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Mountains and rivers are vast; Gentleman's wind, the mountain is high and the water is long.
You will ask, but is there really such a person who uses his own light to make the word mentor have that brilliant brilliance? You should have the answer by now, because it is not far away, because not long ago, such people really existed. He stood here, and he warmed China with his life. He is Tao Xingzhi, and he is the mentor of the people. He has told us one thing all his life, that is, a teacher can still live like this.
Wandering home, the heart follows nature.
When I was a child, my parents took me to the Confucius Temple, followed the crowd through a small pond called Xue Hai, crossed the archway of Li Xuemen, and entered Dacheng Hall. I saw a master standing in front of him with his hands folded. There is a niche in front of him. There is a memorial tablet on the niche with a line of fine print on it. I looked at it carefully through the crowd, and the words on it were "a model for all generations." Only when I grew up did I understand that these four words are extremely grand to the Chinese nation, and they are specially used to decorate the personality model and spiritual mentor of our civilization.
Frankly speaking, when I got this topic, I suddenly thought of reality. In this real society where we live, all the noise in the world is for profit, and all the noise in the world is for profit. I'm afraid the word mentor has also been polluted. Everyone dares to be a mentor, teach people to sing, teach people to manage money, teach people to succeed, and teach people to start a business. Everyone is called a mentor.
I'm not saying it was a mistake, I'm saying I'm a little unwilling. Do you sometimes have a little hesitation, that is, besides those who teach people success, will there be another kind of people who use their quality of life to regain the grand weight of the word mentor? He used the light of his life to rekindle the life glory of the word mentor. If so, who is he? What kind of person is he?
When I was in college, I went to teach in Anhui. I started from Shanghai, took the train to the car and then walked, and finally arrived at a primary school in Jinzhai, Anhui Province, deep in Dabie Mountain. The next morning, I got up in the sun, came to school and pushed open the classroom door. I found that the child's eyes were unusually bright by the sun. We took half a piece of chalk and began to write Chinese, math and English on the blackboard. After class, our older children and children play on the mountain under the red flag. The sound was so wild that it spread in all directions that the parents of the children in the village looked in curiously.
When I got the topic of tutor, what entered my mind was the sound of reading in the depths of Dabie Mountain, the children's eyes, the spirit of seeking knowledge, and the words on the white wall in that small campus, which always impressed me. He said: education is for the public, and access to the world is for the public. We asked the headmaster who said this, and the headmaster said, Tao Xingzhi, our fellow villager in Anhui.
Tao Xingzhi, a native of Shexian County, Anhui Province, was born in 189 1 and died in 1946. He studied in Nanjing Huiwen College, Jinling University, Illinois University and Columbia University, majoring in education. Tao Xingzhi returned to China in 19 17, and taught at Nanjing Normal University and National Southeast University successively. 19 17, a successful China intellectual returned from studying abroad. At that time, he didn't dream of enjoying success, but wanted to redefine what success was, and he wanted to re-establish relations with his motherland.
19 17, China was devastated as far as Mr. Wang could see, and the country was incredibly poor. Tao Xingzhi said that the root of the disease is education. At that time, there were 200 million illiterate people in China, and 70 million children had no chance to receive education. Tao Xingzhi at that time, as far as he knows, could have turned into an adult; At that time, Tao Xingzhi, with what he had learned, could talk and laugh between Confucianism and Confucianism. And he fixed his eyes on the lowest society in China. Tao Xingzhi soberly said that this country is based on agriculture, and nine times out of ten people live in rural areas. Therefore, education in China is rural education, because there is no hope for the country without improvement in the countryside.
He said, and then he did. Tao Xingzhi took off his suit, resigned as a university professor, and promoted civilian education. What is this concept? Ladies and gentlemen, Tao Xingzhi's monthly income at that time was 400 yuan. At that time, if he wanted to buy a set of quadrangles in Beijing, he only needed three months' salary. And all this, Tao Xingzhi doesn't want it. He moved to Xiaozhuang, a very backward and poor ordinary village in China, and lived in a cowshed. When he met his fellow villagers, he gradually had a seemingly unreachable wish, that is, to train one million rural teachers for China.
In Xiaozhuang, Tao Xingzhi led the students to farm, work and build their own school buildings. He said that only by sweating can you eat your own food, and you have to do your own thing. Tao Xingzhi does not want to train senior intellectuals, but teachers among the people. He invited his friends and scholars to teach in Xiaozhuang and spread new knowledge and ideas. Gradually, Xiaozhuang, a humble university hall, has grown from dozens to hundreds. Tao Xingzhi walked between secular villages and on the street. He wants to help the most ordinary people in China, elderly grandparents, servants of rich families, helpers of rich families, street handyman, the strength of the freight yard, and the master who pulls foreign chartered cars to study.
He is working hard alone, and the bud of his dream has broken through the ground. When we see the flowers bloom, we will open trees. Yes, where Tao Xingzhi is, there is hope for civilian education. In Wuhan, Chongqing, Shanghai and Nanjing, he was on the road for the rise of education in China, and finally his husband died on the road.
1On July 25th, 946, Tao Xingzhi died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage from overwork in Shanghai at the age of 55. 65438+February 1, Mr. Wang's coffin returned to Nanjing, and the people of Nanjing spontaneously helped Mr. Wang. They want to send this man back to his village. People along the road are singing and crying: you are gone, our poor child's nanny, our friend, and the people's mentor. The elegiac couplet is floating, and it says that Mr. Xingzhi is eternal. Next to it are the four vigorous characters of "Universal Master" inscribed by Soong Ching Ling.
Mr. Wang said, I hold a heart without a blade of grass; Sir, I am a civilian in China. After decades of school education, I gradually moved closer to the direction of western aristocrats, but after some understanding, I burst my banks like the Yellow River and rushed back to the road of China civilians.
Looking back on our contemporary society, the word tutor has become cheaper and cheaper. Teach people how to manage money successfully, and gradually we forget our own personality. Today, with the term mentor becoming more and more utilitarian, we regard the love between teachers and students as the economic relationship between employees and employers. We called the tutor the boss, and gradually we forgot about Mr. Today. We discussed Tao Xingzhi and gave him a speech. Today, we cherish the memory of Tao Xingzhi only because we want to use the lofty spirit of teachers to make it like fire and light, and to re-illuminate every teacher's heart, the practical spirit of integrating knowledge with practice and the love for the motherland.
In 20 14, I entered Fudan University and became a teacher for the first time. Presumably, after time training, I will become a student's tutor. I only hope that on that day, I can continue the light of Teacher Wang and turn it into a meaningful light.
Mountains and rivers are vast; Gentleman's wind, the mountain is high and the water is long.
You will ask, you will ask, today, all rich teachers are mentors who teach people to make a living, but are there really such people who use their quality of life to make the word mentor have a different weight? Will there really be such a person who will use his own light to make the word mentor have that brilliant brilliance? You should have the answer by now, because it is not far away, because not long ago, such people really existed. He stood here, and he warmed China with his life. He is Tao Xingzhi, and he is the mentor of the people. One thing he told us all his life is that a teacher can still live like this.
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Today, we cherish the memory of Tao Xingzhi in order to borrow Mr. Wang's lofty spirit, let it be like fire, let it be like light, let it re-illuminate the hearts of every teacher, and illuminate the practical spirit of unity of knowledge and practice and love for the motherland.