I have been a "all-round development" good student since I was a child, and my grades are excellent. However, after entering high school, I was faced with the choice of liberal arts university or science university. Personally, I don't think this choice exists. I have a stubborn prejudice that science universities are not real universities. Although I have always been keen on learning mathematics, physics, chemistry and other natural science knowledge, I think their value lies only in the tools people use. When I criticized Lin and Confucius, I knew Mencius' sentence: "Those who work hard govern others, and those who work hard govern others." This sentence is very poisonous to me I still think that intellectuals in science and engineering belong to "laborers" and intellectuals in liberal arts are the real "spiritual aristocrats"-although their real situation is so sad! So I don't know when I started, and I have a goal in my heart-the Chinese Department of Peking University, which I think is the best department in the world. However, in the early 1980s, the general idea of the whole society was to value science over literature. It seems that "loving science, education and culture" means Chen Jingrun and Li Siguang, and there is a saying in the society that "learning mathematics, physics and chemistry well is not afraid to travel all over the world". Some newspapers also advertised that 1985 was to realize the four modernizations, and capitalism was initially established in 2000. Some teachers have heard that I am determined to take the liberal arts exam, and I am also a Chinese department. They all sighed and said, "Alas! This child is ruined. " Today, when I think back on this sincere sentence, I can't help wondering whether my original choice ruined a blank in Chen Jingrun for my country. Under the general climate of attaching importance to science and neglecting literature, Harbin No.3 Middle School has been slow to offer liberal arts classes, so I and some students who want to take the liberal arts exam have waged a hard struggle with the school. "Senior 38" is not an ordinary class number, it is the fruit of victory that we exchanged with the blood of youth. Below I will briefly talk about a few deeds related to "Senior 38" and dedicate them to the old, middle-aged and young friends who have had similar experiences and still maintain their youthful passion today.
First, the books on the bus
As soon as the last semester of senior one passed, whether liberal arts classes were held became the focus of debate. Other key middle schools, on the whole, are not rivals of Harbin No.3 Middle School, so they set up liberal arts classes early, concentrate their superior teachers and students, and strive to be among the best in liberal arts. However, in Harbin No.3 Middle School, strictly carrying out the instructions of the higher authorities about not allowing liberal arts classes is nominally against partiality. In fact, first, it has a tradition of attaching importance to reason over literature. Second, as a model unit, we dare not make any mistakes. Third, I am not sure about the liberal arts. Anyway, it's too late to do it now. If the liberal arts scores in the college entrance examination are not good in the future, there will be an excuse. If you get good grades, you will become a model of adhering to the correct line. In this way, students who want to take the liberal arts exam put forward the slogan of "saving the country and the people". According to the superficial history we have learned, we 16-and 17-year-old children solemnly compare the school leaders to the fatuous Qing government, thinking that only by fighting for it ourselves can we turn the situation around and urge the authorities to "reform" us to split up and join each class in series, and everyone in each class is of one mind. Even those students who want to take the science exam support us from the overall situation of the school. So, we launched a "liberal arts class movement". First, extensive publicity and discussion in various places have created a public opinion that "people live in poverty". The political teacher once said Lenin's words: "Without revolutionary theory, there would be no revolutionary action." Second, oral complaints and representations to the head teacher and the classroom teacher to win the support of the teachers are the greatest guarantee of victory. There are two things to pay attention to: absolute dependence on liberal arts teachers and absolute respect for science teachers. Third, formally submit opinions in the form of individuals, classes and all. This move is called "writing on the bus".
In my own name and in the name of all, I made two comments, which were very intense and showed off a lot of literary talent and allusions-my composition won the first prize in the city. Zheng Bin and Zhang Xin also wrote one each. When all the submissions are signed, the question of who should sign them arises. I remember saying arrogantly: "Every country's political reform begins with bloodshed. If something goes wrong, I will take care of it first! " I was the first to sign. Zheng Bin is an old schemer. He said it was not good. Let's find some big bowls and draw a few circles around them, and we can't tell the order. In fact, all our "intrigues" are superfluous. Leaders have long known who is Song Jiang and who is Li Kui jy. Soon the headmaster invited six of our classmates to talk-I can't remember exactly which six. Anyway, we are both excited and nervous, calling ourselves "the six gentlemen of the 1898 Movement". On the surface, he is very imposing, but in fact he jumps as fast as physical education class.
President Zhou has a kind heart and silver hair. Although he is over sixty years old, he still dresses elegantly and spotlessly, which shows that he must be a handsome young man when he was young. He is praised by his classmates for two things at ordinary times. One is to hide a hammer and nail at the waist every day and patrol each class. Once the movable desk and chair are found, the hidden weapon will show his talent. He never asked who broke the table and chair, finished it happily and left with satisfaction. So there are no students in No.3 Middle School who don't care about desks and chairs. The whole school is clean and tidy. Later, when I went to Peking University and saw that so many broken tables and chairs were left unattended, I wrote a letter to the president of Peking University, suggesting that he also buy a hammer. So far, I have not received a reply. The second thing that President Zhou is popular is that he often organizes teachers to dance on weekends and holidays. Dancing was still very fashionable at that time. When dancing, hooligans should seriously put on new bell-bottoms and feel elegant. Dancing with decent people is a sign of ideological emancipation. There are several principals in No.3 Middle School, and the students are not clear about their division of labor. I just feel that all the people we met in the past week were probably treated as "contradictions among the people", and we can't tell whether they were relaxed or disappointed.
President Zhou read out your request with a serious smile. First, your position is wrong. You call school leaders "schools". Excuse me, whose side are you on? Aren't you the masters of the school and the school? You even call the school leaders "authority". Excuse me, what is an "organ"? Is it the Kuomintang authorities or the Japanese imperialist authorities? This building in our school used to be the police station of the Japanese aggressors. Martyr Zhao Yiman fought here, Comrade Kim Il Sung fought here, and General Li also fought here.
I quickly said that General Li died near Harbin No.1 Middle School, and the Kuomintang female spy killed him with a honey trap. The murderer is still in Taiwan Province province. President Zhou said, yes, you can't forget your roots! How pathetic it is that you call us "the authorities"! I joined the revolution at the age of 0/4, and I have served the people all my life. There was no fight during the Cultural Revolution. Today, I became an "authority", so you just call me an executioner. What a relief!
We six gentlemen suddenly feel like six villains. Apologize to the headmaster at once, saying that we were wrong and we must change it later. President Zhou said that everything should focus on the overall situation. If your superiors know about this, they will think that our school's leadership is weak and unstable. Do you want to change the principal? We all said we didn't want to. President Zhou said, yes, the higher authorities are not allowed to run liberal arts classes, and we can't take this lead in No.3 Middle School. I'll give you the above class. In the college entrance examination, if you want to take the science exam again, wouldn't it hurt you? The school has now decided that liberal arts classes can't be held, but considering your requirements, you can use your spare time to open some liberal arts elective courses. If you are sincere, sign up for elective courses. Actually, I don't feel sincere. It's all blind booing ...
As soon as the cards are played, we will understand that the key now is to seize the elective courses first. After propaganda and agitation, more than 100 people actually signed up for the elective course. Some of them don't want to take the liberal arts exam, but just want to learn more knowledge. At that time, we didn't just recognize scores like students now. We have sincerely seized all the learning opportunities of China's rise, and whoever has the most profound knowledge will be respected the most. Therefore, the whole school has a "shame of ignorance." However, the elective classroom is arranged in the basement, which is sultry in summer and cold in winter. Coupled with the disintegration of the "authorities" and the intimidation and inducement of parents, the number of students has gradually decreased, and the number of classrooms has been reduced from two to one. We use Lu Xun's words to comfort ourselves: the later the team leaves, the purer it is. We persevere, encourage each other and firmly believe that the "authorities" have a long heart. The number of elective courses has been reduced to about 60, and there has been no reduction.
Another winter of MINUS 40 degrees has passed. When the frozen Songhua River began to thaw and several Hong Kong people jumping on the ice fell, our "non-violent resistance movement" won. Several principals were very moved, saying that these students are really hard-working and have a lot of backbone, and they will certainly do well in the liberal arts exam. Therefore, the original eight classes were dismantled and eight new classes-liberal arts classes were established. But our science study is required to be the same as others, except for adding two more courses: history and geography. In this way, even if the superior knows, we can't say that we are "partial" and may even praise No.3 Middle School.
The "liberal arts class movement" finally won, but several heroes did not enjoy the fruits of this victory. For example, Li Xuejun, the monitor of Class 7, and Bai Quan, an academic committee member, are firm "best friends". They don't want to take the liberal arts exam, they just stand up for "justice". After the establishment of liberal arts classes, I often go home with them after school. Class 8 has since become a class with special significance. "Writing on the bus" has left a valuable page in our life history.
Two or thirteen monks
The liberal arts class has existed for less than two years, but it is a complete stage in students' memory. That's because our class not only concentrates a large number of elites in the whole grade, but also countless anecdotes.
The first is a serious surplus of cadres. Being a monitor and a communist youth league secretary is enough to form a Politburo, and class committees and class representatives are condescending. The teacher in charge of the class explained in a balanced way, and finally hastily appointed a cabinet. Our head teacher teaches Chinese. He is in his forties. He looks like Yan Shikui, a movie star at that time. His black face is full of murderous look. He always wears a black Chinese tunic suit, a pair of black leather shoes and a black lesson plan in his hand. We call him Lao Kui, and the class calls him "the black-handed overlord whip". I told Lao Kui that I was the president of the student union in junior high school and led this class. No problem. When Lao Kui puts his black hand on it, you will be the representative of my Chinese class. I'll talk to you directly if I need anything. Later, I understood Lao Kui's intention, from which I learned a lot about governing the country. 10 years later, I also worked as a head teacher in a middle school in Beijing for one year, and also let the most reliable students be representatives of Chinese classes. In fact, Lao Kui seldom looks for me, but my classmates, especially girls, are spreading rumors that Lao Kui regards me as his son. I said that Lao Kui never praised me and criticized me, which was useless. Looking back now, I understand that Lao Kui relied on me for important things, but his feelings were not exposed.
Although the liberal arts class has a neat cabinet and abundant talents, its actual authority, or the core of power, is the "thirteen sticks monk". At that time, the film Shaolin Temple was all the rage. There are more than 50 people in our class, but there are only 12 boys. So together with Lao Kui, they were called "Thirteen Chains". Although there are only twelve boys, there are six boys in the top ten. Even if the results are behind, they all have their own magical powers. For example, Tian Feng, the monitor, is handsome, extremely intelligent, has strong organizational and leadership skills, treats people with humility and kindness, is mature and sophisticated, and is an expert in literature, art and sports with excellent eloquence. After watching a movie, he can tell the ups and downs from beginning to end, and everyone admires him. I don't know why, but his grades have not improved. Maybe he is too talented and lacks a sense of crisis about his own destiny, so he doesn't pay much attention to grades.
We are twelve boys, half sitting under the window and half sitting in the back. Laughing and making noise every day makes girls very annoying. All the big and small things in the class are in the hands of boys. In fact, there are many talents among the 39 girls, but more girls are like too many chickens to lay eggs. No one will obey anyone, and no one will want to get ahead. Just let these silly boys lead you happily and study with peace of mind-I guess this is the root cause of the collapse of matriarchal society. But learning this thing is very strange. It is not good to study without concentration, and it is not good to study too intensively. Girls are absent-minded all day, and they can't go out without books. They are all mumbling something, but most of them get twice the result with half the effort. For example, Liu Tianyue, secretary of the Communist Youth League, never cared about the work of the League. When she came to the classroom early in the morning, she insisted on sitting in her seat and not going out after class. At lunch, Zhao Jing, her deskmate, put the lunch box in front of her. She ate every one of the full lunch boxes, which showed that her protein consumption was large enough. At that time, boys and girls respected each other, and we seldom said anything directly that had nothing to do with study. My deskmate Kobayashi and I are separated from them by an aisle, and we often beat about the bush and be sarcastic. I said to Xiaolin, "Look, I ate another trough." Kobayashi said, "I haven't been out of the nest all morning." Liu Tianyue listened, just bowed his head and chuckled, and continued to endorse. But she works so hard that she can only rank in the top five among girls and has no prestige to lead boys. These damn boys talk in class, make noise in self-study, run out to turn the horizontal bar and throw the shot after class, but they study very well, have high opinions and are smart, which teachers like. I really don't know how God arranged it.
There are too few boys in our class, so we ask the school not to restrict boys from reporting more items during the sports meeting. That's great. Tian Feng and old ni have covered most of the projects. They jump far here and high there. They just broke the 100 meter record and are going to bid for guns again. Old ni ran two in the 4× 100 relay race. Compared with them, Lewis in the United States is simply nine Niu Yi hairs. Girls are also unambiguous, and they also played dozens of points by sea tactics. Xiaolin and I were mainly responsible for personnel, publicity and logistics, and as a result, the liberal arts class won a great victory in all aspects. Other classes protested injustice, but the "authorities" ignored it. A girl came to report that Lao Kui was hiding behind the podium and grinning.