The inspirational story of little Helen Keller Zeng Zhijun who won the top spot in the college entrance examination
The biggest disaster in life is not the trauma of the past, but giving up the future. This is Helen Keller's famous saying. Let's take a look at her inspirational story today!
The inspirational story of little Helen Keller Zeng Zhijun who won the top spot in the college entrance examination
In the middle of the college entrance examination season, Hong Kong There is a special number one pick, Zeng Zhijun, who is called "Little Helen Keller". The reason why she is called this is because she is blind, severely hearing-impaired, and has finger tactile defects. However, during the growth process of Zeng Zhijun, who had "three senses", she used her lips instead of her hands to learn how to lip-read convex braille, and finally achieved Zeng Zhijun got excellent results of 5++ in 3 subjects and 5+ in 2 subjects. This score is equivalent to the "top scorer" in the Hong Kong College Entrance Examination, and Zeng Zhijun was admitted to the Department of Translation and Interpretation of the Chinese University of Hong Kong as he wished.
A few months after birth, Zeng Zhijun became blind due to neural atrophy. She could only feel light and shadow, and was defined as completely blind. In elementary school, her ears were diagnosed as moderate to severe. People who are hard of hearing rely on hearing aids to communicate with others. However, the ordeal that God gave Zhijun did not stop there. Zhijun had one more challenge than Helen Keller. Due to nerve atrophy, Zhijun's fingertips also had defective touch. She wanted to touch a Braille book for the blind. Neither can.
Faced with the dilemma, her parents and teachers were helpless, but Zeng Zhijun did not give up on herself. She believed that she had to accept the reality. If she escaped, this difficulty would follow her throughout her life. So, she kept groping and working hard, trying various parts of her body, and finally found the best contact point: the lips, and Zeng Zhijun became the only child in the school who kissed and wrote. You can imagine the difficulty of writing with lips and kisses. Zeng Zhijun not only takes one to two times longer than normal people to read the same content, but is also slower than other blind people who read with their hands.
In middle school, Zeng Zhijun could have studied in a school for the blind, but in order to integrate into mainstream schools early, she chose an ordinary school and studied in the same class as normal students. When she was in the first grade of middle school, Zeng Zhijun wrote in an article: "Entering a mainstream school was a turning point in my life." In the days to come, I will face countless challenges, and I will do my best to study hard and overcome every difficulty. ?
Zeng Zhijun did it. In class, she picked up the Braille notes prepared by the teacher in advance and immersed herself in reading the Braille notes with her mouth while wearing a hearing aid to listen to the teacher's explanation. The general courses taught by English professors have a lot of information, many viewpoints, and new content. Not only are they required to discuss in class, but also group representatives are required to speak? Some questions that would make ordinary students frown, Zeng Zhijun has never avoided.
Ordinary students can learn about current affairs by watching TV and reading newspapers. These are all difficult for Zeng Zhijun, but Zeng Zhijun’s views often make teachers shine. More than one teacher in the school lamented: It’s hard to imagine how she mastered so much learning content. ?It turns out that because of her slow reading speed, Zeng Zhijun spent almost all the time reading except eating, taking a shower and sleeping.
In the Hong Kong College Entrance Examination, students with hearing impairment can be exempted from the Chinese and English listening tests, but Zeng Zhijun does not enjoy such "preferential treatment". She believes that although she has hearing impairment, the requirements for herself cannot be relaxed. In an interview, Zeng Zhijun admitted that no matter what her grades were, she must learn to face her own reality and accept her own obstacles.
There is a saying that if something comes and you don’t have the courage to deal with it, it will definitely come again. Life is like this, it will make you do this lesson again and again until you learn it. As Zeng Zhijun said: "If I escape, difficulties will follow me throughout my life." We should do the same, facing difficulties can ultimately win in life. The inspirational story of Helen Keller’s hard study
When Helen Keller was first born, she was a bright and lively girl. She could speak simple words clearly when she was 6 months old. Unfortunately, in February 1882, she suffered from a severe cold and sustained high fever, which caused complications and eventually led to blindness in her eyes and deafness in her ears. From then on, she fell into a dark, soundless and chaotic world.
However, this deaf, blind, and mute girl passed Harvard University's examinations in German, French, Latin, English literature, Greek, Roman history and other subjects. This is undoubtedly a great miracle in an era when university education has not yet become popular, entrance examinations are extremely strict, and it is not easy for normal people to go to university! So how was this miracle created?
This should first be attributed to her. Her parents and the many people around her who enthusiastically helped her created a good educational environment for her, which enabled Helen Keller to understand the world in her own unique way. Ever since Helen Keller became seriously ill, her mother had tried her best to help her understand various things and often encouraged her. Her father often guided her to touch various plants in the courtyard. Under their guidance and with her own intelligence, Helen was able to help her mother with housework and express herself with gestures or body language.
In 1887, with the help of Dr. Bell, who invented the telephone, Annie Sullivan, a knowledgeable and enthusiastic tutor, came to Helen. She gave Helen selfless love and help. She used her fingers to spell words for various things in Helen's hands, and took her to touch various objects around her, allowing her to slowly understand the world in which she lived. After a period of hard work, Helen mastered the key points and began to communicate with others. At the same time, under the training of Teacher Sullivan, Helen also developed a positive, cheerful and optimistic character.
In May 1888, Helen Keller went to Perkins School for the Blind in Boston. From March 26, 1890, Helen began to learn to pronounce sounds by touching her lips under the guidance of acoustic expert Sarah Hera, and finally spoke clear and complete sentences. For a time, Helen became a famous news figure.
In 1893, Dr. Bell invited Helen to visit the "World's Fair" in Chicago, which opened her eyes. After that, Helen began to systematically study specialized subjects, and successively studied Latin, arithmetic, human geography, French, German and other courses.
In October 1896, Helen Keller came up with the idea of ??going to university, and the school she chose was the world-famous Harvard University. The entrance examination of this school is very strict, and many outstanding students have difficulty passing it. However, Helen overcomes the difficulties and works hard towards the goal in her mind. She first went to the Cambridge Girls' School affiliated with Harvard University to study as a preparatory student. In three years, she studied British history, English literature, German, Latin, physics, astronomy and other courses, laying a good foundation for entering Harvard University. On June 30, 1899, Helen successfully passed the entrance examination for Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University and obtained admission to Harvard University.
Another important reason why Helen Keller was able to enter Harvard University was her intelligent talent and unremitting efforts. Although she cannot hear sounds or see things, she still shows a high level of understanding and is as smart and lively as a normal child. Her curiosity about external things is her motivation for understanding the world. This is the basis for Keller's success. In addition, Helen has extraordinary perseverance. Whenever she is determined to achieve a goal, she always overcomes all obstacles and strives to achieve it. As she said in her memoirs, she could not walk on the broad and flat roads like others, but the rugged and even thorny paths were still roads. As long as there was a road, she was prepared to walk on it, no matter how difficult or dangerous it was. Look back.
In all stages of study, Helen has been very diligent, practicing and exploring repeatedly. Especially when she was studying at Cambridge Girls' School, she worked much harder than ordinary people. Because Cambridge Girls' School is an ordinary school, there are no teachers with experience in educating blind and mute students. Therefore, when Helen was in class, Teacher Sullivan had to convey it back in class using finger language. Many of the subjects she had to learn did not have Braille textbooks and she had to convert them to Braille herself in order to study. In addition, she was unable to take notes or write exercises in the classroom. Compositions and translations had to be taken home and typed on a typewriter. When taking natural sciences such as mathematics, physics, astronomy, etc., normal students can understand things at a glance, but Helen needs more explanations to understand due to her physical disability. The existence of these difficulties did not knock Helen down, but made her stronger and better.
After Helen entered the university she had longed for, she began intense and arduous study.
Teacher Sullivan was always by her side, translating the professor's words word by word into pointers and conveying them to her, and relaying the lecture notes that did not have Braille textbooks. She had to spend several times the time as an ordinary person to learn the contents of the lecture notes. But she never complained, and she also used her spare time to write. In 1903, she published her autobiographies "My Life" and "Optimism". After graduating from college, Helen and Sullivan made a living selling manuscripts in an old farmhouse in Lianshan. At the same time, she actively devoted her life to the welfare of the blind. ? ;