People will naturally avoid the mistakes they have made because of "shame", and even some people have been "caught with pigtails", and they will still argue for themselves that they have not done it, "it is not their intention", etc., and they will be excused, while the "dirty water" that is splashed on the body by everyone is relying on their own "efforts" and won the criticism and accusations of the people.
He was a Chinese teacher at the Guangya School in Dujiangyan, Sichuan: Fan Meizhong, but his nickname "Fan Run" seems to be more thunderous than the daimyo.
In 2008, when the "5.12" Wenchuan earthquake broke out, the "civilian heroes" of the national rescue also appeared in the public eye one after another.
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Teacher Fang Jie of Xuankou Middle School used his body to resist the door frame that was squeezed and deformed in the earthquake, so that the 41 students in the class got a "second" life, while his own life came to an abrupt end, staying at the age of 35 forever;
Teacher Zhang Mia of Yingxiu Primary School, when the earthquake occurred, she tightly protected two students with her arms, and when rescuers arrived, the children were still alive, but Teacher Zhang Mia had passed away.
Just as the emotions and pain brought about by this disaster lingered in the hearts of all Chinese people at the same time, on May 22, everyone was poured with a basin of "cold water" to "cool the heart", and on the Tianya Forum, an article entitled "At that Moment the Mountain Shook - "5.12" Wenchuan Earthquake Personal Experience" came out.
The article tells that when the earthquake occurred, he ran from the classroom to the playground early in order to "save his life", and said that he "did not have any sense of moral guilt", which caused the crowd to be indignant, cursed continuously, and also gave the teacher the ironic nickname of "Fan Running", but what many people did not notice was that Fan Meizhong "reported" himself to the people with what purpose and ideas?
Where did "Van Run" come from
Admittedly, if we follow Fan Meizhong's own words in the media, we will naturally sneer at him, and he lightly describes what he did when the earthquake occurred.
At that time, Fan Meizhong was in a Chinese class, and saw that the desk shook a little, because he had lived in Sichuan for many years and knew something about the earthquake, he did not have much reaction, telling the students not to panic.
When the teaching building shook violently, he also immediately had a clear judgment on the intensity of the earthquake at that time, subconsciously rushed towards the stairs, ran all the way to the football field, and became the first group of people to reach the safe area, and more teachers were organizing students to effectively escape the teaching building.
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The students of his class at that time also gathered on the playground, and then he organized the evacuation of students and stood by at the school.
In the post, he made a big fuss:
"I have never been a dedicated person, only concerned about my own life."
"At a time when there is no room for hair, I will not care about anyone but my daughter, including my own mother, because I can't hold the adults, and I run out of one."
Unsurprisingly, as soon as his remarks came out, the overwhelming accusations that he "had no teacher morality" filled the Internet, and then he was dismissed from the school, and many teachers such as Chen Ping (a special teacher in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province) once said that they were ashamed of having such a figure in their own team, and clapped their hands at the expulsion of Fan Meizhong, and I was no exception." ”
Fan Meizhong's remarks are to some extent like a selfish "madman" who has no empathy ability, and his "teacher" identity is far from it, so why did Fan Meizhong's "run" not be "stabbed" by students, so why did he say it?
Approaching Fan Meizhong
In May 2016, Li Shaowei, a reporter from Guangzhou Daily Dongguan, once had an in-depth conversation and interview with Fan Meizhong, and further understood what kind of person Fan Meizhong, who spoke so sharply, was.
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When talking about his motivation for writing that article, Fan Meizhong actually gave a less "selfish" reason, he wanted to resolve a person's "heart disease".
It turned out that the teachers who left the students to run away during the earthquake at that time, in addition to Fan Meizhong, there were many, Fan Meizhong's friend was one of them, when his friend had left his colleague in the Wenchuan earthquake to leave first, for which he chose to go on hunger strike because of guilt, and his post was to show that he was also like this.
This reason makes us seem to have another way of thinking about this matter: the proportion of many heroes who appear in the news is limited, and more "ordinary people" react in the face of disaster, and Fan Meizhong's remarks are more like arguing for some real "human nature".
From Fan Meizhong's personal resume, we can further understand why he stood so firmly in this angle, at the cost of ruining his career and being attacked by the mainstream media and most people.
Fan Meizhong's most notable thing is his Peking University education, but he was still an ordinary teacher in middle age, in his own words:
"All my life, I can't learn to divide and distort myself, and if I have this ability, will I be a Peking University graduate in the 90s of the last century mixed up like this?"
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Fan Meizhong was born in Guaziyan Village, Golden Goose Town, Longchang County, Sichuan Province, he has four brothers and an older sister, but his father is an irresponsible man, gambling and drinking all day, the family's livelihood almost depends on his mother, and his mother can't take too much care of him because of the heavy family burden.
Fan Meizhong said bluntly: "So I am a person who lacks security, and indeed a person who does not have much love to give."
These experiences make Fan Meizhong have a certain resistance to "paying", and he is also more likely to pay attention to personal needs, pay attention to "special cases", and pay attention to the behavior that people do in accordance with instincts, rather than the things advocated by the mainstream ideology of the whole society, which are too far from his life and too far from the reality he faces.
At that time, there were naturally personal reasons for him to write down the post, when he was experiencing all kinds of dissatisfaction, and the school also had the intention of driving him away, "learning not to divide and distort himself" really brought him a lot of trouble.
There was once a big name in the language industry, for middle school teachers listed a literary bibliography, published in the "Teacher's Friend" magazine, Fan Meizhong was still a newcomer editor who had just entered the magazine at that time, but bluntly said that the language big name did not include "One Hundred Years of Solitude", surrealism, symbolism and other literary works.
"I know nothing about modern literature as a whole."
In this way, he successfully offended the big man, but he bluntly said that he was helping him not to "shame people". In the process of negotiations, in front of the editor-in-chief of the magazine, he also called the education expert a "fool", and when he agreed to apologize, he said even more infuriatingly: "Although I have apologized, I still think you are a fool."
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Such a way of "treating people and doing things" has also offended many people at Waldorf School, and in the decade since he went to college, he has expressed his opinions countless times in the form of "verbal attacks", and "does not think that they are harsh, but the expression of rights." ”
Including after the earthquake, the teaching building of Guangya School still did not collapse, and Fan Meizhong also came to ask the principal "such a rotten building, how can it not collapse" when he saw it.
It can be seen that as long as he thinks that it is a "correct" point of view in his heart, he will have no regard for the negative impact of these "blunt" words, just as he compares himself with Socrates and Christ, saying that "he is fine, everyone is just cursing, not even going to prison", for defending his freedom of speech, Fan Meizhong is willing to pay more than we think.
What is Fan Meizhong's point of view?
However, is it really just his "no fault in behavior" that makes him unhappy?
The reason why he took charge of his own artillery was mainly a kind of confrontation and abandonment of the many "moral defenders" that appeared in society.
"What I care about is not moral high, anyone has the right not to be noble, but there is no privilege to not abide by universal, good rules." 」
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In his words, his actions do not deny that he is a "good teacher", he is just "not noble", but not "shameless", as long as a person does not break the law, he can choose a survival strategy that is not noble but not shameless.
The person who did the same thing with him wore a mask of hypocrisy, and like many people he met in the course of his work, he preached how noble his character was, but behind his back, he was secretly chencang.
Fan Meizhong is committed to being a "real and free" person, so he can't stand that as far as his eyes can see, there are hypocritical things happening, and he struggles with words in order to tear apart the true face of those people.
Such an attitude is actually commendable, just as when this incident occurred, many media interviewed him, and when he encountered people with bad words, he was also able to speak up, on the Phoenix Satellite TV "One Tiger One Seat Talk" program he participated in. When he argues with commentator Guo Songmin, he still methodically expresses his views, even if the other party is already too excited.
"It's not a big deal to have shit on a person's ass, just wear it in the crotch, but you should never show the shit to the whole world." As a moral defender, Guo Songmin rudely expressed his views by grabbing words, exploding foul language, and leaving the table halfway, which made people begin to think backwards about the "human nature problem" mentioned by Fan Meizhong.
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Is it that everyone is "Fan Running", but they have not encountered the corresponding incidents, or they have not said to give themselves "gold", or Fan Meizhong's selfish behavior is an act that most people cannot do?
As a teacher, is Fan Meizhong's approach appropriate?
In fact, most people have not experienced such an extreme situation, and it is unknown whether they will become "heroes" or "bears" when danger comes, but it is presumably a small number of people who can stand up.
However, Fan Meizhong has no problem exposing human flaws, but his profession determines that his role as a "judge" of "private morality" is too thin.
He not only needs to defend the human nature of "morality", "pseudo-morality" and "moral kidnapping", but also needs to consider the responsibility and mission he carries as a teacher.
In the mainland, there is hardly any profession that has the degree of professional respect that teachers and doctors have received, because one is to teach and educate people, the other is to treat diseases and save people, so there will be teachers who can criticize the phenomenon of children's parents, and doctors receive pennants because they have done their "own work".
Teachers are faced with a "vulnerable group" compared to other jobs: children under the age of 18, so they need to take on more social responsibilities, and they will have to follow more professional ethics, professionalism and legal responsibilities.
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Moreover, Fan Meizhong's "no violation of the law" is gradually disintegrating with the improvement of the legal system, and article 56 of the "Measures for the Safety Management of Primary and Secondary School Kindergartens" issued in 2006 clearly mentions that when safety accidents and natural disasters occur on campus, "schools should activate emergency plans, promptly organize teaching staff and trade unions to participate in emergency rescue, rescue and protection, and protect students' physical health and personal and property safety."
In the thesis of "protecting" children, many firefighters need to take on the responsibility of fighting fires, so they cannot react "instinctively" and avoid harm.
In this regard, Fan Meizhong's reply mainly emphasized that the teacher's degree of "protection" for students is very different from that of firefighters, and also used "if there are gangsters breaking into the classroom, the teacher does not have enough ability to protect the students, and it cannot be said that this is also the responsibility of the teacher" to defend himself.
In fact, he did not do a good job of informing the students of evacuation in the most basic verbal way, organizing the evacuation of students, and did not try his best to "protect" the students within the scope of his reach, and it was understandable that he was morally condemned and the red light of the law.
Then, it is obvious that Fan Meizhong did not really refer to the legal provisions when he made many remarks, and was pointed out by relevant professionals at a glance that he was "legally illiterate", and as a person who was so harsh and harsh on academia, why did he make such a mistake?
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Fan Meizhong was originally a person who had contempt for "rules", and the rules he could be willing to abide by were probably only laws, but in his eyes he would still ignore the existence of the law itself, and it was easy to take it for granted.
When Fan Meizhong was previously invited by his classmates from the former Peking University period to serve as a professor at Sichuan University, Fan Meizhong first asked whether he could achieve his "three chapters of the law": not to evaluate the title, not to write papers, but to have good treatment. The students could only go away in sorrow, leaving a sentence: Don't say that the school leaders do not agree to this request, I will not agree.
The timing of exposing social problems
Fan Meizhong is a "breaker" of the rules, and he will always question the places in the rules that do not conform to his expectations.
In the final analysis, he protects the most basic right to be a human being, and for this he does not hesitate to oppose everyone. Even in an interview ten years later, when asked this question again, he still claimed that he did not regret it, "I will still run."
However, at that time, what he did was not only unethical but also unlawed, and at the same time, when the national disaster came, the individual interests needed to be subordinated to and relinquished to the collective interests, and the problem of many people wearing the mask of "hypocrisy" in society needed to be exposed, but they were not in a hurry.
A good social orientation and the spirit of serving the people have always led people to a better path in the form of being higher than the moral realm of people themselves, which is the spiritual force that was more universal and should be preached at that time.