Hearing the shouts, the people in the courtyard all shook their heads.
An old man walked into the backyard and, hearing the crying from Liu Haizhong's room, shook his head. He couldn't interfere in this matter. After knocking on Wang Shouren's door and explaining things to him, he went home for dinner.
This matter is now considered closed.
Sha Zhu took a few days off, but Xu Damao still managed to spread the word about what happened. Suddenly, the rumors about Sha Zhu were even more rampant than before.
After the second uncle learned that Wang Shouren had sold his job, he treated Wang Shouren with utter disdain upon seeing him. He was completely unresponsive. However, Wang Shouren ignored him. He reverted to his original self, spending all his time hiding in his room reading.
Books in that era were not complicated, and there were only three subjects in total for the exams.
Chinese, mathematics, and politics.
In mathematics, thanks to the "quick wit" brought by the system and his own experience, picking it up again isn't too difficult. Once you understand the logical relationships along this path, mathematics is quite easy to get started with. The rest is just memorizing various formulas, and applying them isn't difficult either. However, he needs to be more careful with language arts. In this decade, certain intellectual pursuits are absolutely unacceptable; one's values must be sound.
Fortunately, before Wang Shouren transmigrated, he was a typical straight man. He didn't understand anything about romanticism or anything like that, and his choice of words and sentence structure was just like an old pedant.
Chinese and politics are subjects that rely heavily on memorization. This wasn't a difficult task for him.
Not much has changed in the courtyard house. But things have changed a lot once you get to the school.
The usually quiet guy suddenly ranked among the top five in the grade in an exam, which immediately caught the attention of the principal.
It wasn't that the principal doubted Wang Shouren; in those days, people were generally quite honest and simple, and while cheating did happen, it wasn't common. The principal wanted to know exactly how Wang Shouren had studied.
They summoned Wang Shouren directly to their office.
"Come, Wang, have a seat."
The principal was a middle-aged man with black-rimmed glasses, thin and with slightly sunken cheeks. Although he looked frail, he was full of energy. Wang Shouren didn't know the principal's name; he only knew that everyone usually called him Principal Li.
“Yes, Principal Li.” Wang Shouren sat down obediently. In this era, a principal was a very important person.
"The main reason I called you here today is to ask how you achieved such results in such a short time. Oh, please don't misunderstand, I'm not doubting you. I just want to know your methods, and if possible, I hope to promote these methods throughout the school," Principal Li said gently, adjusting his glasses.
"Huh? Principal... this, is this really okay?" Wang Shouren's excitement was just right.
In this day and age, such an achievement is considered an absolute honor.
Principal Li smiled and explained, "I need to make a judgment based on the situation; it may not be necessary."
"Oh...I see." Wang Shouren scratched his head, smiled sheepishly, and said, "Actually...actually...I..."
"Don't be nervous, speak slowly. Here, have a glass of water." Principal Li handed a water bottle to Wang Shouren.
Wang Shouren picked up the kettle, took a big gulp, and felt a little better. After sorting out his thoughts, he said, "Actually, from the beginning, it wasn't that I couldn't learn it, it was just that I didn't know how to learn it."
"Oh? How so?" Principal Li became somewhat interested.
“It’s like math. The teacher told us we needed to memorize those formulas, and I found it very difficult. Why did we need to memorize those formulas? What was their practical significance? I didn’t understand. Just a few months ago, I suddenly realized that it wasn’t that I couldn’t learn it, but that I hadn’t figured out the underlying structure of these things. I needed to build a theory in my mind first.”
Wang Shouren paused for a moment, then said, "I don't know if you know, but could I draw it for you?"
“Okay.” Principal Li took out some papers from under his desk and handed them to Wang Shouren.
Wang Shouren began to write and draw on the paper.
What he drew on paper is the mind map that will become famous in later generations.
Mind mapping was invented by the British in the 1960s. It is an effective graphic thinking tool for expressing divergent thinking. It is simple yet effective and efficient, making it a practical thinking tool.
Principal Li's expression was initially quite mild, but as Wang Shouren's drawing gradually appeared before his eyes, his expression became increasingly solemn.
When Wang Shouren finished painting it completely.
Principal Li said calmly, "It's a very good idea. How did you come up with it?"
Wang Shouren scratched his head sheepishly: "My teacher once said that all knowledge has a foundation, and you need to keep building houses on this foundation. If the foundation is not stable, the house will not be stable. I was thinking that the foundation and the house must be closely related, right? In addition, I usually memorize too many formulas, and sometimes I can't tell which one is which. So I was thinking, could I organize them in my mind?"
"Once I started organizing, I was amazed. I understood so many things." At this point, Wang Shouren paused, seemingly a little embarrassed, and said, "To be honest, I used to find learning very boring, but now I find it very interesting."
"Besides that, what made you fall in love with learning?" Principal Li asked more gently. "Actually, I just want all the children to fall in love with learning."
"this……"
"Is it inconvenient to say?"
“No, no, it was my father who passed away a few months ago. His last wish was for me to study hard so that I could find him a wife in the future, so we could be a family.” Wang Shouren clenched his fists, placed them on his knees, lowered his head, and did not continue speaking.
Principal Li seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, his tone tinged with apology: "I'm sorry, I brought up something that upset you."
"No, it's nothing... Principal, may I go now?" Wang Shouren still didn't look up.
"Okay, you can go now. Thank you for sharing." Principal Li kindly let Wang Shouren leave.
When Wang Shouren walked out of the principal's office, his back was slightly damp. He didn't dare to look up; he was afraid that Principal Li would see that he hadn't shed a single tear.
"Ding! You have successfully survived the first month. Sign-in reward - Tai Chi (Grandmaster). Please find a safe place to claim it. There will be some pain during the claiming process."
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