school rules and discipline. The school has no workers, no guards, no master craftsmen,
and all the necessary work is done by the students themselves. The school has a schoolmaster system, where third graders lead first graders
. The whole school assembles in just three minutes. Students have to salute their teachers from seven meters away. There is no winter vacation homework for students,
and none of them fail to get into college. This is Taiwan's renowned 30-year-old moral education-based Zhongxin Senior Industrial and Commercial
School. In Taiwan's major newspapers, job advertisements often appear on the words "only recruit graduates of Chung Hsin".
Who runs a middle school like this? This teacher is called Gao Zhendong, today
65 years old, he founded the Taiwan Zhongxin Higher School of Business Administration and its "Zhongxin Education Act" in Taiwan, hundreds of thousands of people have benefited. In recent years, Mr. Gao has been invited to lecture on the mainland many times, and has been awarded the title of "visiting professor" or "honorary dean
" of the College of Adult Education by more than a dozen universities in Shandong, Yunnan, Guizhou,
Hunan, Central China, Henan and Hebei. His five-hour speech on "Morality - Education - Patriotism" touched the hearts of countless parents,
teachers and leaders, and made the majority of students reflect for a long time. Now, we have compiled and published part of his speech in an article, and we believe that you will be able to appreciate Mr. Gao's personality and his patriotic passion.
I hope you can learn something from it. ......
The world is rising and falling, and I am responsible for it
What do you think is the next phrase in the phrase "the world is rising and falling"? --I'm not going to be able to do that. No, it is:
"My responsibility". If everyone gets an extra 10 points on this year's college entrance exam, isn't that the same as no points at all? "The rise and fall of the world
is everyone's responsibility" is the same as no one's responsibility. I have to change the word "responsibility" to "my responsibility", and this is how
I teach my students.
This is why I went back to my country to give a speech on morality, because it is my responsibility to make sure that education is not done well on the mainland. (Applause)
"Take the prosperity and demise of the world as my responsibility" is the thought of Mencius. Yu is a human being, Shun is a human being, and I am also a human being!
What they can do, why can't I do?
"The rise and fall of the world is my responsibility", only with this thought, our country has hope. Each of our
students if everyone says: school order is not good, is my responsibility; national education is not run well, is my
responsibility; the country is not strong, my responsibility ...... everyone can take the initiative to take responsibility, the world which is not prosperous country
home? Which is not a united group? So that every student should pull the responsibility on themselves, and
not push out.
That's what I do in my school in Taiwan. If the classroom is dirty, I ask, "What's going on? "Suppose a
student stands up and says, "Teacher, today it's student 32's duty, and he didn't clean up." Then
like, this student is going to get a beating.
In my school, a student would say something like, "Teacher, I'm sorry, it's my responsibility," and then immediately
go up and clean. The light bulb is broken, which students see, they will pay to buy a put on, window glass
glass is broken, the students themselves immediately buy a piece to replace it - this is education, not to push out the responsibility, but
take over. Maybe some people say this is to suffer, I tell you, to suffer is to take advantage of, this kind of education to keep
firmly in mind, every one of us Chinese people to remember!
Schools should train students to think like this, "the world's rise and fall, my responsibility".
The campus is not clean,
it should be the responsibility of everyone. You think, such a big campus, you do not destroy, I do not destroy, it will
dirty? After it's dirty, everyone goes to clean it up, will it be dirty? You just expect a few workers to do the job
and say, "That's their business. I'm here to read, not to sweep the floor. "
- What kind of concept is that? What do you study for? I'm not going to be able to read the book, but I'm going to be able to read the book. The immediate service you
are not serving, you can still serve the future? If you don't take responsibility for the present, how can you take responsibility for the future? The water
faucet is leaking, can't you plug it? Some people will say, "That's not my business, that's the business of the General Services Department.
"This is wrong.
The worst fault of the average person is this: after turning on the faucet and finding no water, he goes to turn on a second one, and the
second one is not there, and then he goes to turn on a third one - such a student, in my school, is to be expelled! You don't even know how to do
three things, if the first one doesn't have water, the second one will? Didn't you think water would come? How
can a person not think far ahead
? As a cadre, as a person, we have to think about the consequences, the consequences of the more far-reaching people, the more
is a successful person. A person who only cares about the immediate, regardless of the future, is not a good cadre, not a
useful person.
The water pipe is not turned off, after the water came to let it clatter full of pool to flow, still do not pay attention to: "Anyway, it is the country
the water, not my own! "-Whoever wastes the country's water is a traitor! Why are you wasting the country's
water? Why do you waste the country's resources? I wash my face every day to save a basin of water for the country, how much
water a year, you do the math, more than 6,000 students in your school, each save a basin of water every day, how much water a year to save? Save
Water is to save electricity, is to save national resources.
There are two kinds of love, one is positive patriotism and the other is negative patriotism. Positive patriotism is to create wealth for the country
and negative patriotism is to save wealth for the country. The country uses so much of the people's wealth to pay for your education,
and you waste the country's wealth, where is your conscience? If you go to college like this, how can you expect it from secondary school students,
elementary school students? How can you expect it from the general public? If you senior intellectuals are not patriotic, how can you expect the
people to be patriotic? Starting from your own side, our country will have hope - this is the positive and responsible moral concept of "the world's rise and fall
, my responsibility", this is moral education.
On the other hand, we need to have the concept of dedication, which is "don't be too good to be true, and don't be too bad to be true".
Is there a big thing in the world?
The world is full of great things. But any small thing is a big thing. The set of small evil is a big evil, set of small good is
for the big good. The development of good morals begins with respect for teachers, with the smallest of things
. This kind of morality is built up slowly, rather than specifically finding great things to do.
This morning at the end of class, I came out with the president of the teacher's college and there was a lot of scrap paper in the auditorium. I said
Do not pick up, to wait for the afternoon students to pick up their own - students, who dropped these scraps of paper is unpatriotic.
The world is no big deal, please pick up the confetti under your feet first - this is my "teaching material".
Well, students pick up the scraps of paper under their feet, this is the beginning of patriotism. I'll tell you two stories about
the stained paper.
The first stained paper story:
The United States has a "Ford Company", Ford is a person, he graduated from college, go to an automobile company
to apply for a job. And he applied with three or four people are higher than his education, when the first few interviews, he felt
he has no hope. But if he came, then he was safe. He knocked on the door and walked into the chairman's office, a
into the office, he found a piece of paper on the floor in front of the door, he stooped down and picked it up, and found that it was a piece of stained paper, then
handily threw it into the waste paper basket. Only then did he get as far as the chairman's desk and said, "I'm here to apply for a job
for Ford. "The chairman said, "Very well! Mr. Ford, you have been hired by us. "Ford
surprised, "Chairman, I thought the first few were better than me, how did you get me hired? "The director
chairman said: "Mr. Ford, it is true that the first three are better educated than you and have great instruments, but their eyes
can only see the big things and not the little things. Your eyes can see the little things, and I think that the
man who can see the little things will naturally see the big things in the future, and a man who can only see the big things will overlook a lot of little things. He will not
be successful. That is why I have hired you.
Ford so into the company, the company soon became famous, Ford changed the company
for "Ford", but also changed the entire U.S. national economic situation, so that the U.S. automobile industry in the world
world dominant, this is today's "American Ford", "Ford", "Ford", "Ford", "Ford", "Ford", "Ford", "Ford", "Ford", "Ford", "Ford", "Ford", "Ford" and "Ford". This is today's "American Ford Company" creator Ford. We all say, this scrap of paper
Is it important?
This is a very important lesson that those who can see the small things can see the big things, but those who can only see the big things may not be able to see the
small things.
The second story of the stained paper:
When the Asian Games ended in Hiroshima, Japan, there was not a single piece of paper left in the 60,000-strong venue.
Newspapers around the world wrote articles marveling at the "honorable, terrible Japanese nation. "
The fact that there wasn't a single piece of waste paper amazed the world.
And look at the footage of our October 1 flag-raising in Tiananmen Square, when people dispersed, full of
waste paper, scraping everywhere! Foreigners, of course, will look at it and think: "China is not even close to comparing itself with Japan! Don't always say: our country is a big country with 137 gold medals - it's useless, our
moral standard has not yet come up, it's still far from being good! Do you think these scraps of paper are important? That's why I told
everyone to pick up a scrap of paper, and that's the beginning of patriotism. Everything starts from small things.
U.S. Space 3 is almost to the moon, it can not board and helplessly returned, why?
Because a small 30 dollar battery went bad, their long-awaited space program was destroyed, and several
billion dollars were scrapped!
Is there a big deal in the world? Do you see any airplane crashes where the wings and the head fall off together?
This is the first time a plane has crashed because the fuel line didn't work, and one of the tires couldn't be put down. When a person dies, which one of them died of ulceration of the whole body
? It's a bad liver, a faulty heart, a small organ that doesn't work properly!
-- Students, from now on, you have to have the concept of dedication. The purpose of our nine-year education
in China is to see how you can get along with your teachers and how you can get along with your friends, and that's the purpose of education
. From time immemorial, it is Chinese education that is the greatest education, and it would be a big mistake for you to regard Western education as
the most advanced education. The U.S. Secretary of Education made a speech three months ago, saying, "Education in our
country is a total failure, we teach people to be meat machines, and we need to learn humanistic
education from the East! "That is why the education of our country is the greatest education in the world! (Applause)
Confucius told us: to learn without thinking is confusing, to think without is dangerous. A student has to keep learning, keep
thinking, keep doing, this is the real education, this is the essence of Chinese education.
One more thing, we have to have moral education to revitalize
the national culture by eating Chinese food, speaking Chinese, celebrating Chinese festivals and wearing Chinese clothes.
Can a Chinese person be called a Chinese when he doesn't even eat Chinese rice? The first representative of eating Chinese rice is to make
use chopsticks. Chopsticks were originally a Chinese culture and a civilized behavior. When I go to the United States, I occasionally eat their Western
meals, and as soon as they serve Western food I say: "Please bring me chopsticks. "They asked me, "Why do you use chopsticks when you use a knife
fork for western food? "I said chopsticks are a symbol of civilization, while your knives and forks are a symbol of barbarism
signs, so I don't use them. Chopsticks can cut, fork, peel, pinch, poke, and do everything, while your
knives and forks are bulky and heavy, like weapons of murder. (Applause)
Students want to eat roast chicken, I said yes, if he said he wanted to eat "Ken Fried Chicken", I want to beat him, he said to eat
bread with tofu milk, yes, he said to eat a "burger" but not. You can eat a bunker, but not a
"burger". This is the national spirit of China's education! Foreign countries are just better than us in terms of machines and guns, but can we compare our food with China's? Eating foreigners is just a strange mentality, can be inferior ah!
The English teaching in our school is the best in Taiwan. I brought in two teachers from the U.S. who specialize in teaching my
students to learn to speak a foreign language. I have a class that stays in the U.S. They must stay in the U.S..
But the textbooks they were taught had my words printed on the first page: "It is our national
shameful act for Chinese to learn English, and it is the saddest act in China to learn English, but we cannot help learning it because others have surpassed us
and the enemy's guns, their science, have overpowered us. Today we must learn their science before we can
beat them! Overtake them! We must fight the enemy with the barbarians! We must learn English well, so we must grit our teeth
and learn English! (Applause) The purpose of our learning English is not to go to America to wash dishes and scrub toilets, to serve
foreigners, to do things that disgrace our ancestors! "(Applause)
So, my students are very good at English.
If an English teacher says at the beginning of class, "Class, today we are going to learn English. English is
the world language, the most beautiful language in the world! A nation that doesn't know English is an inferior nation, and English
is so beautiful! Wonderful! " Do you think this teacher needs a spanking?
So I always tell these teachers: teach my students well, you don't want to propagandize for foreigners and become
traitors! To tell the students to snow shame and strength, to defeat the powers, this is the hope of the Chinese people (applause)!
Don't you have English teachers here? The students of the foreign language department will teach English in the future, right?
Before the class to
You have to educate the students to learn English patriotically, do not come up to blow a scene for foreign countries, you do not
think that: preachers are only the way to preach the English language, teach the English language industry, but to preach the way of patriotism, teaching the English language industry.
Well, the students know these truths, and the next step is that we need to know that our education today is a failure
. Because, we have been taught wrong from a young age.
So, we need to have altruistic and beneficial
moral education that seeks to learn for the sake of the country and learns skills for the sake of social division of labor.
You should first think about why you study and for whom you study. You need to reflect on this. Some people may
say that they study to find a job for themselves! This is how despicable and small, how boring and pathetic ah! You should never
live for a job alone! It's too easy to find a job to eat! Take a knife, find someone
to stab, absolutely a lifetime of food, and there are people to wait on you, there are people to cook for you, sleep
when there are people to stand guard for you, your things are the same as less! Wouldn't that solve the problem of eating? Why don't you
do it? Because I told you to learn the skills to survive, to understand the meaning and value of life, and there
is no place to create human value!
So, we need to know that reading is definitely not for their own sake, reading is for the sake of the country and seek learning, so
So, we have to tell the children to read and do things to determine a direction: first do what you should do, and then
do what you like to do.
Many people read for interest, outrageously! What interest is there in reading? The real goal should not be interest
interest, but responsibility, find interest in the midst of responsibility, but not to replace responsibility with interest. The more in the darkness the more
do the light, and that is moral education.
We study for the sake of our country. Students, think about what kind of education you were brought up with. Especially
is the rural children, your parents are how to teach you? They told you this: you have to study hard! If you don't
study well, you won't be able to get ahead in the future. You have to work hard and study hard to have a future, and study
is for your happiness, and study for your future! Reading everything is for you! You grow up under this kind of teaching
and this is the most wrong kind of education, this is the worst kind of education! So when a child grows up, he knows, "Aha, studying is for me, it has nothing to do with anything, it's for my future, it's for my future, it's for my hope, it's for my hope, do you see any hope for this country? It has nothing to do with the country!
He drank the milk of the country, used the country's taxpayers' money, and took the people's fat and wealth to train a
selfish child, and trained a group of self-serving teachers, you think: this country will have a future? You
read in the wrong direction, reading is not for their own, reading is for our country, the country needs people
talent, the country needs cadres, the country needs to build the pillar of the country.
Why did the country train you? Is the country indebted to you? Can you eat the country for nothing? Enjoy
Here in the dormitory and restaurant, enjoy the teacher's knowledge of you for nothing? Who are you to do that? What are you contributing to the country
? What have you contributed to society? What sacrifices have you made? You have nothing, you're just a machine that makes
shit. You eat every day and do nothing, what have you contributed to the country? The country is looking forward
to your contribution, to your future, because one day you will grow up, one day you will learn and you will have to
do something for the country, that's why the country is investing in you, so that you can serve the country.
Because moral education has to be predicated on state education, that's why we have to love our country today. It is
good that you are studying in a teacher's college, and you will have to train successors across the century after three or four years, and your responsibility is greater than
anyone else's.
If you don't have a national concept, you are not patriotic, how can you ask your students to be patriotic? That's why
it says that today's teachers are the most important. That's why I run around and inculcate patriotic ideas in my teacher trainees
There!
If you are patriotic, students are naturally patriotic! If you don't love your country, if you whine every day, if you want to change your profession every day, if you want to go to the sea every day,
, then what hope is there for the next generation? Especially for those who study English, they always want to learn well, and in the future, they will go to
which company to be the interpreter for which boss, which chairman, and how humiliating it is! What a lack of character, what a lack of temperament!
(Applause)
What I especially emphasize here is the concept of country.
I often tell my students a story: we went out traveling one day, and suddenly a storm came
. We had no place to hide from the wind and the rain, the children ran forward, and there was a hut in front of us, and we all rushed into it, and the rain came as soon as we rushed in. We were so happy, "Wow, we are lucky today, we just
found the house and the rain came. I'm so happy! "They didn't care whether the house was clean or not, or whether anyone lived in it
, they were satisfied as long as they had a place to get out of the rain. But this house was suddenly going to collapse in the storm, and the students
were trying to do everything they could to "hold it up and not let the house fall down." In this situation, I am very emotional, students
students, you say it is we need the house, or the house needs us? (Applause)
I think it's us who need the house.
This house is our country, even more broken is our home, even more poor, even more broken, is our
home, we have to love her! (Applause)
How can you envy foreigners? "Alas, you see how good foreigners are! I don't want to be a Chinese, I
want to be a foreigner! "That's not right. Our country is not as good as others, we admit it, but we have the determination
mind that we will slowly make it better, but we must sacrifice ourselves and have the concept of loving our country. Everyone
is chopping the country, eating the country, taking the country, how can this country be good? How can this country
be good when everyone is corrupt and corrupt? There is a Canada in a foreign country! In China, there is "everyone takes", even the biggest country will be taken by you to be poor
. (Applause)
Wherever I go, I absolutely refuse to entertain. I go where to eat their own, use their own, sit in your car to
car money, live in your hotel to your hotel money, eat your meal to meal money, absolutely not touch the country a dime. I just
was going to make a demonstration to you! (Applause)
What do you mean by patriotism, is that we give things to the money to the country, this is called patriotism, you always take the country's
things to the home, this is called what patriotism? Some people steal the country, take the country, but also take a taste, take
shouting, take no face, how can this be? (Applause)
Some people say: teacher, you let me love the country, I can love the country, but where is the country? I can not find
!
"Do not know the true face of Mt. "You are in the country, you don't know where the country is.
When you are a teacher, the country is the student in front of you. When you step to the podium, the students below you are your country
It's so easy to find the country. Today I stand here, the following 1500 people is my country, I must
to your dedication to do their duty, we have to produce the role of indoctrination, the role of influence, you are my country, I love you,
that is, I love my country, to spread my thoughts to you, that is, love your country! (Applause)
Then you will go to your students one stop, that is your country. You can not waste his time,
his life, you have to properly train the next generation for the country, you give him this kind of patriotic ideas, you are a patriotic
country, do not give him, you are unpatriotic, you are traitors! (Applause)
Students, in the future you also have the opportunity to study abroad. You don't go and don't come back, it's a disgrace to the Chinese! Foreigners will not look down on you. They will
say: Look, these foreign students have no sense of country at all, these little outlaw slaves! How can people look
upon you? It's humiliating, it's a very embarrassing thing to do.
Our country is very important to us, you don't know the importance of "motherland" until you go abroad.
A person who has no country, a very weak country, is really too poor! It's pathetic!
Therefore, we Chinese people today need to be self-reliant and self-loving, and we need to know how to love our country.
The country
Not strong, you personally rich again what is the use? What's the use of having status? You will never be respected!
I talked about what is patriotism today? I'm not sure what I'm talking about, but I'm not sure what I'm talking about. Everywhere is patriotism!
Any
behavior can be patriotic.
Everyone knows about the war between Israel and the Arabs. When the Arab-Israeli war was going on,
the world was holding a beauty contest, and that year Miss Israel was elected "Miss World". Many people in the movie
world gathered around her:
"Sign on, Miss, you can make a fortune in the future",
"Sign on and you'll get both fame and fortune, why do you need to go back to your country, your country is at war, and a small
country will be eaten at any time! will be eaten! "
"How terrible for you to go back! You are rich and famous now, stay in America! "
Instead, the girl gave a talk on TV: Miss World is not something I personally want to do, I just want you to know
that Israel is a wonderful nation, so I came out to run. I want people to know that there is
Israel on earth, so I'm running. By being elected today, I fulfill my mission, and I
also tell the world: Israel is an excellent nation because I am the most beautiful woman in the world, and also
tell the world: Israel as a nation is fighting hard, and I hope that people all over the world will sympathize with us, and support us
! Support our country's independence! What is the use of money now that my country is at war? We, Israel, have been dead
for 2,000 years, and because our culture is not dead, we are still able to build our country. Today I'm going back and
fighting for my country, what's the use of money?
- After giving this talk, she took a plane back to her country the next day. (Applause.)
After this news was published, people around the world were impressed with Israel! Wow, the Israelis are really something
! So the Israeli army, with their hearts in the right place, went crazy and beat the Arab armies
cleanly! This was the greatest Seven Day War in history! Seven days of fighting! And that's because of the words of one girl
son! So, class, patriotism is often in a tiny place.
"A word is a word of loss, a word is a word of prosperity." We are highly educated, we shoulder the honor and disgrace of the country
ah, people see us to see the country's hope. Students, the country's future is spit in the face of foreign
country, you lose the face of China's 1.2 billion compatriots, because you represent 1.2 billion Chinese, rather than your personal
people, you must not think, "good man do good man when" , you are wrong; you can not do; you are not qualified
when!
So every word and action of every student must be careful. Mr. Gao returned to the country, see the wrong to speak
to scold, to criticize and advise, but I left the mainland back to Taiwan, will not speak a bad word about the mainland. He
They asked: Is the mainland good? I say it's great! It's too big, it's great. When I got to the United States, I would say that the Chinese people are great
great, and I would never lose the face of the Chinese people, and I would not criticize China for a single word. But come back
must speak realistically and advise honestly. Some people just the opposite, in the country he did not dare to fart
put a, pretend so meek, so lovely, once left China on the big speech, the Chinese scolded a penny
worthless, this is the standard traitor son of a bitch also! (Applause)
The study of which is for oneself? It is for the social division of labor. You learn to repair shoes, I learn to drive a car, learn
Any skill is not for yourself.
If you think of a surgeon who is learning to hold a scalpel,
would he say that? I'm going to learn it well, and it will be easy for me to cut for myself in the future, so don't cut the wrong one.
Is that right? Fellow students, think about it, which thing is for yourself? I read the teacher training properly, will
to educate themselves, you are not to teach children? You read anything for the sake of children, for middle school
students, for elementary school students. I don't know how many kids a misspelled, uneducated teacher is going to ruin!
So, reading is not for yourself, it's for so many, many little lives in the future. You are working hard for them
! You're not trying to get first place for yourself, you're trying to prepare your students for homework, and that's what you're
reading for right now! Medical students, you doze off in class, you don't read well, you can't even tell the difference between a fallopian tube and a
urinary tube, what makes you graduate from medical school ah. You can't even tell the difference between a fallopian tube and a ureter, so why did you graduate from medical school? You can't even tell the difference between a fallopian tube and a ureter. You are studying for the safety of others. The higher the level of medical practice, the safer the patient, the more secure his life!
Well, students, I tell you, moral education of the six major outlines:
First, loyalty to the party and patriotism, faith and unswerving loyalty education;
Second, filial piety and respect for parents, respect for the elders of the ethical education;
Third, "the world's prosperity and demise, my responsibility," positive and responsible education;
Third, "the world's prosperity and demise, my responsibility," the positive and responsible education;
Third, "the world's prosperity and demise, my responsibility.
Third, the positive and responsible education of "the rise and fall of the world is my responsibility";
Fourth, the concept of dedication of "do not do nothing because of good deeds and do not do evil because of small deeds";
Fifth, the concept of revitalizing Chinese culture by eating Chinese food, speaking Chinese language and celebrating Chinese New Year.
Sixth, the concept of altruism and benefit to the group of learning for the sake of the country and learning skills for the social division of labor.
If you can't find that one, look at this one.