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"The best news is that you are doing well"!

10 words from a junior high school classroom teacher to graduates

By Bettye LutzPublished 2 years ago 12 min read
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Teacher

"Love your image.

When like a bird that loves its feathers"

"You are a unique piece.

And not a copy of others"

"I hope you will be a warm and fervent person"

......

Whenever there is a graduation season.

I see the kids all dressed up and ready to go

to embark on new journeys.

Teachers always have mixed feelings.

Recently, the

nationally renowned classroom teacher and

Zheng Ying, a teacher at Hangzhou Tianhang Experimental School

wrote a long letter to the graduating class of children.

These 10 sentences will be used for a lifetime!

Children.

I have to be honest, I have mixed feelings at this moment, three of which are like the joy and reluctance of sending my daughter off to be married, three of which are like sending a brave man off to war, and four of which are like the anticipation and concern of facing unfinished works.

First of all, I would like to say a big thank you.

Because of you, I have seen my past self and the countless possibilities of life.

Because of you, I experienced the joy of education and my mood became colorful.

Because of you, I also gained a better version of myself. It is your questions such as "how to live a good life as an ordinary person" and "what is the use of studying" that made me quietly think deeply and seem to give answers for your reference, but it is my own. A time to reflect and improve ......

Secondly, children are about to go away, I have some words of advice for teachers.

Love your image at all times

Do you remember the moment when you put your fingerprints on the class agreement three years ago? I used the camera to capture that solemn and longing moment.

The first clause of the covenant is "Be responsible for your image". Children need to understand that image is the first business card of a person. A person's image is not a look, but a vivid, concrete appearance that includes grooming, speech and mannerisms, and the mental state, thoughts, and emotions that are embedded in it.

At any time, clean grooming, elegant demeanor, decent response, and considerate care, based on the choice of truth, goodness, and beauty, is a wordless and long-lasting letter of recommendation.

Love your image is to know what you can do and what you cannot do, to be reverent, to learn to respect and to know how to fear, to respect is to be reverent, and to fear is to be afraid.

Love your image, when like a bird loves its feathers. Many years ago, one of your accounting sisters said, "Teacher, my hands are clean at all times", for the teacher was touched, also for you.

Learning is a lifelong thing

Secondary school is just one of the stages

As the ancients say, learning is then knowing the deficiencies, knowing the deficiencies, and then being able to reflect on yourself. Learning is the key to self-reflection and self-improvement, and it is also the core skill of a person's life. When you keep learning, then every day is a new starting point, once you stop learning, life will be at an impasse.

Vertically, learning is not a momentary thing, but a lifelong thing, the whole process of life, whether or not to participate in the work, no matter what kind of occupation, you need to learn, "learning can not be". Horizontally, learning does not only mean learning knowledge, but also learning to do things, learning to be a person, learning to manage life, and living an aesthetic life with an aesthetic attitude.

With such an understanding, even if you leave the campus in the future, you will continue to improve yourself through learning and open up your life to a larger space for development and a broader world. You should know that life is a living textbook and society is a vast school.

For learning, not "right now", but "right now". We often download something, often "save as" a lot of information, or buy a bunch of books, hoping that they are empty to read, but afterward, you will find that those things basically will not see the light of day, because you never "empty" time. Therefore, learning should not look positive, but should actually be positive and act now.

Learn to get along

The human environment depends on your management

No one is an island", and getting along with others is an important issue in life.

About getting along with people, the insight of our teacher is two words: sincerity and kindness. These two points are the root things, with these two points, it is easy to give birth to qualities such as humility, understanding, enthusiasm, tolerance, fulfillment, understanding the difficulties of others, and accepting many differences.

In two months, you will be in high school, and you will mostly be living on campus. You need to prepare yourselves in advance for how to get along with your roommates, especially in the details of more discipline and fulfillment, such as

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Paying attention to personal hygiene.

Taking the initiative to clean up the dormitory.

Remembering to put in earplugs when listening to music and watching videos.

When you return to school on Sunday, you can bring some "smell of mom" or something your roommate may need or like ......

The "don't make trouble for others", "find beauty in others", "be considerate of others" and "surprise others with small thoughtfulness" from our convention still apply. "etc. still apply, even for a lifetime.

Of course, learning to get along is not about forcing yourself to fit in and lose yourself. I was once asked how to get along with people, and my answer was "respect others, and let your affinity be your own".

Know how to be alone

So that you never feel lonely

Knowing how to get along is certainly an important ability, but you can't ignore being alone because of it.

Solitude is also an ability, an even more important ability. The spiritual growth of human beings needs space, and to be alone is to withdraw from other affairs and leave oneself a space to dance in one's inner world. Spiritual life in the strict sense of the word unfolds in solitude.

Those who are good at being alone find strength in silence, resting in their loneliness and making it productive.

That those who are good at alone find inner self-sufficiency in the silence of their inner universe.

that those who are good at being alone live profoundly by being sincere and soberly self-reflective.

People who are good at being alone can form a world of their own and never feel lonely, even if they are alone.

On the occasion of saying goodbye to junior high school, children can think about their own lives: What kind of yourself do you want to be? What are you like at this moment? What kind of life do you want to have?

The sooner you think about these questions and the more you understand them, the more determined your actions will be.

Time is thin, cherish the people around you

In life, we tend to fall into such a paradox.

The past is always full of nostalgia, but the present is always not as good as it should be. When the present has become the past, then feel very good, often nostalgic and even fond of it. Those times have not changed, it is our reluctance to let go of the past to add a layer of filter to make those pasts beautiful.

Similarly, the people around us, we often ignore because of familiarity, and even the closer the person, the easier it is to become an outlet for emotions, and one day lost, and nostalgic regret. The iron law of this world is that the easier it is to get, the less you will cherish; the more you are around, the easier it is to be ignored.

A good relationship depends on nurturing, especially the parent-child relationship is the basis for other relationships, plus after high school, your time with mom and dad will become shorter and shorter, so cherish the present and do something concrete and warm.

Capture vivid images of them on camera or add a few words, sometimes just a few strokes that will surprise them and make them feel loved.

Remembering their birthdays and making little surprises for them on that day.

Talk more with your dad, share some of the housework for your mom and let her be a "free lady" ......

In this way, you will no longer be the enjoyer of a happy family, but the creator of a happy family hand in hand.

Be Yourself

Don't intuitively think that being yourself means doing what you want and being free.

To be yourself is to be true to yourself, to have your independent judgment, opinion and personality, not to cater to or please, not to parrot or follow the clouds, to open your path, and to go on with certainty, not to lose yourself at any time.

To be yourself means to have higher requirements for yourself, not only to know "how to do", but also to understand "where to go"; it means to make your independent judgment, make choices, and be responsible for your choices; it means to have inner certainty, not afraid to be the same as others, and not afraid to be different from others. Not afraid to be different from others.

Let fly

The prerequisite for being yourself is to listen and be independent, to think carefully beforehand, and to move forward once you have made your choice. You will have to choose a school and a career in the future, and these are all directional issues in life. There are only two things in life, direction, and method. The method can be learned, but the direction must be chosen independently and then walked with determination.

Be yourself, you are a unique and solitary product, not a copy of others.

Be a warm and hot-blooded person

In this society, it is mostly encouraged to outsmart and outperform others, but rarely advocates the fulfillment and achievement of others, which is why those stories of warmth are so moving.

This kind of warmth is rooted in inner goodness, a kindness that can put itself in people's shoes, from the heart, consciously and voluntarily, without expectation of return, with a kind of jade texture. But you have to believe that we are going to be kind to others at this time, and may also be treated as someone else's "others" and be kind, and ultimately, it is a matter of becoming an adult.

In life, there are few great masterpieces, mostly some specific and microscopic things, no matter how small, even a greeting, a simple greeting, will be because of the warmth and movmovementt is not too difficult to be a warm person, because "I want to be benevolent, the benevolent to carry on"; to be a warm person, but also a very difficult thing, because it is hidden in every detail of speech and behavior.

But warmth alone is still thin, but it also needs warm blood, and a little initiative to take charge, "Every day that does not dance is a disappointment to login

Junior high school is only three years, the fight against the epidemic two and a half years, it is this experience that let us realize that "no one is an island", everyone is a link in the social chain, many things, and you and I related. So we can't be Buddhist teenagers, not be a crowd eaters, not be "outsiders", but take a little bit of the burden within our reach. No one can guarantee to avoid all the difficulties and misfortunes, but if everyone has the responsibility can greatly reduce the difficulties and misfortunes.

Now you need to think about your relationship with the times and what you can do for others and society. As a student, what can I do; as a citizen, what can I do; as a flesh-and-blood person, what can I do, to leave a little positive power in the long space of time ...... More such spiritual moments will make people feel deeply that they are "part of the vast continent This is a part of the vast continent", so it is easier to stimulate a sense of social responsibility and consciously take responsibility.

Each era has the role of each era of people, we should write our history book, in this lonely history book, and try to make some notes for some positive words.

Keep reading

Know where the "light" is

Books "is a lighthouse standing in the ocean of time", reading is in the long river of human civilization backtracking, revisiting thousands of years of human thought, from which to appreciate the light of the wisdom of our ancestors, this pure reference and understanding is something else can not give. When we choose to read good books, we are standing on the shoulders of giants, enriching our background with their thoughts and nourishing our souls with their wisdom.

Reading books is to sow the seeds of "knowledge" and "knowledge" in our hearts, and when the seeds take root and sprout, they become knowledge. You know, "Knowledge, even if it is a phantom of knowledge, will become your armor and protect you from being devastated by ignorance."

More importantly, reading can cultivate our thinking power, help us see the essence through the phenomenon, sort out the cause and effect of things, generate our own independent opinions, form a more systematic world view, and beworldviewugh to criticize or create.

Read more books, as if you have a χ light of thought, and give yourself a little perspective on life's wisdom. On the road of life, there are always times of confusion. If one day we fall into the lost path of life, if we have the knowledge and thinking power, we might as well look for the starlight scattered by the philosophers, so that we will not be confused by the obstacles in front of us, and not be afraid of the darkness in front of us, but to move forward with certainty.

Never lose the expectation of tomorrow

Problems, difficulties, and chal,lenges are all inevitable. If you are not mentally prepared, or fear, it is easy to lose the courage to move forward or fall into the negative emotions that can not that e extricated, the more difficult to go, but also the more cramped.

When you are frustrated, tell yourself that adversity and good times are never a cycle of life issues, frustration is a necessary course of life, so it will become open and relaxed.

When you are anxious, you may want to talk about your anxiety, the more specific the better, you may find that you can not seem to say so, see the reality is not as bad as imagined, even if there is a lot of anxiety, after two weeks and then look at it, perhaps already light and breezy.

When you are injured, do not rush to catch up, but check the safety equipment and bags one by one, and then look up to see the direction, whether to persist or adjust, ad then go full steam ahead.

Always look forward to tomorrow, both as a romance and a conference. Remember, no matter what the situation, never lose the expectation and desire for tomorrow.

The best news is that you are doing well

You have joked that "when you make a mistake, you don't report it to your teacher", but as long as you are willing and feel that your teacher is worth mentioning, you can mention it anytime, whether you make a mistake or not. I just want you to be well. The best news is that you are doing well.

Finally, I'll name you once more ......

The reason why I solemnly point out all the names once again is becausthatw that each one of them, together with your seniors, are my best business cards.

When I talk about everyone, I have a light in my eyes, An Qi's Guinness record, Cai Yue's "Daily Poison", Shu Ting's crossing of the Qiantang River ......

As the new semester begins, your stories will also be circulated among your younger siblings.

Your class clang Ying

In this world

All love points to the reunion

Only the love of parents and teachers points toa separate nation

Every graduation season

Teachers watch their beloved students take wing and fly

They are both sad and relieved

But, there is no such thing as a banquet that never ends

After the children and their teachers are together

They will go to a new battlefield in life

They will face the new journey of the starry sea

......

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Bettye Lutz

Ascent must be inferior, self-esteem is too high can not achieve success, and therefore successful people must cultivate a calm mind, and focus on everything, which is the key to success. I like vocal music

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