What happened to the first batch of "Bible-reading teenagers" who dropped out of school by alienation?

Since 1990s, Wang Caigui, a scholar from Taiwan Province, has established a set of "theoretical system" called "Honest and Extensive Reading of Classics" in Chinese mainland, and advocated cultivating sages by reading Classics off-duty. At that time, the upsurge of Chinese studies gradually rose, and the "Bible reading movement" was very popular.

More than a decade ago, the "Bible Reading Movement" reached its climax, and nearly 100 Bible reading schools emerged in China. A large number of teenagers jumped out of the traditional education system and entered the Bible study school. However, is reading classics to cultivate talents or poison children? It has been arguing since the first day of its birth.

More than ten years have passed, and the first batch of children labeled as "Bible-reading teenagers" have grown up. What happened to them? The reporter of Xinhua Daily Telegraph recently found them and tried to define right and wrong with their growth, which triggered thinking.

The "code farmer" girl from the Bible reading class

"In this circle I met, most people were asked to obey and obey. When I really stepped into the society, I found that many of them were pouring chicken soup for the soul. "

"I have some mental problems such as bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, but these are all caused by my family, so I can't throw the pot in the Bible reading class."

When you meet Song Jinge, you won't feel that this beautiful girl with smooth expression is "problematic". Surprisingly, after a simple greeting, she told her illness directly, without concealment or embarrassment.

In 2008, in the sixth grade of Song Jinge Primary School, her mother secretly sent her to a local private school without telling her father. One morning, she hid her luggage and schoolbag and said that she was going to school. She had never been home before the Chinese New Year. My mother, who loves traditional culture, believes that Song Jingue's poor grades are due to her bad conduct and disobedience. Everything taught in ordinary schools is wrong, and it is urgent to instill correct knowledge and views.

For a long time, Song Jingue felt that her mother was right. It was not until adulthood that she discovered that her so-called "disobedience" was actually obsessive-compulsive disorder and had serious dyslexia.

12-year-old girls will naturally look for the same kind when they come to a completely unfamiliar environment. Song Jinge found that most of her classmates were from superior families, and only a few of them were sent in for discipline like her. The youngest is an orphan adopted by a monk master, only 5 years old.

In this private school, every student recites the study independently according to the study plan, advocates "seeking from within", does not ask questions, does not understand classics, and corporal punishment is common when he can't recite. "Once I memorized 12 pm and was beaten by iron ruler for more than 50 times. I am not dissatisfied, because everyone is responsible for their own study plan, just like you will deduct your salary when you are late for work. "

In such an atmosphere, Song Jingue, who had difficulty in reading and writing, recited half of Daxue, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius.

Private schools are often suspected of running schools illegally. Therefore, it is inevitable for children who learn classics to study everywhere, and it is common to travel to many cities. After Song Jinge left his first private school, he stayed at home for a while, and then went to Jiangxi, Henan and other places. The academy in Jiangxi is in Ganzhou. They studied under the famous calligrapher Wu Hongqing. Although I studied calligraphy, the way is similar to the previous reading class. I don't teach skills and ideas, and I don't explain the content. I just want to paint red all the time, and I can understand and comprehend Tao in the process of painting red.

"In this circle I met, most people were asked to obey and obey. When I really stepped into the society, I found that many of them were unrealistic and were pouring chicken soup into my soul. " When I grew up, Song Jingue felt that what I learned in those years was at best a part of traditional culture, and some of them were even folk superstitions. True Chinese studies should involve the field of philosophy, which is inseparable from speculation and discussion. It is a major that needs to be studied in accordance with the scientific spirit.

During the interview, Song Jinge took out the asthma spray twice and apologized to the reporter of Xinhua Daily Telegraph: "Sorry, old question." Prolonged chanting damaged the vocal cords. After more than three years of medication for bipolar disorder, her heart, lungs and kidneys were damaged and her mental state was not stable. But she began to learn programming from 20 17, and she felt that she had found "the joy of life".

Today, Song Jinge lives in Shanghai and works as an ordinary "code farmer". "Many people ask me, don't you like to play when you take the literature exam? Why not get a decent job? In fact, my personality is systematic, I pursue the logic of things, and programming makes me very happy. Unfortunately, I have no foundation in mathematics and English, and my development prospects are not good. " What makes her feel a little ironic is that although she doesn't like reading classes very much, looking back, she seems to be a "by-product" of reading classes because she can stand loneliness, sit still, work hard and have a good memory.

"For people like me who come out of the Bible study class but want to do something, there is no road ahead. In the past, it was denied by society and public opinion, and the test of inner resilience was the greatest. " Song Jinge said, I may still be a "vegetable" in the future, but I really tried my best to live.

A teenager who dropped out of Li Wen College.

"I am 20 years old, I have grown up, I have experienced this, I have read a lot of books, and I still have to focus on my ideals and do what I want to do in my life."

Liwen Academy, located in Julie Township, Taishun County, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, takes reciting 300,000 words of Chinese and Western cultural classics as the basic enrollment condition, and is the highest institution that the Bible reading circle yearns for.

Xu Zisheng, from Taiwan Province Province, started studying classics at the age of 9, and was a regular student for 7 years. He entered Li Wen College at the age of 65,438+06 and dropped out at the age of 65,438+08.

A few months ago, the reporter of Xinhua Daily Telegraph joined a WeChat group accusing the Bible reading class. The parents in the group are all over Australia, France and other places, and they all condemn the physical and mental harm caused by the Bible reading class to their children. Xu Zisheng's father is among them. He developed from Taiwan Province Province to Hangzhou in his early years. He is an artist and participated in the early establishment of Li Wen College.

Xu Zisheng dropped out of primary school in Hangzhou at the age of 9 because he didn't adapt to the education model in the mainland, and "guaranteed the bottom money" with his sister at home. Sometimes he will follow his father to his familiar master for a week to see how others learn. "Frankly speaking, I was really young at that time, and I didn't have a strong speculative ability to think about what I want now and what I want in the future. I think my father made sense, so he began to look at the classics in a daze, and once he only looked at the classics and didn't learn anything else. "

Because he was self-taught, it took Xu Zisheng seven years to complete the Book of Guarantees. Students who entered Li Wen College with him in the same period took an average of three or four years, and the fastest was only two years. It is also for this reason that he was overwhelmed by the intensity and pressure of later study. "I get up at four o'clock every day and study from morning till night. Sleep quality is poor, I don't want to fall behind my homework. Later, I suffered from severe dry eye. " Xu Zisheng said.

In addition to physical pain, there are also many puzzles in learning. Most reading classes preach "read well first, don't rush to understand", that is, children are required to "recite" 300,000 words first, and then enter Liwen College to interpret the classics in a unified way. However, after he really entered Li Wen College, Xu Zisheng did not expect to explain the scriptures, discuss, debate and question.

For example, he said that when it comes to philosophy, Wang Caigui himself highly praised the philosopher Mou Zongsan and encouraged students to read Mou Zongsan's books, saying that reading his books is enough; When it comes to running, he will say that it is very low-end, and we China people should play Tai Chi; If we talk about music, we in China have to play guqin. Guitar and other instruments are very low-end? Almost the whole learning process is one-sided indoctrination.

As an early follower of the system of "honestly reading widely", the more he knows, the more questions Xu Zisheng and his father have. After communication failed, he decided to drop out of Li Wen College.

After resting at home for more than a year, Xu Zisheng, who once thought he was going blind, recovered. Looking back on my Bible reading experience, I feel that my physical problems may be individual, but the problems in Bible reading class are common. "Reading the Bible itself is like saying that you want to study. This is an abstract concept, and it is always good. But it is generally believed that the existing methods of reading classics, especially? Read a lot of scriptures honestly? It is not conducive to the growth of young people, and it is also contrary to the laws of academic research. "

In September this year, Xu Zisheng will go to Canada to go to college. Being very interested in art and music since childhood, he applied to a very good art college to study visual arts. He said: "I am 20 years old, I have grown up, I have experienced this, I have read a lot of books, and I still have to focus on my ideals and do what I want to do in my life."

They are still struggling in confusion.

"I deny the barbaric way of reading the classics. I deny that some schools use this way instead of reading the classics themselves. I don't want to be a victim of the wrong way of reading classics, nor do I want to be used as a tool for anti-classical wrong thinking. "

When the reporter of Xinhua Daily Telegraph turned to find Wei Sheng, it was the time when he was overwhelmed. The young man who had studied classics later got a self-taught undergraduate diploma and went to teach in Daliangshan area for a period of time. This year, he applied for a 985 university in Shanghai, but he had to apply for another 985 university in the west because he lost one point in English for postgraduate entrance examination. After the initial approval, he rushed to the local area with hope to go through the formalities, but was told that he did not meet the principle of adjustment and returned disappointed.

The reporter consulted the graduate enrollment brochure of the school, which clearly stipulates that the academic qualifications of transfer candidates must be "ordinary full-time", which means that the undergraduate degree of self-taught examination is not within its scope of recognition.

On the way for these children to return to the system for further study, there are many similar frustrations, and deification, alienation and demonization coexist. Weisheng was reported many times by the media for exposing the problem of "reading many classics honestly", but after the uproar, he found that his views never seemed to be well conveyed. At the same time, in the process of returning from the self-taught examination, she was reprimanded by a radical cultural master, and taking the postgraduate entrance examination as the goal was a betrayal of the private school world.

"I deny the barbaric way of reading the classics. I deny that some schools use this way instead of reading the classics themselves. Self-study and postgraduate entrance examination are really vulgar things, but they give me the right to choose. I don't want to be a victim of wrong reading methods, nor do I want to be used as a tool for anti-classical wrong thinking. " Weisheng said that with the passage of time, all these "other people's opinions" will go with the wind, leaving only the result of my struggle for myself.

Another girl, Chen, went through seven moves in her early twenties and moved to four or five cities, but she is still a staunch lover and advocate of traditional culture as before. She is actively preparing for the self-study exam, sometimes attending Tongji and sometimes attending classes at the teacher's house. However, after a long talk with reporters, she finally suggested deleting her story on the grounds that her experience was "too shocking" in a recent media report.

"As a former Bible-reading teenager, I have a first-person perspective and an obligation to tell the truth, but I have alienated our group enough. Apart from those sympathetic experiences, it brings a sense of superiority to those who choose the conventional road, making it more difficult to carry forward excellent traditional culture and classic reading. What can make people really pay attention to us? So my personal pain should not rise to the problem of reading the Bible. " Chen said to:

19-year-old Du Yao is more optimistic. 20 12 leave school. After more than six years of reading classics, practicing martial arts and practicing calligraphy, he was firm and gave up. Now I continue to study in a Chinese studies school in Wuxi. The courses here include not only traditional culture, but also mathematics and English. The English teacher is a master of English from Tongji University. At the same time, she is reading through the Five Classics and practicing calligraphy.

Du Yao said that he saw the problems in the Bible reading class, but he did not deny the gains from studying the classics. "The ancients used to say that reading a book a hundred times is not everything, but the Book of Songs can, but it is difficult to recite when it comes to history books. However, in some schools that read the Bible savagely, annotations and explanations are forbidden. Even so, when I look back after all this, I can't completely deny that no matter how barbaric the method is, the advantage is that you did recite many classics in a short time, but the disadvantage is that you don't have any channels to practice and implement them in your life. Only learning tradition, not combining the present and not considering the future, will definitely not work. "

Where is the future of young people who read the Bible? Du Yao said he didn't know. He thought about taking the exam by himself, being a Bible teacher, and many other possibilities. "If I have a direction, I will go all out."

Where have all the teenagers who read classics gone?

Denying the shallowness of traditional culture and education has something in common with the fanaticism of barbaric reading of classics, and both of them have utilitarian thoughts. After the uproar, it is the goal to explore education that is more in line with the spirit of classical education.

China's traditional classics, private schools, schools and academies in history. As the material carrier of Chinese context, it has always been highly respected. In recent years, with the country's increasing attention to excellent traditional culture, people have a strong voice for updating traditional classic education.

However, the emphasis and change of ideas have not made the difficulties in reality less. For example, what courses do traditional cultural education teach children? Take the essence and discard the dross. What is cultural dross and how to avoid it? How to integrate into the modern science education system? What's the way to go to school? What is the industry standard, qualification definition, audit mechanism and supervision mechanism of modern private schools? Many problems have never been defined authoritatively.

Therefore, as a traditional form of cultural education, the Bible reading class presents two completely different faces in the eyes of the world. First, do not pursue world scores, enrollment rate, and prestigious school effect. By reading eastern and western classics, we can cultivate well-read and gentle young gentlemen and lay the foundation for becoming a generation of cultural talents. Second, I gave up compulsory education, honestly read a lot of classics, exhausted physically and mentally, tried to embark on the road of sages with uncertain future, and returned to institutional education with great difficulty.

Ke Xiaogang, a professor at the School of Humanities of Tongji University, believes that on the one hand, it is a huge and touching "declaration of reading classics" and "classic omnipotence", on the other hand, it is a deliberate attack or misinterpretation of the argument of learning traditional culture. These two voices attack each other in the same public opinion field, and it is difficult for the public to know the actual situation of reading the Bible. "Learning classics has benefited me a lot. Therefore, I am very concerned about the plight of teenagers who are reading classics, and I often think about it? Where have all the teenagers who read classics gone? The problem. "

Why do you read the Bible? "The past is not forgotten, the future is a teacher", this sentence is recited by a child who doesn't understand its meaning. Ke Xiaogang said that they have left the system for many years, and the college entrance examination has been unable to keep up. The self-enrollment single-plank bridge is narrower than the college entrance examination and needs high school graduation recommendation. Where do the students study classical literature? If you want to return to education within the system, you can only take the self-study exam and take the postgraduate entrance examination. If you don't, you might as well learn a skill, such as calligraphy. It may not be a problem to support yourself.

However, no matter which way you take, it is imperative to find out what those classic sentences that have been recited for hundreds of thousands of words for many years and the teacher once only asked you to recite them without telling you. The classic omnipotence they once instilled in you is not necessarily a lie; But it can also be a lie. It's up to you whether you lie or not.

"Denying the shallowness of traditional culture and education has something in common with the fanaticism of barbaric reading, and both have utilitarian thoughts. After the hustle and bustle, it is the goal to explore education that is more in line with the spirit of classical education. " Ke Xiaogang believes.

There is a tendency in Bible reading class. The more you attack it, the deeper it hides and the more forbidden it is. It is better for the competent department to open the export, give space, set standards, and then do a good job of supervision.

Renze is from Wuxi, Jiangsu. After dropping out of school in the fourth grade, he entered private schools and academies. In the past three and a half years, he has transferred to school seven or eight times. Recently, because of "strike hard", his school in Kunshan Zheng Qian moved from Kunshan, Suzhou to Liyang, Changzhou, and then to Nanyang, Henan, which led to his dropping out of school.

"Many students followed the master to Henan? Guerrillas? Now, my grandparents won't let me leave Jiangsu, hoping I can go back to my regular school. I want to go, but I can't keep up with so many classes. Later, I finally found a suitable institution, and because I was still in the compulsory education stage, I didn't accept my registration until 15 years old. "

According to the survey of Xinhua Daily Telegraph, with the Ministry of Education explicitly demanding to severely investigate and deal with illegal school-running behavior instead of compulsory education, a number of private schools have moved. In some areas with strict supervision, embarrassed children like Lenze are at risk of dropping out of school.