Zhang Jinsheng, Ph.D. of Peking University: It was once the pride of the whole village. What is the current situation?

"What you learn on paper is shallow in the end, but you must practice it to know it." This sentence means that the knowledge in books is shallow, and if you want to understand the mysteries, you must practice it yourself. . We have to read books, but we cannot learn by rote. We must be good at thinking, apply what we have learned, and know how to practice. If we don’t use optics and just talk without practicing, what is the difference between talking on paper. But some people ignore this and become top students with "high scores and low abilities".

When it comes to Tsinghua University and Peking University, this is an institution of higher learning that many people dream of, and Zhang Jinsheng is a doctor of medicine student at Peking University. In everyone's opinion, Zhang Jinsheng with such a high degree of education must have a good job. But this is not the case. Zhang Jinsheng chose to drop out of school when he was studying for a Ph.D. After returning to his hometown, he was unemployed for eighteen years and now relies on subsistence allowances to make a living. This news is hard to believe

He comes from a poor family but has excellent academic performance

Zhang Jinsheng was born in a poor mountain village in Changde City, Hunan Province. From elementary school to junior high school, Zhang Jinsheng's grades were very good. He was always first in the class. The wall of Zhang Jinsheng's home has long been decorated with certificates for "three good students". Full. This made Zhang Jinsheng famous in dozens of miles around. Parents also use Zhang Jinsheng as an example when educating their children, and let their children learn from Zhang Jinsheng. After graduating from high school, Zhang Jinsheng was successfully admitted to Hunan Medical University, now called Central South University Xiangya Medical College.

It was rare for a rural child to be admitted to such an excellent university at that time. Naturally, Zhang Jinsheng became the only college student in the village. He was the pride of the whole village and was a good member of every household. child. Zhang Jinsheng was not arrogant and complacent when he went to college. He was proactive and studied medicine diligently. With his unremitting efforts and excellent results, he was assigned to be a doctor in a public hospital in Tianjin. This also made Zhang Jinsheng's life take another step forward. A new height.

He has a withdrawn personality and is not good at expressing himself

Zhang Jinsheng, who has just started working in the hospital, has not completely lost his student aura, and because he has always been a top student in the eyes of his teachers during college, he has been favored by his teachers since he was a child. This caused Zhang Jinsheng to have a arrogant attitude, feeling that he was superior to others and different from others. This kind of personality made him look down on his colleagues and was unwilling to communicate with them. Over a long period of time, Zhang Jinsheng became a loner. After a while, colleagues discovered that Zhang Jinsheng’s personality was difficult to get along with, so everyone avoided Zhang Jinsheng.

As a doctor, Zhang Jinsheng suffers from "sickness" and does not dare to come forward as long as he sees blood. Therefore, Zhang Jinsheng, who is suffering from bleeding, has not learned much experience in the three years of working in the hospital, which also makes him He was not promoted during his time in the hospital and was still an ordinary doctor. This made it difficult for the arrogant Zhang Jinsheng to accept that the top student on campus was just an inconspicuous doctor in the hospital, and he was always squeezed out by his colleagues.

Zhang Jinsheng was unwilling to give in, so he decided to continue studying and get a graduate degree from Peking University. In Zhang Jinsheng's opinion, he was not suitable because his academic qualifications were not high enough. As long as his academic qualifications were higher, his status would rise. , although this idea is good, Zhang Jinsheng did not find the root of the problem, which also laid the foundation for Zhang Jinsheng to drop out of school later.

Successfully admitted to Peking University but dropped out and returned home

After three years of unremitting efforts, Zhang Jinsheng successfully passed the Peking University graduate program and became a medical graduate student at Peking University. After graduating with a master's degree, Zhang Jinsheng continued to study for a doctoral degree and successfully passed the doctorate examination. This made Zhang Jinsheng more and more confident, and his arrogance reached its peak.

During his doctoral studies, Zhang Jinsheng worked very hard and received an admission notice from the Royal College of Medicine in the UK with excellent results. Many people thought that Zhang Jinsheng’s life would be brilliant from now on, but Zhang Jinsheng himself fell into After pondering, because Western schools are different from those in our country, Western schools require a deposit of 200,000 yuan before admission. Naturally, Zhang Jinsheng, who is still studying for a Ph.D., cannot afford such a huge sum of money, so he had no choice but to give up this opportunity.

Because he had no money, he had to give up the opportunity to further his studies in the UK. What a pity it was for Zhang Jinsheng. He had worked hard for so many years and only waited for this notice, and now he is only one door away. Go in, and that door is money.

Because Zhang Jinsheng could not accept the blow of this cruel reality, and because he was usually aloof and unwilling to talk, he eventually suffered from depression. He even said that he would not pursue a Ph.D. and chose to drop out of school and go home. Later, the school considered Zhang Jinsheng's physical condition and gave him half a year's leave of absence. Zhang Jinsheng didn't feel ashamed at all when he returned home. He still felt that with such a high degree of education, he would always find a high-paying job.

So Zhang Jinsheng began a long journey of finding a job. People looked down on him at the job he was satisfied with, and he didn't even look at the job that was less than satisfactory. Just like that, time passed by day by day. In desperation, Zhang Jinsheng found a job with a monthly salary of 1,000 yuan as a doctor in a hospital.

Soon Zhang Jinsheng met the girl he liked. After getting along for a while, the girl discovered that Zhang Jinsheng was not serious about his work and thought he was arrogant. She pointed out to Zhang Jinsheng many times that she hoped he would correct himself, but after many times of persuasion, Zhang Jinsheng There was no improvement at all, so the girl broke up. Zhang Jinsheng was hit again by the lack of progress in his career and the loss of his girlfriend, so he quit his job, returned home and wasted away his time.

Zhang Jinsheng, who is unemployed at home, fantasizes about being able to return to Peking University to teach every day and recalls his previous school days. Zhang Jinsheng couldn't even cook. He ate at his sister's house every day and had no money. Zhang Jinsheng could only live on the subsistence allowance. Eighteen years later, this top student at Peking University had also been unemployed for 18 years.

The good students who used to be in every household are now the laughingstock of others. If Zhang Jinsheng was not so arrogant, if Zhang Jinsheng opened a clinic in the village and became a rural doctor, he would not have been unemployed for 18 years and reduced to living on subsistence allowances. And if Zhang Jinsheng cares about the world and upholds the doctor's duty to save lives and heal the wounded, how could Zhang Jinsheng watch the people in the village looking for doctors everywhere, while he, as a doctor, ignored them.

In the final analysis, Zhang Jinsheng refused to lower his head to look at the common people who were not very wealthy, because he felt that he was worth a lot and had a high status. Therefore, Zhang Jinsheng ruined his own life. He lost even the basic ability to survive and could only be eliminated by this society.

What we know

Nowadays, many parents will tell their children that as long as you get 100 points in the test, your mother will not let you do any work, you can eat whatever you want and buy whatever you want. Just buy it. Therefore, many students only study and do nothing. They have no extracurricular entertainment time, no summer practice, and a bunch of cram schools occupy their after-school time.

It is good to get 100% in the test, but 100% is not a sign of a good student. In this society, you don’t just need to have a higher education to find a good job. It requires both ability and academic qualifications. Can. If you blindly copy textbooks and become a learning machine, you will eventually become a nerd. Even if you enter the society, you will eventually be eliminated by society like Zhang Jinsheng. In order not to follow Zhang Jinsheng's old path, we should learn new knowledge and know how to use it flexibly.