The primary school he attended for less than 1 year. This year, at the age of 14, he participated in the college entrance examination. He didn't set goals, wasn't asked about his scores, didn't hire a tutor, didn't attend cram schools, and didn't buy books or reference materials. The following is a report by Wang Junsheng and Lou Yi from a local newspaper.
Because of their poor financial situation, he only studied in primary school for less than a year; they couldn’t afford a tutor or cram school, and after school, he hadn't seen any reference materials. However, this 14-year-old child from Yexian County scored 603 points on this year's college entrance exam, surpassing the science score line of 552 by 51 points. Without setting goals, not asking for achievements, letting everything take its natural course, the child was fully prepared. Yesterday afternoon, when the child was interviewed, he was very excited but also worried: Can I take care of myself at university at such a young age? After checking his college entrance exam results, he cried upon seeing that he ranked fourth in his class. Mom, I'm sorry.
At the age of 11, when his son returned home, he became dejected and despondent. Yesterday afternoon, Xu Yanping from a village in Yexian County mentioned what happened a few days ago and couldn't help but laugh. When asked why, her son always lowered his head to answer. He finally told her: Mom, I'm sorry, I didn't do well.
Xu Yanping's son, named Guo Penghui, was born on July 23, 1995. Although he is less than 15 years old, he is already a senior high school student. On the day the college entrance exam results were published, Guo Penghui went to school early in the morning to check his scores, noting down the results of each subject in a small notebook. Seeing his face, Xu Yanping first thought: It’s over, my son has failed, I have failed, and many years of free-range education for my son have failed. Then she smiled and took her son's notebook, looking at the scores we had: 603 points. Xu Yanping said that after seeing the scores, her doubts disappeared, and she stared at her son, thinking that this score was good, the little guy did well. Suddenly, her son burst into tears, crying very sadly. He said, "I thought I would get at least 630 points, it's so much, I only ranked fourth in the class." Mom, I'm sorry. Here, Xu Yanping's eyes also moistened, and she said to her son, "You are good, I am proud of you."
When her son was nine years old, he still wet the bed at midnight during his junior high school residency time. At the age of six and a half, Xu Yanping took her son back to her home in Yexian County, wanting to send him to school for formal education. Thinking about the past few years, she believed her son had mastered the basic knowledge and didn't need to start from the first grade, so she let him go straight to the second grade. In the next semester of the second grade, seeing her son could completely follow the rhythm, Xu Yanping made a bold decision: accelerate, directly read the third grade. However, after reading the third grade for only half a year, because there was no tuition fee of a few yuan, the boy again went out to work with his parents. During working, without money for study rather than delay her son, Xu Yanping once again served as a teacher, allowing her son to finish the primary school curriculum. While drifting around working in the fields, Xu Yanping often sent her children to local bookstores -- there, her son could read as long as he wanted, and it was free of charge. These books allowed her son to broaden his horizons.
In September 2004, her 9-year-old son returned home to Yexian County and participated in the minor litre original examination, achieving several previous accomplishments at school. Xu Yanping smiled and said that in junior high school, her son was one of the smallest, the youngest one, and even wet the bed at midnight during residency time.
Without setting goals, her son grew up very freely, but disagreed with her, saying that it was the embodiment of childlike innocence. Many parents, like Mr. and Mrs. Xu Yanping, never set goals for their son and never excessively evaluated his academic quality. In their opinion, on one hand, such a small child, learning pressure is big enough, no need to deliberately make the little guy nervous; on the other hand, they also didn't want to decide how their children should be in the future, just properly learn and grow, after all, it's up to himself, and the parents worry too much.
In this environment, her son grew more easily. In his words, from middle school to high school in recent years, besides textbooks, listening to the teacher explain, he never attended a cram school, never hired a tutor, never bought extracurricular books and reference materials, because he felt that textbook knowledge, as long as learned thoroughly, was enough. While studying, he played, but many students didn't, because they were too young.
Among the students, because of age, size, and other factors, he was estranged, making him very depressed. He also had his own fun: watching TV, watching cartoons. During the interview, when Xu Yanping mentioned her son watching these secrets, Guo Penghui unhappily turned his eyes, protesting. I asked him, aren't these animated cartoons making yourself look childish? You're already a senior high school student. But the son disagreed with me, saying that it was the embodiment of childlike innocence, they can learn lots of things from those cute characters. Xu Yanping laughed and said, no way, only by his son, and his peers in many village small partners, now mostly on the first day, the second day, still be light of heart from care to play when the son, has high school. It lets the children lose much of their freedom, pleasure, so in love, we must respect him.
What the school newspaper lets children do greatest fear, is whether the child can take good care of themselves after university.
No target, no interference preferences, not artificially added pressure, in this fully stocked type education environment, the child's mind easily entered the examination room, and given a near perfect transcript: 603 points.
This is not my normal level. During the interview, the little guy while playfully poking around the bench, side with said sternly, according to my normal level, absolutely should not be less than 630. Some difficult problems are well, but some simple questions wrong, very sorry mom and dad.
The results came out, tomorrow will be volunteer, we to what the school newspaper a little idea no, let him decide for themselves. Here, Xu Yanping laughed, now my greatest concern, is whether the child can take good care of themselves after university.
Little is a clever little adult
I wasn't eating snacks to test the 603 points of Guo Penghui, who had served as a high school teacher, he is tall Fan teacher commented: this little is a clever little adult, study consciousness, savvy. The college entrance examination scores for him, should be lower than the normal level.
Fan teacher told the reporter, Guo Penghui is the youngest student in the science class, initially he is also worried about his achievement can keep up with, can have several diagnostic test plus the usual observation, I found the students to be cultivated.
Most other children is five or six years older than him, learning will be a lot of family, social factors, but Guo Penghui won't. For him, his mission only three: learning, eat and sleep, play, but everything can become a top. The other children, family education, training, review data, everything complete, he just books, lectures, or even a top.
Not only that, this child is very sensible. Fan said the teacher, as the Guo Penghui family situation is not good, in high school three school years in free tuition fee basis, Feather Flags, will give him a monthly allowance.
But the money, the little guy never waste too, the high school for three years, I wasn't eating snacks.
Hong Kong students that everyone loves him if I let the cat out of the bag, he will play with me.
Little 603 test points? Normal! This little guy with good results! I asked him in learning there is no tricks, he answered: read a book, listen, play. I
In the interview, Guo Penghui's deskmate kids laugh, feel is too small, he doesn't like to play with us, but we really loved him. He studied very hard, very hard, the teacher often makes us learn about him.
During the interview, little friends told reporters, Guo Penghui most likes watching the animated cartoon, but is only a little detected nature of the animated cartoon, but he would not let me say, afraid of his classmates joke. He warned me, if I let the cat out of the bag, he will play with me.
Hardships growth coal office teaching children to learn pinyin
Although only 14 years old, Guo Penghui's grown environment is complex, beyond anyone's thought possible.
Xu Yanping told reporters, when her son was born, she and her husband did coal business in Zhengzhou, living conditions were good. But later, because of a series of accidents, the coal processing plant moved repeatedly, shuffling, the savings they managed to save were used up, and they still owed debts.
In desperation, the couple had to take their babbling son out wandering around, almost covering all the big and small cities in Henan province, working odd jobs to earn a living. During the wandering period, watching their son grow up every day, after graduating from high school, before marriage, Xu Yanping briefly worked as a substitute teacher in the village, deciding to give the child guidance.
Someone gave away books, I brought them back; some are parents with children, sometimes the children without books, storybooks for me. I read a little for the boy. The small guy is interested, have a kind of to learn. Xu Yanping saw her son accept, while earning a living, began to educate her son - writing phonetic alphabets on the ground with coal, writing equations with broken branches, telling stories from a book or a broken piece of paper.