Hi, dear fellow members and new comers! This is Vivian. Today is my CC10 speech. My speech title is Does the direction of our education go wrong?
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Recently the Wechat group or Wechat circle of friends are full of information about Shen lijun’s suicide by jumping off a building.
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Maybe you will ask me who was Shen lijun?
She was a beautiful star from Shanghai. With her pretty image and talent, she became famous as a part-time model in her early years, and later she cooperated with the famous star Gu tianle to work a role in the movie Good News at Home 2009.She ever earned hundreds of thousands of RMB per month.
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Later, she married to a rich family and stopped her career. But her husband was rude to her after they got married. Even when she was pregnant, her husband kept a mistress outside. She couldn’t bear it and wrote down a long letter to say goodbye to the world by jumping off the building.
She wrote in her suicide letter: “I have been married for eight years, have a son and a daughter, I married to garbage, and my youth fed the dog... The path I chose but now leaves me in despair.”
This beautiful and talented young woman used to be the good child from other family. She’s pretty, talented, rich and marry well. But she left us by committing suicide.
There are many opinions on the Internet. Someone said that she had a low sense of value, others said that she met a man who cheated her feelings.
This suicide case let me in deep thought. I’m thinking a question: does the direction of our education go wrong?
Our school education mainly focus on the spread of knowledge, but lack the life wisdom education, such as teaching how to understand human nature, how to adapt to this society and how to manage our life. We need the life education badly.
There is no doubt that Shen lijun was excellent. But why did she commit suicide by jumping off a building in despair over her broken marriage?
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Because she didn't know what to do next. She had too many sufferings and pains but no place to discharge. And she had no way to adjust herself.
If the suicidal woman had received education about the wisdom of life since childhood, such as how to deal with this complex society, how to manage her life and how to consider problems from the maximization of overall and long-term benefits. Maybe she didn’t commit suicide.
The failure of marriage, as a whole and in the long run, is just a setback. The setback, however, resulted in a tragedy of suicide.
If our school and family education are consciously developing our ability of dealing with setbacks from a very young age, by the time we reach adulthood, we can easily cope with it well.
If our education teaches children that life is about energy accumulation, do more energy accumulation, and adjust the energy consumption in time. Then, when we grow up, we will calculate what is not good for our energy accumulation, not good for our life, we should stop loss in time.
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I also have the impulse of committing suicide. I’m single and old and my mother pushed me into marriage.
I was devalued by my mother. My family thought me as a criminal. I ever thought of ending my life to say goodbye to this world too.
I don't want to give up myself easily. I want to find the meaning of life. So I took part in various activities and communicated with people. I went to study traditional Chinese culture and organized reading and sharing activities. I came to Chengdu Toastmasters Club to participate in speech training to improve my confidence and value. By communicating with everyone, I learned some wisdom of life, and I grew up. This is the result of my own efforts to find life education.
I hope the story of suicide doesn't repeat itself any more. I hope we can cultivate our ability to face setbacks when we are studying in school. When we grow up, we can easily cope with setbacks.
Thank you!