At the National Two Sessions just past, Tang Jiangpeng, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and head of the Xishan Senior High School in Jiangsu Province, gave him a "fire" out of the circle.

"Face to Face" interviewed this netizen as "the hottest Internet celebrity principal during the two sessions."

I'm talking about common sense

Why is it hot?

Tang Jiangpeng, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and principal of Xishan Senior High School in Jiangsu Province:

　　"Some people say that students have a college entrance examination once in their lives, and their parents take the college entrance examination twice in their lives. We high school principals take the college entrance examination once a year. Yes, students who have no scores will not be able to pass the college entrance examination today, but children only have scores, and I am afraid they will not win the future. The big exam..."

　　"A good education should cultivate lifelong athletes, responsibilities, problem solvers, and elegant lives, so as to give children a healthy and excellent personality to win future happiness and benefit the country and society."

　　In the rapid dissemination of various media, Tang Jiangpeng's speech in the committee channel became a golden sentence on the screen.

Apart from "popularity", Tang Jiangpeng was also thinking about why he became so popular?

Principal Tang:

Did I actually say something?

I just talked about some common sense, why did it get hot?

I see that everyone also has some doubts, saying that you want to be a lifelong athlete, a responsibilities, a problem solver, and a graceful life. So, do you want to score?

Score is an unavoidable important content of our education. The college entrance examination system is the basic system of our country to ensure the fairness of talent selection.

Principal Tang: It’s

an

irresponsible choice

for any school to not pay attention to scores or to improve students’ academic performance. At the same time, we should also realize that the ultimate value of education is to promote people’s happiness, so I think we are completely There is a responsibility, and there should be responsibility and wisdom to balance this relationship.

The college entrance examination champion failed due to physical reasons

Fall into the trough of life

　　The profound understanding of "what is education" originates from Tang Jiangpeng's own experience.

　　In the 1960s, he was born in a backward mountainous area in Shaanxi. When he was in high school, he needed to use kerosene lamps for his self-study in the evening. Educational resources were limited. It often happened that a teacher took several courses concurrently.

　　In 1979, the 16-year-old Tang Jiangpeng took the college entrance examination at Lingkou Middle School in Luonan County, Shaanxi, and his results were among the best in the local area.

His original ambition was the Law Department of Peking University, but his polio made one of his legs inconvenient, so he changed the report to the Library Department of Peking University.

　　Later, many students whose grades were not as good as their own received admission notices, but Tang Jiangpeng, who had excellent grades, was not admitted in the end.

Principal Tang:

If my grades are not enough, I still need to work hard.

But I am the champion, because of my health, I cannot go to college. I do feel very stressed, and I have fallen into the bottom of my life.

"Cheated" to the podium by a handful of raisins by the principal

"Use all life to understand the value and meaning of teachers"

　　Tang Jiangpeng tried to pass the gloomy days by pulling erhu and blowing flute. Some friends who failed to come to comfort him would also come to comfort him, which provided an opportunity for Tang Jiangpeng to get out of his depression.

Tang Jiangpeng counseled the unsuccessful friends with homework, and in the second year many of these friends were admitted to good schools.

As a result, Tang Jiangpeng attracted the attention of an old director of the local education bureau. Under the arrangement of the education bureau, Tang Jiangpeng, who was only 17 years old, entered Shaanxi Luonan Middle School and became a tutor with a monthly salary of 28 yuan.

President Tang:

At that time, college graduates

cost

55 yuan per month, which is half of what people do. But I am not qualified to be a teacher. I just tutor students with homework. I can't do homework at night, so I will help.

　　Half a year has passed since the "sparring practice" days. Once, a Chinese teacher at the school fell ill. Tang Jiangpeng secretly went on stage to teach students a lesson on the evening when the teachers were out to watch a movie.

As a result, he was called to the principal's office as soon as the class was over.

Principal Tang: After

that class, because the school lacked teachers, the principal wanted me to go up. I said I couldn't do it.

Please

don't make it difficult for me. I was only 17 years old and you asked me to take the graduating class.

He opened the drawer, grabbed a handful of raisins and placed it in my hand, "My old student sent me a good thing, I went to class after eating."

Later, I joked to the principal, I was tricked into the podium by a handful of raisins.

　　In this way, desperate Tang Jiangpeng became a private language teacher, and he began to use all his life to understand the value and significance of the profession of teacher.

He took three years of self-study of the courses of the TV University and obtained a Chinese college degree.

Later, he spent two more years studying in Shaanxi Institute of Education and obtained a bachelor's degree in Chinese.

　　Tang Jiangpeng said that he actually didn't know how to teach, and the only thing he could do was to share his learning experience with students, and these experiences condensed his unforgettable love for the profession of teachers.

Moved by a photo from eighty years ago

Highlight the focus of education with special nomination awards

　　In 1993, Tang Jiangpeng, who failed to pass the college entrance examination to go to the wider world, determined to go south. Through the application, he became a Chinese teacher at Xishan Senior High School in Jiangsu Province.

The prestigious eastern schools allowed him to see different educational concepts and teaching methods, and a task other than teaching inspired him to start thinking about the goals of education.

Principal Tang:

At that time, the school was going to celebrate the school. The principal asked me to participate in the compilation of school history. I was moved by a photo.

It was a solo photo of a little boy, and it said those who had not missed classes for more than a year.

This is a photo taken more than 80 years ago, and taking pictures at that time should be a very grand event.

Under what background is the school administrator taking pictures of children who have not missed classes for more than a year?

This has a great impact on me.

Principal Tang:

Whoever takes pictures of a school reflects the value pursuit of the school.

Our school today may also have pictures of many students, but it may be the photos of the top students in the college entrance examination, the photos of the students who passed the entrance examination of Peking University and Tsinghua University, and the photos of the students who have won the Olympic competition.

I often think about who the principal points the camera at, and where the education will focus.

From this old photo, I saw a very simple and kind-hearted, concern and care for the all-round development of people.

　　In 2006, Tang Jiangpeng began to serve as the principal of this famous school with a century of history.

He set up a special nomination for principals to highlight the focus of education.

Tang Jiangpeng gave awards to students who insist on running every day, even if his grades are not particularly outstanding; Tang Jiangpeng awards filial piety awards to children who call their parents every day. He said that parents cultivate a child who warms their hearts. This is quite a success. .

Education does not require much reform

Teachers nowadays are much harder than before

　　Like the principals of many high schools across the country, Tang Jiangpeng is also under pressure from the college entrance examination rate.

He still insists on allowing students to develop in an all-round way. The students of Xishan Senior High School make sure to take one physical education class every day and one art class every week. Such courses will continue until the time when the college entrance examination is suspended.

Principal Tang:

Our school didn't offer art classes before. Later, once a month, everyone saw that the college entrance examination was not affected. Let's check it out once every two weeks. It's pretty good.

We now open it every week and it hasn't been affected.

Then keep on, everyone agrees.

Principal Tang:

I don't think that education needs many reforms, as long as we stick to the common sense that we believe.

　　During the 15 years that Tang Jiangpeng served as the head of Xishan Senior High School, this veteran prestigious school has adhered to its traditional values ​​and concepts between enrollment rate and overall development.

This persistence contains both anxiety and hope.

Reporter:

Looking at the history of Xishan Middle School more than 80 years ago, compared with the teachers of that era, are teachers now doing well or not doing well?

Principal Tang: It's

much harder to do.

In the era of rapid economic development, people’s deep-seated worries about the decline of their social status in the future have transformed into a group of educational anxiety, anxious about the children’s tomorrow.

We want to change this anxiety quickly, and it takes a long time to work.

What our teachers can do now is to fully care about the growth of students and give them some kindness, so that the world will be better and warmer due to our efforts.

　　Reporter丨Dong Qian