"Everyone is ordinary." Canglong looked at Wang Ziwen and finally looked at the whole class. "No one is born superior. It's just that culture and values make you feel that you are inferior to others and that you are more ordinary than others. In fact,
Don’t you think deep down in your heart that you are unique?”
"But you told us dreams and ideals, can these really be realized?" Wang Ziwen stood up, and at this moment he asked all his doubts.
Hearing this, the people in Class 9 also looked at Canglong. They were also very concerned about whether they could realize their ideals and dreams. Are these really just ideals and dreams?
"You have all received a culture of role models since childhood. This culture teaches you to learn this and learn that. In fact, there is nothing wrong with this in itself, because this culture of role models will establish a correct value system. At least compared to those children in the West, you
, you at least have someone you can learn from." Canglong said, looking at everyone again, "There is nothing wrong with learning from this model culture, but you don't have to be them, you don't have to copy their lives, if you really
If you try to copy their lives, you are doomed to fail from the beginning, because only one percent of people in this world can be such a role model, while the other ninety-nine percent are still walking their own path.
"
"Teacher Cang, don't you think you are contradicting yourself? Since you came here, you have taught us to stick to our ideals and even taught us a lesson about burning youth. But now I am getting more and more confused. You tell me
Isn’t ours just like the model culture we had from childhood to college, it’s all just a dream.” Wang Ziwen became more and more excited as he spoke.
At this moment, even the other students in Class 9 were like this. Their faces were full of confusion, and they even felt a bit cheated, because people in their grade had been educated in the role model culture since childhood, and now they are extremely disgusted with this culture.
education.
"No, I never taught you to copy other people's lives. What I taught you is to follow the path that suits you. Since you were young, you have not learned the essence of role model culture, but you have learned to copy others on your own, so you
I am still confused until now. The essence of role model culture is correct values, rather than copying the lives of those role models. Just like you are confused now, you feel that you will never succeed, and it feels like there are endless mountains ahead of you.
Crossing over will never end, just because you are copying other people's lives, not your own." Canglong's tone also began to become serious.
"Copy?" Wang Ziwen still looked confused, "But even so, I am a loser, how can I have a dream, and how can I have the opportunity to realize my own value and realize my dream, even if I am really valuable, because
I am too ordinary, what does what you are talking about have to do with ordinary people like us?"
"It has a lot to do with it." Cang Long soothed his tone and paused before saying, "Just because you are used to copying. When you were young, you didn't learn to absorb the essence of culture, but copied culture, so when you grow up, you are also used to copying.
Copy others, even if you are rebellious now, but you are just transferring those role models from elementary school to some stars, or characters in movies and TV series, so you are also copying, rather than learning or absorbing the essence.
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"What's the difference between copying and learning?" Wang Ziwen asked again.
"The difference is very big. Just like the indoctrination education you are doing now, what you learn is just for exams, rather than guided learning for your own ideals and the values you have established. So in the previous generation,
As far as humans are concerned, you are rebellious and willful. In fact, you are no different from them, except that they are still copying their examples, and you have passed it on to people other than the examples." Canglong said calmly.
At this moment, the entire ninth class was silent. Wang Ziwen sat down blankly. For a moment, he didn't know what to say, although he still didn't understand. What's the use of being ordinary to him?
"Just because you copy role models instead of absorbing the essence of them and establishing your own correct values, you will feel inferior because you are walking on the path of others, because your values always make you feel inferior to others. In addition, in reality,
There are some tragedies, so you think you are the most ordinary, so you hate privileges." Canglong said, his tone became more serious, "Actually, if you are given a chance, you will still enjoy the privileges instead of changing this privilege.
, just because you can’t get it, you hate it.”
These words made most of the people in Class 9 change their expressions, and they felt as if they had been stabbed in the heart, but they could not find any reason to refute.
"I just want to work hard for how to get privileges, instead of thinking about how to change the environment and break the privileges. Even if one day we successfully enjoy the privileges, there will still be people like you who will stand up again and win in the end."
In your position, this kind of culture is the most terrifying." Cang Long glanced at each of them with cold eyes.
Everyone in Class Nine stopped talking. No matter which group they belonged to, although Teacher Cang's words were sometimes harsh, it didn't make sense when you think about it.
Their parents tell them to get ahead, to change their current situation, to change their destiny. In fact, it is not to break this kind of privilege, but to swarm into this kind of privilege, and finally squeeze in and stand.
It's stable, but can it really stand for a lifetime?
"In ancient Chinese culture, there are actually many correct values. However, China's economy is developing rapidly, but its culture is still stuck in feudal thinking. Is there such a thing as the so-called princes and generals? It is said that once they are named on the golden list, from then on, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven. These
Culture has caused your current situation." Canglong looked at them and returned to their previous cold attitude.
"But what else can we learn besides learning these? Everyone is copying these, everyone is doing it for these, no one is a saint? Teacher Cang, do you dare to say that you are a saint?" Tang Long suddenly said unconvinced.
"That is, you keep comparing it to Western culture. Do you dare to say that there are no such people in the West?" Hu Ping'an also said.
"You seem to have forgotten that I just told you that the mainstream of Western culture is not moving towards materialization, but towards the elevating of moral character. On the contrary, the trend of Chinese culture is not towards the elevating of moral character, but towards the vulgarization of material
." Canglong said coldly, "There are also people in the West who yearn for privileges, but they are only a very small number of people. Therefore, the West is constantly becoming more enlightened, so they have no so-called hatred of the rich. In China, 90% of people yearn for privileges.
10% of people enjoy privileges. Which culture do you think is more worthy of your learning and which culture is more worthy of your reflection?"
At this moment, the voice of opposition completely disappeared. If more than 90% of Chinese culture is really not longing for privileges, but towards spiritual and cultural virtues, perhaps the so-called privileges have long since disappeared. It’s just that today’s interest-based society is teaching
Everyone moves towards privilege, not against it.
"It's not that there is no concept of breaking privileges in Chinese culture. It's just that in the history of China dominated by Confucianism, except for Qin Shihuang, Confucianism praised every king, so the kings liked them, which resulted in the development of Chinese culture for thousands of years.
Dominated by Confucianism, people believed in the etiquette of kings and ministers, and named the king the son of heaven. After several uprisings and revolutions, they still believed in this culture, even in today's modern times." Canglong looked at them and spoke word by word.
It's like a needle piercing the heart.
"The history and culture you are exposed to in modern times are basically handed down from Confucianism. Therefore, I dislike Confucianism even less than Buddhism. Although there are some upright and upright people among Confucianists, that is just
A few, the etiquette they practice as a monarch and his ministers allows the king to control the power of life and death. Whoever wants to die will die. The predecessors have believed in this pedantry for thousands of years, do you still continue to believe in it now?" Canglong looked at them.
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The last sentence exploded in their minds like thunder, and they seemed to suddenly wake up at this moment.
"If we don't believe in these, how can we still believe in Western culture?" Although Wang Ziwen was sober, he was still a little unwilling because he could not accept Western culture. This was a traditional local concept.
"When you study history, you are not trying to copy someone, but to capture the details of history and develop your own opinions, instead of being blindly dominated by pedantic culture. During the Warring States Period, there were hundreds of schools of thought, not just Confucianism.
The morality we are talking about now is a standard for ordinary people, but it does not come from Confucianism, but from Taoism, Lao Tzu. Among the hundreds of schools in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was also a Mohist school. It once became the first of the hundred schools of thought, but the Mohist school did not
They did not flatter the rulers because they enlightened the people's wisdom, so they were eventually replaced by Confucians, because the Confucians were even better at flattering the rulers, and most of their thoughts were about praising the rulers."
"The Mohist family?" All the students were confused, but some of them had watched TV and knew some information about the Mohist family.
"The first law of Mohism, universal love, means that people should be friendly to each other, not only to their relatives in the family, but also to the strangers around them, and the Chinese were the first to do this.
It started first, but we finally abandoned it. Now Westerners adhere to this concept. I don’t talk about Americans, at least in most European countries, people live in harmony and treat others equally." Canglong said, and then
Tao, "The second is, non-offensive, opposing the initiative to launch an aggressive war; then, the promotion of talents, electing talents regardless of high or low; then, the same as above, serving the people wholeheartedly, promoting the benefits and eliminating disadvantages for the society; and then, the heaven
Zhi, mastering the laws of nature; then Minggui, respecting the wisdom and experience of predecessors instead of blindly copying; then Feiming, controlling one's own destiny through hard work, etc."
"Isn't it worth learning? The culture that Westerners have studied and admired to this day was actually understood by our ancestors thousands of years ago. It's a pity that it was abandoned by our descendants in the end."