wang dingjun: be rational

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one
 
a few days before the start of school, teacher yang shuzhi found director hu of the academic affairs office in the office. director hu is frowning and scheduling the course schedule for this semester.
 
“have you calculated the test scores of transfer students? "mr. yang asked director hu.
 
“calculated it. ”
 
“there is wu qiang, how did he do the exam? ”
 
“wu qiang? "director hu was changing the course schedule to a mess. he put down the red pen in his hand, thought for a while, and said, "the homework is good, but unfortunately he stutters very well. ”
 
“i don't think it will have any impact on stuttering, right? we don’t train announcers or speakers, we are an ordinary middle school. ”
 
“some schools do not welcome students with disabilities. ”
 
“brother hu! we should not do that. a stuttering child may be a scientist in the future. he pondered in the laboratory and had no need to speak. a stuttering child may be a painter in the future. he doesn't have to say anything when manipulating the lines of colors. ”
 
director hu looked at mr. yang and asked, "do you know wu qiang?"
 
“his father is friends with me. ”
 
“ok, let's take him. ”
 
on the day of school opening, teacher yang took wu qiang to handle the procedures such as payment, registration, and class organization. after the procedures were completed, teacher yang said, "wu qiang, come to my room to sit."
 
mr. yang lives in a single dormitory that ordinary schools can provide. after entering the room, mr. yang said, "wu qiang, sit down, do you want to drink water?"
 
wu qiang sat down and shook his head.
 
“wu qiang, has there been any improvement in correcting stuttering? ”
 
wu qiang lowered his head and hung to his chest.
 
“don't be afraid, let's discuss your issues boldly, i believe you will be able to overcome your shortcomings. this is a minor problem. don’t take it to heart all day, and don’t feel inferior to others all day long. this problem can't hinder anything, you can still become an artist, scientist, or something else. you look at everything with a normal perspective. if you are ignored, don’t think it’s because of stuttering; if you are loved, don’t think it’s because of stuttering. in fact, no one will always remember this, and you should not always remember this yourself. listen, am i right? ”
 
“you go to the classroom. ”
 
wu qiang bowed before quitting. he didn't say a word. he seemed to never speak silently.

  
two
 
when taking chinese class, wu qiang was very quiet.
 
i didn't hear that wu qiang was not quiet in other classes.
 
after two weekly exams, wu qiang's grades were the best in the class.
 
but there is trouble. one afternoon, teacher yang was revising the composition book in the dormitory, and director hu came. he said: "brother yang! many schools are unwilling to accept students with dysfunction, and focus on training and management. such students are emotionally unbalanced and prone to disputes."
 
mr. yang immediately had a premonition: does he mean wu qiang?
 
yes not? director hu said: "wu qiang and chu wangjie have a fight. when the class meeting was held just now, the two started fighting in front of the tutor, and the tutor was the new teacher who had just arrived at the school."
 
teacher yang threw down his red pen and walked quickly to the office. first, i glanced at the entire room with my eyes, but i didn’t see wu qiang’s mentor mr. zhu. listen with your ears, the teachers were talking about wu qiang’s beating. after finally figuring it out, the process was as follows: the class meeting was held this afternoon, and no proposal was prepared. mr. zhu asked the students to practice speaking and teach a few students to stand up and tell stories. a student stood up and said:
 
there was a man who had nothing to do on sunday and wandered around the road. there was a tie sold on the street. he came over and sold him a tie. he said, "i'll buy it, buy it." ――”the person who sold the tie was very happy to hear that he wanted to buy it, but he said below: " ――can't afford it. ”
 
the students burst into laughter. in order to show encouragement, the instructor smiled happily. another student chu wangjie told the story:
 
there is a man who is a natural musician who speaks with musical instruments. someone asked him, "do you like to eat apples?" he said, "dang, of course." he asked him again, "can you give me half of the apple?" he said, "don't, don't, don't think about it!" one day, someone said to him, "you learn to call me a duck, and i'll treat you to me." he said, "i don't eat melons, melons, melons."
 
this time, everyone laughed even harder. unfortunately, when they made fun of the stuttering person, the new teacher didn't know that there was a stuttering student in the class, so he didn't notice wu qiang's special reaction. even worse, when chu wangjie was telling a joke, his seat happened to be next to wu qiang, which made wu qiang feel oppressed. just as everyone was laughing, wu qiang stood up angrily and punched chu wangjie, who was standing next to him, telling jokes. the whole class was shocked. the teacher was stunned at first, and immediately became furious. when teacher yang arrived at the office, teacher zhu had already gone to the principal's office to discuss how to punish wu qiang.
 
wu qiang was given a very mild punishment because after teacher zhu understood wu qiang's hidden pain, he felt sympathy for him, and coupled with teacher yang's explanation and the crackdown. after the case was settled, teacher yang took wu qiang to the dormitory again.
 
“wu qiang! on the day you entered school, i forgot what i said to you? ”
 
due to emotional excitement, it became even more difficult for wu qiang to express his opinions. he said, he did not forget. he said that he was normal, but others were not normal. he said that he could forget his own flaws, but those naughty classmates refused to forget them. they are jealous of people with good homework. he could not compare with others with his mouth, so he could only compare with his fists.
 
teacher yang said to him earnestly: "wu qiang! i know you have suffered a grievance. however, you can't hit someone. if you hit someone, it will become unreasonable; if you hit someone, it will become "unreasonable". when you encounter a critical moment of right and wrong, you can reason with them!" wu qiang had originally lowered his head, but when he heard teacher yang's words, he suddenly raised his face and burst into tears in his eyes. teacher yang hurriedly said, "wu qiang, i understand what you mean. you will say: i am not as quick as them, and i can't speak reasonably! don't forget, there are many ways to speak reason. don't forget that you have a pen in addition to a mouth. you can write articles with a pen to reason. when you grow up and go to society to do things, you may encounter unreasonable things and unreasonable people. you can't fight them one by one. you don't have that many fists. if you fight, you can't explain the reason clearly. if you change the direction, if you put it in the right direction, let go of your clenched fists and grab your pen. for example, at that time, you were the main pen of the newspaper and wrote articles and reasoning in the newspaper, which was much more effective than using your mouth to reason. at that time, you might correct a lot of unreasonable things. the articles that reason with others are argumentative articles. you can put more effort into argumentative articles. if you are wronged at the class meeting, you must have a lot of truth to say in your heart. then, go back and write an article on the argumentative articles and i will use them in the school magazine. from now on, you will practice using a pen to reason with reasoning."
 
wu qiang wiped away his tears.
 

three
  
dang, dang, dang, dang, i took composition class. the students grind the ink, spread out the composition book, and guessed today's composition topic in their hearts. among the usual grades, composition is a very important one! after a while, teacher yang came in, holding a cardboard box in his hand. everyone bowed to the command of the class monitor, sat down, stared at the paper box together, and the teacher brought a box. what does it mean?
 
teacher yang put the cardboard box on the podium and asked, "guess what is in the box?"
 
no one dares to guess randomly.
 
teacher yang said: "you may be thinking: there are so many things in the world, teach us how to guess from? yes, there are too many things in the world! but although there are many things in the world, they can be divided into three categories: solid, liquid, and gas. the things in this box are not liquid, not gas, then they must be solid, right? now i tell you: it is solid, then two-thirds of the things in the world have been excluded, and two-thirds of the matter cannot be in this box. is it? you already know that what is hidden in the box is a solid, solid thing, which can be divided into animals, plants, and minerals. you can ask: is the solid in the box an animal, plant or mineral? i tell you: it is a plant! then, within the range of solid, there are two-thirds of the exception! the range has been narrowed again. in this way, the range is narrowed step by step, and you can definitely guess what it is."
 
this "mystery" raised by teacher yang made students very interested and everyone was eager to try. the brave student stood up and asked, "teacher, is this plant delicious or not?"
 
the whole class laughed. teacher yang said: "it is edible."
 
there are still many plants that can be eaten. which one is it?
 
the classroom turned silent, and everyone frowned and thought about the problem. wu qiang suddenly raised his hand. after obtaining the teacher's permission, he sent a note to the podium. teacher yang picked up the note and looked at it, and said with a smile: "wu qiang wrote three questions. looking at these three questions, he has guessed it. i will tell you both his questions and my answer: first, he asked: 'does this kind of edible plant eat its stems or its fruits?' my answer: eat its fruits. he asked again: 'is this kind of edible thing long or round?' my answer was round. he asked again..."
 
before teacher yang could finish speaking, a student named jin shanbao stood up like a jump and said, "teacher, it's an orange!"
 
teacher yang stopped talking and opened the paper box and took out the two oranges inside, which caused another burst of laughter. teacher yang used his calm voice to overwhelm all laughter and said, "you guessed it right, it was indeed orange. how did you guess it? because you used a very effective method: reason."
 
teacher yang wrote the word "reasonable" on the blackboard and said:
 
“if something is not a liquid or a gas, it must be a solid. this is a certain truth. it would be outrageous if i said that the things in the box were neither solid nor gas nor liquid! since the thing in the box is solid, if it is not an animal or a mineral, it must be a plant. it cannot be neither an animal, a plant, nor a mineral. because "there is no reason." everything has the truth. if the sky is cloudy and rainy, it is the truth; if the melon is ripe and the stems fall, it is the truth; if the water flows and wet, the fire becomes dry, it is the truth; if there is smoke, there is fire. zhu xi saw a clam shell on the top of the mountain and inferred that the top of the mountain was once the bottom of the sea, which was also based on the truth. there is reason in nature, and people rely on the word "reason" to maintain it. there is a chinese saying that "rule is right and mount tai falls", and the power of reason is greater than that of mount tai. when chinese people criticize someone for their wrong behavior, they often say that they are unreasonable; if there is a dispute, a third party will be asked to comment. from now on, you should receive a training to make everyone understand and everyone can judge and be reasonable. how to train? that is to write a thesis. from this semester, i want you to write more essays. ”

 
it turns out that the teacher means this. the classmates laughed again.
 
seeing that everyone was interested, teacher yang continued to talk. he first drew a story from the book about logic:
  
there was a wife who had a child playing by the river. they didn't know that there were terrible crocodiles in the water. the child accidentally knocked unconscious by the crocodile with his tail and fell into the water. the wife hurriedly begged the crocodile to put the child back. as long as the child is put back, she is willing to agree to any conditions for the crocodile. the crocodile said, "i want you to say something." the wife hurriedly asked what it was, and the crocodile said, "you said, i would rather let me eat the child."
 
teacher yang said, "look, how to reason this is the problem. if this wife had never written a essay in school, (students laughed), she would not be able to deal with this crocodile. of course, you will say that this is just a story. are there any talking crocodiles in the world? let me tell you another story. there is a lady who doesn't like a gentleman, and she insists on chasing her and sits at her house every day without leaving. this lady, at first, deals with him. later, he felt that he really hated him, so he issued an order to expel him and asked him not to come again. the man said, "if you promised me a condition, i will never come again." the lady said, "what conditions? you agreed. "the man said, "you marry me." look, isn't this story the same as the story of the crocodile? didn't that lady meet a talking crocodile? if the lady hadn't learned essays in school, she would probably be speechless."
 
when jin sunbo heard the teacher stop talking, he asked anxiously: "how should we answer that crocodile?"
 
“which crocodile should i answer? "the teacher asked this. since the question was just a girl, the boys in the class laughed out loud when they thought of the pun of "crocodile".

 
speaking of this, teacher yang suddenly raised an unrelated question: "have you read the newspaper today?"
 
no.
 
“there is a small article in the newspaper today, which is very interesting. i have cut it for you. who will read it? lu zhunian, read it to everyone! ”
 
below is a passage read by lu zhunian:
 
during the lunar calendar year, i took the train to the countryside to pay new year's greetings. there were many passengers in the car, and there was one person who was obviously drunk and was also sitting in the car. after a while, the train conductor came to check the tickets, but the drunk passenger couldn't get the tickets. the conductor said, "please make up for the ticket." he said, "no money." the conductor said, "why take the bus without money?" he said, "it's time for the new year." the conductor said, "you have to buy tickets when taking the bus during the new year!" he said, "you have no money."
 
after lu zhunian finished reading, teacher yang imitated a conversational tone of a drunkard and said, "please make up for the ticket!" "no money." "how can you take a bus without money?" "it's time to celebrate the new year!" "you have to buy tickets when you take a bus during the new year!" "you have to buy tickets when you don't have money!" "how can you take a bus without money?" "it's time to celebrate the new year"... amid the laughter of the classmates, he said, "this question and answer can be endlessly cycled. it seems that there is no way to convince the person who doesn't have a ticket to ride; but if you know how to write a paper, you know there is a way."
 
teacher yang looked at the watch and felt that he had already spoken a lot, so he put away his chorus: "i want to see your ability to reason. it depends on how you reason with others. first, listen to how you quarrel with others. i want you to write down your experience of quarrel."
 
“"the story of a quarrel" is the composition topic. however, he quietly informed wu qiang that there was no need to write this topic. he had already handed wu qiang a composition topic alone.
wang dingjun: a famous chinese writer, now living in new york

reprinted from: youyou literature network


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