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Speech at the opening ceremony of freshmen of grade 20 13 in our college.
Share weal and woe and work together.
-Speech at the Opening Ceremony of Grade 20 13 Freshmen of Beijing University of Technology.
Dear classmates, parents and teachers, good morning!
I want to talk about why I became the dean of Geng Dan College. Let's start with the history of Geng Dan University. First of all, we would like to thank Beijing University of Technology, because our Geng Dan University is an independent college affiliated to Beijing University of Technology. Beijing University of Technology is a public university and Geng Dan University is a private university. This is a good example of the combination of private universities and state universities. In fact, I don't know many independent colleges that can be combined with state universities so well. Fan, former president of Beijing University of Technology, is here today. I want to express my sincere thanks to him.
Secondly, if you know my history, you will know that I made some remarks a few years ago, hoping to run a university by myself, and I have been working hard for this goal. At this time, I learned about Geng Dan University and knew that it was a non-profit private university. I think, if I invest hundreds of millions to build a new campus, why not use this money to make Geng Dan University the best private university in China? I am very willing to participate in the construction of Geng Dan University and help all the teachers and students present to run this school well.
I would also like to declare to all students and parents here: First, we will continue to invest in Geng Dan University, not only from students' tuition fees, but also from our personal donations. Through hard work year after year, Geng Dan University will be built better and better! Students have been in Geng Dan University for four years, and Geng Dan is your lifelong alma mater. I am sure that all the students will be proud of this school. You have studied in this school for four years. It is very likely that you will study here for more than four years.
Second, please rest assured that every tuition you pay will be used for the construction of schools and students. We personally won't take a penny from here, but we will continue to invest. Please believe in our sincerity and sincerity in running a school. Finally, I am very willing to participate in the construction of Geng Dan University. Although I can't devote 100% of my time to Geng Dan College, I have a huge New Oriental Education Technology Group behind me, so I have to run it, because if I don't run it, I won't have the money to invest in Geng Dan College. Now, the purpose of establishing New Oriental is not for myself, but for the development of Geng Dan University. The fate of these two institutions is closely related.
Having said that, I want to talk about the word "Geng Dan". Just now, everyone said that "serving the country and serving the people faithfully", and I especially recognized it! The word "Geng Dan" is particularly good, because when we talk about Gengdan, we can immediately associate it with "loyalty", which is the most important value of China in dealing with people, affairs, country, family and parents. Geng Dan is actually a person's name. Although I haven't made an in-depth study of his life, there are several important truths that can be reflected in him. If students can follow them, you will become a hero, too.
Geng Dan was the earliest party member and one of the best generals in the Northern Expedition. He died in 1927. 1927 something happened. Chiang Kai-shek cleared party member from the Northern Expedition Army, and he died at that time. However, I want to tell you that Geng Dan is not only a soldier, but also a scholar. Before joining the Northern Expedition, he was a doctoral student at the London School of Economics and Political Science, one of the top ten universities in the world. Therefore, we must know that learning and revolution are not contradictory. Only by studying well can we have the confidence to do greater things. Geng Dan's first advantage is learning. When we were in college, learning became our most important task. Secondly, it can be seen from his life that people must have dreams. As we all know, the original dream of the * * * production party is to liberate the working people in China and let everyone live a happy life! For example, our living conditions and wealth are a little better than before. Of course, we still have some other efforts to make. For example, in the song "Unity is Strength" just now, there is a phrase "Towards light, towards freedom". Such efforts towards freedom are actually the continuous expansion of people's living space, thinking space and learning space, and we are still working hard for this.
Geng Dan's second advantage is that people should have dreams. A political party has its dreams, and one must also have his dreams. Without the dream of striving for the reunification of China, Geng Dan would not have joined the Northern Expeditionary Army or the * * * Production Party, so you can only achieve greater things if you have a dream. I hope all the students here will think about what they can do and want to do in this life after studying, for themselves, for their families and for their motherland. I don't think these are contradictory. First for yourself, then for the family, and then for the motherland. As soon as you come up, you can serve the people directly like Comrade Lei Feng. A person's life is very important. What can we create with the same life and the same time? Suppose the average age of our classmates here is 80, and each of us has 80 years. It depends on you, especially the dream you build in your heart. As the son of a farmer, the reason why I can stand here and do something today is because my heart has been driven by dreams and pursuits. I never think that one's efforts are in vain, otherwise I wouldn't have gone from a student who failed in the college entrance examination for three consecutive years to the hall of studying in Peking University.
Students can watch a movie called "Chinese Partner", and the protagonist Cheng in the middle is based on me. And the story is basically the same as 100%: a rural child finally entered yenching university after three years of college entrance examination, which was Peking University. When he was in Peking University, he was very simple and peasant. He got tuberculosis, stayed in school as a teacher, and was finally expelled from Peking University because he went outside to substitute. He came out as a training institution, called New Dream, partnered with friends, filed a lawsuit with Americans, and finally went public in the United States, becoming a world-class listed company. This story tells the story of me and New Oriental completely. Of course, there are many different places, dramatic places. For example, the movie described chasing his girlfriend in college, but in fact, no girl had seen me in college. I have chased many girls, but none of them promised me. I can't help it! The second is the movie about me having tuberculosis, because I kissed my girlfriend and she got pneumonia, so I got tuberculosis. If that's the case, I'm willing to get tuberculosis for a thousand times, so I have a thousand chances to chase my girlfriend. The fact is that the struggle in life is the same as that in the movie. You can't give up when you encounter any difficulties and hardships at any time. Because after you give up, you give up your wonderful life, because people have earned their wonderful lives.
When I was sitting on the edge of the Yangtze River as a child, I thought, why can't the Yangtze River cross the sky? My childhood idol was Xu Xiake. His home is in my hometown. He was born 400 years before me, but his soul has been flying over my head. That is, the ideal of going out of the countryside wholeheartedly led me to take the college entrance examination continuously, because the college entrance examination in rural areas was the only way out at that time. There were no migrant workers at that time. If there are migrant workers, I will be miserable. Now I should be a contractor. So sometimes when there is only one way out of life, it is actually a good way, because you must go along this road before you can get out of a world. So I want to tell my classmates to work hard when choosing the road. Since you have chosen Geng Dan University, Geng Dan University is the world for your university struggle and should be the pride of your life. When I was punished by Peking University, I must have felt that I was the last person worth mentioning. After coming out of Peking University, I made up my mind that I must return to Peking University in this life, and I must return to Peking University with glory, achievements and pride. Now I have done it. However, instead of proudly returning to Peking University, I went to Peking University to help poor students complete their studies. I hope that more successful people will grow up among them in the future, and those who come from rural areas but graduate from Peking University will do excellent things. I hope that after graduating from Geng Dan College, in the next ten or twenty years, when we think of your name, we can say, "You are the pride of Geng Dan College".
The third advantage of Geng Dan is that people should take action! Because only action can promote your life and career. Imagine a little, if * * * proletarian revolution just shouted slogans without giving action, there would be no China today. Therefore, one action is better than ten thousand vows! Many of our classmates will say when they are excited, I will study today, I will work hard today, but I will forget to eat and sleep. Students will write down "New Year's resolutions" on the last day of each year, which is called "New Year's resolutions" in English, indicating that they will get rid of the bad habits of the past and constantly create their own new achievements next year. However, at the end of each year, compared with my previous New Year's resolutions, I find that we may not have completed one of the ten things listed. Therefore, it is useless to have determination and dreams. People must take action to move their lives forward. So I think Geng Dan embodies three spirits that we must have: the first is the spirit of learning, the second is the spirit of dreaming, and the third is the spirit of action. There are four words in our college called "learn to learn, be determined to struggle, pursue advanced and strive for comprehensiveness." It is a further explanation of the three words I just said: study, dream and action.
There are still a few things to tell you about college life: First, I hope that after entering the university, everyone can abandon the past and pursue a new life. After we entered the university, it was the beginning of a new life. Why? Because in the past, we had several states. First of all, when we were in middle school, we always had only standard answers. If you don't study according to the standard answers, your grades will drop. I believe that many students here, like me, are people who didn't answer the standard answer very well in middle school, because if you answer the standard answer well, your college entrance examination score will be higher! And I always think that people who get high marks in the college entrance examination do not necessarily represent lifelong success. There are many students with high scores in Peking University, but many people only have scores and no world. I want to tell my classmates that the most important thing in a person's life is not the standard answer, but the ability to think independently. When you have your own thoughts, your own judgment, your own ability to distinguish right from wrong, and your own value system, which can promote the personal progress of the country, the nation and the family, you can really grow up. Students, when you are in college, you can't just listen to our professors and teachers tell their standard answers. You should learn to speculate and ask "Is this true?" Or "Are there any other answers?" After knowing a historical fact, you should ask: "Is this a fact?" We should learn to explore, think, debate and discuss. We should not trust experts or authorities, because their views may be rigid and wrong. We should trust our own judgment, but we should relax our thoughts and minds and let ourselves accept the most advanced information from the world and the most useful information for our future development. Please shift from standard answers to independent thinking.
Second, please move from family dependence to independent growth. Geng Dan College charges tuition, which is higher than that of Peking University. Our classmates can pay tuition to go to school, and their family conditions are not too bad in principle, which shows that many students grew up under the care of their parents. But today you left your family. It turned out that you may live in an air-conditioned room, but now you need four to six people to live in a dormitory, which is the beginning of your growth. We may have a lot of troubles when we are in the dormitory, for example, some people snore and some people have smelly feet. When I was in the dormitory, I met people with five poisons: snoring, smelly feet and not washing clothes, which made you feel unbearable to stay in the dormitory. This time depends on how your values are reflected. The year before last, two students died in a university in Hubei because of a pair of smelly socks. One student threw smelly socks on the ground, and another student said, why don't you put them away? We all smell uncomfortable. This student said it's none of your business, and another student threw his socks out of the window. The student in smelly socks jumped out of bed, and there happened to be a fruit knife on the table. He took a fruit knife and stabbed another classmate in the heart. /kloc-within 0/minute, one person died and the other was sentenced to 20 years. Two young lives could have been spent in college and become lifelong friends, but they both died in the end. I encountered this situation when I was in college, but we handled it well. I carry my classmates' smelly socks outside the door every night, and then I get up first in the morning and take them to the dormitory. Later, we found that his snoring problem was incurable. Once I had a whim and put his smelly socks in his pillow, and found that he would never snore again. This is the beautiful life of the university, and every bit between classmates can eventually become a beautiful memory. In college, we can get along well with our classmates in many ways, because people's lifelong friends basically start from college classmates, and you can find real friends when college is relatively less utilitarian. Generally speaking, make eight or ten real friends in college and get along well with the whole class. This is how you change from family dependence to classmate relationship. In the future, your life will no longer depend on your parents, but on your friends and your own growth.
Third, students should abandon the external and pay attention to the internal. In other words, we should change from caring about the outside to caring about our own heart and growth. After we arrived at the university, many classmates began to pay special attention to their appearance. Why? Because at the age of falling in love, boys want to look more handsome and girls want to look more beautiful, which is no problem. We will also care about our grades and the family background of our classmates. Sometimes we will find that our classmates are carrying brand-name bags and you are carrying broken schoolbags, while our classmates are wearing brand-name clothes and you are wearing ordinary clothes. But these external things, in college, should learn to fade away and forget slowly. When a person is really mature, there is no difference in appearance or status, no difference between college and rich and poor, you are you! You are growing up on your own. Because a person's life can never be compared with others. People around you are a little higher or lower than you at most. One should always compare with oneself. If you compare yourself with yourself every day, you will find yourself making progress every day. In this life, you will go out of the road that surprises you, and you will go to the place that surprises you. When I was a sophomore, I always compared with others, but my grades were always inferior to others. After I recovered from my illness, I fully realized that there was only one dead end compared with others. So when I came back to school after my sick leave, the only thing I did as a junior and a senior was to compare with myself every day. We may walk faster or slower. There must be people smarter and harder than you in this world, and they will go far and far. You will never catch up with Einstein, you may never catch up with Bill Gates, but there must be many people who walk slower and are more stupid than you. So as long as you keep walking, you will definitely reach the middle of the 20% crowd, and if you keep walking, you will definitely reach the 5% crowd.
What are the concepts of 20 percent and 5 percent? We know that 20% people have created 80% of the wealth and achievements in the world, and 5% people have created 80% of the wealth and achievements. So when we keep working hard, we will make progress bit by bit. I have been working hard, and it took me more than 20 years to walk out of today's new oriental road and my own life path. So I hope students don't just care about appearance. Appearance is useless. Everyone knows that Ma Yun of Alibaba is not good-looking. Everyone thinks he looks like an alien, right? But have you found that Ma Yun's achievements have reached the level of hundreds of billions of dollars? Do you still care about your appearance after thirty? After the age of 30, no girl can say "I am enchanting" and no boy can say "I am handsome". I think a handsome guy who thinks he is still handsome after 30 years old is sick. Deng Xiaoping didn't say I was handsome, did he? Ma Yun didn't say I was handsome, did he? After the age of 30, you should use your wisdom, your ability, your talent, your specialty and your tolerance to win your success and dignity. So from now on, you should pursue these things. You should pursue ability rather than appearance. Let me repeat the above three points: abandon the standard answer and think independently; Abandon family dependence and grow up independently; It is very important to abandon the concern about appearance and move towards inner maturity.
Finally, I want to talk to my classmates about what it means to enter a university. The most important thing to enter a university is to study. I wonder if students have developed a good habit of reading in middle school. When I say reading, I don't just mean you study professional knowledge. I didn't learn professional knowledge well when I was at Peking University, and my grades just reached the graduation level when I graduated, so I was not a good student in the traditional sense in essence. I'm not talking about reading. Professional test 100. When I say reading, I want to read all kinds of books that can open your wisdom, stimulate your ideals and burn your passion. I can do it today, not because my English level is high, nor because my academic performance in Peking University is particularly good, but because I have read nearly 800 books during my five-year undergraduate life in Peking University. I have read about two or three thousand books since I graduated from Peking University. Now I'm still reading at the rate of about 60 books a year. I want to make a simple request to you. From the original, no matter what books you read, except pornographic novels, you should read all kinds of books on society, history, philosophy, politics, economy and science (reading one is enough, because everyone writes the same). Not much to ask. I read 100 books a year, one every three days on average. Some books are just turned over, and some books need intensive reading. Yesterday, I told the leaders of Geng Dan University that the first thing I did was to spend 500,000 yuan to buy 20,000 books for the school (102,000 books). These 20,000 books are books that I think college students should read. Let the school put it in the library after buying it. I hope you can read the books recommended by me carefully, because I believe that the books I have read are meaningful to my life growth and must be meaningful to you.
There's a saying, "Read thousands of books, take Wan Li Road, there are countless readers, and famous teachers show the way". I think these four things should be done during my college years. As I have said, we will create a reading atmosphere and organize reading parties and competitions. Those who study well and take notes will get bonuses, such as internships, traveling around China and even traveling around the world. The second one is called Hangwanli Road. In this respect, I think students should do more by themselves. They don't have to do work internships in freshmen and sophomores, and they don't have to go to factories to practice in companies. What kind of internship should sophomores do? Practice social activities, such as doing research on left-behind children in winter and summer vacations, investigating the living conditions of ordinary people in Tibet, and investigating public security in Xinjiang. Do these things and broaden your horizons. I will ask the relevant departments of Geng Dan University to provide some research funds for the research team, but I want to get your research report. In this way, you can feel that you are making progress and growing, so it is called Wan Li Road. When I am in my junior year and senior year, I will consider going to some big enterprises, institutions and companies for internships. I have an advantage at this point, because I am the executive director of china entrepreneur club, the chairman of Peking University Entrepreneur Club and the vice chairman of Zhongguancun Entrepreneur Association, so I have a lot of resources in the enterprise you want to go to. Third, there are countless readers. As I said just now, making friends with college students means that you will meet all kinds of people when you go to society. By reading people, you know what kind of people can be your friends, what kind of people can start a business with you in the future, and whether you can work in society or start your own business after you have the ability to distinguish people in society, which can make you successful. Because the success of your career is the success of your ability to distinguish people, here I once again mention Sister Xiaowen, who is full of wisdom in distinguishing people and talents. I also think that I can be a New Oriental because I have the ability to recognize people, that is, the ability to see people. You can't just be a nerd. The fourth is the famous teacher leading the way. Teachers in our university teach, especially those who inspire you. Because there are various types of university teachers, some of them are bookworms, and they can only follow the book. Such university teachers and professors are usually of little value. But the second kind can enlighten your thoughts and educate you in ways, so everyone must pay attention to such teachers. We will also arrange teachers from outside Geng Dan College to give lectures. Therefore, we will be able to listen to the speeches of outstanding entrepreneurs, professors and thinkers from China and even the world. This has entered my work schedule, and I have told the person in charge of student affairs in our college to do so. However, whether you read thousands of books, take the Wan Li Road, read countless people, or give directions from famous teachers, you can't solve your essential problems. Finally, please remember that the foundation of all this can only be completed on the basis of one thing, and that is your personal understanding. You must be enlightened by yourself, you must understand by yourself, and you must be transparent by yourself, so that you can use everything you have learned in your life. Your independent thinking ability, your understanding ability and your judgment ability have become the most important abilities you should have in college.
We used to be children, but today we are adults; We used to be dependent, but today we are independent; We used to be confused, but from today on, your personal fate, the fate of your family and the fate of your motherland may all be on your shoulders. I hope the students can share weal and woe, and Qi Xin will work together to shoulder this heavy responsibility!
Thank you again, classmates, thank you!