Bringing the expectation of the alma mater to the glory of life

Bringing the expectation of the alma mater to the glory of life

——Mr. Yu Minhong’s speech at the 2010 New Year’s High School Graduation Ceremony

Dear parents, teachers, classmates, leaders of Yangzhou City:

good afternoon everyone!

Mr. Wang Xiuwen, vice president of New Oriental Education Technology Group and president of Beijing New Oriental Yangzhou Foreign Language School, and Gao Hao, director of the New Oriental International High School Program Department, have suggested to me that the graduation ceremony of New Oriental International High School will be held on June 6 of each year. I have said that I will stay for the International High School on June 6th every year. On June 6th, it was a very auspicious day. In the traditional Chinese culture, the number 66 is the meaning of Dashun. It actually contains a blessing to the students: I hope that the students will be able to go all the way in the future.

Every time I came to the campus of Yangzhou, I was very excited. Not only the international high school, but also so many teachers and so many students in the whole campus, there are so many trees growing taller and taller on campus. Although the river on the campus is still a bit stinky, with the improvement of the municipal engineering, the river will soon be clean.

When I first built this school, it was still a farmland. It is hard to imagine that our campus today is so modern. Teacher Wang just introduced the campus from the groundbreaking to the present eight years. In the past eight years, we have gained a lot of recognition. The trees on the campus have grown up, the students have grown up, and the New Oriental itself has actually grown up.

I often say that if I choose a future destination, I will choose to change position with Teacher Wang Xiuwen: I am the principal of Yangzhou School and ask him to go to Beijing as the chairman. Because here I can grow up with my classmates and here, it is here that I can feel what a real New Oriental is. Although more than 2 million students are trained in New Oriental each year and are increasing at a rate of 20% per year, the new Oriental students who have graduated from New Oriental are the students present here, 19 last year and 81 this year. Of course, including the students of the ordinary high school of Beijing New Oriental Yangzhou Foreign Language School, today I also went to see nearly 200 students who are going to the college entrance examination battlefield. They are also fighting for their future. Their struggle and every one of us here. The struggle of classmates is the same meaning and the same kind of effort.

Thanks to the parents, thank you for everything that our parents have given us.

Now, we are going to the future. Before going to the future, there are still a few things that students must do: The first thing is to express gratitude to parents. Not every family has the conditions to send their children abroad. . I have just read the list of admissions schools for all the students. Most of these universities are ranked in the world before Peking University and Tsinghua University. In these universities, you will receive a completely different education from Chinese universities. It is a completely different education from your high school stage. This is an open mind, a further challenge to everyone's wisdom, and a further expansion of the horizon. You can have such an opportunity, not given by New Oriental. To be frank, it is not just that you can get it by yourself. What is more important is that parents have created such a platform for you.

Chinese parents are particularly remarkable. They prefer to sell their own irons and have a bright future for their children. I believe that among the more than 80 students who are going abroad to study, not every family has tens of millions and hundreds of millions of families. The parents of many students are sure to save money and find ways to build a good way out for your future. Regardless of whether your parents are rich or hardworking, we must thank our parents and thank our parents for paving the way for us to go international. Their wish is very simple, that is, I hope that everyone will go all the way. Students should not be sorry for themselves, of course, don't be sorry for their parents, because parents are really not easy. This is the first thanks, thanks to parents.

Thank you, thank you for your efforts

We also want to thank ourselves, why should we thank ourselves? Because if we don't work hard, no matter how good the teachers of New Oriental and how rich your parents are, it is impossible to get your current achievements. You have proved by fact that most of the students are working hard for their future.

The students have a seed in their hearts, a seed that wants to grow up like a tree, not just a grass. Although the grass is also very cute, if we are a small grass in our lifetime, the contribution we make for ourselves, the contribution to the family, and the contribution to society, China and the world will be extremely limited. It is our own willingness to grow up, so every student here has the possibility to enter these universities. I just looked at the list of college students very seriously. I also attended many schools when I was at Peking University. I contacted, but I was rejected by them all, including Pennsylvania State University, where Wang Xiuwen graduated. Today, I have been to many universities, such as the University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, and Indiana University, Bloomington, etc. They all have beautiful campuses, a quiet learning environment, where you will open new Life.

Leave the past to memory, the future is just beginning

The classmates are now growing up, and they have finally given themselves an explanation and gave their parents an account. But this account is only the beginning, the past has been reserved for memory, and the future is yet to be created. To have more beauty, we must rely on our own efforts every day. After everyone goes to a foreign country, the efforts will really begin. In the future, we have to prove ourselves and prove that we can make a career. The success of your career is not directly related to what kind of university you are studying in the United States, but it is closely related to your level of effort. I have not been to the United States to study, I am still working hard, and President Wang Xiuwen is still working hard at the Pennsylvania State University. Our teachers and parents are continuing to work hard. People are the process of hard work for a lifetime. In the process of this effort, there are achievements, joy, loss, and tears.

Life is the process of alternating joys and sorrows. As for the final outcome of life, whether it is a big success or a big failure, it is actually not important to the classmates. What is really important is that when you look back on your life, you can say to yourself, this life I It’s worth it. Master Hong Yi has lived a life of two generations in his life. He lived in the first half of his life and enjoys luxury. After entering the Buddhist world for the rest of his life, although he was alone, he created a miracle in the Buddhist world. Before he died, he wrote four words: sadness and joy. People in this life is the process of sadness and joy, but sadness is tragic and tragic, and happiness is generous. This is the realm of our lives, so I don’t want my classmates to become billionaires or the president of the United States in the future. I hope that everyone will live a kind of atmosphere and live a feeling when you face the mountains and rivers and face the world. At that time, I can feel that I have come to this world is a great person. I feel that my struggle, tears and joy are all worthwhile. I have enjoyed my life!

Obsessed with the process of pursuing happiness

In the future, parents may be able to help you pay for the four-year tuition fee for the university. The road still depends on you. In principle, when you go to the third and fourth grades of college, you should actually earn your own tuition, but it is not an exaggeration to let parents pay tuition for four years. However, on the road of life in the future, the students will struggle on their own and cannot rely on their parents. Some students may say that my parents are billionaires. If they graduate from college, they will inherit the parents' property and live leisurely. You can do this, but you will completely eliminate all your chances of pursuing happiness throughout your life. Because one of the most important sources of happiness is the sense of accomplishment, and through continuous efforts to achieve achievements, this is the real happiness. Therefore, I would like to thank the students themselves, you have worked hard, you are still working hard, and you will have to work harder to succeed in the future.

Teacher, who is worthy of respect forever

You have to thank your teacher. The teachers in New Oriental are still very young. Not everyone is mature, and not everyone has experience in studying abroad, but each of them is very dedicated. We have a lot of naughty students, because it is impossible to be naughty when young. I was even more so when I was young. When I was in high school, I took the whole class to go out to swim. When the school’s food was not good, I took the whole class with a hunger strike for two days to protest and toss the director. Half dead. Youth is related to naughty. If we are not naughty even when we are young, this youth is not worth remembering. However, the naughty of the students also brought a lot of pressure to the teachers, a lot of hard work. We may not realize this now. When I graduated from Peking University as a teacher, I realized how hard it was for the naughty students.

Teachers in New Oriental are very patient. Although our teachers are not perfect, every teacher's teaching is extremely serious. Every teacher tries to pass on his knowledge to everyone, and he is excellent in his character and personality. The things that have been taught to everyone have also made everyone's three years in New Oriental a perfect ending for today's perfect day. Frankly speaking, the students can have today, the teacher is not easy, so no matter how many good memories, bad memories, no matter how much love and hate you have for the teacher, today At this moment of the graduation ceremony, it was completely dispelled, leaving only a beautiful memory. Just as I recalled when I was beaten by my mother when I was a child, my heart produced a sense of well-being, but when I was beaten, I couldn’t wait to jump into the river every time. In fact, no matter how severe the teacher is, what is included is an expectation for you, a kind of love.

Such a team makes me confident

Here, I would like to thank Teacher Wang Xiuwen and Gao Song, both of whom are returnees from the United States. Yangzhou is a beautiful place, but it really can't be very big. The returnees like them are generally not easy to stay in such a quiet place. Especially like Wang Xiuwen, the young and the strong, the wife and the child are often not around. Teacher Gao Wei is also more powerful and strong. Her lover sometimes flies to New York, sometimes flies to Beijing, and there is not much time to come to Yangzhou. Let them do their best to lead the teachers here to make this school. Ok, it’s really not easy. In this quiet city, the teachers not only stayed with peace of mind, but also spent eight years to accompany their students to grow up. Eight years later, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was over, and the teachers did not know how much effort they had devoted. Mr. Wang Xiuwen and Gao Song’s knowledge and expertise in overseas life and overseas universities are not available to me. Without them as leaders, I can’t imagine what New Oriental International High School would do.

Finally, I would also like to thank my high school classmate, the president of Nanjing Middle School in Jiangsu Province, who is a naughty person in high school. The principal sent the students who are willing to go abroad to Nanfang International High School to help the children study abroad. In the past year, they were 13 students. This year, the number has increased to 20, and the team is still growing. This is a kind of trust for us, and it also shows confidence and expectation for the bright future of our students. I would also like to thank the study consultants of New Oriental Futures Consulting Co., Ltd., represented by Feng Yun, who are very important, because every letter you write is more attractive after their touches; you contacted Every school has been carefully thought through; every experience of yours, after their refinement, is more convincing, and makes the students look even more dazzling.

I meet New Oriental students on many college campuses in the United States. In the future, I believe I will meet more. The same is true for classmates. On any campus in the United States, there will be more and more classmates. This year, more than 20,000 Chinese students went to the United States to study undergraduate courses. 81 of us are just a drop in the ocean, but when you walk into every campus, you will meet New Oriental students. Because more than 80% of Chinese students have participated in New Oriental training, but only you can proudly say, "We are the real students of New Oriental, because we have been in the New Oriental campus for three years." I also hope that, whether it is ten years, Twenty years or thirty years later, when all the students present here mentioned New Oriental, they still feel that New Oriental is the most memorable place in your life, and the pride of your life.

Thank you parents, thank the students, thank the teachers, thank you!

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