On June 2nd, 1976, Wuye Machine Repair Factory's 7.21 Worker's University finally opened.
School had started. But there was nothing in the school. The place that was called a school was empty. There were only two rectangular rooms that had been used as storehouses. Due to years of neglect, they were on the verge of collapse. The room was full of cobwebs. The walls and floor were covered with thick layers of dust, leaving us with a gray, foggy, and dirty environment. It gave people the feeling that they would immediately turn around and leave the moment they saw it, never to look back.
Our first lesson is to build a school through labor.
Since there were no classrooms, we had to do it ourselves. All the students had to work together for a week to clean up the two rooms in the family area that were once used as warehouses and would be abandoned in the future. The inner walls were whitewashed with lime water, and the ground was smeared with cement mortar. These were all completed by the students themselves. They used thin iron wires and waste paper boxes from the warehouse to wrap them up. They turned them over to make the indoor cardboard ceiling. All the ceiling and lights in the classroom were installed by the students themselves.
The production and installation of the doors and windows in the classroom were all done by the carpenters among the students.
There was no blackboard or podium. There were three students, including me, who used to be model workers. We went back to the workshop and made it ourselves. Then, I found a painter to help paint the blackboard. I found more than ten pieces of old wood of various sizes and made two blackboard stands and a podium.
We leveled out a field outside to make a playground. On this field, our students used the waste materials from the factory to make a basketball hoop by themselves. Later, we saw some scrap steel pipes in the factory. After the electric welders among the students cut and welded, they pieced together a parallel bar and uneven bars. They were placed on the school field.
There was a classroom, a playground, a blackboard, a basketball hoop, a parallel bars, and uneven bars. From the outside, it really looked like a school.
The school was really poor and had nothing. The teachers who taught were technicians and engineers transferred from the workshops and departments. They usually worked in the factory and came to 721 to teach regularly. He has to mark our homework at night. The teachers who taught were the hardest.
Among the students of the 7.21 workers 'university of Wuye Machine Repair Factory, in addition to the staff from the organs and workshops of the factory, they also accepted seven students from the mechanical department of the first and third companies of Wuye. According to the unified arrangement of the factory party committee, the party branch, the league branch, the student union and the trade union branch were established in the school. In terms of organizational system, it was to ensure that two to three years of teaching tasks could be successfully completed.
Here, even though it's called a university, it's not really a university at all. I remember that there was a popular saying back then: "University? What is a university? University means that everyone comes to learn. Only when everyone comes to learn can it be called a university.”
Judging from the educational level of the students, 6% of the 50 students in the school were high school students who graduated before the cultural revolution, 70% were junior high school students who graduated before the cultural revolution, and 24% were primary school graduates.
In terms of political outlook, 10% of the students were Party members. 50% are members of the Komsomolets. 60% of the party members graduated from primary school. Two of the members of the Komsomolets had graduated from primary school.
All the students came from the production line and had rich practical experience. However, they all felt that they lacked cultural knowledge. There was an urgent need to improve their current level of education. Therefore, they had great self-awareness in their subjective desire to learn. He had a good habit of learning. This was fundamentally different from any other education system.
Faced with the students 'uneven educational level, the teachers in the school were faced with a headache when they were about to start lecturing. In order to take care of the vast majority of the students in the school, the starting point of the lessons could only be based on the junior high school education level. The high school students could bear with it, and the teachers would give them special tutoring for the primary school education.
The 721 school finally started classes. The starting point of the class was the middle school curriculum. Although I should be considered a junior high school student who graduated from Grade 67, I originally studied in a junior high school professional class. The so-called professional class is actually a part-time job. He only had half a year of classes, and half a year to go to the construction site to participate in professional labor. I'm in the 67th grade of junior high school. From September of 1964 to June of 1966, it's only been two years. Starting from June 1966, all the schools in the country had suspended classes to start the revolution. In those two years, they had only studied for one year. From June 1966 to June 1976. It had been ten years. I didn't touch the books anymore. I returned almost all the knowledge I had learned to the teacher.
The teacher began to teach. I sat in the chair and listened to the lecture. He often had an illusion. It was as if I had returned to my alma mater, Chengdu City 32 Middle School. He remembered that when he had just started to mobilize the people in the countryside. I once thought that I would definitely have the opportunity to re-enter school in the future. I was right. Maybe I have foresight. It had been ten years. I sat in the classroom again, flipping through my books, as if the students had arrived at school to study. However, the campus was gone, and only the students remained. Now, I'm in a factory classroom, starting my student life again.
Class began. I was indeed focused in class during the day and went home to do my homework seriously at night. Perhaps this was a coincidence in history. My little brother was also in junior high that year. There's a 12-year age gap between us brothers. At that time, their education levels were on the same starting line. My father said emotionally,"This might be a coincidence of history. It just so happens that both of you are using textbooks of the same cultural level. As the elder brother, you will be responsible for supervising your younger brother's studies. She couldn't let him run around after school. You have to check his exercise book carefully. If he did something wrong, he had to correct it and do it again. She wanted to see him do it right.”
This way, I'll have something to do. At night, I would go home and do my homework to communicate with my little brother. When I met my little brother and I, we would go to school the next day to ask the other students and teachers in our school for advice. "In this way, my little brother and I quickly caught up in our grades. From then on, I could basically complete all my homework in school. When I returned home at night, I could prepare for the next day's classes and tutor my brother.
Such things often happened in school. When I finished my homework, I put it on my desk. Often, when it was time to hand in my homework before class the next morning, I couldn't find my homework in the drawer of my desk. My deskmate often sat beside me and couldn't help laughing. Many times, I couldn't help but ask him what he was laughing about. He laughed heartily."What are you still looking for? Your homework is already with me.”I smiled and said,"Why does my homework have to be with you?"”He continued to smile and said generously,"Just because you're my deskmate, I can't afford to do my homework. You're my deskmate, so your homework should be for me to copy. I'll definitely refer to your homework, and if necessary, I'll copy yours. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to hand in any bad ones.”A few others joked,"It's not just him who's copying yours. We're all copying yours." Let me tell you, your homework will only be in your drawer about 10% of the time. The rest of the time, he's in our dormitory. Let me tell you, as long as you finish your homework and put the exercise book in your drawer, it won't take more than ten minutes. Your exercise book will automatically leave your desk drawer.”
Our math teacher, Engineer Qiu, often said something like this when he was grading our homework in class: "I often find a strange phenomenon. Xiao Shi's homework is very representative. Whenever there are mistakes in his homework, there will always be a dozen people who follow him step by step and make mistakes. In fact, many of the data were completely wrong.”
When I first started taking the basic courses in 721 University, I still felt good about myself. Language, mathematics, political economy, history of social development, plane geometry, analytical geometry, physics, and so on. It was still acceptable. I was often praised by the teacher, which made me feel smug. Later on, he went on to take specialized classes and organic chemistry classes. I felt the strain.
The first obstacle was the course of the organic chemistry. Those equations made me confused. The conversion of chemical equations. I'm always at a loss. Later on, the subject examinations in school used open-book examinations. Even if I could flip through the book, I only got 62 points. He barely passed.
Mechanical design principles was the most complicated course. The school's graduation project was to design a comprehensive design of a steel pushing machine. From the design principle to the entire mechanical equipment. It includes a comprehensive reflection of the dozens of courses we have studied. Every step had to be written with his theoretical basis and choice. From the power transmission to the driving force. It included the principle of the force of the thrust and the choice of raw materials. Everyone's desk was filled with all kinds of design manuals. There were also a large number of calculations. At that time, calculators didn't exist yet. A large amount of calculations were done by hand. This was indeed the best opportunity to test a person's willpower and endurance.
No matter what, the two years of 721 lessons were finally over.
Starting from the middle of July 1976, all units Chengdu City were transmitting earthquake predictions, predicting that an earthquake might occur in Sichuan.
Please look at the next section,"Before and After the 1976 Earthquake."
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