"The sound of the wind and rain, the sound of reading, the sound of the ear; Family affairs, national affairs, world affairs, everything is concerned. Although this couplet by Gao Panlong, a member of the Donglin Party in the Ming Dynasty, was already familiar to Zhao Hongyi when he was in junior high school, the person who prompted him to develop a good habit of caring about current affairs and politics every day was the homeroom teacher Wang Jian'an, the teacher when he was in the third grade of the second division in Liangzhou.

Liangzhou No. 2 Division is located in Jiuliwan Village, at that time, the transportation was inconvenient, and it was very inconvenient to go to Liangzhou City, so every weekend, Zhao Hongyi and his classmates rarely went into the city to go shopping. On weekends, everyone's entertainment and relaxation mode is nothing more than playing ball, reading books, chatting, and of course, the greatest joy is to go to the classroom to watch TV. On Saturday morning, the members of the cultural and sports committee of the class would go to the school's electric classroom early with a few enthusiastic boys to go through the formalities of receiving the television. At that time, all the classes were distributed with the same Yellow River brand 17-inch black-and-white TV, although it was not a color TV, it was the best spiritual food for the students on the weekend! So in the thousands of calls of the classmates, those students did not dare to sweat, carefully carried the TV to the classroom, and put it firmly into the classroom TV cabinet, and then couldn't wait to plug in the power supply, pull the TV antenna, and constantly adjust the angle, until the TV picture showed the clearest state, everyone said again and again: "Okay!" All right! Hurry up and change the channel, and watch "Joke about Qianlong"! "You can't afford to delay a minute." The mountains and rivers can't carry too much sorrow, and the years can't afford to wait too long......" As soon as the familiar melody was turned on, everyone immediately stopped talking, and everyone quickly entered the plot.

After each episode is broadcast, it is a hateful advertisement, and the big guys shout in unison to change the channel, even if it is to watch the foreign TV series that everyone hates the most, it is more comfortable than watching commercials. However, there are always a few time periods that everyone can't bypass, that is, at 12 noon, 7 pm, and 10 pm, almost all TV stations that can be watched are broadcasting news. This is simply painful for the students who love to watch TV dramas, and everyone seems extremely impatient, constantly shouting: "Change the channel!" Change the channel! ”

I remember that it was more than 7 o'clock in the evening on a Saturday, and all the stations were broadcasting the "News Network" of the central set, and after the students who changed the channel made a few attempts, they said helplessly: "It's really annoying!" It's all news, there's nothing to watch, just turn off the TV and let it rest! Watch it again when the TV series starts! "At that time, there were more than 20 students in the classroom, and none of them objected, thinking that it didn't matter if they watched the news or not.

"Wait a minute, don't turn it off, I want to see the news!" I don't know when, Mr. Wang, the head teacher, came to the back of the classroom and was watching TV with everyone in the back. None of us was embarrassed to refute the teacher's face, so we had to reluctantly watch it together. Zhao Hongyi has forgotten most of the content of the news broadcast that night, and there seems to be a commentary on current affairs about Sydney's successful bid for the Olympics and Beijing's missed bid by two votes. After the news broadcast was over, Mr. Wang said: "Taking up a few minutes of everyone's precious time, I want to communicate with you about why you want to watch the news!" ”

"Man is a member of society, we have to be in contact with the outside world at any time, and as a citizen, a future teacher of the people, not caring about current affairs and politics, is not only ridiculous, but also quite dangerous! To use a popular analogy, current affairs news is like a barometer, and any guidelines and policies of the country will often be revealed in advance through it, which is related to what you eat in the bowl in the future, or drink thin! ”

Then Mr. Wang talked about other benefits of caring about current affairs news: it can enrich knowledge, expand horizons, improve the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, adhere to the correct political direction, improve political quality, enhance civic awareness, and become a teacher in the future, you can also use current affairs materials to stimulate students' interest in learning...... He said: "Take the news we reported on tonight's news broadcast that Sydney won the right to host the Olympics, why did Beijing fail? Why did Sydney impress the members of the Olympic Committee? Shouldn't it cause us to think deeply? We blindly criticize the injustice of the Olympic Committee, and we do it to be angry, is it useful? ”

He then gave two examples to further illustrate the benefits of caring about current affairs: one is that after the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield in China that year, the specific location was kept secret from the outside world, but the careful and cunning Japanese accurately deduced that the Daqing Oilfield was located in the northeast of China through the dress and relevant text reports on the photo of the iron man Wang Jinxi published in the People's Daily, and that the equipment and other information were urgently needed at that time, and obtained a large order in China; The second is that Hong Kong's big capitalists such as Fok Ying-tung and Li Ka-shing must read the front page of the People's Daily every day before breakfast......

After listening to Mr. Wang's words, everyone fell silent, and it seemed that in an instant, the news became no longer so hateful, and even cute. Zhao Hongyi, who watched the evening news that night very seriously, and from that night on, the students of the fifth class would always be seen in front of the newspaper reading column on campus. Zhao Hongyi also from then on, almost every day at noon, he would go to the school reading room to read newspapers and magazines, "People's Daily", "Guangming Daily", "Reference News", "Shaanxi Daily" and "Ankang Daily".

In the future, whether Zhao Hongyi went to school or participated in work, this habit has been maintained. No matter how busy he is with his studies and work every day, he always finds time to browse the news and learn about major events at home and abroad. This good habit of caring about current affairs has accompanied Zhao Hongyi for most of his life and has benefited him a lot: on the one hand, it has increased his knowledge of current affairs and brought him a lot of happiness, and on the other hand, it has indeed enhanced his political acumen. This subtle habit often brings Zhao Hongyi unexpected gains, and the important thing is that Zhao Hongyi can have a certain degree of foresight in life and work many times, so as not to deviate from the right direction and be in a passive situation.

Especially after going to work, Zhao Hongyi was assigned to work in a junior high school in a mountainous area, which was very closed, but the school subscribed to newspapers and magazines such as People's Daily, Ankang Daily and reference news, which became an important way for Zhao Hongyi to contact the outside world! For the People's Daily, which many teachers don't like to read, Zhao Hongyi is like a treasure and reads it carefully. For a period of time, because the finances were divided into food, the teachers' salaries were in arrears, and they could not be paid for several months, and everyone lived in a difficult situation, and some teachers could not even cook, and the teachers even went on strike for this reason. In those hard years, Zhao Hongyi had just joined the work, life was bitter, and he suddenly felt that the future was bleak, he had also been confused, painful, and even thought about resigning to work in the south. But Zhao Hongyi soon came out of the shadows because of reading books and newspapers! Because he cares about current affairs, he has an understanding of the country's financial difficulties and the way out in the short term, he is full of confidence in the country and the future, he believes that difficulties are always temporary, there will be bread, and there will be love! Therefore, although Zhao Hongyi was poor back then, he was never decadent! When he faces his students, when he faces the sacred profession of teacher, he always has endless strength! Reading books and newspapers brought warmth and light to Zhao Hongyi, illuminating his way forward.

Many years have passed, whenever Zhao Hongyi browses Sohu news, reads newspapers and magazines, and learns through the platform of "Learning to Power the Country", he always remembers that night 26 years ago, the head teacher Mr. Wang taught a group of seventeen or eighteen-year-old young people who were watching TV.

Do you remember the big-eyed girl who touched countless people? The big-eyed girl was named Su Mingjuan, and a photo made her famous all over the country. Her big clear eyes reveal a thirst for knowledge and a yearning for the future. Her big eyes deeply shocked the whole country, because her eyes were big and bright, and they were extremely pure, and her eyes were full of positive energy.

In 1989, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the China Youth Development Foundation proposed the Hope Project. With the help of Project Hope, countless children on the verge of dropping out of school have once again embarked on the path to education.

On the day after the National Day, the Youth League Committee and the Student Union jointly launched an activity to donate to the Hope Project and save out-of-school children.

A red proposal was posted in front of the school building, and reports about the Hope Project were broadcast over and over again on the campus radio. The students were enthusiastic one by one, I really didn't expect that in the 90s of the 20th century, there would be so many out-of-school children in our country, which is really shocking! Who can say that there will be no future leaders, scientists, writers and artists among such a large contingent? They are all an indispensable part of our Chinese nation, and we must not allow them to drop out of school prematurely and become illiterate in the new era.

Even if we save some rations, we have to give our love! Hundreds of millions of people will take action, and they will surely gather into a huge force. According to the financial ability of their families, the students have generously donated their love. As we all know, although their kindness cannot solve the problem of all out-of-school children going to school, the children who are helped care about! This is like the very famous story: after a wave, there are many fish on the beach, and a little boy is busy picking up the small fish and putting them back in the sea, and some adults say, how can you save so many fish, they won't care about you. The little boy said something that embarrassed adults, although I can't save all the fish, but the fish that have been saved care!

Children drop out of school, mostly because of financial problems, and they can't afford to go to school. There are also a small number of parents who think that going to school is useless, and it is better to go home to work to generate income, and most of them are girls. Therefore, the Youth League Committee of the school has launched a second phase of work, asking everyone to investigate the children who have dropped out of school in their hometowns, and let these children return to school through a letter to their parents or home visits.

There are a few such children in Zhao Hongyi's hometown, not far from his home, they are all acquaintances, and a few of them are related to the Zhao family. In fact, during the summer vacation, Zhao Hongyi once persuaded the parents of these children to at least support their children to finish junior high school. But these parents didn't buy it at all, and at that time, a new round of "reading is useless" was noisy, saying that "it is better to build an atomic bomb than to sell tea and eggs", and "it is better to teach than to shine shoes", they are very stubborn in their thinking, thinking that after the children finish elementary school, knowledge is enough: as long as they can write their own names, it is enough to be able to count bean sprouts.

Zhao Hongyi went through the parents of these students in his mind, selected two parents who thought they could do a good job, and wrote a sincere letter respectively, describing in detail the reasons why they wanted to study, hoping that their conscience would be found or their hearts could be touched to let the dropout children return to class. After one of the parents received the letter, he was moved and his thoughts were loose, and Zhao Hongyi wrote to his father again, saying that this was a political task issued by the school, and asked him to come to help with the work, and finally the child returned to school, and finally graduated from junior high school, and later went to the south to work, earning a lot of money, and still often thinking about the good of Zhao Hongyi's family. Another parent, after receiving the letter, said that Zhao Hongyi was not a place, saying that he didn't know what his surname was when he went to a middle school, so he wrote a letter to teach him! looks like a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, after Zhao Hongyi received the letter from his father, he was simply angry, and his kindness was treated as a donkey's liver and lungs!

Donating to the "Hope Project" and persuading dropout children to return to school is the first public welfare thing Zhao Hongyi did in his life, and he has experienced the happiness of helping others!