[Author: Liao Guochai article Source: Suichang County Jinan Middle School hits: 1703 Update: May 9, 2006]
Dear judges and colleagues: Hello everyone!
I'm glad to have such an opportunity to communicate with you.
Before coming to the forum this afternoon, I chatted with several teachers in the office. What forum? A teacher joked that the forum was just "nonsense". I said, let me start with your habits in the opening remarks of today's forum. I want to ask my male colleague here: Do you smoke? Do you also have the habit of smoking? There is a teacher who likes smoking in my office. Sometimes some of our female teachers will say to him, "Miss Wang, quit smoking, it's not good for your health." And he always said: get used to it and can't quit. Yes! The formation of bad habits seems casual, but it is difficult to correct and painful. Moreover, whenever I see the students of Grade Three (1) and Grade Two (2) in our school organizing their own math study or examination after class, they are all so orderly and solemn. I couldn't help asking Mr. Ye Honggao why, but he just said flatly: I got used to it in the first grade. Yes, it is difficult and easy to form good habits, but it will benefit people for life. And every profession has its own professional habits, and the teaching profession is no exception. As teachers, they shoulder the heavy responsibility of teaching and educating people, and it is particularly important to cultivate good behavior habits. So the theme of my forum today is: Let good habits dominate life.
Bacon once said: "Habit is a tenacious and great force, which can dominate life". There is a story that may make us feel something: a man bought a book from the Imperial Library of Alexandria. There is a piece of paper in this book with the secret of turning stone into gold written on it. Anyone who finds this small stone in the Black Sea can turn any metal into pure gold. The note said that the appearance of this strange stone is no different from other stones. I just feel warm. So the man came to the Black Sea to look for stones. In order to avoid repetition, he threw a cold stone into the sea every time he found it. Finally one day, he picked up a stone, warm! He still threw it into the sea. Because he has formed the habit of throwing stones into the sea. Looking back now, do we usually have some habits that make us regret things?
Habit is often ignored in life, but it will affect our destiny unconsciously. As the poem says, sneak into the night with the wind and moisten things silently. I remember when I was a normal college student, a professor once told us that my body was 1 and my score was 0. Only the number 1 exists. The more zeros, the bigger the number, and the greater your capital. On the other hand, without this 1, your 0 is 0 after all. This sentence vividly illustrates the importance of healthy body to our career and life. So where does a good figure come from? Is it from your one-day exercise or one-week exercise? Actually, none of them are correct answers. Good health comes from persistent exercise and good fitness habits. Teacher Lei Zhixin of our school has such good fitness habits. He gets up early every morning to run or practice Tai Ji Chuan. Once I heard teacher Lei say: I am used to exercising every morning. If I can't exercise when it rains, I will feel as if I always have something to do.
Yes! In fact, habit itself is a feeling, and good habit is a brand-new feeling and a brand-new idea. This feeling makes you cheer up, this idea makes you work hard, and makes you look for the decoding of life without hesitation in despair. If you ask who invented the electric light, I think everyone will say Edison in unison. Yes, Edison was a curious child when he was a child. Love of observation, love of thinking and love of searching for roots are the keys to his understanding of the novel world. It was Edison's curiosity about things since childhood that formed his good habit of exploring scientific knowledge. It was his good habits that finally made him a world-famous inventor.
As we all know, the largest pyramid in Egypt is the pyramid of khufu, which consists of 2,999,999 boulders and a pointed stone. And if we put aside these 2,999,999 boulders and only talk about the last sharp stone, pyramid of khufu would not exist. Therefore, if your life struggle is like building a pyramid, then the accumulation of these 2,999,999 boulders is your efforts and sweat to pursue success and glory in life. And what does this hard work and sweat depend on to maintain your eternal pyramid of life? This is a good habit.
The habit of studying often at work will get twice the result with half the effort in our career. The good habit of self-cultivation will unconsciously improve our comprehensive quality. Good habits of sleep, diet and hygiene will make our bodies healthier and provide a more stable stage for our lives. And the three good habits complement each other, which will unconsciously increase our motivation for success.
Yes, no habit can be formed overnight, just like an English proverb: Romance was not built in a day! Rome was not built in a day. This sentence is what we emphasize today: Rome was not built in a day. As Mr. Wang Guowei, a master of Chinese studies, said in "Words on Earth", your life is bound to go through three realms when you pursue your goals: in the first stage, the west wind withered the trees last night, and you went to the West Building alone to watch the end of the world. In the second stage, the belt became wider and wider, with no regrets, which made people haggard for Iraq. In the third stage, when I suddenly turned around, the man was in the dim light.
Although it is difficult to form good habits, we should stick to them. As the saying goes, success is not a natural thing, and hard work is your duty. A gentleman should constantly strive for self-improvement This is the motto left by our ancestors and our eternal motto. Everything in the world will become a thing of the past, and the only thing that will accompany us all our lives is the good habits we have developed in our study and life, which will guide us to face the success and failure of life and make us work harder when we fail to create a more perfect life. As our theme said this time, behavior forms habits, habits shape character, and character determines fate. As long as we all have good habits, as Tagore said, we will not seek a beautiful death like autumn leaves, but a gorgeous life like summer flowers.
Finally, I want to say: Let the flower of civilization never fail!
Thank you!