Immediately comment on the | screen brush screen of the paper afterword should not leave only "touched" and "watch crying"

The Paper's special commentator Jiang Cheng

The afterwords of one paper after another suddenly became the focus of public opinion. On the surface, this is because many of the afterwords to papers are indeed written with sincerity. But perhaps more importantly, many authors have affectionately recounted how they struggled to get to where they are today. These stories have resonated and made many people see the hope of life progress and class rise.

Recently, the acknowledgment part of a Doctoral Dissertation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was screened on the Internet, and the article wrote: "My mother said she could not die, because she wanted me to go to school." The simple words once again touched countless netizens.

The writing of this article is very real and moving. When he was a child, his family was very poor, and his parents almost did their best to make him afford to go to school. At the same time, because of the frustration, rejection and repression of poverty, and even the snobbery of his relatives after he was admitted to Peking University, the author did not shy away from it and wrote it very truthfully. Of course, there are also many people who have given him great help at critical times.

The academic language of the paper rejects personalized expression and individualized narrative, except for the afterword or acknowledgment part, the author can express his chest and self-reproduction. Here, the "doctor" and "master" are reduced to a specific person; the study experience on the resume becomes a vivid, diligent and even tragic life course; the bits and pieces on the academic road become vivid inspirational stories.

Earlier this year, some of the golden sentences in the afterword of the thesis were also widely circulated on the Internet, such as "I have traveled a long way and suffered a lot before I sent this doctoral dissertation to you" "Read the book, and then go out, not to live in vain" and so on. These authors are in different corners of the world, but the life stories and life trajectories presented in the afterword of the paper have many similarities.

A similar narrative mode is to tell how you have overcome many difficulties, come out of the countryside through learning, and finally achieve considerable academic results. If such a story is made into a film and television drama, people may feel "fake". However, writing it out with the afterword of the thesis has a sense of reality and persuasiveness, and it is more moving.

In fact, the papers that appear in the field of public opinion are all "successful" - only through the defense of the paper, it may appear in front of the public. These afterwords are actually showing that the author's bumpy experience has not been disappointed, and finally ushered in a happy ending. People love to read such stories, and it is also because this kind of story makes us believe that "reading is useful" and "there is hope in life".

Such a story is actually a concrete manifestation of "knowledge changes destiny". In fact, it is true that reading has changed their fate, and the children in the original small mountain village have finally become professors and scientists. When people read such stories, they are actually absorbing a kind of strength to forge ahead: they can still cut through thorns, why can't I ride the wind and waves?

Society also needs such stories, and in a way, they are also ballast stones for social values. One of the biggest social consensuses after the reform and opening up is actually the power of obedience education. Today's society is increasingly diverse, and there are more avenues for people to achieve self-realization, and there is even no lack of opportunistic success. But this kind of story undoubtedly awakens people's faith in knowledge and values such as down-to-earth and self-improvement, and helps countless people recalibrate the direction of life.

But what about life stories that don't appear in the afterword to the paper? Getting out of the cold door and going to success is of course a good life wish, but different lives have different opportunities. Some people succeed, and some people may not achieve the ideal goal, although they also work hard, struggle, and struggle like the protagonist in the afterword to the paper.

Therefore, it is not enough to be "moved" and "watch and cry". Suffering itself does not deserve to be praised, and what we need is to provide a ladder for more capable, gifted, and ambitious young people to climb. In their most difficult times, "pull" them.

At the end of July this year, the Ministry of Education and nine other departments issued the "Targeted Training Plan for Outstanding Teachers in Underdeveloped Areas in the Central and Western Regions", focusing on improving the quality of primary and secondary school teachers in underdeveloped areas in the central and western regions from the source. More similar initiatives are necessary.

Since we are "moved" by such stories, we should find ways to build a ladder for more Chinese teenagers to work hard, and let more people have the opportunity to write their own "life afterword".

Editor-in-Charge: Li Qinyu

Proofreader: Zhang Liangliang