The college entrance examination is an opportunity for many people to change their destiny, and it is also an opportunity for thousands of troops to cross the canoe bridge. If you can be admitted to Tsinghua Peking University, your next life will be very different.
But there is such a person, with extraordinary talent, 4 times to participate in the college entrance examination, 2 times to Tsinghua, 1 time to Peking University, 1 time to Fudan, but he is regarded as a child's play, and finally nothing, wasted his talent.
His name is Zhang Fei and he is from Sichuan.
Zhang Fei is a veritable genius, he has shown his talent in learning from a very young age, no matter what he learns, he can teach it at once, and he can also give an example.
Zhang Fei's parents thought that their children were so smart that they would definitely save themselves a lot of heart after going to school, but after they really arrived at school, Zhang Fei quickly exposed a very fatal problem for him: naughtiness.
At first, my parents didn't think there was anything to it, they said that they were seven or eight years old, and dogs were suspicious. When children are young, there are no naughty children, especially boys.
Not only Zhang Fei's parents think so, the teachers in the school also think so, Zhang Fei's grades are so good, naughty nothing, and turn a blind eye.
Therefore, when he was in elementary school, Zhang Fei was still very open in school.
I thought that when Zhang Fei was older, he would have some restraint, but who could have imagined that he had intensified, and when he was in high school, Zhang Fei's behavior could not be tolerated by the school, and in his sophomore year of high school, he was expelled from the school.
But Zhang Fei himself did not feel that there was anything wrong, as long as the grades were good, which school did not rush to ask for him?
Not long after, he went to Yuechi Middle School to study, and sure enough, with his impressive results, he soon gained a foothold in the new class. The teacher also felt that this was a treasure.
In this way, in 2002, Zhang Fei took the college entrance examination for the first time.
Finally, the results were announced, and Zhang Fei was admitted to Fudan University.
Whether it was the teachers and classmates in the school or relatives and friends who came to congratulate Zhang Fei, he felt that he had failed the exam, and only Tsinghua Peking University was his goal.
Tsinghua Peking University, which is so good to test. Therefore, people around him advised him not to re-read, afraid that if he failed the second college entrance examination and did not even get admitted to Fudan, it would be a chicken and egg fight.
But Zhang Fei is as maverick as his name, just like others, no matter how much others persuade him, he insists on re-reading for another year.
In 2003, Zhang Fei took the college entrance examination again and was admitted to Peking University with a high score of 606.
The people around him have obeyed him, Zhang Fei is indeed a true genius, he has self-confident capital.
But the development of the story is a big surprise.
Zhang Feicai went to college for one year and was dissuaded by Peking University.
Because at the end of the first year, Zhang Fei failed as many as 7 subjects, and his usual class performance was also very bad, and he blatantly slept in class, and the impact was extremely bad.
The school had warned him many times before, and he took it as a sidekick, and finally there was no way but to dissuade him.
Because Zhang Fei's situation was so special, the parents who brought him home did not know whether to scold him or comfort him, nor did they know how to arrange him later.
Zhang Fei said that he still had to repeat his studies and take the Peking University examination. His parents had no choice but to support him and sent him to Nanchong Eleventh Middle School for re-study.
The teachers and students of Nanchong Eleventh Middle School also soon learned of Zhang Fei's "glorious deeds" and wanted to see what would happen to him in the third college entrance examination.
As a result, this time Zhang Fei took the Nanchong Science Award and was admitted to Tsinghua University with a score of 703.
In the face of this result, parents do not know whether to be happy or sad, no one knows what Zhang Fei thinks and what will happen when he goes to Beijing.
Sure enough, after arriving at Tsinghua, Zhang Fei did not change his dead nature, and his performance at Peking University was the same as that of his previous performance at Peking University, and he was withdrawn from school because he did not complete the credits.
On the way to pick up Zhang Fei, his parents were speechless all the way. Let him give up the college entrance examination, go to work, now Zhang Fei only has a high school education, if he is stupid, it will be counted, but he is so smart, it is a pity not to let him go to college.
But let him continue to take the exam, first by Peking University, and then by Tsinghua, with his temper, can he really graduate? Zhang Fei's peers have reached the age of graduating from college and entering the society.
If Zhang Fei is allowed to retake the exam and then withdraw from school, he may not be able to achieve anything in this life.
But these words, parents can not say to Zhang Fei.
Whether to continue the college entrance examination or go to work, can only be decided by Zhang Fei himself.
Zhang Fei decided to fight the college entrance examination for four battles, the goal is still Tsinghua, because he has been dropped out of school once, so he changed his name to Zhang Konggu, and entered Nanchong Eleventh Middle School to re-study, only 3 months of preparation, and then with a score of 677 points, admitted to Tsinghua.
Fortunately, this time Zhang Fei finally learned to be obedient, honestly read to graduate school, and then he wanted to continue to graduate school and study in the philosophy department of Sun Yat-sen University.
For Zhang Fei, the written test is as simple as eating and drinking, but he can't get through the re-examination.
Zhang Fei's intelligence is limited to exams, and in other respects, he is inferior to ordinary people.
This time, Zhang Fei did not choose to die again, but gave up the examination and went to the society to start working, and after that, he did not hear about Zhang Fei again.
Zhang Fei has a stunning, like the male protagonist of the story, but in the end he becomes a passerby.
Zhang Fei is not an individual, and the trajectory of Zhang Yu's life, who took the college entrance examination in the same year as him, is also the same.
Zhang Yu was also admitted to Fudan University in 2002, but he also felt that he could not meet his expectations, and chose to repeat the study.
In 2003, Zhang Yu was admitted to Peking University with a score of 606, and was also expelled from the school because of greed.
In 2005, he was admitted to Tsinghua University again with 703, but dropped out of school because he did not complete the credits.
In 2007, Zhang Yu, who had been studying for three months, was admitted to Tsinghua University again.
A Zhang Fei and a Zhang Yu are simply "another me in the world". Not only are the experiences of college entrances similar, but both of them were also dissuaded by the school in their sophomore year of high school.
Among the prodigies, Zhang Fei and Zhang Yu are still the most famous. They also have an old predecessor, Wei Yongkang, who is known as the "Prodigy of the East".
When Wei Yongkang was 4 years old, others were still learning to speak, and he had already finished the junior high school curriculum.
The 8-year-old had just entered school not long ago, and he might still be crying and clamoring to go home to find his mother, and he was already a student at a key high school.
After that, at the age of 13, he was admitted to the Physics Department of Xiangtan University, and at the age of 17, he was admitted to the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and began to study for master's and doctoral degrees.
I thought that his life was just beginning, but what he didn't expect was that in 2003, he was dissuaded from the Chinese Academy of Sciences because his self-care ability was too poor to study and work.
Because in those years, prodigies such as Wei Yongkang, Zhang Fei, and Zhang Yu were reported one after another, a wave of infatuation with prodigies was blown up in the whole society.
Many parents hope that their children can become prodigies like them, and they all hope that their children can also be like probing for Peking University in the future.
Then, because the follow-up of these prodigies was exposed, there was a wave of criticism of "high scores and low energy".
But whether it is touting or criticizing, there is no need.
Because whether it is Wei Yongkang, Zhang Fei or Zhang Yu, it is an extremely rare case, it is definitely not what parents can cultivate through education, and it is impossible to be copied.
What should really be criticized is the idea that parents always want to make their children's lives smooth.
But life is not satisfactory nine times out of ten, no one's life can be free of ups and downs and setbacks.
What can really make children happy is not "IQ" but "reverse quotient", that is, the child's ability to face setbacks and cope with setbacks.
The setbacks again and again are the problems that this examination paper of life gives us, and we must solve them in order to hand over the answer sheet of life.
It is said that do not let the child lose on the starting line of life, going to school is the starting line of the child, so where is the end point?
College?
No, until a person dies, it is the end of life.
School life is only the first question of the big test paper of life.
The ability to live, communicate, emotional management, etc., which are ignored by parents in the student era, will not be directly reflected in the report card, but can determine how far a person can go and how high.
A detailed number of successful people who have been widely known in recent years do not have particularly good academic qualifications, and some are even "stupid children". But they all have excellent "contrarian quotient", turning the ups and downs and challenges in life into opportunities and achieving future achievements.
If you knew Yu Minhong when you were a student, can you imagine that this somewhat wooden child in front of you will set up New Oriental in the future and become a teacher for thousands of students?
Yu Minhong also took the college entrance examination many times, but he did not have to take the test many times because he was too smart like Zhang Fei, on the contrary, he was too unintelligent.
When Yu Minhong first took the college entrance examination, he only scored 33 points in English. It took three exams before I was finally admitted to Peking University.
But even after entering Peking University, he still has a lot of inferiority, because he is different from the classmates around him, he is two years older than his classmates, and he took the exam three times before he came in.
So he studied so hard that he read 800 books during his four years of college.
Once English was Yu Minhong's worst subject, for this child from a poor rural area, he did not have the environment to learn English at all, nor did he have the opportunity to practice English.
But later, English became the key to Yu Minhong's success, and he made his fortune by teaching others English.
Why is it that a person who only scored 33 points in English in the college entrance examination and could not get 100 points on the test three times can rely on English to counterattack?
Because of shame and courage, because diligence can make up for clumsiness.
It is precisely because his foundation is weaker than others and his achievements are worse than others, so he can only make up for it by putting more effort and investing more energy.
The experience of poor English scores did not hinder Yu Minhong's future development, but on the contrary, it tempered his will and heart.
The best thing a parent can do for his child is not to let him take fewer detours and suffer fewer setbacks, but to teach him the ability and courage to overcome them in the face of setbacks.