"Going to college is not to graduate for life"-what did Yu Minhong say about his first live show?
"Education is not about filling a bucket of water and lighting a fire."
Speaking of "education", the poet Yeats used such a precise metaphor to express the rich connotation of the word "education".
University life is undoubtedly the most important stage in the life stage in which a person can be educated. It can even be said to exist in general. Whether a person can achieve self-growth or recognize the existence of self-worth are all human life issues to be faced at the university stage.
"If you haven't learned independent thinking and spiritual freedom for four years in your university, your whole life may become a slave to life and materiality." Facing a mobile phone that is being broadcast live, New Oriental founder Yu Minhong, like a teacher standing on the podium, gives Hundreds of thousands of old trains in the live room shared their college life experience.
In the context of the postponement of major universities, Yu Minhong's online live lesson is particularly precious. On the evening of the 28th, Yu Minhong broadcasted live on his fast-hand account. This is also the first time that the leader of the education industry tried the fast-hand live broadcast. It brought the theme of "Four Years of Youth and Lifelong to the World" to students and friends. "Live Class.
When it comes to youth growth, Yu Minhong is perhaps the most qualified person. From a civilian background, Yu Minhong struggled to enter Peking University all the way, and founded New Oriental to lead it to grow. Now facing young students who are at the most critical stage of life, Yu Minhong uses his personal experience to tell everyone about the experience of youth growth.
Yu Minhong, born in the 1960s, was a brilliant period of college education in China. In Yu Minhong's memories, his college days brought him an unforgettable romantic experience, as well as his transformation from ignorance to maturity.
Guitar, lawn, library, everything is different from today. "At that time, lawn songs and campus songs could be said to be much more romantic than the current karaoke," Yu Minhong recalled to the old irons in the live broadcast room. "Karaoke is where everyone goes to a Drinking and singing in the room is not as romantic as under the wide moon and singing under the lighted lawn in front of the library. "
In the 1980s, most of the key words of spiritual life contained ideal words such as rationality, self-reliance, and truth. But behind the romantic memories, Yu Minhong also had an unforgettable experience. "Live for youth, sorrow for youth" is the theme of Yu Minhong's college life choices.
In the early 1990s, Yu Minhong gave a lecture at Zhongguancun New Oriental School
In his junior year, Yu Minhong lay in the hospital for a full year because of tuberculosis. In that year, he read hundreds of books. Recalling now, that lonely and painful time turned into his precious spiritual wealth. "A good memory is not necessarily a concept of falling in love and becoming a student cadre. It is also that you turn the sorrow, loneliness, and pain of college life into fine wine, and seek your own understanding to make life better. "
American historian Durant once said, "Education is a process of gradually discovering your ignorance." Yu Minhong also shared with the old iron in the live broadcast room. If the habit of independent thinking cannot be developed in the university stage, it will be difficult to get rid of it throughout life The shackles of life.
Compared to the 1980s, college life is far different now, and the college entrance examination track is becoming more and more crowded. In 2018, the number of new college graduates nationwide was 8.2 million, which will rise to 8.34 million in 2019, and in 2020, the number of new college graduates will reach a new high, reaching 8.74 million. The huge employment group is about to enter the society, and the chain reaction caused by the epidemic has further worsened the employment environment. The situation this graduate faces is called "the most difficult graduation season in history."
For young people who have gone to university hard, the most important question they will face is how the university should spend it. A thousand people may have a thousand answers. Yu Minhong believes that college students may misunderstand college life and believes that the only thing to do in school is to study a major, but it is not true. "What does a university do? In ancient Greece, there was a sentence carved on the stone of a temple called" Know Yourself. "University is a process of finding and discovering yourself."
Yu Minhong in the live room
"Some classmates said that they are worried that they can't find a good job when they graduate from college, but actually they are not to graduate, but to keep you from graduating." Yu Minhong believes that four years of college will make one realize that there are too many people in this world. Things are worth studying and studying, and worth a lifetime's effort, so college graduation is actually a new starting point.
The story of Yu Minhong's founding of New Oriental may already be well known to many people, but such a real university experience may be the first time for the old iron in the live broadcast room. Many old irons have raised their own confusion in the comment area. For example, if there is an old iron, they ask, what should I do if I do n’t have like-minded friends in college life? Seeing this problem on the screen, Yu Minhong gave her own suggestion, "Let the mind go, and take more of your heart and lungs to others, and others will be more willing to believe in you. Among like-minded friends, the underlying logic is mutual. trust."
With the sharing of Yu Minhong, more and more old irons participated in the interaction. There were questions from the old iron. How did Yu Minhong find his life goal? Yu Minhong replied that the goal of life is a gradual process, and I still dare not say I found my life goal. "Continuous struggle and constant search are the features of life."
In addition to the first attempt to broadcast live fast, Yu Minhong also tried to connect with a netizen's video for the first time in the evening. At the live broadcast, he connected a fast-handed user, “Fruit Doctor”, who was in the front line of Wuhan ’s epidemic resistance. Fruit Doctor is a practising doctor in his own right and uses fruits to introduce interesting medical knowledge on fast hands. Yu Minhong is very interested in the short video content of Dr. Fruit. After learning about the short video content he made, he suggested that he can explain more professional knowledge to users in the process of popularizing knowledge, and also help more people learn medical knowledge.
Yu Minhong and Fruit Doctor Lian Mai
After the Fruit Doctor, the second old iron connected was "Tangerine Foreign Language" focusing on non-profit English education. Tangerine English herself has been a lecturer at Renmin University. In order to help rural children say goodbye to dumb English, she registered on the fast hand. Orange Foreign Language Account provides a 30-second free English pronunciation course to help rural students receive professional knowledge education.
Creators of educational content, such as Fruit Doctor and Tangerine Foreign Languages, may not be school teachers in the classroom, but their common ground is that they are willing to share their familiar knowledge and interests. In the fast hands, there are nearly one million authors of short-hand education short videos like them, and more than 200 million short video works have been produced, covering subjects such as discipline education, agriculture, rural areas, vocational education, and interest education. Behind these figures are bridges that have been built through content platforms, becoming individuals who have benefited from education.
Yu Minhong and Tangerine
From the 1980s to today, the school has changed a lot, and the way of education is constantly iterating, but what has changed is that education is always training one's ability to grow up. From the teacher to the school to the various institutions that provide teaching aids today, all of them act for this goal. As partners in this live event, Kuaishou and New Oriental adhere to the same philosophy and provide students and teachers with services within their ability. A good lesson series launched by Kuaishou also hopes to explain Kuaishou's concept of inclusive education through famous teachers.
"University life is not smooth sailing, you may have no money, you may be hanging out, you may be in love, you may be confused and have no way to go." At the end of the live broadcast, Yu Minhong gave his sincere suggestions to all young people. . "Even if all this happens, college life should still be the most exciting four years of life."