Less intelligence does not necessarily mean greater wisdom!
In recent days, I came across the story of Sun Weidong, a high-achieving student from Fudan University who has been wandering the streets of America for many years, sleeping rough. It is said that Sun Weidong was the top science student in a county in Jiangsu province and was also one of the prodigies in Fudan's youth class. He went to the United States for further studies, obtained a PhD, and even had the privilege of being a student of Mr. Li Zhengdao. He has long obtained American citizenship. This news has made me reflect deeply.
1. In 1978, next to the university where I pursued my studies, the University of Science and Technology of China established a youth class, so a few of my classmates and I took the opportunity to visit and see what it was all about. It turned out to be a group of children aged around ten! They couldn't even take care of themselves! Compared to them, we, the older generation, were twice their age, feeling unfortunate and unlucky.
Later, in the 1980s and 1990s, apart from the University of Science and Technology of China, other prestigious universities such as Xi'an Jiaotong University, Southeast University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, and Nanjing University followed suit and established talented classes, also known as youth classes. These programs are still ongoing.
2. Since the 1990s, various counties, cities, and provinces across the country have carried out grand activities to honor the top scorers in the national college entrance examination, the champions in liberal arts and sciences. The prizes for these champions, often amounting to tens of thousands of yuan and a house, were sponsored by entrepreneurs. However, most of these national champions were eventually admitted to Peking University and Tsinghua University.
3. Starting from the 1990s, China actively participated in an international competition for high school students: the International Olympiad in various subjects, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and English. Some of these subjects even won gold, silver, and bronze medals for several years. The English competition was hosted by Jilin Tonghua's "English Tutoring Newspaper," and I was once invited to be a judge, so I am relatively familiar with it.
Time flies, and several decades have passed. The accumulative results of these talented youth class students, national champions, and medal