The strivers come first, and the innovators advance. In Hailiang Technology, there are strivers who are dedicated and diligent and solid, and there are also innovators who embrace change and innovate agilely. We hereby launch a series of video columns "We are all Haike people", following the footsteps of Haike people, recording every educational sentiment with the lens, and writing every story of struggle and innovation with words.
In the first issue, we will shine the spotlight on Wan Zhenrui, the head of the Hailiang Qingbei Peer Mentor Group, to see how this head and his group light up the hearts of students in the county.
Once, he was a poplar tree in the Gobi desert.
"I graduated from Guanghua School of Management of Peking University, and was the top student in the municipal high school entrance examination and the third place in the province in the college entrance examination. However, I spent the first 18 years of my life in a small western county town, and from childhood to adulthood I was a 'stupid student' in what my teachers called me, and when I was in junior high school, I was a 'scumbag' who couldn't even recognize the English alphabet, and I was assigned to the worst class in the whole grade...... Isn't this kind of me also admitted to Peking University?
In Wan Zhenrui's view, the most important thing for him to become a talent is to "not admit defeat".
In the third year of junior high school, he only gave himself one day off, that is, on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, he slept at 12 o'clock every day and woke up at 5:30, took a half-hour lunch break at noon, and slept for six hours a day.
In the summer camp for outstanding high school students in the country, most of his companions came from the "super middle school" in the province, and they were versatile, so he was not convinced! He actively ran for class president and did a good job in overall planning and organization, so he met many friends.
He lobbied the top 20 students in the whole grade to form a study group and share good and wrong questions with each other every week.
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That's it, he has a clear goal, dares to think and fight, overcomes many obstacles, and finally walks from the loess to Weiming Lake, and climbs the ivory tower from a small county town.
He often shared with his students that Populus euphratica has a harsh living environment, but it is hard and is a fine wood. Therefore, whether a tree can become mature or not does not depend on its growth environment, but on itself.
Today, he is a lamplighter who travels around the county.
Maybe it's because you've been in the rain and always want to hold an umbrella for others. After successfully chasing the light and chasing the dream, Wan Zhenrui also wants to be the light that can light up others.
He joined Hailiang Technology and joined the Qingbei Peer Companion Program. The project adopts diversified service forms such as one-to-one academic accompaniment, theme presentation, symposium, series of courses, and characteristic camps, and uses the ignition, benchmarking, and companionship teaching mode to awaken students' development awareness, guide students' development direction, and "let excellent people cultivate excellent people".
When he first joined the project team, he was the youngest member, but he was not afraid of the stage and quickly took on the work of curriculum development and the operation of the mentor group.
Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Anhui, Guizhou, Chongqing, Guangxi, Hainan...... In just one year, Wan Zhenrui and his members have traveled all over the world, leaving a series of solid footprints. Going to the front line again and again has also allowed him to grow rapidly.
Perhaps because he is also a child from the county, Wan Zhenrui's personal experience and sincere stories can always resonate with the children in the county and ignite their pursuit of dreams.
"Others may laugh at my dreams, but the moment I realize my dreams, no one will laugh at my efforts for my dreams!" In September last year, the Qingbei peer mentor group came to Keqi Jingpeng No. 1 Middle School in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia. After hearing Wan Zhenrui's sharing, a student who loves art spoke from the bottom of his heart.
Sometimes, students do not lack dreams, but lack the courage to go to their dreams, and they need a lamplighter to help them illuminate the direction and ignite hope.
At present, the peer mentor group has gathered more than 160 elites from Qingbei. They come from all provinces, cover all majors, and provide students with all-round guidance in learning, psychology, further education, career planning, etc. Many of them come from underdeveloped counties, and many of them are on the front line of education services, and they take on the word "role model" with their own actions.
Some peer mentors
Education is passed down from generation to generation, and the peer tutors in Qingbei, represented by Wan Zhenrui, are passing on the lights that teachers give them and pass them on to the next generation.
They held the pilot lamp to illuminate the road to success, so that the children who still had dreams in their hearts bravely raised their heads and said with confidence: "Seniors, see you at Peking University!"