There can be no doubt that education is quite important.

Since the primitive age of ignorance and group dwelling in caves and entering the age of enlightenment culture, human beings have had their own language and writing, and have gradually understood how to understand the world, transform the world, and create the world, and gradually move towards civilization and development, and towards the era of cutting-edge science and technology.

All this is inseparable from the work of education.

This is because only by improving education and improving people's quality and ability can people make inventions and create something.

The great men also said that an army without culture is a stupid army, and a stupid army cannot defeat the enemy.

That is to say, if the culture is backward, it will make people simple-minded and shallow-minded, and this will inevitably be backward, and if they cannot catch up with the developed ones, they will be bullied, not to mention advanced.

The historical facts of the Manchu dynasty in China can prove this.

The Qing Dynasty was dark and corrupt, only knew how to brutally exploit and oppress the people, and flourished, shackled the people's thoughts, stifled the people's creativity, and the Qing Dynasty was closed to itself, and China at that time was quite backward.

The imperialists opened the door of the Qing Dynasty to seclusion and self-defense with guns, and they poured in, frantically looting property, bullying and shooting the Chinese people.

At that time, the Qing army also fought with the imperialist bandits, but the weapons used were too backward to be broadswords and spears, while the imperialist robbers used guns and cannons, although the Chinese soldiers had the spirit of not afraid of death, and in the end the whole army was wiped out.

Later, although the Beiyang Naval Division carefully created by Li Hongzhang was more advanced, it was far less sophisticated than the imperialist bandits' weapons, and it was inevitable that they would be wiped out.

The cruel historical facts warn people that if they are backward, they will be beaten, so the prerequisite for being advanced and developing science and technology is to do a good job in education.

Deng Lao said that "education-oriented", and the executors of education work, teachers, are more important, if there is no them, who will develop education?

Moreover, the work of education is very arduous, and the task of teachers is very difficult, and it is by no means easy and easy, but full of thorns and bumps.

From the perspective of social conditions, it is easier to do any work in the world than to do human work, and it is more difficult to do human work than to do any work.

Take the production of products by workers as an example, as long as the workers do it according to the specifications of the model, the products can be produced.

The product is mindless and thoughtless and at the mercy of man, and it is like raising animals and animals, as long as their material needs are satisfied, it will grow normally, although it has vitality and aura than dead things, it is still stupid compared to humans, and it will not consciously resist or oppose people.

But people are very different.

Man is the most advanced animal in the biological world, he has a brain, he has the ability to think, and he has a sense of resistance.

That is to say, everything he does is governed by the brain, that is, the activity of the mind is dictated, he can do whatever he wants, he will do what suits him, and he will not do what he wants.

How to unify people's minds and be constrained by certain social consciousness and moral norms is a very arduous task, and education work has precisely this task.

From another point of view, because the consciousness and concepts left in people's minds by different types of social systems for thousands of years are deep-rooted, and for each person, they are very different, and it is very difficult to remove the concepts that do not conform to social consciousness and moral norms in everyone's mind and unify them into one consciousness, and it is not something that can be completed at one time.

The great men also commented on this point: The work of being a human being is the most difficult, and the ideological work is long-term and can never be completed overnight, and this kind of work is meticulous and patient.

It is necessary to convince people with reason, and we must not be simple and rude, still less can we use force to solve the problem.

This is true not only for adults, but also for immature teenagers.

As a teacher, he must understand this and also recognize the enormity of the work of education. Educational work includes ideological work and the imparting of scientific and cultural knowledge.

The arduousness of doing ideological work has been explained above, so is it easy or difficult to impart scientific and cultural knowledge?

A large number of facts have proved to be not easy, and no less arduous.

The whole universe is vast and mysterious.

The mystery is not obvious, and it has to be explored and studied by human beings.

A lot of knowledge is like this, and then it is recognized, and then the teacher is a communication tool to teach the ignorant teenagers, so that they can understand and understand, and then apply and even explore, it is quite not easy, teachers need to use scientific methods, good guidance to enlighten young people, which requires teachers to have the spirit of selflessness and selfless dedication of all their efforts.

Being a teacher is honorable, great, and at the same time not easy.

It has been said that the teacher is the engineer of the human soul, the diligent gardener, the one who is close to God.

How easy and simple it is to say, but how difficult and complex it is.

As a teacher itself, we must not only have a high sense of responsibility and selfless dedication, but also have profound knowledge, noble sentiments, a modest and kind attitude, and a patient and meticulous work style.

Among the above items, the most important are professionalism and responsibility, which are the soul and commander of the other items.

If a teacher is not very ambitious and has no sense of responsibility, then he will not work seriously, and will be a monk for a day and hit the clock for a day.

On the contrary, if a teacher has a strong sense of professionalism and a high sense of responsibility, he will be conscientious and meticulous.

Secondly, the spirit of selfless work, that is, a spirit of selfless dedication, is also very important.

Some people say that teachers are like spring silkworms, whose lives never stop spinning, and teachers are like candles, which burn endlessly before they become ashes.

Spinning silk warms the world, burning and illuminating others.

However, such teachers themselves are exhausted and exhausted.

As the saying goes, "the spring silkworm is dead to the end, and the wax torch turns to ash and tears begin to dry".

How many have we ever seen: When everything is quietly sleeping, under the light in the mullioned window, it is the people's teachers who are carefully correcting their homework; when the wind is blowing and the rain is falling, it is the people's teachers who brave the wind and rain to visit the students' homes; when the scorching sun is like a fire, it is the people's teachers who are running around and sweating to save a student who has lost their footing; and when thousands of miles of ice and snow are drifting, it is the people's teachers who carry the disabled students home on the bumpy road......

Teachers selflessly dedicate their light and heat to students, so that students feel the warmth and love of the world, all of which multiply the spiritual strength of students, and they study hard and strive to shape themselves.

The teachers are so selfless and dedicated, what do they ask for? What do they get? They take nothing, and they get nothing, just as Lu Xun said, what they squeeze out is blood and milk, but what they eat is grass.

Don't you believe what I'm saying? Let me tell you.

An old teacher in Bei'an, who has been teaching for more than 30 years, has only dedicated his life, has nothing to take, lives in poverty, has neither a color TV nor a refrigerator, only an old desk, and a 14-inch black and white TV, but he is extremely responsible for his work and cares about his students.

There was also a teacher, who had been sick all the time, but who did not miss classes a day, passed out on the podium several times, was taken to the hospital by students, and died four hours later.

In today's new tide of reform, teachers are even more selfless and dedicated, firmly standing on the education front, preferring to live an ordinary life, and never give up teaching and business as a big money.

Secondly, education requires teachers to have profound knowledge and noble sentiments, which are also generally possessed among teachers.

In addition to their busy work, they study hard in the business, they can not be known by their stupidity, they use their profound knowledge to guide students to invent and create, for the four modernizations to cultivate a reserve army.

Teachers use their own high style and bright festival to teach and cultivate students' sentiments, which is the role of teachers.

In short, education is the foundation of governing the country, and the role of teachers is more important, so teachers should always make selfless contributions.

(May 1992)