50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 59: Quick Literacy Method

Sun Zhiwei wanted to force them to study in their daily lives, which was more effective than chasing them with a whip.

After half a year of teaching, he has also been learning and summarizing his experience.

After finishing his last class before the Chinese New Year, he compiled his teaching experience into a book.

It describes 12 teaching methods in detail and lists hundreds of short stories, short formulas, two-part allegorical sayings, rhymes and literacy songs.

For example: Being illiterate is truly difficult; you can't write or count. A letter from a loved one arrives thousands of miles away, but you can't read it even after reading it over and over again. Being literate is truly beneficial; you can read books and newspapers. It allows you to learn about national affairs and improve production technology.

These little methods and tips are very useful in actual operations. Finally, he named this booklet "Quick Literacy Method".

However, he has to wait to submit the booklet, as the assessment team will come to assess the results of the literacy class the day after tomorrow. Only when the results are out will his booklet be valuable.

However, he could not participate in the assessment and could only wait for the results.

Just before the Lunar New Year, the inspection team's results came in. The average pass rate for the 16 literacy classes at West Chang'an Street was 40%, and Sun Zhiwei's class had all passed, a truly impressive feat.

Compared with the pass rates of other classmates and teachers' classes of the same period, Sun Zhiwei's class's results stand out from the crowd.

The inspection team was the first to react. They were responsible for assessment in each district, and no class had ever achieved 100% passing rate in the assessment.

They thought the teacher of this class must have some tricks, so they went to find the street school. The street school had just received the report card and had not figured out the situation yet when they were found.

After detailed understanding, they contacted the school's T Committee, hoping to invite the teacher back to share his teaching secrets so that more people can get rid of illiteracy faster.

Finally, Sun Zhiwei received the visiting assessment team, street committee and school T committee members at his home.

After hearing their request, Sun Zhiwei did not hesitate and directly took out the booklet he had summarized - "Quick Literacy Method".

The three units were overjoyed, and at this time the school T Committee showed its advantage as the owner.

After they were the first to get the booklet, they decided to report it and apply to their superiors to print the booklet so that a wider range of people could get the guidance of the booklet and speed up the national literacy progress.

This time Sun Zhiwei's plan was successful again. A few months later, he appeared on the front page of the daily newspaper for the second time, which was another entry in his credit book.

In other words, he is still learning, otherwise, every bit of his contribution will become his driving force for progress.

He also hopes to make more achievements in his last few years at school so that he can have a higher starting point when he starts working officially in the future.

Next year is a crucial year. He will take the national joint entrance examination and his daughter will soon enter elementary school.

After the Lunar New Year, Sun Zhiwei became even busier. Because he was in the newspaper again, his superiors, considering he was still a student, did not force him to travel around the country to share his experience in literacy.

However, thousands of people were sent from all over the country to learn from him. Sun Zhiwei used his spare time in the evening to pass on his experience to batches of literacy teachers. The textbook was the newly published "Quick Literacy Method".

This short-term training course lasted for three days per session, twice a week, for a total of 3 sessions over four months, and ended just before he took the joint entrance examination.

Over 3000 teachers from these literacy classes went on to various regions after completing their studies. Under their leadership, the national literacy campaign advanced at a rate several times greater than before. In July 52, Sun Zhiwei successfully entered the Department of Early Childhood Education at Beijing Normal University.

On the 23rd of the same month, the superiors issued a notice that starting from the fall semester, the supply system for college students would be abolished and the people's scholarship system would be implemented.

All college students receive scholarships as food expenses (they still enjoy the benefits of the central kitchen).

Among them, ordinary students receive 12.5 yuan (one set of currency) per month, undergraduate students in higher normal colleges receive 14 yuan per month, junior college students receive 16 yuan per month, and "transferred cadres" students receive 32 yuan per month.

You may not know what the so-called "Zhongchu treatment" means. This is actually a food treatment standard when the supply system was implemented because the currency value was unstable in the early days.

At that time, in the army, cadres at the division level and above had small kitchens, cadres at the regiment and battalion level had medium kitchens, and cadres below the company level had large kitchens; at the local level, cadres at the county level and above and seriously injured soldiers had small kitchens, cadres at the section and district level and lightly injured soldiers, pregnant women, etc. had medium kitchens, and general cadres and miscellaneous personnel had large kitchens.

伙食费分为粮食、副食、燃料三项；大灶一般每人每日供应油0.02斤、盐0.0125斤、肉0.04斤、菜1斤、煤1.25斤或木柴2斤；中灶按大灶的2.5倍计算，小灶按大灶的3.7倍计算。

In this way, all college students enjoy the same food treatment as the regiment, battalion or department level.

Although the system was changed to a scholarship after school started in September, in reality, nothing has changed. We still eat in the cafeteria, commonly known as "group meals."

The first time he ate in the canteen of the Normal University, he saw that there were more than a hundred tables in the large dining hall. The staple food was rice, white steamed buns or noodles, and people could eat as much as they wanted.

Each person has two bowls of side dishes per meal, which are meat, eggs, fish, etc. Soup and seasonings are free of charge.

Later, we could often "improve our lives" during holidays, with eight people sitting at a table and more abundant dishes.

Anyway, after eating it once, Sun Zhiwei found that the food here was obviously better than the food in the canteen of the compound.

However, the disadvantage of this kind of group meal is also particularly obvious, that is, the waste is very serious.

However, Sun Zhiwei is now a vested interest, and he would not do something like scolding the chef after eating. Anyway, there will be adjustments later, so there is no need for him to say anything.

Just when he was in college, his daughter also officially entered elementary school.

Originally, godmother Aunt Chen wanted Nannan to go directly to Huiwen No. 1 Primary School where she was teaching. However, at the request of Sun Zhiwei, Nannan followed other classmates to Yuying Primary School.

After two years of construction, the Yuying Primary School is about to be completed. Its teaching quality and safety standards are unmatched by other schools. He does not want his daughter to miss this educational opportunity.

Moreover, many of these first-grade students followed Nannan from Beihai Kindergarten. With many acquaintances around her, she is not easily bullied.

It was also because Sun Zhiwei didn't understand Nannan's current situation. The little girl had already initially established her prestige as a big sister in Beihai, and there was more than just a little fat man following her.

In that year, both the school and the compound began to implement the "salary sharing" system.

The so-called wage points are to convert the original money into scores, and then receive materials and money according to the value of the wage points.

The salary consists of three parts: food, clothing, and allowances, and is converted according to the quantity of five physical items: grain, cloth, oil, salt, and coal.

(End of this chapter)