It was a real era of respecting teachers and attaching importance to teaching. In 1930s, the monthly salary of middle school teachers was between 100-200 silver dollars, the average monthly salary of university professors was 350 silver dollars, and the highest monthly salary of first-class professors could reach 500-600 silver dollars. At that time, the monthly salary of ordinary workers was usually 16-33 silver dollars (at that time, the purchasing power of 1 silver dollars for daily necessities was about 65438). Teachers were the middle class of white-collar workers at that time. (Chen Mingyuan: "College Tuition: Sixty Years apart", from The Lost University edited by Chen Mingyuan) Calculated by 150 silver dollars, 1997 I earned 4,500 yuan a month, and now I must have spent 40,000 yuan. What a happy life I should live with so much money in a month! With this idea, I will definitely sing "Our life is sweeter than honey". (But what we now call "respecting teachers and valuing morality", the salary income is "not lower than or higher than the average salary level of civil servants". With these dead wages-some places can't pay them on time-teachers have to support their families, buy hundreds of thousands of sky-high houses and go to see sky-high diseases. With so many worries, how can teachers teach with peace of mind? )
I earn hundreds of thousands a year. With such a solid economic foundation, I can really take teaching and educating people as a career and experience the fun of teaching and learning at the same time. Education in the Republic of China was real education, and there was little government intervention in education. It will never turn the school into a factory and implement any "fine" management as it is now. At that time, the management was truly humanized and people-oriented, so that teachers could truly experience the happiness of their profession. There are not too many assessments and no mandatory documents. I never check the teacher's attendance, let alone take pictures of the teacher with a face check-in machine every day. I never check teachers' lesson plans, and I never comment on "excellent teachers" and "model teachers' morality". Teachers' salaries and bonuses have never been linked to the rate of enrollment ... The only requirement for schools at that time was that teachers must keep learning and constantly improve themselves.
It would be a great honor if I could teach in chunhui middle school, on the White Horse Lake in Shangyu, Zhejiang. The president of chunhui middle school is Mr. Jing Hengyi, a famous educator and democratic revolutionist in modern times. He used to be the president of Zhejiang First Normal University. It is true that the principal is the soul of a school. After the school was founded, Mr. Jing Hengyi hired a group of young intellectuals with progressive ideas, profound knowledge and love for dancing and writing, and within a few years, he turned this school into a famous new school in China. Cai Yuanpei, Huang Yanpei, Hu Yuzhi, He Xiangning, Yu Pingbo, Liu Yazi, Chen Wangdao and Ye Shengtao all came here to give lectures and inspect. For a time, the school became famous, saying that "there is spring in the north and south". These teachers (including Xia Mianzun, Zhu Ziqing, Zhu Guangqian, Feng Zikai, Yu Pingbo, etc. ) formed the White Horse Hu Wen crowd at that time, and later became a famous writer at home and abroad, and became a strong force in the literature research society of the famous literature society during the May 4th Movement. This group of literati gathered in Baima Lake have advanced educational concepts and are willing to serve the training of young people wholeheartedly. But they didn't ossify themselves in the students' books and mountains, didn't work hard for the students' little achievements, and even suffered losses, but they lived an elegant and poetic life in this beautiful paradise. After teaching, they travel, learn from each other, and drink and write poems. This has produced many beautiful poems, thus creating a famous new literary group in the modern literary world. If I can get along with these seniors as colleagues, even if I have more talent, my level will not be bad. Although I can't be a first-class writer like my predecessors, I still have a good chance of becoming a third-rate writer. Being a middle school teacher not only cultivates students, but also improves their own taste. You can become a writer if you are not careful. Such a teacher is very comfortable as a teacher. This is the ultimate in being a teacher!
If I can become a middle school teacher and principal in the Republic of China, then my students can grow up freely and happily and enjoy the beautiful life brought by education. First of all, I want to apply the ancient educational form of study tour. When Lu Xun was teaching in the middle school attached to Shaoxing, his hometown, he was quickly welcomed by teachers and students. Teacher Wang attaches great importance to guiding students to go deep into reality and go to society. One measure is to study abroad. He often leads students to visit places of interest such as Yuling and Huiji Mountain, and gives them intuitive patriotic education. Especially what we rats can't think of now is that Lu Xun also led more than 200 teachers and students to visit the "Nanyang Persuasion Association" exhibition in Nanjing via Jiaxing and Suzhou. After a week's visit, the students opened their eyes. They not only saw the advanced handicrafts and machines of Nanyang countries, but also learned a lot of new knowledge that was not available in books, and also received vivid social education. Everyone said, "That's very kind of Mr. Cai Yu. Seeing is better than hearing. Nanjing and his party have won ten years of study. " He added: "Our frog at the bottom of a well in Shaoxing was led by Mr. Cai Yu to swim across the sea of Wang Yang." Study tour is a good form of education for students. A study tour is better than a teacher's long-winded preaching for three or five years.
Secondly, I want to attach importance to humanities education, prevent students from studying and taking exams, so that students can achieve real all-round development and learn self-management, instead of selling dog meat by "stressing quality and taking exams in a down-to-earth manner" as it is now. I want to write an inscription on the school couplet, "Knowing the state affairs and educating the world's talents", in order to inspire teachers and students over the years. In my school, students can freely form various societies-literature club, martial arts club, library, drama yangko team, reading debate, wall newspaper, military band, sports federation and so on. If conditions permit, the school will also set up the subject of planting, so that every student in the school can have a planting field, practice on the spot, adhere to labor, realize production and life, and hold an agricultural product exhibition every year, so that students will not become bookworms who are "four bodies are not diligent and the whole grain is not divided."
Of course, this happy educational life can only be a hypothesis, which can only be realized when I was born in the Republic of China. The problem is that it is now 2 1 century China, and the dream of elegant life has been shattered by the rigid name of exam-oriented education. No matter how talented and idealistic you are, in such a big environment, you can only sigh that you are born at an inopportune time and have to go with the flow mediocre!
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