He is illiterate, but has taught at an American university for 17 years. Why did he lie to everyone but his 3-year-old daughter found out?

A lie always needs another lie to round it off, and there are tens of millions of them piled up, just like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger, and getting bigger and bigger, and finally it becomes difficult to end.

The lie that surprises us the most is the "Emperor's New Clothes" in Andersen's fairy tale. In order not to appear stupid, everyone from the emperor to the common people and beggars are immersed in a ridiculous scam and lie. , until a child pointed out that "he had no clothes on."

However, fairy tales are fairy tales after all. Many times, we laugh and don’t take it seriously. However, in reality, an even more ridiculous scene is played out. An illiterate named John Cochrane, in college I have been teaching for 17 years but no one has noticed.

And this lie was actually exposed by his 3-year-old daughter. What a ridiculous and terrible thing!

01 Dyslexia opens the legend of cheating

In 1939, in a small town in Mexico State, USA, under the eyes of his family’s expectant eyes, John Cochrane was born. He was The sixth child in the family and the youngest child.

As the youngest son in the family, he was doted on since childhood. Under the care of his family, he grew up happily and enjoyed a carefree childhood. At the age of 6, he began to receive enlightenment education and entered school. study.

But when he entered school, he failed to open up a novel world. Instead, he slowly exposed his shortcomings. Although some children are naturally smart, have high understanding and strong learning ability, some children The talent for reading will be slightly less. Although the learning period may be longer, it will not mean that you know everything and cannot get started.

However, John Cochrane was such an unlucky child. In the elementary school life where everyone lived a relatively easy life, John Cochrane lived an extremely miserable life.

Because he gradually realized that he was different from other children, in the process of everyone being able to read easily, he was in great pain. He could never create a burning spark with his words.

But he was so strong that he could never confess to anyone the pain in his heart. He buried the pain of being unable to read deeply in his heart.

Different from the atmosphere in Chinese families where grades are particularly important, John Cochran’s parents never scolded their children for their grades. Because of this, the shocking secret of John Cochran’s inability to read has never been revealed. Can't hide it.

John Cochrane, who could not read normally, had extremely bad grades and was simply confused. No matter how hard he tried, he could not gain anything. This made him extremely painful, so he decided to find another way.

Studying hard and getting bad grades will arouse suspicion, but then just be a "bad student"! He fights, doesn't do his job properly, and makes trouble. A bad student with bad grades is perfect!

But the school could not always tolerate his poor performance and eventually expelled him from school. However, his parents who preferred him did not think this was his nature, but thought it was adolescent rebellion. They tolerated him. Without a word of reproach, he was transferred to a new school.

But frequent transfers of schools could not solve the fundamental problem. In order to cover up the secret of his inability to read, he tried his best to cheat.

From helping classmates with daily homework to cheating on exams to get through, John Cochran became increasingly skilled in deception and began to hatch a shocking plan in his mind.

02 Deceived everyone and became a university teacher

He had a clear understanding of his inability to read and no longer had any hopes or extravagances, but he soon realized that God was closed A door opened a window for him.

He has outstanding talent in sports, so he uses his strengths and avoids weaknesses. Not only does he win the love of teachers and classmates with his extraordinary athletic talent and good interpersonal skills, he is also submitted to the A good university.

On the university campus, he repeated his old tricks. With the help of his classmates, he not only successfully passed various exams, but also graduated with good grades.

I have to say that he was very lucky. During his long study career, he managed to get along so smoothly, and his cheating was never discovered. At the same time, the secret of his inability to read was also revealed. Buried deep.

How can he gain a foothold in society when he is unemployed after graduation and does not know a word with a diploma? John Cochrane was also at a loss, but good luck struck him again.

He accidentally learned that a university was recruiting physical education teachers. Although he could not read well, he was good at physical education, so he decided to give it a try with the mentality of being a dead horse.

John Cochran passed the interview by accident and became a teacher on the university campus.

This is a decent job. He has been doing it for 17 years, and the secret remains a secret and has never been exposed.

Perhaps university teachers are his best protection. After all, no one would believe that an illiterate person who cannot read or write can become a university teacher and teach and educate people for many years.

None of the university teachers can read, so everyone in the world is illiterate. No one will believe it. Even when he confessed this secret to his wife, she only regarded it as a joke and never took it to heart.

John Cochrane had no choice but to continue to hide this secret, pretend to be a fat man, put on the cloak of an intellectual, and pretend to be a cultural man.

03 The secret of "illiteracy" was discovered by his 3-year-old daughter

"The fire cannot be contained in the paper". The lie will eventually be exposed one day, but he is too lucky and this time is too It was a long time, but in the blink of an eye, he served as a teacher in the university for 17 years.

The days passed in an uneventful manner, year after year. However, despite all his calculations, he failed to realize that he and many knowledgeable professors and scholars would never be considered. The lie was exposed, but it was easily seen through by my three-year-old daughter.

By chance, his wife was busy in the kitchen, and he could only take on the important task of coaxing his daughter.

Children still listen to stories, so his daughter pulls him to tell her stories. In order to coax his daughter, he can only bite the bullet and open the story book, but the simple children's story book is still in his eyes It was a heavenly book. He could not read it correctly and could only make it up randomly.

We always think that children are the easiest to deceive, but we didn’t expect that he stumbled in front of his 3-year-old daughter. Her daughter didn’t buy the stories he made up and kept crying.

The wife was attracted by her daughter's cry and finally realized that what her husband had confessed to her was not a joke, but a shocking fact.

The funny thing is that people are often willing to believe lies instead of the truth. John Cochran finally had the opportunity to confess to his wife the secret that had been buried in his heart for many years.

I always hide a big secret in my heart, and I am always terrified of being discovered. This kind of life is really uneasy.

With the encouragement of his wife, he finally decided to confess to everyone, and not surprisingly, his confession led to the fate of being expelled from the school.

Although he is unemployed, he lives a more relaxed and calm life. He no longer has to be bound by his lies, always worried about being exposed at the next moment, and is at a loss.

Except for being unable to read, he is no worse than others. On the contrary, he is superior in intelligence. After untying his heart knot, he has also achieved some success in business.

04 Conclusion

No one is perfect and no one is perfect. It is not terrible to have flaws. What is terrible is not having the courage and determination to face it, and using one lie after another to escape reality. , let yourself go further and further down the wrong road!

Lu Xun said, "A true warrior dares to face a bleak life." On the road of life, we might as well be warriors. The ending may not be as bad as we think, and there may be another one. Harvest!