I have seen the deeds of many excellent teachers, many teachers have forgotten themselves in their lives and put all their body and mind on their students, some teachers use their limited salaries to subsidize poor students, and are deeply afraid that students will drop out of school, some teachers use their own income to buy teaching tools, some teachers carry students to school, hold students' hands through the rapids, take dangerous roads, and some teachers drag their disabled bodies to stick to their posts, many deeds are touching and tear-jerking. This is the great love of the world. We should vigorously publicize and carry forward the advanced deeds and noble moral character of outstanding teachers among the vast number of teachers and in the whole society.

-- "Be a Good Teacher to the Satisfaction of the Party and the People: Speech at the Symposium with the Representatives of Teachers and Students of Beijing Normal University" (September 9, 2014)

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A chalk book spring and autumn, a three-foot podium boundless love. Who doesn't have an enlightenment teacher in their memory?

Open the newspaper and click on the Internet, and you will always be moved by the teacher's deeds. A teacher in Taizhou, Zhejiang, has subsidized 300,000 yuan for poor students in 23 years, and commutes by bicycle by frugality; A one-armed disabled teacher in Yibin, Sichuan Province, has been guarding a three-foot podium in a classroom made of stones in the mountains and has not left for 30 years; A female teacher in Shiyan, Hubei Province, who has been rooted in the mountains for 35 years, has carried students across the river hundreds of thousands of times...... These great loves in the world have moved countless people.

There are many more teachers, who have become the moral bellwether of this era. During the Wenchuan earthquake, Tan Qianqiu, a teacher at Dongqi Middle School in Deyang, Sichuan, was in class, and he quickly organized the evacuation of students downstairs. Knowing that several of the students had not yet left, he returned to the fourth floor and used his arms to cover the four students tightly under him at the moment when the concrete ceiling was about to fall. When his body was found in the rubble, he was lying on the podium with his arms open. Zhang Lili, a teacher at the 19th Middle School in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province, was praised by netizens as "the most beautiful female teacher". On the evening of May 8, 2012, at the critical moment when a bus suddenly lost control and rushed towards the students, Zhang Lili stepped forward and was caught under the car in order to rescue the students, resulting in comminuted fractures of both legs and high-level amputation. Their deeds moved China.

Xi Jinping has not forgotten his teacher's kindness and set an example for respecting teachers and valuing education. He would send greetings and blessings to his teachers every Chinese New Year. During his work in other places, whenever he had the opportunity to come to Beijing for meetings or to deal with party and government work, he would always take some time to visit the teachers who had taught him. On the eve of Children's Day in 2014, Xi Jinping came to visit children at the National Primary School in Haidian District, Beijing, and specially invited his junior high school Chinese teacher, Chen Qiuying, who was later transferred to the Children's Publishing House. He smiled and said to Mr. Chen, "I still remember when I was in the first grade of junior high school, you taught us Chinese and explained the texts very well.

The Soviet educator Zankov said: "The essential, if almost the most important, quality of being a teacher is love for students." "Telling the story of teachers on Teacher's Day, Xi Jinping used touching details to evoke the deepest emotions in everyone's hearts, which not only conveyed the value of respecting teachers and valuing education, but also set a benchmark for all teachers.

In Xi Jinping's view, to be a good teacher, you must have ideals and beliefs, moral sentiments, solid knowledge, and benevolence. Xi Jinping put forward the "four haves" standard, painting a portrait of a good teacher in the new era. He also quoted old sayings such as "It is easy to find a teacher, but it is rare to find a teacher" and "A teacher is so to preach and teach and solve doubts", and encouraged teachers not only to spread culture and knowledge, but also to shape character and value.