I don't know if you remember that in 2012, there was a father named He Liesheng, in order to cultivate the perseverance of his 3-year-old son, he ignored the cries of his children and let him run naked in the snow. At the time, this incident caused many people to reproach him, saying that he had no humanity.
What just surprised many people was that his son He Yide had already read a doctorate at the age of 13, and if he looked further ahead, he would fly a plane at the age of 5 and go to college at the age of 8, and all kinds of miracles directly made him called a "prodigy" by netizens.
However, what many people don't know is that this prodigy was diagnosed as a "cerebral palsy" by doctors when he was just born, so how did He Yide achieve these achievements over the years? What exactly did he go through?
One day in February 2008, He Yide was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, to an intellectual family. His father, He Liesheng, was a teacher for 7 years, and then he resigned to start a business and gradually became a director of a company, and his career was very successful. However, due to the fact that the husband and wife have been busy with work for many years, He Liesheng was 40 years old and only got a son He Yide in middle age.
However, fate is like a joke with He Liesheng, the son who is looking forward to the stars and the moon is actually a premature baby who is only seven months old, weighing only 3 pounds and 8 taels when he was born, and accompanied by a variety of complications.
The doctor who delivered the baby helplessly told He Liesheng that the child was born with serious deficiencies and was likely to have cerebral palsy and dementia in the future. Therefore, from birth, he has been observing in the nursery box of the hospital.
This news is undoubtedly a thunderbolt for He Liesheng and his wife, but this child is not easy to come, no matter what, they can only choose to accept.
In order to improve the child's physique, He Liesheng not only consulted the doctor, but also consulted a large number of relevant information on the Internet, and finally found that swimming can exercise limb coordination and stimulate the function of the child's brain.
So he put down all his work, put on a swimming ring for his son, and either stayed in the pool with his son every day or gave his son a full body massage.
At the beginning of swimming, He Yide could not even hold on for a few minutes, and pulled his stomach many times. The wife wants to give up every time this time, but He Liesheng is a very persistent person, always letting his son insist on swimming.
Miraculously, He Yide's face did get better and better every day, and he would not cry anymore when he was swimming. After two months of joint efforts with the hospital, He Yide finally did not have to live in the hospital and could be discharged and return home.
Swimming was originally only used to restore He Yide's body muscles, but He Yide saw that this method was effective and let his son continue to insist on it after returning home.
Not only that, because He Yide was once a teacher, he combined his years of teaching experience and the social practice of running a business to personally formulate a set of "fierce" education plans for his son, and his wife also gave up her work to cooperate with him and became a full-time wife at home.
He Yide's swimming training time is increasing every day, from 10 minutes of soaking every day to an hour. By the time He Yide was 6 months old, He Liesheng had extended his daily swimming time to 4 hours.
Later, he heard that cold water can stimulate the brain's response function, and He Liesheng gradually lowered the water temperature until the water temperature reached 25 degrees Celsius.
At the same time, the husband and wife also took turns to do early education for their children, and read some children's stories and Tang poems and Song poems to their son He Yide every day, just to let He Yide open his wisdom early.
When He Yide was 1 year old and could walk independently, He Liesheng began to train him to walk on foot, and the intensity of 500 meters, 800 meters, and 1000 meters gradually increased, in addition to the leisure time, he also had to swim training without moving, and he had to complete up to 8 hours of training every day.
Later, after a number of examinations in the hospital, He Yide's physical condition was getting better and better, and he improved in terms of intelligence and physical strength. He Liesheng seemed to have grasped the secret of success, and his training for his son became more stringent.
At the age of 2, He Liesheng was not satisfied with hiking and began to take his son to practice climbing the Purple Mountain in Nanjing's Xuanwu District, which was nearly 500 meters above sea level, which was a great test of the climber's physical strength. The son was young, climbed a few steps to rest the meeting, during which he begged his father to hug him many times, but He Liesheng never stopped and let He Yide complete the climbing by himself.
Some relatives were very dissatisfied with He Liesheng's way of "torturing" his son, and advised him not to be so harsh on such a young child. He Liesheng did not think so, he felt that he was doing this for the good of his son.
In addition to physical exercise for his son, He Liesheng did not stop exercising his son's knowledge and was sent to kindergarten early for education.
At the age of 3, He Yide accompanied his father to the United States and began to study in the local kindergarten. He was promoted to middle school in just one week of school, and began his elementary school career in less than a month with his intelligence.
In order to cultivate his son's independent ability, He Liesheng assisted He Yide in making a training plan for him to study and rest according to the plan every day. Every morning from 6:45 to 8 p.m., you must get up and go to bed on time, and what to do in each time period has its own schedule.
One day in the winter of 2012, the temperature in New York reached minus 13 degrees, and it was still snowing outside, but He Yide ran naked on the snow at the request of his father, He Liesheng.
The young He Yide was not happy, just wearing a pair of yellow shorts shivering in the cold wind,
He kept crying and begging his father to "hug me." But He Liesheng always focused on shooting, and from time to time encouraged him to "cheer up" and insisted that his son run for more than 5 minutes.
He Liesheng hopes to exercise his son's perseverance in this way, and shooting a video also wants to record his son's experience. But unexpectedly, after his video spread across the Internet, it attracted the attention of the vast number of people, and the insults of countless netizens swept towards He Liesheng, saying that he was too indifferent and asked him to stop this extreme training method immediately. Some also gave him a new name: "Eagle Dad", calling his way of education "Eagle Education".
Here we want to explain what is "eagle education": that is, when the young eagle grows large enough, the eagle mother will drive the young eagle off the cliff in order to let the young eagle learn to fly. At the moment of life and death, if the young eagle does not want to fall to his death, he can only choose to flap his wings desperately to prevent himself from continuing to fall, and he has to master the ability to fly.
He Liesheng did not resist the nickname given to him by netizens, but liked it very much, and he did not take the insults of many people seriously, and continued to educate his son in his own way. He believes that if parents hold their children in their arms all day like bears, they will make their children lazy and have no fighting spirit, which is not conducive to the growth of children.
He Liesheng also said that before his son was under the age of 10, everything was decided by him. Only when the son has a sense of independence after the age of 10 can he make his own decisions. Letting his son run in the snow in New York is just a small part of He Liesheng's "eagle education", and his goal is to get his son into the best university in the country before the age of 10.
In order to prove his education to others, He Liesheng has begun to do a series of commercial operations around his son, and has successively produced some personal autobiographies and lecture tours.
In March 2012, He Liesheng published the book "Eagle Father Education", proposing his own various educational concepts, including snow naked running corresponding to body quotient, followed by how to cultivate IQ, guts quotient, moral quotient, financial quotient, etc.
Speaking of doing it, in order to exercise He Yide's courage, when his son was 4 years old, He Liesheng let He Yide drive the boat out to sea alone. At the age of 5, he learned to fly an airplane under the guidance of an instructor.
Of course, this kind of aircraft is not the kind of civil aviation aircraft controlled by adults, but an ultra-light aircraft designed and transformed by Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, there is no hard age limit for flying this aircraft, no driving license is required, the flight difficulty is not large, and the safety is sufficiently guaranteed.
He Liesheng had been plotting this for a long time. He asked someone to teach Him Yide driving skills and took him to a safari park in Beijing to practice flying. The zoo staff thought that the danger was too great, and at one point did not agree to let He Yide conduct a test flight, but He Liesheng was very persistent, and after signing a letter of guarantee that he would be responsible for any accident, He Yide obtained a permission to fly over the zoo.
Although the father only asked He Yide to fly to an altitude of 200 meters, this was already very powerful for a 5-year-old child.
The flight was a success, and at the end He Yide happily said: "Excitement! playful! Interestingly, his flight also broke the guinness record for piloting the youngest pilot.
Every year since then, He Liesheng will let his son choose a special commemorative activity to challenge himself. Later, after He Yide's affairs were paid more and more attention, many heads of state would even write to him to encourage He Yide to continue his efforts and use him as an example for children to learn.
In addition to physical exercises, He Liesheng also performed mental exercises on his son, and various classes were arranged in his free time, accurate to each time period of the day. It is under this strict education that He Yide's results have become very good.
Around the age of 4, He Yide had basically recognized all the commonly used Chinese characters. From the age of 5, He Liesheng trained his son to write a diary, allowing him to record the things he experienced every day. With these exercises, He Yide, who was only 6 years old, wrote a long autobiographical comic book with a total of 100,000 words, "I Am a "Naked Running Brother", and He Yide became the world's youngest autobiographical author.
In 2014, 7-year-old He Yide was dragged by his father through Lop Nur, known as the "forbidden zone of life". Of course, He Liesheng also made preparations two years in advance, so that there were no dangerous accidents in this journey. According to He Liesheng's words, he did not risk his child's life, but only wanted to cultivate the spirit of his child's courage to explore and practice.
However, after this matter was exposed, He Liesheng's doing of this matter still attracted a round of scolding on the Internet. But he is still convinced of the godchildren's law of "no fight, no weapon", and he is convinced that his way of cultivating elites will be successful.
On February 7, 2017, 8-year-old He Yide successfully passed the exam of XiaoshengChu. But what is surprising is that He Liesheng did not let his son continue to attend junior high school and high school, but directly participated in the self-examination of nanjing university's sales major.
There is no age restriction on self-examination undergraduate degrees, so He Liesheng can only use this means in order to let his son go to college early. It is said that the sales management profession was chosen by He Yide himself, and he hopes that when he grows up, he can become an entrepreneur like his father.
But at such a young age, does He Yide really understand what an entrepreneur is?
He Yide originally taught himself to complete the relevant knowledge of junior high school in advance, and as a result, he was successfully admitted to Nanjing University. Of course, he only simply memorized the knowledge points by memory, and if you ask him for some professional knowledge, you will find that he did not actually understand all the knowledge clearly.
Unable to study on a university campus due to his age limitations, he searched for information on the Internet and studied on his own. Learn and train various exam papers through online lectures.
On December 2, 2019, 11-year-old He Yide successfully obtained the undergraduate diploma of "Sales Management" and self-examination examination of Nanjing University. Judging from the graduation certificate issued, He Yide passed all the course results, which means that he directly graduated from the university. But He Yide's future plans are not over, and he said that he will study for an MBA in the future.
Yes, He Yide went from a child who may become cerebral palsy to a "prodigy" in people's eyes. From this point of view, He Liesheng's education is successful, but his education method sacrifices the child's irretrievable happy childhood.
In July 2020, He Yide participated in the "Strongest Brain" program in order to challenge himself, and the 12-year-old is still no less than other contestants. Later, in the program of "One Stop to the End", He Yide also quickly became popular on the Internet with a resume.
Netizens were extremely curious about this "prodigy", and the good deeds exposed He Yide's affairs to the Internet. He graduated from Nanjing University not through the college entrance examination, but through self-examination. Moreover, He Yide basically did not study physical chemistry, and mathematics and English were only at the primary school level.
His father, He Liesheng, did not deny this, believing that none of these disciplines were important and would have no effect on he's logical development.
In any case, those comments on the Internet can not affect the reputation of He Yide's "prodigy", after all, it is not possible for ordinary people to go to college at the age of only 8 years old. Many scholars began to wonder whether He Liesheng's method of education was really useful.
But more people still feel that the clear goal and strong sense of mission make He Yide more like a learning machine, and the lack of experience of collective learning and life for many years will make him like a learning machine.
Later, a reporter went to He Yide's house to interview him and asked him if he hated what his father had done, and He Yide also habitually looked at his father and said: "I used to hate, now I don't hate it, because I now find fun in it, and I can do what I want to do." ”
But he also said that if he could, he would want to live the life of an ordinary person.
Later, when it was time to study, He Yide finished greeting the reporter and returned to the room to start studying. It can be seen from here that He Yide's success has a lot to do with his self-discipline.
His father, He Liesheng, also mentioned that he never thought of his son as a "child prodigy", he just did things that his peers did not dare to try. He suffered more than ordinary people, and he should have gained more than others.
It is also this point that makes many people reproach He Liesheng's education method, can such a young child really withstand such a demonic training method?
Yes, when his peers are still lying in the arms of his parents, He Yide has to study hard, in order to achieve achievements that other peers have not achieved in the future.
On December 30, 2021, 13-year-old He Yide received a doctoral acceptance letter from the University of São Paulo in the Philippines, but due to the severe epidemic in the Philippines, he was forced to close the country, and he could only study at home through online classes.
After netizens learned of this matter, it caused a sensation, seeing he Yide's many successful experiences, so that many educators began to recognize the educational concept of "Eagle Dad", and people who originally held an opposing attitude have also changed their attitudes. Many people want to study well with this "eagle father" and let their children have such a good future.
But there are still many people who are not very in favor of this way of education. They believe that what should be done at any age. At this age, he accompanies the computer every day, rarely communicates with people, and may not have his own opinions and consciousness in the future.
He Yide has indeed achieved a lot of incredible achievements, but this does not mean that the "Eagle Dad" education method applies to all children. Many overly extreme education methods will not only harm the child, but also make the child hate you for a lifetime.
In my opinion, these achievements made by He Yide, He Liesheng's "eagle father education" is not the most critical, the most important thing is that He Liesheng gave up his original good career in order for his son to grow up healthily, he gave up the companionship and attention that many parents of his children could not give, and paid a lot of effort and effort.