Inspirational story

Among the young people in China, as long as there is a dream of studying abroad, no one will not know New English. If you know New Oriental English, you must know Yu Minhong, the founder of New Oriental English.

Yu Minhong can be defined as a person who teaches people how to take exams. Similarly, he also experienced a lot of examinations, three times before he was admitted to the university, after work was punished by the unit, New Oriental business at the beginning, experienced a lot of hardships. Now, after New Oriental became a public company, Yu Minhong's biggest dream is to set up China's best private university.

In an interview with CCTV's People Weekly, Yu Minhong gave himself only six points for each stage of his life. He said, 6 points is a pass score, if not pass, it is impossible to have later development, but their each stage is not so smooth and smooth.

From Changshu Normal School to Peking University

When he took the college entrance examination for the first two times, Yu Minhong's English scores were only 33 and 55, respectively. At that time, he only wanted to go to Changshu Normal School to study for a junior college, and even this original hope was not achieved at last. When he was almost ready to give up, the county government set up a cram school and invited a teacher who had trained students in Peking University to teach English to the students. Yu Minhong was not selected because of his poor grades. Later, his mother only said this matter, unexpectedly found from the education Bureau to Jiangyin No. 1 Middle School all relevant personnel, finally begged them to give their son a chance. When my mother came back from the city, it was raining heavily. There were only small roads to walk from the city to the village. Mother came back covered in mud because she had fallen in the ditch several times). Seeing this scene, Yu had a feeling that there was no way he would not go to college in his third year.

After attending the cram school, Yu Minhong changed his inferiority in the past, was elected as the monitor, and studied hard and diligently. When you feel that working hard is a kind of happiness, you are unlikely to be unable to improve your academic performance. Later, Yu's gaokao total score and English score exceeded the Peking University admission threshold.

After graduating from Peking University, Yu Minhong stayed on as a teacher for seven years. When he taught at Peking University, most of his friends and classmates went to the United States or Canada. Although Yu Minhong also has some gaps in his mind, but not on the surface. But Yu Minhong's wife felt left behind, and often nagged in his ear. Yu Minhong TiAO Ni ROAD ~ (Women's gentleness and men's ability is completely proportional. After the man's ability is good, the woman must be gentle. After the man's ability is poor, she will become strong. So my relationship with my wife went through a gentle love, a strong marriage, and then a gentle family. He felt that a man should try harder.

Yu Minhong also made efforts to go abroad. Within three and a half years, seven or eight universities sent him admission letters, and he was eager to receive a three-quarters scholarship from one of them, but all of them failed due to economic reasons. Later, because he passed the TOEFL and GRE, Yu Minhong participated in a private tutoring, so he was severely criticized by the school and recorded demerits and broadcast on closed-circuit television, and became a (well-known figure) in the school. Yu decided to leave Peking University because he could earn more from lecturing than teaching.

Take life in exchange for new Oriental

What is Yu Minhong's favorite? Telephone poles must be one of the answers. When New Oriental was just founded, he often posted recruitment ads on telephone poles for publicity, only to be picked off one by one by the old ladies in the neighborhood committee. After discovering that this was an improper channel, Yu Minhong took people to pick out the advertisement he had posted. The elderly woman in the neighborhood committee saw that he was very honest and helped them put the advertisement in the advertisement column.

In 1993, Yu Minhong had more and more students, and as a result, the number of students at other English tutoring institutions began to decline. Every time Mr. Yu put up advertisements in the advertising column, there were always people waiting to tear the advertisements of New Oriental, and once even stabbed an employee into the hospital with a knife. Yu had to go to the police. At that time, about six or seven policemen came, he did not know what to say, only drink cup after cup, less than half an hour, more than a catty of Wuliangye into the drink. As a result, Yu Minhong was sent to the hospital, where he almost died. A policeman told him in his hospital room that as long as he didn't do anything illegal, New Oriental would have no problem in Haidian district. ~ (This is to take life in exchange for.) "Mr. Yu said. Under the coordination of the police and the education bureau, New Oriental finally had its own place on the advertising column, or the most humble corner.

Later, Yu Minhong began to give free lectures, because this way of publicity could not be imitated or blocked by others. For the first lecture, he expected 50 people, so he rented an elementary school classroom and 500 showed up. Yu called the students to the playground and spoke to them in the dark for more than an hour. Some time later, the lecture at the Beijing Library stuck with Yu. On a cold winter day in 1993, Yu Minhong rented a lecture hall at the Beijing Library and ended up hiring 4,000 people. After 1,200 people entered, more than 2,000 students outside were angry, pushing doors and smashing Windows. The whole Zizhu courtyard of dozens of police all out to maintain order, students still do not buy, pushed the police to push the door.

Yu Minhong, who was in the auditorium, decided to go out himself to calm the students' anger. The police said that if you came out, the students would tear you apart. Yu Minhong or out of the door, inside to his colleagues on behalf of. He stood on a big garbage can, wearing only a shirt, and asked everyone to be quiet. Yu Minhong spoke outside for an hour and a half. The angry students were also attracted by his speech, and some of them took off their coats to put on him. After he finished speaking, the police station took Yu away on the charge of ~ (disturbing public order).

Dream to build the best private university in China

By 1995, Yu Minhong had the opportunity to study abroad, but the development of New Oriental was getting better and better, and he began to miss the school. Yu Minhong is a person who likes to work with many people, so he decided to go to the United States and Canada to invite him and his college classmates to come back to work together in New Oriental. Therefore, Yu Minhong came to Canada with the identity of "self-employed" in Beijing, and only three people were persuaded by Yu Minhong to come back.

After the development of New Oriental, Yu Minhong felt his mother was lonely at home because of his father's death, so he moved her to Beijing. Mother to Beijing have nothing to do, often go to New Oriental to see, over time and new Oriental people familiar, sometimes will say this say that, others also have to listen, a long time, some interference in the development of New Oriental. Yu Minhong is a filial son so he knelt down to beg his mother not to interfere in New Oriental things, so that his mother slowly quit.

For a while, Yu Minhong had some management conflicts with his friends because they had studied Western management culture while he had grown up in traditional Chinese society. In 2002. New Oriental has made a decision that no one's relatives can work at New Oriental. At that time, colleagues also gave Yu a privilege, because he is the founder of New Oriental. But the Yu Minhong that attaches great importance to feeling expresses immediately, the elder sister father 'wife's elder sister father that holds a post in New Oriental all transfers out new Oriental. For this reason, his mother and wife did not speak to him for six months. As a result, Yu Minhong passed the test of human kindness, and within 2 months, there were no more relatives of anyone in New Oriental.

After New Oriental went public, Yu Minhong was called "the richest teacher in China". Although Yu claimed that he had not changed, he had breakfast with foreign capitalists and attended various conferences and lectures in a suit and tie, and his various actions also became the focus of the public. Yu's dream has always been to travel around the world, but now his goal is to build one of China's best private universities.

Yu Minhong's life experience can be explained by a phrase spread in the New Oriental: there are so many exams in the world, many exams we must take, there is no escape, otherwise we even have no opportunity to enter the door. But with the test, no solid knowledge, experience and wisdom, even if you enter the door also can't see the world's wonderful. The most important thing in our life is that we are on our own exams. If we overcome our shortcomings and inferiority, no matter whether we take the exams, get high marks, go to university or go abroad, we will be successful.