“Only by walking out of the mountains can you have a future that belongs to you.”
"So how can we get to the outside world?"
"I just need to study hard and get into an ideal university. If conditions permit, I will continue studying, take the postgraduate entrance exam, get a master's or doctoral degree, become a scientist, and contribute to the prosperity and development of our country."
"It doesn't matter if you don't want to be a scientist. Getting into a good university and finding a good job are both good options."
"So, students, what I want to tell you here is that just like scientists are working hard to leave Earth and explore the solar system, you are also scientists in the mountain village. Study hard and don't think about staying in the mountain village forever. Get out of this village and see the world outside."
"I don't expect everyone to get into Tsinghua University or Peking University, but I do hope that everyone will not give up any opportunity to study, leave the mountains, change their fate of poverty and backwardness, and strive for a better future for themselves and their families!"
"This is my only hope. I also hope that all the children can remember this, set a goal in their hearts to leave the mountains, and change their own destiny. Then, no matter what the outcome, their efforts will be worth it!"
Zhao Jun finished speaking with passion and emotion.
He is not a student of astronomy, but he is still filled with deep awe for the vastness and greatness of the universe.
Because only when people know how small they are, can they understand how magnificent the world is.
In this vast universe, tiny human beings are still working hard and exploring the universe with unwavering determination, which makes people feel how big the universe is and that human beings are changing the world by their own efforts.
This is probably the spirit of Yugong moving mountains.
When Zhao Jun talks about the universe, he is not simply teaching children about the vastness of the universe and the smallness of the earth.
Instead, I want to use the human spirit of trying to break out of the earth and explore the vast universe to illustrate that children in mountain villages should also work hard to learn knowledge and explore the world outside the mountains.
Scientists on Earth are also dust in the universe, but compared with the world of children, they at least have dreams and a spirit of exploration.
The children live in impoverished mountainous areas, and all they see is barren land and a life without a future.
This kind of life is a dead end.
Therefore, Zhao Jun hopes that children will have dreams and their own cognitive goals.
Even if you just get into an ordinary first or second tier university and find a good job in the city, it is better than staying in a poor mountainous area with no future.
This is what Zhao Jun wanted to express.
This is also the reason why the country is working hard to vigorously develop education and actively change the current situation of backward education in mountainous villages.
The respected teacher Zhang Guimei is a typical representative.
Zhao Jun did not expect himself, an ordinary volunteer teacher who had only been in Nini Village for two years, to be as great as Principal Zhang, but even if he could only change the students in a village primary school and prevent them from dropping out of school, getting married early, or going out to work, that would be good enough.
This will change the lives of many people.
After just one speech, Zhao Jun thought the whole audience would applaud, but the result was complete silence, which made him question his life.
Is it because what I said was too profound and no one could understand me?
That doesn't make sense.
Isn’t it using humanity’s breakthrough into the solar system to explore the universe to illustrate that children in mountainous areas should aspire to a wider world?
You should be able to understand it.
For a moment, Zhao Jun fell into deep self-doubt.
But what he didn't know was that his words were basically like talking to a cow.
The children were confused and the old maids had no idea what the master was talking about. Only Zhao Zhen, Lu Yijian and others looked at each other with somewhat surprised expressions.
After all, this is not in the impoverished mountainous area more than a thousand years later, but in the imperial palace of the Song Dynasty a thousand years ago.
If children and parents in mountain villages hear these words, they may empathize with them and encourage their children to study hard by imagining the vast world outside, hoping that they can go out and see the world.
But these children are all children of high-ranking officials. According to the Song Dynasty saying, they will all be the sons of so-and-so officials in the future, commonly known as the second or third generation of officials. How could they empathize with Zhao Jun's words about breaking out of the poor mountainous areas and heading towards the vast world outside?
Only Zhao Zhen, Lu Yijian and other people who stood at the top of the power structure of the Song Empire felt shocked. They were not shocked by Zhao Jun's chicken soup for the soul speech, but by realizing for the first time the smallness of this world and the vastness of the universe.
It turns out that the Celestial Empire they thought of was just a small piece of land in the entire world.
And this world is just a speck of dust in the solar system.
The solar system is also very small in the Milky Way.
The Milky Way is still so small that it is almost invisible in the entire universe.
In comparison, time and space become unimaginable in their eyes.
No matter how vast the Song Dynasty is, it is nothing compared to the entire universe.
Such a world and the insignificance of human beings deeply shocked people like Zhao Zhen who thought that the Song Dynasty was the center of the world.
It turns out that compared with the vast world, they are nothing.
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