Age of Legends

Chapter 39 The Legend of "I'm Just a Bad Student"
Yude is a national key high school and is probably one of the best high schools in the city.

So these students have seen it all.

There is no first in literature and no second in martial arts. Especially at an age when people are arrogant and think they are the best in the world, if someone dares to say that he got full marks in his essay, isn't that disgusting?
Are you that arrogant?!
What's more, there is no shortage of masters, such as Peng Xin, Wu Zhiyuan, Zhang Yujie, Feng Rui, etc., all of whom are famous. Even what they write is sneered at by some students.

So when the topic of the full-score essay presentation came up, quite a few people started discussing it.

"Haha, is there any need to read it? The perfect essay is nothing but 'eight-part essay'! As long as the eight-part essay is well written, you will get a lot of points. Those examiners like this!"

The so-called eight-part essay is an argumentative essay, which is the easiest to score.

In the eyes of some students with high writing skills, if they master the skills in the four dimensions of writing style, structure, logic, and depth, it is impossible to get a low score, and they may even get full marks by luck.

At this time, what caused widespread discussion among students across the country was Han Han's new concept essay "Seeing People in a Cup".

If you take this to the college entrance examination, this essay will definitely get full marks.

This article is a typical high-scoring argumentative essay model. After it was published, students began to analyze its structure and many people imitated it. It can be said that it is basically a textbook for future high-scoring model essays.

"What kind of perfect essay is this... It's nothing more than the same old routine. The first sentence points out the main point of the article, followed by a long string of parallelism, interspersed with quotations from ancient poems and famous people's sayings, and the paragraphs are in a parallel and progressive relationship. Each paragraph is an argument plus a case, and the arguments are deeper and deeper, starting with simple truths and finally hitting the heart and soul, echoing the beginning and the end. Wow!"

This is a girl with good grades speaking.

Her words caused the head teacher in the front row to turn around and glare at her, "Song Qian, look at what you can do. Even if you get 140 in Chinese, don't let your braids stick up to the sky!"

A skinny student from the class next to the girl raised his glasses. He was the class monitor and said to her, "Also, you'd better not quote common deeds and famous sayings. Look for unusual ones. Once you say that, even the examiner will think: Oh, I haven't heard of that. This student has good experience! He will feel a little weak psychologically. If you can keep up with the whole article, the score will not be low. Otherwise, you can find familiar celebrities but unknown deeds, which can also attract extra points from the examiner."

These words resonated among the crowd.

Yude gathers the top students in the city. Many of these good students have many methods to take exams. After all, Yude’s special Chinese teachers also have a lot of experience to share.

These students first discussed it privately, blocking the way for preaching.

In a nutshell, high-scoring essays are all routine!
but now.

When the title "I'm Just a Bad Student" came out, everyone was stunned.

"Ah..." This was the first reaction of the literary boys and girls who were listening attentively to discern the real talent and knowledge.

“Are you sure this is the title?”

There was a sense of stunned confusion at the scene.

The topic of this composition is "The Path to Growth".

In a school like Yude, the title of a composition that received full marks is "I'm Just a Poor Student"?
Is this a realistic satire?

Zhang Chen, who was already holding his test paper, stood at the edge of the flag-raising platform. He did not look in the direction of his class at this moment, nor did he even enjoy the unprecedented honor in front of him.

This is quite a groundbreaking thing in Yude High School.

But Zhang Chen only felt a sense of absurdity and abstraction.

Back then, he was a poor student, the most inconspicuous one hiding among these outstanding people in the halo of a prestigious school.

Rebirth did not actually give him the intelligence to compete with these excellent students, and he was not even able to match their scores now.

He just traveled through time and space and found the former self who was unable to vent, unable to express his true feelings, and who was suppressed and hiding in a corner.

Yes.

The moment is absurd and abstract.

After traveling through the wilderness of time for a long time and going far in the vast years, he can finally, at this point in 2000, make a little voice for his former insignificant self... a roar.

Zhang Chen took the test paper and without any hesitation or wavering, he resolutely climbed the stairs to the flag-raising ceremony platform amid countless questioning, surprised, stunned and even excited gazes.

Zhang Chen came to the wooden table. Because the microphone was a bit far away from him, he reached out and pulled the gooseneck of the microphone towards himself.

This action caused the speaker to make a sharp "squeak!" sound.

Many students on the playground covered their ears, their faces showing pain. But it was enough to interrupt their noise at the moment, making the dark playground quiet for a while.

Zhang Chen opened his mouth, and his voice entered the microphone and was amplified by the speakers.

【“This is probably the umpteenth time that I have looked up my name from the bottom of the list. It has been so long since I wrote down the correct answer that surprised the teacher, or received the red check mark that represents praise, in a brand new homework book.

I still remember the teacher tapping the report card with his pointer and telling me, "Pigs did better than me!" and "I can teach a pig and it will learn it!"

Repeating the "ways to reform poor students" over and over again. It is nothing more than increasing the study time, attending various cram schools, and memorizing key points. These methods seem to be ways to get rid of the label of poor students, but they may also be the shackles of the thought "you are stupid and hard to learn!"

In fact, I understand that if sticks and whips can help me get out of the ranks of poor students, then I would rather die than regret it. If verbal instructions can create a learning machine like writing to a hard drive, then I would rather open a brain-computer interface and erase myself just to not disappoint my parents and you.

But is our education just to cultivate a group of "excellent students" who follow the routine and are like a copy-and-paste template of success?
Therefore, I always resist. Without a lively hobby, without a free soul to breathe, just a bunch of stereotyped study plans and improvement strategies rigidly imposed on oneself will give rise to a large number of learning puppets that have lost their individuality. I think this should be a sad product of the exam-oriented education, which is not only the obliteration of individual uniqueness, but also the harm to people's innovative spirit.

In the study materials, those problem-solving models that are regarded as the golden rule have been applied countless times, and the "high-scoring essay template" has become a boring cliché.

If Edison were in this situation, I don't think he would be excited about inventions. If Marie Curie were trapped in such a prison, I believe she would also lose her desire for exploration. When knowledge becomes an object of mechanical memory rather than a spark of inspiration, education loses its soul.

I really can’t learn such rules and regulations! ”】

I can’t learn…I can’t learn…

Zhang Chen paused at this moment, and the sound echoed between the walls outside the playground.

At that moment, the leader of the Municipal Education Commission was still smiling, but his smile was a little stiff.

The leaders of Yude School, who were sitting behind the first row of desks, were all stunned. They began to listen attentively, their expressions becoming more and more solemn.

The larger agitation came from the huge crowd of students, especially those who had just criticized the "high-scoring essay" template. Their venting suddenly stopped.

They discovered that the biggest substitute of this century had appeared in Yude High School.

On the stage, Zhang Chen spoke again after a pause.

【“The wisdom of true growth should be as broad and inclusive as the sea. It is the enlightenment beyond the rote learning model and the active pursuit of knowledge through ‘my heart explores what I know’. This wisdom is Tu Youyou’s tenacious innovation in the study of artemisinin, the bold attempt of modern Internet surfers to break through the business model, and the fantastic ideas constructed by Liu Cixin in the world of science fiction! It is the innovative spirit, sense of adventure and unique talent behind the outstanding soul.

Yes, maybe you think the people I mentioned are not outstanding, they may still be unknown now, just like a poor student like me, but one day, they may be able to usher in the dawn! ”】

The first name Zhang Chen mentioned was very unfamiliar and I had never heard of it.

The Internet had just experienced a bubble, and all the celebrities that had been touted by the media were on the verge of collapse.

Liu Cixin is now emerging in the world of science fiction. His articles are circulated in schools through the local magazine "Science Fiction World" in Rongcheng, but it is still six years before his magnum opus "The Three-Body Problem" is first serialized.

It's not very convincing, but this paragraph does have his arguments.

[“Don’t waste time,” the teacher urged again. The students around me should be reviewing for the next exam every minute, right? If I had chosen this seemingly correct method from the beginning, I should be numbly and blindly reciting the next knowledge point at this time.

But now, in this long student career, I don’t want to be like this anymore.

I do not regret.

I miss my running figure on the playground, which is my pursuit of health and vitality. I miss the occasional distraction in class, which is the wonderful world in my mind. I want to write about the frustration after failing the exam, and the determination to cheer up again. I remember the sadness when I was ignored by the teacher, and the vows I made to myself. I remember the complicated feelings of being a poor student in ordinary days. I remember the sadness when I was ignored by a girl because of my poor grades.

Even if it is self-analysis, I want to reject those hypocritical disguises and excuses, and express my inner desires and struggles in the most authentic language.

I'm sorry, teacher! I may not be able to use the path guides and cramming routines you mentioned. Because I have already understood what is the growth path for me, a poor student.

What I want is the courage to insist on self-awareness under the label of poor student, not to question myself, but to actively explore. It is the tenacious power of "wildfire can't burn it out, spring breeze blows it back to life".

The kind of growth I yearn for is to abandon old ideas, be guided by interests, and be wise in deep thinking.

The growth I am committed to is the firm belief that 'there will always be a time to ride the wind and waves'.

I am just a poor student, but I have a pure heart that yearns for light.

Thank you for the inspiration in life.

I have understood.

Finally, let us encourage each other with this.

Even if we are poor students, we must have the courage and fearlessness to face the sun in the mud, in difficulties, and among dead branches and fallen leaves.

Don’t be afraid of the dangers in the world.

When the storm is over...it's time to return home!"】

he said.

The bullet of time crossed decades of time and space and shot out from behind the boy at this moment.

This side faces the enemy!

The sound falls and there is long silence.

The silence at this moment reflects the turbulent waves in people's hearts.

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I posted the composition in the official account. I am also drunk. I have to write a composition to write a book. It is a pain! Life is not easy. It all depends on your votes and follow-up reading!

(End of this chapter)