I am average, I am happy

Author: Zhou Hong
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: When readers reach these words, my daughter will have almost graduated from junior high school. Over the years she spent growing from a primary school student to a middle school student, there will be many more stories, including the one about her celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the nation at Tiananmen Square, the story about her being slapped by a teacher and never getting justice for it, the story about her presenting flowers to a corrupt official who posed as a people's servant and taking a group photo, the story about her fighting with a gangster, and the story about her and Lei Feng's diary, and so on. I will narrate them in the next book. My daughter's classmates all aimed for Peking University and Tsinghua University, and even Harvard, putting three mountains of pressure on her. When "Harvard girls" became common, I warned my daughter not to set her sights on Harvard. She replied, "Alright, let Harvard have a crush on me." My educational philosophy: Better a happy fool than a gloomy genius. Parents who wish for their children to excel are to build their own happiness on their children's pain. Fortunately, my daughter is neither outstanding nor a genius. If she had been a genius like Han Han since childhood, being roasted by publishers and reporters, held in the hands and blowed on, then bitten into the mouth, happiness would likely be three doors away from her. The pursuit of excellence is the source of pain, while mediocrity is the foundation of happiness.