Just after the National Day, there was news from the Academic Affairs Department that David Taylor, the chief professor of the Foreign Cooperation Office of the New Wales Government TAFE College in Australia, was invited to visit the Beijing Institute of Technology. This is the first time since the establishment of the higher vocational class that the school has interacted with its peers in higher vocational education and is a pacesetter in the industry, which is of great significance. It's just that this news doesn't mean anything to Tang Dashu in his previous life, and it doesn't have any repercussions for the vast majority of current students. While the New Wales State TAFE Institute is the largest tertiary education training group in the Southern Hemisphere, part of the Federal Department for Education, and is the world's largest and most influential government education institution---- so what?

The school's preparations are in full swing, and the itinerary is roughly arranged: teaching achievement exhibition, higher vocational education exploration, visit to the comprehensive education building... Another is the on-site teaching tour. Because there is only one higher vocational class for the 95th and 96th grades, the 95 higher vocational class, as the big brother, is very likely to be selected, so the teachers from the class teacher, the grade tutor to the teachers of various subjects who teach are also busy.

Dormitory hygiene has been mentioned in the first place, and the Chinese have had a way of cleaning and welcoming guests since ancient times, and it is even more reasonable to treat foreign guests. Moreover, student housekeeping has always been a business card of the Beijing Institute of Technology's external publicity, and the so-called militarized management is fully implemented, which does have a reputation in the city's secondary schools.

To say that the students of more than ten years ago are really simple, there are housekeeping requirements in the first month of military training for each freshman: towels should be neatly hung on the wire hanging on the top of the dormitory center, washbasins should be placed on the shelves in order in order, toothbrushes should be arranged in the same direction in the tea jar, quilts should be folded into tofu blocks, luggage racks should be neat and beautiful, shoes should be arranged in a line on the ground... This requirement has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, so that Tang Dashu still has an obsessive-compulsive disorder for many years after he has worked, and he is untidy and uncomfortable.

However, with the improvement of "qualifications", gradually these requirements are not as strict as they were at the beginning, of course, the reason is very sufficient, and the problem is very objective: the original unified towels, dental jars, and basins will be broken, and the new ones may not be able to guarantee that they can still be neatly arranged; The quilt issued by the school is not enough to keep out the cold, and the big quilt brought at home is too fluffy to prevent it from puffing up... If it weren't for the fact that the student department would organize a civilized dormitory evaluation every semester, the dormitory with the lowest ranking would be named and hung with the title of "dirty, messy, and poor dormitory", and the entire dormitory would definitely be a huge garbage dump.

Of course, these transformations are taking place slowly at a pace that is invisible to the eye, so that everyone enjoys the transformation, which shows how true the saying is that the environment shapes people. After all, not everyone is perverted and willing to fold quilts or tidy up housekeeping every day, in the words of Liu Xiaoxin, the laziest person in the dormitory, "make the dormitory home not like home", and I don't know that his definition of home will be so warm.

The student department strictly ordered that this health assault should be refreshed from the inside out like a civilized dormitory competition, so that what should be a very happy weekend can only pick up a broom and mop to fight. This is true for dormitories, classes, and campuses. However, hard work pays off, and the environment of the whole school is indeed different, and even looking at beautiful women is much more pleasing to the eye.

The most important moment has finally arrived. On a bright morning, the school leaders, teachers of the Student Affairs Division and the Academic Affairs Department had a cordial conversation with the visiting Australian guests, and visited the exhibition of our school's infrastructure construction and teaching achievements. During the period, Professor David fully affirmed the exploration of higher vocational education in our university, and the two sides shared the gains and losses in a friendly atmosphere, and hoped that the two universities would continue to have in-depth exchanges.

These are the original words in the school newspaper.

At the same time, there is often a large group of people on campus surrounding a foreigner, and the school is really enthusiastic about foreigners. Although many students could not linger around, they could not stop them from looking at the white-skinned and blue-eyed foreign professor from a distance.

This phenomenon occurred and Tang Dashu felt that it was very normal. At that time, this was the norm in China from the government to the people, and there was a natural admiration for foreign countries and foreigners (let's say it was courtesy), an inferiority complex for the wealthy class in the underdeveloped stage, and a curiosity about unfamiliar scenes, all at the same time. Unlike later generations, when foreigners were seen on the Avenue on the Bund as if they were all right, the country's attitude towards foreigners was neither humble nor arrogant. At that time, he can be regarded as a citizen with a sound mind, and he cannot be demanding anything at this time.

The intersection came in the afternoon. During the class, Zhao Yuan, the deputy head of the student section, hurriedly walked through the corridor to the door of the higher vocational class, and directly pushed the door to the computer teacher in the class and said: "Foreign guests will come to visit our class immediately, please be ready!" ”

The students were instantly boiling, and they could finally see what the foreigner looked like up close; The computer teacher was also excited, although her class was audited more than once or twice, she should have passed the age of excitement.

Only Tang Dashu is very calm. That time, the foreigner did come for a while and asked a few questions, as if it was about computer knowledge, and then Mr. Du, who taught secondary school English as a translator, stammered and relayed, and then Mr. Dai, who taught English at a higher level, hurried to the rescue. In total, it was less than ten minutes to appear, and they only stayed at the podium for a while before leaving. If you want to evaluate that site visit, you can only use the word failure.

This mistake is not surprising: computers were far from being widely available at the time, and they were a mysterious existence in the minds of ordinary people. Even computer teachers do not have full-time personnel, and they are all rushed into operation after the school organizes in-service teachers to conduct short-term training. Tang Dashu clearly remembers that in the second year of school, there were jokes about each class organizing to look at the mouse. In this way, it is a half-baked person who teaches computers, and Mr. Du, who is responsible for translation, is a self-taught English major, and I am afraid that he is not very familiar with computers.

The foreigner opened his mouth, and the Chinese ran and broke his leg, this is his whole impression of that visit. Of course, it was also the first time in his life that he saw a foreigner.

After hearing the news, the teaching could no longer be carried out normally. The computer teacher was absentmindedly teaching Word, and the students were all looking at the lecture but glancing out the window out of the corner of their eyes.

After a while, a large number of people entered the corridor, and then a large number of people rushed through the window, and then a tall, high-nosed foreigner entered the classroom, accompanied by the principal, the vice-principal, and the head of the academic affairs department. They were accompanied by Teacher Du, a very quiet and intellectual young woman. It seems that his rebirth has not changed the original trajectory, everything is too familiar.

The next series of English stunned everyone, but Tang Dashu heard it clearly, it was nothing more than a cold noise. David first apologized for disturbing the normal teaching order of the computer teachers, and then politely praised the school for opening computer courses in line with the times and advanced technology, and then discussed with the teachers the school's views on the content of computer teaching.

It's strange what the half-way monk computer teacher can say, she just teaches everyone to learn some simple DOS commands according to the requirements of the Academic Affairs Section---- an operating system before the advent of the Windows system, and then switch to word for word processing after starting. In the computer class of the 96th school year, Tang Dashu's main learning content is to be familiar with an input method and then use it for text editing, and then use a floppy disk to import, store, transfer out or modify a series of things that now seem boring. But at that time, everyone was happy to do it, and this was the gap between the times.

"We have added a new professional computer room, which allows students to have the opportunity to practice on the computer once a week... I think paperless office is a great progress and trend in computer applications, and the printed text is clean, neat, clear, and convenient... We also plan to offer computer application courses in all classes when the conditions are ripe, so that every student can master this advanced tool..."The computer teacher mechanically recites the prepared lecture notes, which is very Chinese.

But her answer is obviously not bright, is the role of the computer reflected in typing? Our goal is that every student can type? This answer, which later seemed very ridiculous, could have been listed as the school's long-term teaching plan at that time!

David nodded perfunctorily, the current Tang Dashu has surpassed the stage of admiring foreign people and can easily see it, after all, after a few years of work, he still understands their style more thoroughly. The foreigner's habit is to grasp the main points, and this kind of Chinese bureaucratic answer is difficult to obtain his approval, which is worth learning from the Chinese.

Then the point came, and as expected, he suddenly asked a question: "In terms of the development of computers, what kind of changes do you think the advent of Windows 95 will bring to teaching in schools?" How do you think we can respond to this change? ”

This question is out of the outline! Although Window 95 was launched in August last year, the northern city where the Beijing Institute of Technology is located is neither at the forefront of reform and opening up that can keep pace with the times, nor is it a provincial capital, it is also one of several secondary schools in the city, and it is impossible for it to complete this kind of leap at once, because neither the teachers nor the hardware investment is allowed. The best computer in the school does have this system installed, but few people can apply it, and the teachers in the computer room are still groping.

But it can't be cold, the computer teacher played freely and said a few words. Her explanation probably made her mouth last even when she heard it, right? In this way, Mr. Du, who is in charge of translation, is even more painful---- the original level is not satisfactory, and he doesn't understand the meaning of the computer teacher at all, so the embarrassment of having no way to enter the ground is understandable.

Tang Dashu saw that the computer teacher's face turned from blue to white, and the face of the school leader also turned from white to black. The accompanying teachers all knew that something was wrong, and suddenly the sound became quieter, only the sound of hurried footsteps came from the staircase. As expected, it was Mr. Dai, the official translator, who came.

At this moment, a burst of very fluent English suddenly sounded in the classroom: "Professor David, can you allow me to share my views on this issue as a student?" ”