After Principal Xu's tone turned serious, everyone stopped laughing and turned around to listen very carefully to their last class of the entire school year.

——Principal Xu’s ‘last lesson’.

Principal Xu walked up to the students with a microphone and said, “Although this is the last class, the lessons I want to give to your two classes are different… Although you are now integrated together, it is obvious that you are still different.

“So, for the content of this class, I would like to say something to the students in the observation class. Actually, I prefer to call you the problem class because you are all problem babies… You problem babies can come to me because of various coincidences. After this year, I actually want to ask you a question now.

"How do you view your family? How do you plan to get along with your family in the future?"

The students who once had problems fell into deep thought. Life in Tianya Village seemed to have made them forget their complicated family environment. Some people’s family environment had changed, but some people’s had not.

After a long while, someone finally answered, "In the future, we should try to get along well with them and seek common ground while reserving differences!"

Principal Xu nodded and looked at the others: "What about you? Do you have any other ideas?"

Everyone shook their heads, seemingly agreeing with the idea of "seeking common ground while reserving differences".

Undoubtedly, this view is very reasonable. Principal Xu nodded slightly and said:

"That's why I'm going to give you one last lesson!"

Principal Xu said earnestly: "Remember, students. No matter what time it is, you must maintain a clear understanding of yourself. You must understand what is truly beneficial to you. What I am going to say next may be considered an outrageous statement by many people -

"I want to say that if you feel you can maintain the right distance and live in harmony, then live in harmony. If you feel you can't control and can't change the controlled life, then please get rid of your family and stay away from your family!"

There was a look of surprise in everyone's eyes. This was really too uncommon and completely contrary to the traditional view of respecting the elderly and loving the young and family harmony.

Principal Xu said calmly: "Remember, students, no matter when, no matter what, be an independent person! Be a person with an independent personality! Be a self-independent person! You are not anyone's vassal, you are your own self!

"This is what I want to tell you in my last lesson!"

After the students in the problem class fell into deep thought, Principal Xu walked over to the students in the rural class:

"Perhaps some of you are also under mental control, but what binds you is not the shackles of the mind, but the shackles of life."

"Principal, do we also want to...get rid of it?" The rural students had complicated expressions.

Almost all rural students have heard a saying... Go out, get out of the mountains, get out of the countryside, and you can change your destiny.

Some people no longer want to endure the poverty in the mountains, but some people can't forget it.

Because this is the place where they were born and raised, this is their hometown.

Principal Xu shook his head: "Don't be so hasty to judge the future. The countryside is not necessarily bad, and the city is not necessarily good... No matter where you are, remember that personal independence is the key point of what I just said!

"I just tried to tell them how to get out of control, and now I want to tell you how to get out of poverty...

“In fact, even if you leave the countryside and your hometown, you may not be able to truly escape poverty. It’s not that there are no poor people in cities. If you look around the world, you will find that in many countries’ big cities, there are slums with millions of residents!

"The root of poverty has never been in cities or villages! Your hometown is not where you really want to escape from!"

Principal Xu began the last lesson for the rural class children:

"What is the root cause of poverty? I think today, you should be able to realize what the root cause of poverty is, right? On the one hand, it is due to class oppression and exploitation, which takes away your productivity, leaving you with no surplus productivity to change your life; on the other hand, it is due to your own insufficient productivity, with consumption exceeding output...

“So, what is the most critical factor in the fate of poverty that has been difficult to change for thousands of years? It is productivity, having sufficient productivity, and the vast majority of productivity can be controlled by ourselves!

“So, if we want to change our fate of poverty and have enough productivity at our disposal, there is only one way - education!”

Principal Xu took a deep breath and said deeply:

"How can the countryside be revitalized? Education is the only way, knowledge is the only way. Having knowledge may not necessarily lead to revitalization, but without knowledge it is absolutely impossible to revitalize. Knowledge is the only possibility!

"For thousands of years, farmers have been exploited! To be more precise, the lower classes have been exploited. If you want to oppose exploitation, you must learn to arm yourself! And the only thing that can really arm you is knowledge. Having knowledge does not necessarily mean you will not be exploited, but without knowledge, it is impossible not to be exploited!

"For thousands of years, farmers have been starving! The root cause of starvation is insufficient productivity. And the most brilliant way for humans to improve productivity is precisely knowledge! Using knowledge to improve productivity may be a difficult path, but it is almost impossible to improve productivity without knowledge!

"Remember, students! Those who cannot master knowledge and wisdom will eventually become scapegoats, penned pigs, exhausted mules, and cheated dogs that still charge forward to count money for others. In the end, it will be difficult to fundamentally change their own destiny!

“You are all sons and daughters of farmers.

“It may sound paradoxical, but the only future path for farmers is precisely knowledge and science! The only possibility for rural revitalization lies precisely in education and culture!”

Principal Xu gazed at all the rural students and said slowly: "Everyone, I hope you can change your destiny! Whether in the city or in the countryside, whether high up or among the common people. When you feel lost, when you want to change your life, if this last lesson today can bring you a little insignificant guidance, it will be my greatest comfort!"

On the track of the playground, the fireworks arranged by Principal Xu were launched into the sky.

In the swaying daylight, the fireworks also burst into colorful brilliance. Times are changing, people under the starry sky are changing, but the desire to bloom in the sky has never changed.

Compared to these billions of years, each person's life is just a short moment, but just like this fleeting firework, brilliantly releasing one's own brilliance is the greatest meaning of human life.

The young fireworks in the processing plant graduated from high school.