Yesterday I saw some ridicule about New Oriental: the joy of New Oriental people, the boss spoke at a serious conference, employees rented houses in the group, advertised marriages and sold dates, haha!
This reminds me of a group of "monsters" that Yu Minhong surrounded at the beginning of New Oriental's entrepreneurship.
It was Xu Xiaoping, who was an unkind talent to Yu Minhong, Xu Xiaoping, who called himself "a critic and reformer of Yu Minhong", who called himself "one of the best teachers in New Oriental", Luo Yonghao, who asked "Can I remove that 'one'", and Song Hao, who was generous and frank in the face of the admiration of girls: "My lover and I are the golden boy and jade girl of New Oriental", and even more "arrogant" teachers who criticized and accused Yu Minhong in person and "opened up" him in class...
Nowadays, it seems that New Oriental has celebrated its 28th birthday, and when the education and training industry is facing a cold winter, New Oriental still has such "little monsters" emerging in an endless stream.
Some time ago, the state explicitly stipulated that primary and secondary schools were strictly prohibited from carrying out off-campus discipline training, and New Oriental discipline training was also completely cancelled.
On November 4th, New Oriental donated nearly 80,000 sets of desks and chairs to rural children, and everyone praised Teacher Yu for his responsibility and courage!
In fact, this initiative to donate desks and chairs was first initiated by Sun Jixin, the principal of Chengdu Campus, who sent this matter to a circle of friends, and did not expect to receive a message from Teacher Yu at the first time, he also recognized this initiative, and called on all the idle desks and chairs in campuses across the country to take action. Subsequently, many New Oriental education and training institutions across the country participated in this donation activity.
Some enthusiastic netizens even offered suggestions for the future of New Oriental, allowing Teacher Yu to lead the team to transform into a large farmer.
I believe that in the ever-changing policy and market environment, Mr. Yu will lead the successful transformation of New Oriental people, just as New Oriental has always advocated the spirit: from despair to find hope, life will eventually be brilliant.
For the "New Oriental Spirit", I remember that there are many voices of doubt:
Qian Yongqiang said: "In terms of culture, it is very shallow. What 'finds hope from despair', man's ambition, is man's instinct. A sentence to find hope from despair', does this dare to be called a thought? It has no more connotations. ”
Zhang Yazhe said: "This sentence is a bit of a Carnegie flavor, this is not culture, not the culture of regular schools, just slogans, Chinese slogans, we are accustomed to spiritual guidance to improve and eliminate problems." ”
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Nevertheless, the "New Oriental Spirit" is a series of unforgettable stories in his life for Yu Minhong personally.
From teaching at Peking University at the beginning, with a monthly salary of 60 yuan, to wanting to study abroad, the four-year tuition fee in the United States is conservatively estimated to take about 222 years of work.
So he started a small job and substituted classes outside the school, 30 yuan per class. Just as he was diligently earning tuition fees abroad, without his knowledge or psychological preparation, the Peking University Triangle loudspeaker broadcast the punishment of Yu Minhong.
It was like a thunderbolt that caught him off guard, and he was helpless. Perhaps he is full of confidence in the humanistic care of Peking University, so he is lucky. After being ruthlessly "kicked" by Peking University, he chose to bid farewell to Peking University Yanyuan, where he had lived for 11 years, and became a "wanderer".
I would like to ask, this kind of tearless pain after being punished by Peking University, and the effort never to turn back after suffering, such a "New Oriental Spirit" Can you say that it is just a slogan?
Recalling that when Peking University gave Teacher Yu a 10-square-meter dormitory, he was moved to tears and was determined to dedicate his life to Peking University and the glorious profession of the people's teacher. However, in this world, who can say that they will go to the end of the road? Who can say what they will do in the future?
Even if we have a clear track for our future, there will be accidents.
Wang Qiang, who was once the most famous oral language teacher of New Oriental, was called "music idiot" in college, but after graduation, he flew over the ocean, with superhuman eloquence and strength, became a senior computer engineer at Bell Labs in the United States, left after the listing of New Oriental, and became an angel investor...
Bao Fanyi, who is known as not eating fireworks in the world, faced with the oppression of the reality of North America, the master's degree in communication is not counted, and he also survived an MBA, sought an enviable position in the General Motors Company in the United States, and later became one of the co-founders of New Oriental, became the writing head of New Oriental, and changed from a reader to a book publisher...
Everyone can deviate from the development trajectory designed by the profession for us, deviate from the life trajectory set for us by habitual thinking, the key lies in whether we can break through the inhibitions in our hearts and whether we can actively grasp the future."
Teacher Yu was attacked by his peers, kidnapped twice, and rubbed shoulders with the god of death. New Oriental has suffered from ETS claims, and has calmly faced the disaster of SARS in 2003 and the disaster of "new crown" in 2020.
Along the way, it is the support of the "New Oriental Spirit". After the introduction of national policies, follow the trend and look for new opportunities.
Looking back, the spirit of the New Oriental, my heart is still the same, full of respect!