On the seven-foot podium of Ningxia Normal University, there is a young teacher standing, passionately teaching students. After finishing the lesson
, he arranged for the students to review during the break. Looking at these students of appropriate age, he recalled his growth experience along the way, and felt very touched.
I used to be a "child prodigy" in everyone's eyes. I was admitted to university at the age of 10, became the youngest master's student in the country at the age of 13, and became the youngest doctoral student at the age of 16.
Because of the label of "child prodigy", he became a public attention, but this once made him unable to get angry.
"Teacher Zhang, I don't know much about this question yet. Can you explain it to me again?"
There are students who need tutoring, so they brought Zhang Yang from the memories of the past to the reality classroom.
01. The "little prodigy" of the Zhang family
On July 8, 1995, a baby boy was born in Panshan County, Panjin City, Liaoning Province.
His parents named him "Zhang Yingyang".
No one thought that this boy was talented and a child prodigy.
Zhang When Zhang Yingyang was two years old, his father discovered that his son had extraordinary features and could actually recognize some Chinese characters.
So he bought more Chinese character cards to consciously teach Zhang Yingyang to recognize words.
In less than three months, Zhang Yingyang knew more than a thousand Chinese characters.
Zhang Yingyang was only about two and a half years old at that time, which really shocked his parents.
In the autumn of 2000, when Zhang Yingyang just turned 5 years old, his father contacted an acquaintance and sent him to elementary school.
After entering primary school, Zhang Yingyang pressed the fast forward key all the way through his learning process.
studied for one month and then skipped to the second grade;
was promoted to the second grade, and it took only one month to jump to the third grade;
then jumped directly to the fifth grade, and it took only a short time to complete the remaining primary school courses.
In two years, Zhang Yingyang completed the six-year course in primary school.
At this time, Zhang Yingyang was only 7 years old.
7 years old, some children just put on their backpacks and walked into the primary school campus, and Zhang Yingyang entered the junior high school campus.
junior high school and junior high school second grade courses, Zhang Yingyang studied with the normal rhythm of students, without skipping grades.
Although he is the youngest, his grades are always top-notch.
But when he was in the third year of junior high school, Zhang Yingyang no longer listened to the class carefully, thinking that this knowledge was too "pedary".
The father did not ask his son why he was like this, but just took Zhang Yingyang home and he could study at home.
After half a year of self-study, Zhang Yingyang, who returned to campus, skipped the grade again and went directly to Panshan County High School to study, and as soon as he went, he went directly to the third year of high school.
02.10-year-old college student
005 college entrance examination season is a test for all students who have been studying hard for 12 years.
Everyone has walked on the single-plank bridge for the college entrance examination.
For Zhang Yingyang, registering for reference as an ultra-old candidate is even more a test.
The college entrance examination was over, and his father asked Zhang Yingyang how he had done the exam.
Zhang Yingyang said confidently, "I did the exam normally, but I didn't have any problems with the second-tier university!"
As expected, as Zhang Yingyang estimated, 505 points, about 50 points higher than the second-tier university score line in Liaoning Province back then.
Generally, children around 10 years old are still in elementary school, but Zhang Yingyang actually took the college entrance examination when he was 10 years old and achieved good results, which is really rare.
He was successfully admitted to Tianjin Engineering Demonstration College and is therefore called "the youngest college student".
In this summer, the ten-year-old child was admitted to university and became a household name.
However, Zhang Yingyang's mentality is still a child's mentality, after all, he is just a ten-year-old child.
He still likes toys that snore, and his favorite thing to watch is still the popular "Three Thousand Questions of Blue Cat Naughty" on TV.
When interviewed by a reporter, he could hold on for a few minutes, and then he couldn't sit still after a while. He said to the reporter directly, "I'm going to play, goodbye!"
Usually, when parents talked about some interesting things about Zhang Yingyang with others at home, Zhang Yingyang listened on his bed for a while, hugged the bear for a while, and also made a few somersaults from time to time.
Even if you get into college, your child is a child after all, and you are always immature in psychology.
Many people suggest that Zhang’s parents wait until their children are older before going to college, but Zhang’s father insists on his own opinion and must send Zhang Yingyang to college.
"I know my son, he has his own pace of learning. Old knowledge is too boring for him, and repeating the school will increase the pressure on the child."
So, when Zhang Yingyang went to college, Zhang's father began his career with him.
When he arrived at university, Zhang Dad still cultivated his son according to the previous educational model. Zhang Yingyang took three years to complete the four-year course in college.
In 2008, 13-year-old Zhang Yingyang successfully passed the re-examination of the master's degree from Beijing University of Technology. After "the youngest college student in the country", he once became the "the youngest master's student in the country".
took a graduate student. Taking into account the actual situation of Zhang Yingyang, the school specially arranged a dormitory for him for two people to facilitate his father to take care of him.
However, at this time, Zhang Yingyang was in adolescence and was very rebellious. He wanted to be independent and no longer wanted his father to continue to study with him.
Under Zhang Yingyang's insistence, his father returned home and Zhang Yingyang's independent study began.
Zhang Yingyang, who left his parents, began to let himself go, spending more and more time on the Internet, which made him a big problem when writing his graduate thesis.
Later, he had to return to Tianjin, rented a house in Tianjin, and devoted himself to studying thesis topics, so he was able to graduate successfully.
At the same time, he became increasingly eager to become a "people" and insisted on buying a house in Beijing.
Before the postgraduate defense, he even asked his parents to buy a house in full in Beijing, otherwise he would not participate in the defense.
In the face of Zhang Yingyang's unreasonable request, his parents' kind words did not play any role.
In order to get your son to participate in the defense as soon as possible, Zhang's father and mother had to rent a house in Beijing and deceive Zhang Yingyang and said that he bought it.
Zhang Yingyang then calmed down and participated in the thesis defense normally and graduated smoothly.
03. Doctoral student who has been studying for 8 years
In the summer of 2011, Zhang Yingyang was admitted to the doctoral student at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics . This made him break the record again and become the youngest doctoral student in the country.
Although Zhang Yingyang is still very young compared to the doctoral students around him, he is 16 years old after all, and his mind is much more mature than before.
I thought Zhang Yingyang could better adapt to such study and life at this time.
but not. Although he is smart in studying, Zhang Yingyang did not have any advantage compared to his fellow doctoral students at this time.
The stronger his appearance, the more empty his heart is.
The students around are at least in their twenties, and most of them can find some jobs to subsidize their lives. But Zhang Yingyang had to stay in school because he was too young.
He vented the helplessness of life on the Internet.
Unexpectedly, this time, he became "hot" again.
He said wildly, "The Northeastern people who thieves and prostitutes in Beijing are not pure men." He also blamed the chaos in Beijing on the Northeastern people.
"Marriage does not necessarily mean that you have quality, but lack of money does not necessarily mean that you have quality. Beijing must restrict people from other places."
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Looking at these words, it is difficult to believe that this was said from a doctor's mouth, which aroused the dissatisfaction of countless netizens.
People's evaluation of Zhang Yingyang is no longer the initial praise, but more of accusations.
Life is not satisfactory and cannot keep up with it in study, which makes Zhang Yingyang's mentality imbalance. It took him eight years to finally obtain his doctorate in 2019.
It may not be good if a person walks too fast. Sometimes slowing down is the normal trajectory of life.
For Zhang Yingyang, this may not be a bad thing, which brought him back to the track of normal people's life. After graduating from a doctorate, Zhang Yingyang chose to be a teacher in a college in Ningxia, and gradually disappeared from the public's sight.
04.
Time has passed, and after trying all kinds of flavors, I slowly began to understand that the wonderfulness of life is no longer as vigorous as it is, and I gradually understand that ordinary people are not a kind of happiness.
Zhang Yingyang was praised by everyone because of his aura of "child prodigy". He also experienced a downward loss due to his unreasonable demands for buying a house and improper remarks.
The poet Haizi once wrote a poem: Through the passing of time, people always grow up while walking.
Fortunately, all this ultimately made Zhang Yingyang grow.
Talent is certainly a good thing, but with talent, you don’t have to surpass ordinary people. Children are still just children after all. Isn’t it bad to let them grow up according to the growth trajectory of an ordinary person? If you help grow, you will not be worth the gain in the end. Wouldn’t it be put before the horse?
What determines a child's life is not short-term success. The ultimate criterion for truly testing a person's success is long-term.
1 Compared with the current achievements, his character, his kindness, his ability to adapt to society... is often much more important.
This point cannot be ignored.
I hope parents can use a developmental perspective to help their children move forward steadily and far!
