A news item on January 18 sparked heated discussions among netizens......
"Harvard girl" Liu Yiting has become a middle-class American, she was the first student in China to be admitted to the top Harvard University in the United States with a full scholarship, and countless parents dream of having a daughter.
The year before he went abroad, he swore that he would definitely come back and contribute his strength to the construction of the motherland's economy.
How beautiful the oath is, how much the reality slaps her face, the people of the whole country are waiting for her triumph, but Liu Yiting turned around and married a white lawyer and got a U.S. green card.
His parents also wrote two books on how to educate their children, which sold millions of copies, and the results are now beginning to reflect on the "chicken-baby" education advocated in the books.
The source in this article comes from official media, but in order to improve the readability of the article, the details may be polished, please read sensibly, for reference only!
Genius has to start with a doll
In 1999, the news that Liu Yiting, a senior high school student at Chengdu College of Foreign Chinese, was admitted to Harvard in the United States shocked countless families in China, and since then, Liu Yiting has also become a role model and nightmare for countless children.
In that era, college students were a rarity, let alone studying abroad, they were also students, why was Liu Yiting so good?
Her mother, Liu Weihua, had already planned a blueprint for the future of the child in her womb when she was pregnant, and no matter how uncomfortable she was, she would strictly follow the recipe to meet the nutritional needs of the fetus.
In addition to genetic factors, what other ways can children become smarter?
Liu Weihua has been looking for a method, in the process, she saw a book "Early Education and Methods", which introduces a lot of early education methods, the importance of early education, and the early education experience of parenting celebrities from all over the world.
The book includes the educational experiences of Mrs. Sterner, the founder of the natural education method, and Calvert, a German prodigy who received his doctorate at the age of 16.
Liu Weihua seemed to have found the key to the door of the treasure, and sealed this book as a "divine book", and firmly believed that as long as she was born with a child with normal intelligence, she would definitely be able to cultivate her into a child with superior intelligence.
At that time, she was an editor of a newspaper, and she didn't have much time to take care of her child after she was born, so she invited her mother to come and help.
When Liu Yiting was born, she was fed in strict accordance with the methods in the book, and at the age of 15, she began early education, trying her best to develop the child's brain.
When the grandmother comes to take the child, Liu Weihua will also conduct training, and only after passing can he take up the post, in the process of the child's growth, the characteristics of his work tracking record are used in parenting, and from the daily parenting diary, compared with the Denver pediatric intelligent checklist, to check Liu Yiting's development.
Liu Weihua's utilitarian parenting method attracted the dissatisfaction of her husband, and she often quarreled over the issue of children's education, so when her daughter was 3 years old, the two chose to divorce.
In order to train her daughter strictly according to the theory in the book, Liu Weihua stayed by Liu Yiting's side every step of the way, so she gave up the opportunity to study at the Shanghai Theater Academy and become Yu Qiuyu's student, which was the biggest sacrifice she made for her daughter.
She often quotes a sentence from Gorky to express her love for her daughter: blood love is given by hens, and what I want to give is the highest level of "educational love".
In order to give her daughter a complete home, Liu Weihua remarried, compared to educating her children, her second husband Zhang Xinwu was no worse than her.
From their first published book "Harvard Girl Liu Yiting", you can see some of his educational methods, the most controversial of which is the "ice gripping method".
In order to exercise Liu Yiting's perseverance and endurance, when she was seven years old, she was asked to hold an ice cube in her hand and could not let go until 20 minutes later.
Someone once tried that after putting the ice cube in the hand, after 5 minutes, it will be painful, and then it will become numb, and when you wait for 10 minutes, the whole arm will become cold, and it will be difficult to hold on for 20 minutes.
Even Liu Weihua and Zhang Xinwu were shocked by Liu Yiting's first attempt, they looked at their daughter's red little hands, very distressed, and persuaded their daughter to give up, and she didn't let go until the 20-minute timer rang.
Liu Yiting's early performance also confirmed the feasibility of her parents' methods, her memory has been better than others since she was a child, and her school grades are always among the best.
When I was in high school, I was even admitted to Chengdu Foreign Chinese Middle School, which is very difficult to get into, and the admission rate is only 1.8%, and I also met the opportunity to change my life here.
Seize the opportunity to find a new path
Zhang Xinwu warned his daughter: The reason why you are excellent is because of others, this is a cheap compliment, you have to compare with yourself and look at the problem comprehensively.
In life, many children will always be inexplicably irritable when facing their parents' verbosity, and even be very rebellious and do the opposite, Liu Yiting has never had a rebellious mentality, and even feels that their parents are doing this for their own good.
This kind of consciousness in her body is also one of the important reasons why she won the honor later.
When Liu Yiting was in high school, the family's goal was still Peking University, and her mother hoped that she would become a provincial champion, so that the possibility of admission would be greater.
It can be seen that they had no intention of going to Harvard at that time, so what changed their plans?
When Liu Yiting was in her sophomore year of high school, a Washington-Beijing scholar exchange club came to China to conduct a student exchange program between the two countries and select outstanding students to visit the United States.
The main person in charge of this project is named Larry, and he is also the key figure in Liu Yiting's ability to go to Harvard in the United States.
Originally, he was going to go to the Beijing Foreign Chinese School, but finally came to Chengdu Foreign Chinese, a brother school, Larry is a congressman in the United States and has worked as an assistant to the largest judge in the United States.
Although Liu Yiting's grades are excellent, there are people outside the world, and there are 4 very outstanding classmates who compete with her, how did she stand out?
Liu Weihua and his wife, who learned of this opportunity, were in full swing to prepare for this interview for their daughter, and after discussion, they had to start from other aspects, after all, their daughter was not top-notch in grades and speaking.
The night before the interview, they talked to Liu Yiting about the history of Sino-US exchanges, the future line of exchanges, and the views on modernization that could be exchanged for reference.
After a whole night of homework, Liu Yiting only used one question to get a place to go to the United States as an exchange student.
"Mr. Larry, as an American lawyer, how do you see the role of China's legal system in modernization?"
In the end, Liu Yiting and another girl got this valuable exchange opportunity, and they visited the Supreme Court of the United States, Columbia and Harvard University and other famous universities.
In an interview with the TV station, she firmly stated that she would not go to college in the United States, because many children in poor areas of China have lost the opportunity to go to school because of poverty, and they want to study the economy, build the motherland, and contribute to the prosperity and strength of the country.
Her bold remarks won the applause of everyone present, and she also said this when filling out the Harvard admission application later, but it turned out to be a slap in the face.
The Harvard girl backtracked
Even after going to the United States as an exchange student, Liu Yiting had no intention of studying in the United States until Larry wrote an email half a year later.
In June 1998, Liu Yiting was struggling for the entrance examination, and Larry wrote to him saying that he could help her apply to study in the United States and apply for a full scholarship.
The family is still working the single-plank bridge, and suddenly someone takes them on the fast lane, such a choice will be heartwarming to anyone.
After Liu Yiting's parents considered it at the crossroads, they decisively let their daughter choose to study abroad, and finally passed the basic line of Harvard with a TOEFL score of 640.
In addition to his personal efforts, Larry's thin letters of recommendation also helped a lot, and it was a breeze to recommend a student to school, given his status and connections at the time.
The latter result, everyone also knows, Liu Yiting successfully went to Harvard University to study, majoring in economics and mathematics, on the day she went to the United States, the principal of Chengwai Yin Jingtang asked her if she would come back?
She replied firmly, definitely, but she didn't know that the past few years abroad had made her completely forget her promise, and the people of the whole country were still waiting for her to triumph as a genius student.
In 2003, after graduating, Liu Yiting joined the famous Boston company to work, and then changed careers to PepsiCo for strategic planning, but she had no intention of returning to China.
After a long time, the news of Liu Yiting's marriage to a white lawyer in the United States was exposed on the Internet, and her decision pushed her parents in China to the forefront, and countless parents began to refute their "chicken baby" education, and finally her daughter betrayed the motherland and stayed in the United States.
In the news in January 2014, the news that Liu Yiting had become a middle-class in the United States shocked the Chinese people, and they began to accuse Liu Yiting of giving up returning to China and finally becoming a middle-class person.
Anyone who knows about her knows that without Larry's letter of recommendation, Liu Yiting would not have had the opportunity to study in the United States, and began to question her ability.
Whether she becomes the middle class or the middle class, it is the result of Liu Yiting's choice, as a Chinese, she did not fulfill her promises, but as an individual, she has the right and freedom to choose.
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"Harvard Girl" Liu Yiting is not a genius? Don't rely on talent to learn, rely on relationships. Qingdao News Network.
When Harvard girl Liu Yiting became an ordinary middle class in the United States, this chicken baby scam that lasted for 25 years was shattered. Sina Weibo
Liu Yiting, a Harvard girl who became popular all over the country 17 years ago, how is it now? . Phoenix News