Chapter 205 1973, College Entrance Examination
Xie Yun looked at the two people who were studying hard, and suddenly something came to his mind. In 1973, there was a "college entrance examination".
This wasn't a true college entrance exam, but rather a secondary screening based on local recommendations. In other words, the candidates recommended by the brigades, communes, and factories for university admission had gone directly to university in the previous three years. However, this year, they had to take a cultural examination and pass it before they could go to university.
It was during this "college entrance examination" that a "blank paper hero" emerged, making the restoration of the college entrance examination a flash in the pan and making the efforts of people from all walks of life to restore normal education come to nothing.
Xie Yun carefully recalled the contents of the original book, but could not find any clues about this incident. It was not mentioned at all in the book.
However, she still began writing, producing an article for publication in the newspaper, praising the poor and lower-middle peasants for their hard work and diligent study. She also cited numerous examples of people who rose early and worked late every day, earning 10 work points, and while doing their jobs well, they also responded to the leader's call to study hard, equipping themselves with knowledge to better build the countryside and the country.
Their deeds are worth learning from for everyone.
"Learning is a lifelong endeavor, not for the sake of passing exams, but for the sake of striving to improve oneself and becoming a better successor to socialism."
Xie Yun remembered that in her previous life, during the college entrance examination in 1973, the "blank paper hero" faced the test paper that left him helpless, and wrote a "Letter to the Respected Leader" on the back.
He said he was passionate about agricultural production, and the heavy labor and work of nearly eighteen hours a day did not allow him to review his business.
He said that he was dissatisfied with and extremely disgusted with those nerds who had been idle and carefree for many years.
He said the exam was monopolized by this bunch of college geeks.
He said, "During this urgent summer weeding season, I cannot bear to abandon production and retreat to a small room just for myself. That would be excessively selfish. If I did that, I would be condemned by my own revolutionary spirit and the self-revolutionary conscience of the poor and lower-middle peasants."
He said that he only received the college entrance examination notice two days in advance and had no time to review, so he could not get a high score.
His letter was sent to the provincial leaders by the local admissions office, who set him up as an example and called his letter a "thought-provoking answer."
So that year, the college entrance examination admission rules changed. Colleges and universities were afraid of being labeled as "score-oriented" and did not look at scores at all when admitting students. Some even looked at the opposite, eliminating those with excellent scores and admitting those with poor scores.
There was a student who ranked first and scored full marks in mathematics but failed the exam. He angrily tore up his mathematics, physics and chemistry learning materials and gave up science to pursue literature.
And the "blank paper hero" went to college as he wished.
In fact, he did not hand in a blank paper, but he just did not answer most of the questions, so the leader called him the "blank paper hero".
Xie Yun could understand his reluctance. He usually worked very hard and performed very well. He was recommended to take the college entrance examination in a hurry and had no time to review. He would indeed feel resentful, and it was understandable that he wanted to express it.
But in the current situation, can he express himself freely?
His outburst was exaggerated, and the situation became chaotic. The cultural examination was criticized as "a restoration of the old college entrance examination system" and "a counterattack by the bourgeoisie against the proletariat."
The person who had just made a comeback was immediately forced to step down.
The college entrance examination, which had just shown signs of recovery, was immediately stopped.
This hero with a blank paper became famous and suffered a lot because of this.
In the final analysis, it's all just a sigh.
He was nothing more than a small pawn in the tide of the times, a handy tool. Someone called him "a sharp-edged stone," and someone said, "I'm going to hit someone with this stone."
Judging from his later career, he was essentially a down-to-earth person. After a brief period of success, he spent 15 years in prison. After his release, he started from scratch and built a solid business, which he did quite well.
Xie Yun had done everything she could, but the outcome was beyond her control. She was nothing more than a grain of sand in the tide of time.
The overall direction of this world is not much different from that of her previous life.
On April 3, 1973, the State Council approved the "Opinions on the 1973 Enrollment of Colleges and Universities" issued by the State Council's Science and Education Group, proposing that cultural assessments should be emphasized.
There is still time before the college entrance examination, and Xie Yun issued another initiative in the newspaper: Let us work hard and study hard, and strive to become better socialist successors!
This time, she combined the initiative with the "Admissions Work Opinions".
[The number of admissions places is limited, and only a very small number of people can be recommended to take the college entrance examination. What about the rest of us? Do we have to give up studying?
No!
Even if we can't take the college entrance examination and become workers, peasants and soldiers, we must study hard and become better!
While Xie Yun was writing furiously, he kept complaining in his heart.
Everyone is criticizing the college entrance examination and higher education, yet everyone is trying their best to be recommended to go to college.
Everyone is criticizing hedonism, saying that the poorer you are, the more glorious it is. However, deep down, everyone hopes that they can eat, drink, live well, and live a good life.
This world is indeed a huge paradox.
In Pan Changqing's opinion, Xie Yun's behavior of taking time out to write articles is a bit "unprofessional".
He is currently planning to develop a new research direction: high-precision CNC machine tools.
Xie Yun needs to spend more time on this. There are too many people involved in politics and too few in scientific research. People like Xie Yun should just be a figurehead deputy county magistrate, earning a high salary and focusing on scientific research.
Xie Yun certainly agreed and supported it wholeheartedly.
But you can't not write articles.
"Once I finish this, I will fully cooperate with you in machine tool research."
"Can't Xiao Mu write this?"
"Xiao Mu wrote hers, I want to make this a big one."
Everyone suddenly became interested and came over to ask her, "How do you do it?"
They knew that Xiao Xie had made an indelible contribution to Qushui County's current situation. Was she planning to "make something big"? Was she planning to do something big?
Xie Yun showed them his proposal and said, "I want to cooperate with the new college admissions process. It's finally happening, and college admissions are starting to focus on academic performance again. I think we should support this. I'm worried that some people will object, saying that those working on the front line don't have time to study, so I want to build momentum ahead of time and let everyone know that there are also people working on the front line who are both virtuous and academically excellent."
Li Zhixin suddenly realized, "So that's why you published that article praising the poor and lower-middle peasants for learning even when they didn't have the conditions to create them."
"Yes. Now I'm going to publish another initiative, calling on everyone to study while working, so that they don't delay either. Now, if anyone fails to learn well, they can no longer use the excuse that they were too busy working to study."
In fact, the requirements for cultural subjects in this year's college entrance examination are not high. As long as you reach the level of a junior high school graduate, you can be admitted.
Pan Changqing thought for a moment and said, "What you're doing will benefit the long-term development of education and help cultivate more talents. Go ahead and write it. I support you. It's okay if you start the machine tool research a few days later."
An expert asked her, "If this article is published in the provincial newspaper, only people in our province will see it. Will it have a national impact?"
"So I'm going to the provincial capital and ask Secretary Xia for a favor. He can recommend this article of mine to a national newspaper. Publish it there so that people all over the country can see it."
"Okay, okay, then go ahead and get busy. We won't bother you for the next two days."
This is the admission ticket for the 1952 exam. At that time, there were 8 subjects to be taken, and there were two additional subjects.
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