There are always a few people around you, who have achieved great achievements and are famous, but they may have been just like you and me--- just ordinary secondary school students.
No, even Mr. Xiang Ligang, a communications expert who has been evaluated by the outside world as "the best industry promoter" and "the top 100 people influencing China's IT industry", and Mr. Lu Kewen, an award-winning and well-known writer, were also ordinary secondary school students when they were young. However, it is with perseverance and eternal dreams that they have finally achieved what they are today.
Interestingly, not long ago, Mr. Xiang Ligang added the identity tag of "secondary school student" to his headline homepage. A seemingly unintentional small gesture triggered a response from Mr. Lu Kewen. The two had an interesting interaction on social media, and netizens were also attracted by this unexpected scene and left messages for heated discussions.
From Mr. Xiang Ligang's personal experience, we can understand that although he had achieved a total score close to the college cutoff in the college entrance examination in 1980, he was finally forced to enter a secondary college due to failing the mathematics subject. After graduating from high school in 1997, due to family financial constraints, he had to give up further studies and chose to enter Hunan Water Conservancy and Hydropower Vocational and Technical College.
For a young man who burns youth, such a life encounter is undoubtedly a heavy blow. However, it is precisely because of their lofty ideals and firm beliefs that they later had a dramatic counterattack in life.
After being rejected by the tertiary institution, Mr. Xiang Ligang did not give up, but studied self-examination until he was admitted to the Chinese People's University. After that, he plunged headlong into his life's work – the Internet and communications industry. Reading his famous books "5G Era", "5G Opportunity" and "ChatGPT: Understanding the Technology and Industrial Logic Behind the AI Explosion", you will find that this former "secondary school student" has a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of these cutting-edge fields.
And Mr. Luke's life journey is just as wonderful. Although he could only choose secondary school due to his family's difficulties, he did not lose hope in life. On the contrary, this enthusiastic young man has been working silently with the dream of becoming a good writer. In the end, a series of vivid and interesting works came out one after another, winning the love of the majority of readers and bringing him one heavyweight literary award after another.
The two "secondary school students" have proved with their own deeds: as long as there is perseverance, as long as there are ideals, the level of education is not the absolute determinant of success. That's what touches and admires me the most.
Every time they look back, they will always remember that they were also ordinary secondary school students, and often suffered some unfair judgments and discrimination. Therefore, when I saw that some people were questioned and personally attacked again because of their status as "secondary school students", neither Mr. Xiang Ligang nor Mr. Lu Kewen could tolerate it. They would like to take this opportunity to appeal to the community: please look at people with different educational backgrounds with a more open and inclusive eye.
"Secondary school students" do not mean that they are useless, on the contrary, perhaps it is precisely because of the difficulties that they cherish the hard-won opportunities and know the valuable qualities of hard work and never give up.
Don't simply equate "secondary school students" with incompetence, because you can never predict that the next person who will change the world may come from an ordinary secondary school campus.
I often hear some parents around me worry about their children's academic performance, if they really can't get into college, it seems that it is equivalent to losing their whole life. In fact, this is not the case, and the path to success is often broader than we think. Just as the stories of Mr. Xiang Ligang and Mr. Lo Ke Man enlighten us, even if you are just a secondary school student, as long as you have ideals and perseverance, you will eventually be able to achieve steady and far-reaching progress on your own path.
By the way, as an advocate of lifelong learning, I would like to say that in addition to perseverance, maintaining a lifelong thirst for knowledge is also a key part of success. These two former "secondary school students" have done it: continuous learning and continuous self-breakthrough are the reasons for their achievements today.
So, are you also yearning for some kind of dream, but you can't move forward because you are stuck in the current situation? Or do you think you're trapped in the realities of life and can't achieve your dreams at all?
If so, we might as well stop and reflect, maybe deep down in each of us, there is also a young self who was a "secondary school student". But it is precisely because of our dreams and perseverance that we will work hard and rely on our courage and wisdom to create a more wonderful life.
On the road of life, it should never be limited by academic qualifications. Let's work together like Mr. Xiang Ligang and Mr. Lu Kewen to interpret the unlimited potential of "secondary school students" with their own practical actions!