"There are only so many opportunities in this world, and they are never enough for everyone to share equally. Just as it is impossible for a rich kid to give up his opportunity to a poor kid, a poor kid cannot give up his opportunity to a farmer or a poor kid. The latter two groups need their families to bear most of their work so that they can get the opportunity to read, learn to read and do math in public school."
"These farm boys, the best among the poor children, may be able to get the opportunity to further their studies, but you have to know that there are very few talented people in this world. Most people can only do ordinary jobs no matter how hard they work."
“If at this time, there are still people with extreme personalities who instill specious theories in them, so that when they learn a little bit of skills, they are poisoned and think that it is not that they are not strong enough, but that the world is unfair, and that it is because the children of rich families take advantage of their birth advantages that they can rise to the top without any knowledge or skills. Then the public school is not educating people, but harming people!”
"There has never been absolute fairness in this world. At best, we can only achieve relative fairness. What public schools need to do is to create educational opportunities for more people, so that they can have relatively more knowledge and pass on a little bit of simple truth and a little bit of meager knowledge to their children and grandchildren in the future, so that family precepts are no longer the exclusive domain of scholarly families and poor families, instead of letting them look down on others blindly."
Even though a day had passed, when Fang Qing thought of what Zhang Shou had said to him, he was filled with hatred. He had already realized his mistakes and was ready to change, but Zhang Shou still believed that someone like him was unfit to be a teacher in a public school! That would have been fine, but Zhang Shou even forced him to push a cart with Mr. Song to sell sugar water in the name of changing his ways!
At this moment, he was extremely glad that he had covered his mouth and nose with a white scarf, otherwise he would have almost died as a human being!
Two scholars selling sugar water... This scene is so beautiful! And fortunately, this is in the outer city instead of the inner city, where there are many people coming and going. He probably, possibly, maybe, wouldn't be recognized by anyone? But the most hateful thing is that Zhang Shou actually took that devil-like boy on horseback and followed behind him slowly as a supervisor!
Knowing that Song Juren was weak and Fang Qing was a weak scholar, Zhang Shou had a bad taste in putting the two together, but he also took precautions. So, Anlu, the doorman who was lame but still very good at fighting, was sent over to follow them from a distance in case of emergency. Ah Liu also sent a message to Zhao Tieniu of the South City Security Team, asking him to keep an eye on the two strange Juren.
So, at this moment, Ah Liu accompanied Zhang Shou and followed behind the cart. He was puzzled: "Master, are you afraid that Mr. Fang will run away? If I am afraid that he will run away, I can..."
"Ahem!" Zhang Shou coughed heavily, interrupting the second half of Ah Liu's absolutely inharmonious words, and then said unhappily, "I'm not interested in watching the two of them selling sugar water. I want to go and see the vegetable garden run by Monk Zanghai's disciples next to Xinglong Tea House. I heard that seven or eight vegetable thieves have been caught in the past half month?"
When he first learned that the vegetable garden thief was there, he felt like he was watching a real-life version of a vegetable stealing game.
Ah Liu stopped talking about the topic in a sullen manner, and then said with a dull tone: "It's no big deal, just a bunch of small thieves, those monks can handle them!" Even the little monk Guanhai had knocked out a stupid thief with a ladle before. In fact, those thieves were so stupid that they didn't even know that most of the seeds were not planted at all.