Crazy English used to be so hot, like Jay Chou's song, you can't sing but you can hum. "When we learn English, poor foreigners will not Chinese"; "Learning English well is also patriotic"; "Learning English well can conquer the world"... Li Yang's speech was filled with narrow agitation.
This kind of crazy learning method with his head up to the sky and exhaustion perfectly fit the timid and inferior English learning situation at that time, and the parents regarded it as a miracle, and the students were eager to attract the strong influence brought by Li Yang's personal charm.
Li Yang became famous in one fell swoop, but a few years later, this rapidly popular personality began to collapse, and he exposed terrible personal values: "absolute conquest, absolute dominance", and the origin of the matter was domestic violence.
Domestic Violence Theory
Li Yang's ex-wife Kim said: "Once in Shanghai, the two of us took a family education class together. The mother of one child cried that her child played games and did not learn, and she asked, how do you educate your children? I jokingly said, oh, let's talk about Teacher Li Yang.
As a result, he could not say it. He went back to the room very upset, tugging at my hair, thinking I had made him lose face. ”
Kim then vented her anger on Li Yang's work, and she deleted the last part of the textbook she was compiling, eventually causing Li Yang to beat her badly.
Domestic violence was only 0 times and countless times, and Kim really tasted Li Yang's heavy rain of punches many times in the days that followed.
At first, she chose to be silent, waiting for Li Yang to admit that she was just out of control for a while, but later found that this was not a manifestation of uncontrolledness, this was a deliberate "dictatorship". In 2011, Kim posted 10 microblogs in a row, published several photos as evidence to condemn Li Yang's domestic violence, and said in an interview that Li Yang slapped her at the company ten years ago, and even was pushed by Li Yang when she was pregnant, and her four-year-old daughter witnessed all this.
The first time the outside world learned through Weibo that Kim was beaten, Li Yang chose the established schedule to continue his speech.
In one show, because he disagreed with another female guest, he threatened the other party not to provoke him. When the other party asked, "What's wrong, you will hit me too", he replied decisively: Yes, yes, and provocatively said: Do you want to try it?
The violent tendency branded in this personality is not just domestic violence. Li Yang once praised his friends for "The Triumph of the Will," a controversial documentary about how Hitler ruled the populace.
His admiration for "absolute hegemony" is obvious, and it is a potential factor for him to gain great influence in the Field of English.
School days
Li Yang was originally a very inferior, even autistic person. But his quality is particularly good, speaking and considering problems are relatively mature, Li Yang was born in 1969, and his classmates were born in 1967 or 1968.
He stressed many times in the show that he lacked the warmth of the family since he was a child, and his parents were cruelly alienated from him. But according to the recollections of his classmates, Li Yang's parents were high-level intellectuals, and they were extremely caring for Li Yang, and when they were in college, everyone's pocket money was only 60 yuan, and Li Yang's father gave him 100 yuan.
The correspondence between father and son is often a 10-page long book, and it has always advised Li Yang to study well and be a good person.
When everyone went back to college on vacation, they were hard seats, only Li Yang's father was willing to buy a sleeper for his son, in order to let his son take care of each other with his good friends, he also generously bought a sleeper for Li Yang's friends.
Li Yang's classmates recalled that during college, he failed at least seven or eight courses, but Li Yang did not care. Once, when he took a mathematical analysis test, he wrote for 20 minutes and handed in the test paper, and finally scored 27 points. Throughout his freshman year, he was in a state of sleep, sleeping in class, or absenteeism.
But the next year, things were different. Li Yang's self-esteem was stung.
In the winter of the first year, Li Yang and a few classmates went to visit the teachers of the previous junior high school, when they were all in the key class Li Yang counted the tail of the crane, the students studied very well, and after a few years, they all became dragons and phoenixes.
Some are at Peking University, some are at Tsinghua, and Li Yang is as old as ever, which makes him very inferior.
From the beginning of "sophomore year", Li Yang's life began to reverse. He began to study English assiduously, learning 16 hours a day, using rote memorization, nibbling on the dictionary to memorize the original text.
He bought three copies of these textbooks, one for tearing and memorizing, one for note-taking, and one for collection. He memorized the article well and applied it easily to the dialogue. This performance has been paid attention to by the teacher quickly, although he is always absent from class and his grades are counted down, but the authentic English pronunciation and skillful use of skills make him really beautiful.
He began to find a strong sense of existence, and there was also a part of pride that needed to be vented.
He went to every dormitory, he didn't speak Chinese anymore, he couldn't understand what he said, he had to deliberately show it, and if he didn't show off, he couldn't stimulate his enthusiasm.
Campus celebrities
English has made Li Yang a prominent figure on campus. He often represents the school in various English speech competitions and brings back many medals and honors.
In addition to the attention of the school leaders, he also won a kind of fan. Girls often invited him to the girls' dormitory, and as soon as he entered the dormitory, he surrounded him with people, and often received postcards from various girls.
Li Yang, who gained great self-confidence, began to pay attention to dressing up, permed his hair, put on fashionable clothes, and changed his previous sloppy and casual image.
Once, during class, Li Yang, who was sitting behind the podium, took advantage of the teacher's lack of attention to secretly take down the homework book and began to batch the homework.
He used a red pen to review: he was not allowed to copy other people's homework in the future.
After the class sent homework, the classmate thought it was the teacher's comment, to go to the theory, he quickly stood up and said that he changed it.
entrepreneurship
In his senior year, he tried to apply for a job at Guangzhou Television, and the TV station evaluated him as: English is particularly good, but Chinese is not clear. Two years later, he still applied for the English station of Guangdong People's Radio with his own ability.
But soon, the boring nine-to-five can not play his agitation talent, he wants to make more people like English, encourage everyone to learn English confidently.
He once said that the success of work is more important than his wife and daughter.
The sense of accomplishment brought to him by his career makes anyone no longer dare to despise him, and he is like punching people, violently beating the resistance brought by learning English and defeating the difficulties in his career. His violent style of behavior has formed inertia, and his habitual violence forces himself to succeed, and then crushes the dissenting people as a successful person.
Li Yang, who was in the entrepreneurial period, chose the company address next to the guangzhou funeral home, which has a cheap rent.
The bedroom turned out to be a toilet, with a wooden board on the bathtub, only a pillow and a green blanket on the wooden board, and when he slept, the tall Li Yang curled up on his side, his legs resting on the toilet lid.
He was busy with several lectures a day, and it was common to forget which city he was in at the end of the day.
It is hard to imagine that people who have not participated in Li Yang's "Crazy English" speeches have been held in a decade, and the audience has exceeded 13 million. Self-confidence is the most commonly used word in Li Yang, he pioneered the "three most oral muscle training methods", the three most is "the loudest, fastest, clearest".
But the current English situation of some people who have studied "crazy English" proves that they are not so optimistic.
The audience was touched by Li Yang's personality charm and projected a vision of his future on the other side: a person with no name and inferiority can make progress and succeed as long as he integrates into this crazy wave.
Now his educational career and his charisma have collapsed.