Whether your first teacher is private or public, how are they doing now?

My first teachers were all private teachers.

The Chinese teacher’s surname is Zhang, who is from this village. I heard that he went to a junior high school in another county and was considered an educated person at that time, so he joined the school and became a private teacher. At that time, the school was still in a dilapidated temple, so it was inevitable to whitewash the walls and write some school mottos and the like. Teacher Zhang can write beautiful large characters on an old broom dipped in ink. This is also his specialty. During class, my mother-in-law would always read the text, and the students would be copied over and over again, and even memorized. Writing texts from memory became his "magic weapon" in teaching. Just because of this matter, many people have been punished, including me. After class, I was completely different. I remember he picked me up on his back and started shaking, which made my heart beat faster. It ended with a roar of laughter. Teacher Zhang also had the skills of barbering. Although he could only cut his hair into a small crew cut, it was very fashionable at the time. Of course, this is Teacher Zhang's voluntary service. Besides, which student has money to get a haircut?

Later, Teacher Zhang was fired due to family planning. He refused to admit defeat and opened a barber shop on the street based on his barbering skills. In the early 1990s, there were very few "business people", and Mr. Zhang was the first to open a barber shop. It is said to be a barber shop, but in fact it only provides a crew cut, a bald head, and a shave. At best, it only serves men. I have the impression that his barber shop has been "surviving" for a long time. Even though I have been a civilian teacher for many years, he is still running the business. Finally, I got to have grandchildren. Teacher Zhang was paralyzed by a stroke. He was often seen wandering the streets in a wheelchair. He passed away in the twelfth month of last year.

In comparison, my math teacher was lucky. He coincided with the first wave of private teachers becoming regular teachers, and he reached retirement age two years later. Now we are neighbors. We have also built a two-story commercial house on the street and opened a small supermarket. I bought a building in the county a few years ago. A man in his 70s, with a monthly retirement salary of nearly 5,000 yuan, was hospitalized when he felt slightly unwell. I see him in high spirits and smiling every day.

The past has become a memory. I sincerely hope that all former private teachers will take care of themselves and stay healthy forever.

I was born and raised in a rural area, and my enlightenment came in the mid-1980s, at the village primary school in the village. The village primary school is very small, with only four classes, most of which are duplex classes. It is said to be a school, but it does not even have a school building. The classrooms are borrowed from villagers, and students bring their own desks and benches. It is really diverse. The teachers are all substitute teachers.

Since there are several older brothers in the family, and they all have very good academic performance, they have been eager to study and go to school since they were young. Moreover, the first day of school was very "grand". It happened to be something happened at home, and many relatives and friends, including cousins, aunts, aunts and many other relatives came to visit and took me to school. I was jumping up and down with a small schoolbag sewn from pieces of cloth. I jumped to school with adults accompanying me, everything was so novel. The memories of my childhood, although poor, were so happy and so real, I can't forget them till now.

The teachers who teach us are all intellectuals with a certain cultural foundation in Murakami, which are the so-called private teachers. The two teachers are both named Zhou. One teaches Chinese and the other teaches mathematics. They also teach Chinese and mathematics to others. Because it is a double class, it seems that the other dozen people are in third grade and about 20 of us are in first grade.

The teacher who teaches Chinese is a little older, around 23 or 24 years old. He teaches us very seriously and responsibly. He also visits our homes frequently and communicates with parents. Everyone did extremely well in the first volume exam. Parents and villagers They spoke highly of him and respected him. Around 1988, I was admitted to the township cadre examination and embarked on the road to politics, starting as a township broadcaster, later as a township cultural officer, then as a deputy township chief, then as a district government official, and finally as a county people's congress officer. Retired as Vice Chairman.

Teacher Xiao Zhou, who teaches mathematics, failed the college entrance examination for two consecutive years and returned to the village to teach. He was rather arrogant and did not pay much attention to teaching. At the end of the first volume, not one of the 26 students was very good. Pass, my score of 44 is the highest in the class. Teacher Xiao Zhou worked as a substitute for several years, but failed to take over for a year and a half. Later, he was transferred to a civilian teacher and then became a full-time teacher, but he failed to do so.

In 1995, he started working as a small contractor. Under the guidance of his brother who was a big boss in a neighboring province, he made rapid progress. In 1997, he took over the largest highway project in the county that year and earned more than 4 million yuan in two years. He began to be arrogant. In his eyes, only the district mayor and secretary of the district committee could catch his eye, and in the county, only the transportation minister and the county mayor and secretary of the county party committee could catch his eye. One year during the Chinese New Year celebrations, he publicly mocked a manager who worked with him: How can you celebrate the Chinese New Year with a dick like you? 50 yuan is enough for the Chinese New Year, etc. In 2002, he jointly built another major project with Renmin University of China. During the process, he plotted against his partners in every possible way. In the end, the conflict intensified and he fell out completely. After his partners were defrauded of nearly 7 million yuan, they mobilized all their connections and energy to block and suppress him. From then on, He failed to get a single project in the three counties around him, and he was living in vain. He also loved gambling. In 1998, he abandoned his wife who was a loser. Now for more than ten years, he has basically relied on his big boss brother for financial support.

Personally, I feel that when dealing with others, you should be kind-hearted and don’t scheming against others. No one is any more stupid than anyone else. Opportunity is very important whether you succeed or not. Don’t get carried away once you gain power. After all, small wealth can only make you rich. Make a fortune by hard work and virtue! What do you think?

My first teacher was also a private teacher. The living conditions were difficult at that time. According to the school teaching record, attendance was required, half a day on Saturday and one day on Sunday without pay, that is, five and a half days per week, eight hours of work per day, and the production team Members work very hard every day. Private teachers can work in the production team on Saturday afternoons and Sundays. The above monthly subsidy is 5 yuan, which is the income. That was more than ten cents per work (ten cents) for the production team in the year-end final settlement. This was a private teacher, a cultural person in the countryside at that time. It is their selfless dedication that gradually leads people to learn and progress and master cultural and scientific knowledge. Therefore, it is true that private teachers are the cornerstone of rural areas.

It is their diligence that guides rural children to learn literacy and culture, and they have a long way out of the mountains. As time goes by, after the tempering of spring, summer, autumn and winter, their heads gradually grow white and their waists bow. Some have passed away, and some survivors have crutches as companions. Those who have been dismissed are given a yearly subsidy of eight yuan to teach, plus a few dollars of hair. Living with a ten-yuan pension, life has trained their will, society has given them the confidence to survive, and they can enjoy the afterglow of the sunset.

My first teacher, whose surname was Li, was a private teacher from the same village as me. Now we have become relatives of the same family because of marriage. His education level is not high and he taught me a lot of typos that still appear today. Later, after I graduated from high school, I returned to the village and worked as a private teacher for several years. We also taught in the same school. At that time, arithmetic was changed to mathematics, and primary school students also had x and y, as well as triangles and Pythagorean strings. He doesn't understand any of this. He calls it back-to-back. I often teach him to learn. He teaches with seriousness and patience. He not only teaches us knowledge but also teaches us how to behave. When he was transferred from the team, he was transferred to the brigade cadre. He was an old party member. Later, he worked as a cadre for several years and then returned to school as a teacher. As time went by, he became a formal teacher. When I went to work in the township and was in charge of the township's education work, he also approached me about wanting to retire. He is now retired like me and is still in the village, but he is a little older than me, and he no longer farms but I am still farming. We have a good relationship. We often sit together during meetings in the village. We basically have the same views and rarely quarrel. We would give each other some specialties if we had them. I respected him very much and still called him Teacher Li. Although he didn’t agree, he always smiled. This is how people live an ordinary life, and their appearance gets older year after year. I cherish our teacher-student relationship very much. I hope my teacher can live a long life and have a happier life!

My first teacher was Teacher Wen, a female who graduated from high school but did not enter college. She came to our school as a substitute teacher. There was also Teacher Liao who came with her. Teacher Wen taught Class 1, and Teacher Liao taught Class 2. Back then, our two classes competed secretly, and our class won. In the past, the teachers in the school were all from the older generation. Only Teacher Wen and Teacher Liao were 18 years old, young and energetic. Their teaching was all in Mandarin, so I learned pinyin well. I am very grateful to her. Although other teachers will punish students when they do something wrong, I think it is a small matter.

There are many naughty students in the class who often fight and cause trouble in class, bully others, and affect other students in class. I have seen the teacher cry several times when she was angry, and we would comfort her. After I went to high school and college, the teacher was transferred to a mountainous area. Later he became a full-time teacher and is now retired. My classmates who used to be naughty and mischievous all stopped studying after graduating from elementary school. I don’t know if they are living well in the countryside. In fact, my dad was also teaching at that time. I often woke up and saw my dad preparing lessons. I would like to thank all the teachers in the world and wish everyone health and happiness.

My first teacher was an educated youth who went to the countryside and was a private teacher.

My family lives in the mountains and is an out-and-out farmer. At that time, the mountains were poor and backward. There were very few literate people and there were not many schools, and they were very small. It's time for me to go to school, but the central school in the countryside is short of classrooms and teachers. I went to register, but when the school started, I was notified that the children of our production team could not enroll in school that year and had to wait until the following year.

Therefore, our production team set up a private primary school by itself. The team’s storage room served as the classroom, the food was stored upstairs, and the classroom was used downstairs. There was no teacher, so an educated youth was hired. This educated youth is my first teacher, Teacher Wu.

Teacher Wu led us to clean the storage room of the production team. This is our classroom. After that, Teacher Wu posted a photo of Chairman Mao on the wall in front of the classroom. During class, he called us: "Salute to the great leader Chairman Mao!" Teacher Wu's calligraphy was very good, and he wrote it in the classroom Many slogans were written, such as "Study hard and make progress every day", "Serve the people", "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng", etc., which are all quotations from Chairman Mao.

We are a new teaching site and there are no textbooks, so Teacher Wu carved steel plates and then went to the county printing factory to mimeograph "textbooks" for us. Teacher Wu’s class was very exciting. He would talk about the content in books and newspaper articles. He would tell us everything he knew about international and domestic matters, counties, people’s communes, brigades, and production teams. We talked, and we listened enthralled. Teacher Wu also led us in production work, growing vegetables, castor beans, and even opening fields to improve the soil. At that time, we always felt that it was endless fun to follow the teacher.

When I graduated from elementary school, I took the first unified examination after the Cultural Revolution in the county. I ranked second in the commune and was admitted to a key middle school in the county. My teacher also returned to Chengdu to implement the educated youth policy, and then lost contact with him. But to be honest, I have always missed my enlightenment teacher, because many of the methods I later used as a teacher were copies of my enlightenment teacher.

It wasn’t until April last year when I met an old educated youth who went to the countryside with Teacher Wu that I found out Teacher Wu’s phone number. I called Teacher Wu immediately. After listening to my call, Teacher Wu was extremely happy, but because he had undergone throat surgery, his speech was not very clear, so his wife was the translator. During the summer vacation, Teacher Wu spent his summer vacation at the foot of Mount Emei. As soon as I had a holiday, I rushed to visit his old man. When he saw me, he was so happy that he was dancing for joy. Although he couldn't speak clearly, he kept talking to me. I was very happy to see the teacher happy and agreed to visit his old man next time. Let me tell you quietly, Teacher Wu still calls me by my nickname.

My first teacher was a private teacher. In rural primary schools in the 1970s, there were basically private teachers and very few public teachers.

(1) Basic situation

The school building is a roof-truss house made of adobe. The table was sawed out of a big tree and divided into two parts. The two ends were supported by adobe, and people sat in the middle.

At the beginning of each semester, I bring matza from home and bring it back during the holidays.

There is no electricity, so lighting relies on small kerosene lamps made by each student. Often smoked nostrils and face are dark.

(2) Enlightenment Teacher

My enlightenment teacher is a female teacher named Sun from my neighbor’s house. In terms of seniority, she should be called aunt. He is very humble, kind, caring and patient, and never beats or scolds his students. It not only teaches us cultural knowledge, but also teaches us the philosophy of life. He also often led us to the production team to participate in voluntary labor.

What I remember most is that due to genetic factors, I first started writing with my left hand, commonly known as left-handed. People at the time knew that this was wrong. So, Teacher Sun helped me step by step. After a few months, I finally switched to writing with my right hand.

Later I learned that at the end of 1999, the province had a policy that private teachers needed to take a unified examination and either become regular teachers or go home to farm. Unfortunately, because Teacher Sun was old, he failed the test and returned home.

Teacher Sun is no longer alive for many years. She played a very important role in my studies and even my life. I still miss this respectable and lovely teacher.

My first teacher was a private teacher who earned work points. He was a junior high school graduate before the Cultural Revolution. He was my arithmetic teacher for grades three to five. He taught for more than 30 years. In the mid-1990s, he was fired across the board and returned to the school. He worked in rural areas and passed away last year.

The life of the Enlightenment teacher can be described as tragic. In that special era, when the country was in dire straits, he gave up his family and took care of everyone, and devoted his whole life to rural education. In the end, he was resigned and lived in his later years. Makes you cry!

The teachers at that time would teach in schools during the day and correct homework or participate in literacy in rural areas at night. Due to the unprecedented situation of brigade running schools, poor and lower-middle peasants managing schools, and education funds being raised by themselves, they had to participate in daily work. The expansion of the school, the purchase of tables and stools, the management of the school's agricultural and breeding farms... even though there are holidays, there is no time to relax!

When the teacher was teaching, his family had a large population, with an elder on top and three children on his knees, and he was in a step-by-step schooling stage. Because private teachers only earned work points but not money, due to the special nature of their work, they could not work at all. Unable to obtain economic income through other means to support the family, and the production team's work points are low, the year-end dividends are still owed to the production team, and the embarrassment of living is unbearable.

Teachers who earn work points are heavily in debt during their teaching years. Due to family reasons, the teacher’s eldest son married a girl from a village with congenital heart disease only when he was thirty years old. A few years ago, his daughter-in-law was unable to have children due to family reasons. He died of illness; the second son and the third son grew older one after another, and with the help of relatives and neighbors, they became son-in-law and sons-in-law one after another. Because the life of the master's wife was not as good as that of ordinary people, and she was not able to live up to the hardships that followed her family, she suffered from Alzheimer's disease and died in middle age before she recovered. In his later years, the teacher could only spend the rest of his life with his eldest son. The teacher lived in a humid cave for many years during his teaching career. He contracted rheumatism in his old age and died because he had no money for medical treatment...

The teacher who earned work points, due to the special nature of his job and his small social circle, was After resigning, because of their respect for teachers, their shortcomings were to be affectionate, flattering, and flattering. No matter how poor their families were, they would not be able to take care of them in the countryside. Although there were descendants to help them, they could not solve the fundamental problem.

In that special era (Cultural Revolution), when the country was in the most difficult situation, there was a serious shortage of public teachers, and during the peak period of school-age children in rural areas, private teachers held up a blue sky for my country’s rural education and contributed to my country’s prosperity today. A solid human resources foundation has been laid, and its achievements will last forever!

The group of dismissed civilian teachers has entered an old age, and is decreasing year by year, slowly moving out of people’s sight.

The national and local governments issued policies in 2010 , which provides different teaching age subsidies to farmers. The amount has long been inconsistent with the high-consumption market economy. Their survival in their later years is still in dire straits. It is hoped that the country will introduce this sector of policy as soon as possible to give them a way out of their remaining lives. The dignity that people deserve!

To explain, the enlightenment teacher mentioned here refers to the teacher who had the greatest impact on me when I first entered school in my life.

I went to a rural primary school in the early 1970s. There were no kindergartens at that time, so I entered the first grade of primary school. At that time, the school had five classes per class and the schooling system was a five-year primary school. Unlike the current six-year system, there was one class for each grade and no more than 30 people in each class, which was a typical small class education. There are no more than 150 people in the school, and there are 5 teachers, one for each class, and a class system is implemented. All teachers are private teachers. In other words, they earn work points, like a monthly subsidy of a few yuan. I can’t remember this. The Qing Dynasty.

Among the five teachers, the most impressive one is Teacher Xu, because he is not only the oldest and most senior teacher among the five teachers, but also the principal of this school. Because there are three teachers with the surname Xu in the school, in order to distinguish them, the students unanimously call this teacher "Teacher Xu".

In fact, "Old Teacher Xu" was about thirty years old at the time. When the children called him this, he seemed to be much older. In my mind, I felt that he was very sincere, reliable, and very safe.

The most profound memory in my memory was when "Old Teacher Xu" criticized the students for not studying hard and said, "If you don't study hard, you will regret it when you grow up." This is still fresh in my memory.

"Old Teacher Xu" retired at the beginning of this century and worked in front-line education positions for more than 40 years (he became a public teacher in the 1980s). What is amazing and admirable is that among the students taught by "Old Teacher Xu", there are three generations of his family, that is, his grandfather, son and grandson have all taught. Moreover, among the students he taught, some became teachers, some became cadres, some became officers, and some became businessmen with millions of dollars. It can be said that they are truly "all over the world".

After retiring, "Old Teacher Xu" did not go to the tutoring class to "make extra money", but became the "Mr. Accountant" for hundreds of families in the village. No matter who has a wedding or wedding, he will be invited to go there. Help, he has a good character, and can write elegant calligraphy in both capital and lowercase letters. He has mainly taught mathematics throughout his life, so he can be reliable in keeping accounts.

Now "Teacher Xu" is more than eighty years old, and he can really be called "Teacher Xu", but when I see him, he is still in good spirits, and occasionally plays chess with others on the stone table at the door. Life in old age is also quite happy! So happy for him!

Apart from being pleased, I couldn’t help but think of the timeless mantra of “Old Teacher Xu”: “If you don’t study hard, it will be too late when you grow up.”

When we were in school, our elementary teachers were basically private teachers. Before we officially entered primary school, some educated youth from Shanghai organized our little brats to receive enlightenment classes for a period of time. Later, it was not until junior high school that a worker, peasant, or soldier student was assigned to the school. At the high school level, there were also many teachers who had become regular teachers from the private sector.

In my impression, the vast majority of private teachers have become regular teachers and are basically retired. In my memory, I only have a Chinese teacher in junior high school who was fired because she had a second child outside the family plan. There is also an English teacher who never passed the exam and has been a private substitute teacher.

That Chinese teacher was demobilized from the army and had rich experience. During class, he talked about a lot of extracurricular knowledge, especially some customs and habits of the place where he served as a soldier. For those of us at that time, It is nothing more than a good extracurricular book.

Later, I stopped working as a private substitute teacher and returned to the village as the village branch secretary. A few years later, I heard that he was the one who took the lead in violating the family planning policy and was fired as the village party secretary, so he became an ordinary farmer. In fact, he is very qualified as a Chinese teacher. His classes are humorous and explain things in simple terms, although he does not necessarily know much theoretical knowledge about education and teaching.

That’s because English teachers are very hardworking and have been working as substitute teachers since graduating from high school. However, they just couldn’t pass the regular exam. This may really be fate. Later, I kept doing odd jobs in the Academic Affairs Office, working as a teaching staff, and stopped attending classes.

After I got to work, I returned to my alma mater in junior high school. I met him a few times and chatted with him for a few times. I felt that time is making me grow old. I am really old. In the end, because of the large number of teachers, he was also fired, and he had nothing to do after working all his life.

At that time, there were many private substitute teachers across the country who were unable to become regular teachers because they failed to pass the exams. In the end, they were all dismissed across the board because of the allocation of a large number of normal school students. Some return to their hometowns to farm, some work everywhere, and some start their own businesses.

However, not everyone can achieve success through working, farming, or starting a business. After all, only a few succeed, and more people are struggling to make ends meet. Perhaps this is the product of that era and the destiny of that era.

In 2021, we will continue to work hard.