Just over a decade ago, a prodigy named Zhang Xinyang set a record for 10 to go to college, 13 to get a master's degree and 16 to get a doctor's degree. However, the family's quick success and instant benefit made Dr. Zhang Xinyang's graduation worrying. So ten years later, what is the situation in Zhang Xinyang today? Have you become a useful person to society?
A prodigy who has been skipping grades in succession.
1On July 8th, 995, Zhang Xinyang was born in Panshan Senior High School, Panjin City, Liaoning Province. His father had high expectations for him and hoped that he would become a success, so he gave him two words with "fire", hoping that his heart would be hot. Zhang Xinyang has been very clever since he was a child. When he was two and a half years old, he learned more than one thousand Chinese characters.
In 2000, 6-year-old Zhang Xinyang reached the age of primary school. One month after her freshman year, she was promoted to Grade Two. As a result, he mastered the second grade for another month, and then skipped classes one after another. Zhang Xinyang quickly completed 12 years of compulsory primary education in just two years. So the young Zhang Xinyang quickly rose to junior high school, and after successfully studying the courses of Grade One and Grade Two, the teacher began to respond to his father in the next semester of Grade Three, and the children could not listen to the lessons well.
In order not to affect other students, Zhang's father can only take his children home for self-study. In this way, Zhang Xinyang taught himself for half a year and barely graduated from junior high school. However, his father seems to have great confidence in him. He should have studied steadily in the first year of high school, and he went straight to the third year of high school. And directly follow his brother and sister to take the college entrance examination. This ultra-young candidate, who is not even old enough to get an ID card, scored 5 10 in the eyes of everyone.
The overjoyed father enrolled the young Zhang Xinyang in Tianjin Normal University of Engineering and was admitted as the youngest college student. However, his father may be too willing to consider whether young Zhang Xinyang can adapt to college life, or whether he can get a better and more suitable school if he is allowed to study in senior three for another year.
A genius and a child.
Although Zhang Xinyang is a child prodigy in the media, he is only ten years old after all, so there are many small problems unique to children of this age. During the interview, his college classmate said, "He is a child prodigy, but he dare not sleep alone." "I am a child, but not an ordinary child!" Everyone regards him as his younger brother and likes to call Zhang Xinyang "Kid" and "Stinky Pig".
His university teachers also like him very much, especially Mr. Liu and Mr. Zhang, who teach him calculus and algebra. Two teachers often use the break time to "cook a small stove" for Zhang Xinyang. When making up lessons, the teacher often prepares snacks that children like to eat for him, and occasionally takes a meal card to let Zhang Xinyang buy his favorite drinks. Then both the teacher and the students give lectures while drinking drinks.
Moreover, at the age of ten, he has not been able to live independently, and he needs the care of his parents in many ways. Zhang Xinyang's father once said that children like to stay in bed. They often need their father to wake them up, and sometimes they lose their temper.
At the time of graduation thesis, the child even asked his mother to help him type and enter formulas. Children of this age are still very dependent on their parents. Even though I have a high IQ, I am still a little boy.
You have to be an adult to become a talent.
After entering the university, online games became popular among young people. Being young and immature, Zhang Xinyang is addicted to computer games. Especially when Zhang Xinyang 13 was studying for a master's degree, Zhang Huixiang, his father, was afraid that his son's efforts would be in vain and spent almost all his time with him and supervising him.
After a big fight about the competition, Zhang Xinyang's father walked more than 50 kilometers from Beijing to Langfang. My father wanted to warn Zhang Xinyang in this cruel way, hoping that he would turn around.
However, Zhang Xinyang, who is in a rebellious period, still can't understand his father's painstaking efforts. He still wasted a lot of time on online games, facing the situation that he could not graduate from college and master's degree. Fortunately, with his father's around-the-clock companionship and education, Zhang Xinyang realized the seriousness of the problem, turned back in time, and began to make up for the master's course, and everything seemed to be back on track.
However, when defending the master's thesis, parents were asked to pay for buying a house in Beijing, and they also threatened not to sit on a stool or take an exam. Young Zhang Xinyang may not understand the hardships of life, but his parents who were born in the countryside obviously can't. They can only rent a house in Beijing and persuade Zhang Xinyang to continue his studies.
Where is the future?
Fortunately, Zhang Xinyang did not live up to his parents' expectations and was successfully admitted to the doctor's degree of Beihang University. However, after becoming a doctoral student, Zhang Xinyang began to encounter difficulties on his way to study. The doctoral program is inherently difficult. Because he is used to exam-oriented education, it is difficult for him to produce qualified papers.
However, in the doctoral stage, his tutor said that it is not enough to do well in the exam. Doctoral study is a kind of creative research, which requires all your efforts to master a course. Compared with other doctoral students, Zhang Xinyang has some gaps in this respect, so his tutor asked him to change the influence of exam-oriented education.
Fortunately, Zhang Xinyang has a good tutor. When he failed to graduate for four years and doubted himself, Mr. Zhou would earnestly persuade him to regain confidence. And Zhang Xinyang will not be treated specially because he is young, but will be treated equally with other doctoral students, which also gives him a sense of identity and belonging.
Under the patient guidance of teacher Zhou, our study and research are gradually on the right track. Mr. Zhou told the media that he is still young and his world outlook has not yet formed. Media hype will bring great pressure to a child's growth and destroy his growth environment. In the educational viewpoint of the famous philosopher Rousseau, he believes that a child's growth should follow the law of physical and mental development, and encouraging children's training methods will make children lose their childhood happiness and social emotional intelligence, thus leaving regrets in life.
Imagine, if the husband is not so eager for quick success and instant benefit and wants to train his son into the so-called "youngest college student" and "youngest doctoral student", why did he rush to push Zhang Xinyang to the media and reality when he was still young? Decide everything for Zhang Xinyang without knowing what he wants?
If there is no teacher's inculcation, the child may really fall from heaven to hell, and his parents may still be immersed in the joy of "prodigy"!
The Zhang Xinyang incident deserves our reflection. There are many "prodigies" who have extraordinary intelligence and advanced placement in school. However, more often than not, "prodigies" died young under the spotlight of the media and with the encouragement of their parents. Real education is never a simple knowledge transfer, but a process of awakening the soul and independent personality. I hope Zhang Xinyang can grow up after experiencing more things and really become a strong adult!