Chapter 143 From No One to Thunderous Applause
At three o'clock on Friday afternoon, I arrived at school on time with Yifan.
In order to allow all teachers to attend classes, the school was closed in the afternoon.
As soon as I entered the conference room, I realized something was amiss. Forty or fifty people sat in the audience, all listless. When I appeared, few of them even looked me in the eye. They were all laughing and gossiping, all around them.
Principal Cao cleared his throat. The scene quieted down a bit. A male teacher stood up and walked out. Principal Cao asked, "Where are you going?"
The male teacher replied: "I have to go to the bathroom urgently, but I'm not allowed to do that?"
Laughter echoed through the conference room. Then another male teacher stood up and said, "I need to pee too."
There was another burst of even more unbridled laughter.
Principal Cao said sternly, "Anyone who needs to pee urgently? Go now. Don't go in and out later."
A large group of people stood up, some even standing in the corridor to smoke, while others gathered in groups of three or five to chat and laugh.
Principal Cao had a stern face.
I noticed that among the people who hadn't left, there was a pair of eyes staring at me. It turned out to be Teacher He. I just exchanged glances with her but didn't say hello.
Yifan had already connected the laptop and was looking at me.
I lowered my head and said to him, "When I ask you to play a movie, I will tap the table gently."
It took about four or five minutes for the teachers to return to the conference room.
Principal Cao cleared his throat and said, "Today, we have invited Mr. Wan Shanhong, Vice President of the Municipal Prose Society, to give a lecture on educational psychology. Although Mr. Wan is young, he has considerable experience in educating children. Let's give him a warm round of applause."
The applause was sparse, and only the area around Teacher He clapped loudly.
I laughed a few times in my heart. It's just that he is a little more balanced in all subjects than me, Wan Shanhong, and was admitted to university. Some of them read a little, and some just muddled through for four years. Is it worth being so arrogant?
If I were in a different environment, I would have to call a few snakes to the conference door, catch one and coil it on my hand, and see if they still felt the urge to pee.
However, this is a place that claims to be civilized, and those present here are dubbed engineers of human souls, a group widely respected by society.
I cleared my throat and got straight to the point without any polite words:
"Dear teachers and friends, there must be a method to educate children. For example, this bottle of mineral water was bought by the school so that I can drink it when my lips are dry and thirsty while teaching. However, today I don't want to drink water, I want to drink some wine.
Why? Facing a group of you teachers with higher academic qualifications and more knowledge than me, I can’t continue speaking without drinking some wine to give myself courage.
Everyone was baffled, unsure if I really wanted a drink to boost my courage or if I was just being displeased with their earlier disrespect. Principal Cao, in particular, was a bit flustered. He interrupted with a smile, "President Wan, I overlooked this. We really don't have any wine here. How about going to buy a bottle?"
There is a bottle of mineral water on each teacher's desk.
I smiled and said, "Just find a cup. There's wine right here."
Teacher He immediately brought me some disposable cups.
I walked up to the first male teacher who said "I need to pee urgently" and asked with a smile, "Teacher, what's your name?"
"My last name is Zhang." He stared at me warily.
"Thank you for bringing me a bottle of wine." After saying that, I unscrewed the cap of the mineral water bottle and poured water into two disposable cups. I took one cup for myself and pointed to the other cup and said, "Drink this glass of wine, and you won't have to pee so badly."
All eyes were directed in this direction. Teacher Zhang raised the cup, put it to his lips, tried to take a small sip, and was so surprised that he didn't move for a long time.
The person next to him asked, "Is it wine?"
He nodded. He handed it to the person asking the question, who took a sip and passed it to someone else. I raised the cup, walked over to Principal Cao, and said, "This is for you, Principal."
There was a commotion in the meeting room. I didn't say anything until they had almost finished their drink.
"Our children may be like a glass of plain water. The way you use it will determine what it becomes. In my hands, this glass of water can become fine wine. Now, let me begin my lecture."
The atmosphere in the conference room changed immediately, from contempt for me to a touch of fear in the blink of an eye. Although they were all intellectuals, they knew someone like me had magical powers, and they were afraid to offend me, so they all pretended to be serious.
I tapped the table lightly and moved the mouse, and a line of large words immediately appeared on the screen - all humans are premature babies.
Are all humans premature? Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.
The scene changes. Across the vast plains, elephants roam leisurely, horses gallop, tigers roar, and lions roar. African buffaloes embark on a massive migration...
The scene switches to show a horse being born, a calf being conceived, and a tiger cub leaving its mother's womb. Then, these newly born animals can walk with their mothers, and some can even find food on their own...
In my deep baritone, I said, "Animals basically complete their physical development within their mother's body. Unlike humans, mothers don't need to spend two to three years teaching their children how to eat and walk. That's why humans are all premature babies, and human mothers are the greatest women of all."
The first round of applause spontaneously broke out in the conference room.
With the blessing of applause, I have become a passionate lecturer, speaking from animals to humans, from the hard work of parents to how to teach children to be grateful. Five thousand years, ninety thousand miles, like the Yellow River bursting its banks, rushing thousands of miles, like the Yangtze River rushing. Just a moment the wind was calm, and in an instant, the light boat has passed through thousands of mountains.
Only then did I realize how well Archimedes said it—give me a fulcrum, and I can move the earth. Give me a stage like the red mountains, and I can dance for the red mountains in the vast sky.
The teachers in the audience were completely immersed in my narration. They cried, laughed and thought with me.
They deeply feel that being disrespectful is a foolish act. If they were allowed to go on stage, those who could speak more vividly than me would not be as passionate as me. Those who were as passionate as me would not be as knowledgeable as me. Those who were as knowledgeable as me would not be as contagious as me.
In the classroom, heartfelt applause broke out from time to time. Several young ladies who had just started working had become my "die-hard fans". They stared at me intently, realizing that educating children was not just about empty talk, but that it could be done this way.
Several older female teachers, probably because their own children were disobedient, felt the same way. Their eyes welled up with tears, and they wiped the floor under the table with napkins.
Although it was the second time that Principal Cao heard it, he wiped away tears from time to time.
Finally, I waved my arms and said in a sonorous voice: "As long as we have a warm heart and the right methods, iron can be melted into water."
After saying this, I stopped abruptly.
Silence, silence. A pin drop would have made a loud noise. They were waiting for my next sentence. Only when they realized this was the finale did everyone react, and the thunderous applause seemed to lift the conference room.
When the meeting was over, everyone wanted to add me on WeChat, and I told them to add Yifan. As I said before, I added you on WeChat, and when I was answering your questions later, you thought I had read your Moments.
Principal Cao shook my hand tightly and said, "President Wan, this is the most enthusiastic and applauded meeting we've ever had at our school. Many famous professors have given lectures here before, but none of them had this atmosphere."
On the way home, Yifan said, "Give me 1,500 yuan, Uncle Wan, it's really worth it. I've never heard you speak before. You're better than Wang... He realized the metaphor was wrong, stuck out his tongue, and corrected it: "Even better than Su Qin and Zhang Yi."
I said, "A noble man speaks slowly. You should speak more slowly next time. Of course, apart from being a traitor, that man is indeed a good orator."
Yifan stuck out her tongue again.
I said, "The night talks business will definitely be booming. Some of these teachers will definitely come to me for night talks. You should read more books so that you can share the responsibility of the night talks in the future."
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