers and compasses. In this way, I started my first math class in high school. I can't remember the knowledge points clearly, but his demeanor impressed me deeply.
In Urumqi No.1 Middle School at that time, Mr. Chen had a large number of female fans, and both female students and teachers worshipped him. However, he has never been confused by this myriad favors, and has always been strict with himself, almost abnormal. Other teachers are fighting for the landlord to eat melon seeds during the break. One of the best super teachers in the school is still immersed in the research of teaching theory. In addition to hard work, he insists on exercise, fitness and reading every day, and the years have not left too many marks on him.
In the last class before the college entrance examination, Mr. Chen finished the precautions in the exam and looked at us with serious and loving eyes: "Children, you are about to end a journey and step into a new one. The road of life is very long. As my student, no matter where you do it in the future, I hope you can always keep a constant pursuit. I hope that you will firmly remember that' among those who seek the best, those who seek the middle will find the bottom, and those who seek the bottom will not flow in'. "
Later, I went out of my hometown, saw a bigger world and met more outstanding people. Compared with the dazzling brilliance of those successful people, Mr. Chen's life seems to be step by step. But life is ordinary, what we have to do is to find the extraordinary from the ordinary, and he did it.
From him, I realized that when people are alive, they must keep moving forward and keep pursuing in any environment. Some people say that the two signs of men getting old are the receding hairline and the increasing waistline. In fact, the sign of a person's real aging is that he feels that life will never change again, so he gives up studying and improving himself.
When I grew up, I met many "living dead", who once made me feel that living like a walking corpse is also a way of life. This is what people often call "compromise", or "seek stability and don't think blindly".
Fortunately, many people around us are unwilling to "die young" and have polished a wonderful life in constant tossing. Luo Yonghao, for example, doesn't care about winning or losing. He just makes mobile phones seriously and forms a new elite to help countless people plan workplace classics. They are all excellent teachers in New Oriental. After making outstanding achievements in their own professional fields, they are invincible in other battlefields.
I have taught in New Oriental for five years. Working in such a big company, it is not easy to meet the legendary teacher Yu. After I became a group spokesman, I had more opportunities to work with him.
Once I went to Lanzhou to give a speech with teacher Yu, and I took an early flight. When we first got on the plane, everyone was still a little energetic, and some people took out their computers to work. After a while, drowsiness came and many people began to fall asleep. I also feel a little tired, listening to music and closing my eyes. After all, there are still a few speeches to be made after getting off the plane, so I want to stay excited. I fell asleep in a daze. I saw Mr. Yu take out his computer and start to deal with some work. When he woke up, he was still staring at a document and tapping the keyboard quickly from time to time.
In the past two years, top universities in the United States, including Harvard and Yale, have successively established online learning platforms-large open online courses, which provide free courses online, so that everyone has the opportunity to get high-quality education for free. Large-scale open online courses are still in the exploratory stage, and no school in China has tried large-scale open online course teaching.
When we were away on business, we sat in a bumpy car. Teacher Yu replied to some work emails with the computer, and then searched the internet for relevant information and materials. Teacher Yu asked me, "Ellie, what do you think of the large-scale open online course?"
After expressing his views, he told me that New Oriental was founded for survival at first, and now it has become the largest educational institution in China, and market interests are no longer the focus of consideration. Now he is more focused on education itself, hoping to share high-quality educational resources with everyone for free.
Last winter, Yu Xiansheng accidentally broke his leg while skiing and had to travel in a wheelchair every day. During the recovery period of several months, he insisted on attending every important meeting of New Oriental, and other work was not delayed at all. He even said happily that there was finally a reason to get rid of unnecessary business activities and focus on improving education itself.
In the eyes of many people, after more than 20 years of struggle, Mr. Yu Can fully enjoyed the glory of New Oriental and his own life, but he never stopped moving forward. He gets up at 6 o'clock every day and goes to bed at 12 o'clock in the evening. The average working time is over 10 hour. He is still exploring the pursuit of education.
For him, success and happiness are no longer the destination, and he will always be on the road of pursuing better. There is no best, only better.
People who are better than us are still working hard, and there is no end to Excellence. How can I stop easily?