On November 4, on this day in history, the centenarian Ma Xiangbo said on his deathbed: "I am a dog, I can only bark; after barking for a hundred years, I still haven't woken up China." "The sorrow of the centenarian condenses the humiliation and ups and downs of a century-old Chinese education."
In our time, there may be many people who do not know the name of Ma Xiangbo, but Mr. Ma Xiangbo's name often appears in my classroom. Compared with the masters of the Republic of China era, as ordinary teachers, we are beyond our reach, but we cannot prevent us from looking up to the masters and spreading a seed of education in the hearts of our students.
In 1840, the Opium War broke out, and Ma Xiangbo was born; in 1939, the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out in full swing, and Ma Xiangbo died. Mr. Li's hundred years of life from the beginning of one war to the end of another war, a hundred years, he ran around for the independence and prosperity of the country, founded a top university, leaving a back that the world looks up to.
First, awaken the people and educate to save the country
Ma Xiangbo initially followed Li Hongzhang in diplomatic and foreign affairs, and as a diplomat, he went to Japan, the United States, France and Italy, and was inspired by the reform of various countries, and he deeply felt the importance of education.
The fiasco of the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 directly destroyed China's decades of national fortunes. In the face of the current situation that China is constantly being oppressed by foreign powers, he said that "the way to self-improvement is to cultivate talents; the way to save talents, especially the establishment of schools, is the first", China is strong, inseparable from the support of talents, he decided to educate to save the country.
Second, destroy the family and start a school
The situation in old China was turbulent, and the road to running schools was full of difficulties and repeated changes.
In 1900, the 60-year-old Ma Xiangbo decided to destroy his family and study, donated all his family property and 3,000 acres of fertile land to the Catholic Church, and founded the Chinese and Western University Hall.
In the winter of 1902, the "Ink Bottle Incident" occurred at Nanyang Public School in Shanghai, and more than 200 students dropped out of school en masse. He deeply felt that the problem of education was serious, if he could not create his own school, education would always be subject to foreign interference, and he rented the remaining house of the old observatory in Xujiahui the following year to establish Aurora University.
The French Church, believing that the school inspired the people, was dissatisfied with his education and deprived him of the right to administer the school. In the face of the students' requests to kneel down and want to study, Ma Xiangbo was not only old and tearful, the country was poor and weak, and even education could not develop independently.
In 1905, with the support of celebrities such as Zhang Xiao and Yan Fu, a 66-year-old white-haired man established Fudan Public School, which is today's Fudan University. The "Fudan" dictionary comes out of the "Qingyun Song", "Qingyun rotten, corrected; sun and moon light, Dan Fudan Xi", indicating the meaning of restoring Aurora and revitalizing China.
Today's Fudan University has long been a double-first-class university, and in front of the hall on the first floor of the Hang Lung Physics Building on campus stands a statue of Mr. Ma Xiangbo, and the history of the school records the feat of Ma Xiangbo's family going bankrupt.
Looking forward to his image, looking forward to Mr. Wang's educational merits, when the mountains and rivers were broken, fortunately, Mr. With the courage and responsibility of the reader himself, he stepped forward to educate and rejuvenate the country, and only then did he have the development of today's education power.
Three, a hundred years of peach and plum, Mr. eternity
If Fudan University had only been founded, Mr. Ma Xiangbo might not have represented the height of an era, but his demeanor and mission have made him a symbol of a country.
It is difficult to save the country from troubles and rejuvenate the country. During the War of Resistance, the 91-year-old gentleman waved his words until he raised 100,000 oceans, all of which supported the anti-Japanese soldiers.
Centennial peach plum. When the country was in crisis, Mr. Ma Xiangbo actively devoted himself to the development of education, and trained famous masters such as Cai Yuanpei, Yu Youren, Zhu Kezhen, Shao Lizi, Li Shu, and even today's Fudan University has trained a large number of outstanding talents for the country.
Advanced educational concepts. He once said to his student Cai Yuanpei: "The so-called university is not the big of the school building, not the age of the student, nor the salary of the teachers, but also the high morality and profound learning." ”
This means that a good university does not lie in the height of the building, not in the age, not in the salary level, but whether it can cultivate students with high morals and profound learning for the country, which shows the ultimate value of education, which is respectable and regrettable.
After Ma Xiangbo's death, the student Yu Ren respectfully said: Glory to God, life and death to protect China. Shao Lizi said: The spirit of Mr. Xiangbo is exactly the spirit of our Chinese nation. Mr. Li is determined to "wake up China", what kind of courage and responsibility is this, and the feelings of home and country are always so precious.
Sometimes I wonder, why should we trace history, we can't give up the five thousand years of China's long history behind us, that is our root, any history today is today's history, remember history, people and education can continue to develop.
Chinese education needs a medicine, and its name is More Mr. Ma Xiangbo.