"Dear Child, It's a pleasure to communicate with you through a fresh new method. Although the age of paper lettering has passed totally, but the hearfelt conversation is essential", I said in an email to my 16-year-old son.
Study in Pandemic time
This is a special school term, in which all the students have to face the same challenge - studying at home. How about the efficiency?I think it should be examined gradually. However it will be not bad if you maintain the hardworking position and study with relaxing style. As mentioned by Mr Chen, it is said the (covid-19 lockdown) affected students will be the Grade III, while others think it's the Grade I. But put bluntly, the most vulnerable cluster is the child without self-disipline. I believe in you on this point but I still have some advice to say: study more harder. Learn to study harder.
Self-confidence, self-disipline, self-strengthening. The altitude is the attitude. Your performance in the recent exams is not stable enough. That is not a problem, in my opinion. If you can find the root of the question, make more practices in the section, you can impove constantly.
When I talk with my colleagues, they share the same opinion, that is, you are in the best time, an wonderful age of studing hard for the future. So it's your responsibility to cherish the perfect youth. Don't think mistakenly that your road is in your future, in contrary, you are striding on your road just now. Thess three years will decide the futural four years and the futural four years will decide more future. You have talked about your ideals - making a leading role in certain sector. That is large life pattern, which will demand you to take more time and extraordinary endeavor in fulfilling your dream. So you need learn to study harder and effectively handle the studying time. Especially we have chosen the Great Science-Engineering course with high grade of competition. As mentioned by a parent, it is the competition of hardworking in the three years of Senior Middle School instead of intelligence quotient(智商).
Miao Miao, the daughter of my colleague, have confirmed her position in Bank of Gold Sach Austrialian Branch as still a college student, which I think is a very outstanding career. Now the children have indefinite future and sometimes we can't predict the height they have attained. I want to talk another phototype. I have an elementary schoolmate who is a peasant in our home village. His daughter Cui Cui, graduated from Dalian Science-Engineering College and got the job in Baidu Corperation in Beijing through her endeavor. Not only has she got the high wages, but she has been caring about the parents and grandparents in the home. She is the hope of the entire village.
They are all elites. There is a word in English - meritocracy which means the type of society managed by the elites. Merit is meaning performance and contribution. The intelligence is the power. Although it's popular to call their countries as democracy - managed by the mass people, the meritocracy is also a trend in the world.
Hope of entire village
Dear child, you can make it also. The whole family believes in you. Do you remember the QQ nickname of your grandfather - persistent persuit? Yes, it's time when you had spending the summer holiday in Xintai. He had found you having this character quality and appriciated the spirit.
Hardworking needs method and efficiency.
About the studying contents, I don't have much to say, especially on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology. But don't mind my chatter for I still give some advice.
First, on the Chinese course, I think it's useful to take a specialized practice on the ancient prose and ancient poems. Not only will it benefit the Chinese course and writting, but it can improve the personal cultivation. Ancient people have said, one who is filled with knowledge always behaves with elegance. Originally it's what you are good at and I hope you can keep it. The other question is the handwritting. Why can the Heng Shui Middle School produce that much students going to famous Universities? Why can they write out the handwritting as tidy as the typewriter? There must be relaions between the two perspectives. So, child, don't waste time in sketching the handwritting book. You should check carefully and write with your wish.
I strongly advise you to do more speaking and reciting on English. Here I want to share my story in English study. When I was a student in Grade II Senior Middle School, once I was resting at home after an bad cold. Two schoolmates came to see me and one of them took serveral cassetts of our English course. I can still remember the speakers were a foreigner and a Chinese teacher named Peng Wenlan. I think you ought to know that we didn't have listening in English exam at that time. But I thought it was very usefully and sometimes I would speak in their style. Through speaking and reciting, I improved the language sense and it had been helpful even on the use of Prep. I suggest you read it out loud.
On the handling of exams, we suggest to make more summary after every exam, even the summary report. Strictness produce achievement. Please remember the experience of Mr Cao Dewang: how much are you engaged will decide exactly how much success you can get. For example, you said that there were some mistakes in choice questions. Then you should do more work aimed at their characteristcs. In my opinion, different from application questions, the choice questions don't need listing the calculation steps. To some extent, they are examining your quichness so you need some kinds of pressure and nervousness. Too much of pressure and nervousness is unnecessary and you still need some of them however. This is a dialectial relationship(辩证关系).
Einstan is also a poet
Several days ago I casurally opened your Histry book, which is very intereting. Your grandparent and I are all liking History books. Francis Bacon had said, histories make men wise. Although we have selected the Physics, but you should not ignore other courses. As you know, lots of subjects are connected together, for instance, the Chinese course and History cannot be parted. The scientist Einstan is also a poet. Sometimes the natural science is in need of the phylosophy to enlight. In short, the beauty is, you can lead a High school life full of diversity, happiness, interesting things and sunshine. The subjects not in the exams will be beneficial adjustment(有益的调剂).
From the comments of Mr Chen, you are a sunshine boy in pursuit of outstanding. I hope you can give the word outstanding more meaning.
Stop here! Come on, stride ahead!
Loving you, Dad
2020.04.11 Night