Zuo Ruiting’s entrepreneurial experience

Impression "Let students receive an unforgettable education, let the campus become a paradise of burning passion; let education become an extremely happy activity, and build the school into a highly civilized special zone." A few words inlaid on the walls of the school's teaching building The large characters "Gold-plated" caught the reporter's eyes.

He is of medium build and plainly dressed. He does not look like a principal who has founded three private schools, but more like an amiable old teacher. However, when he talks about his own understanding of private education and the ups and downs of establishing a school, people can't help but feel awe.

Butterfly transformation

——Principal of a public school for 15 years

Transformed into a principal of a private school

Zuo Ruiting was born in February 1962 in Zuozhai Village, Guyang Town, Lankao County. After graduating from Shangqiu Normal School in 1981, he successively taught at Guying No. 2 Junior High School and Guyang Lien Middle School in Lankao County. In August 1986, he became the principal of Liangzhai Junior High School in Guyang Town and held this position for 15 years. "At that time, the school didn't even have decent walls or gates. There were less than 200 students. Its grades were the last in the town, and the enrollment rate from high school to high school was zero every year." He was only 25 years old at the time. Under such difficult conditions, the resolute Zuo Ruiting relied on his passion and work ideas of "building confidence, promoting motivation, focusing on moral education, promoting quality, being true to his words and resolute in his deeds". As a junior high school, the school ranked first in the town (first in 5 subjects and second in 2 subjects); in 1988, it ranked first among the 54 junior high schools in the county (15 people were promoted to Lankao No. 1 High School, middle school teachers, and technical secondary schools). 8 people). When he left Liangzhai Junior High School in March 2000, the number of students in the school exceeded 1,000.

The opportunity for Zuo Ruiting to get involved in private education came in 2000. In 1998 and 1999, teacher wages in Lankao County were in arrears. In December 1999, Zhang Fujing, then Secretary of the Party Committee of Guyang Town, proposed a bold idea for educational reform in Guyang Town to Zhu Hengkuan, then Secretary of the County Party Committee. Secretary Zhu said: "Education does need reform, let's see if there is a way out!" Later, Zuo Ruiting received an invitation from Secretary Zhang Fujing, and he came to Zhang Fujing's office in the snow. Zhang Fujing conveyed the instructions of the county party committee secretary. Zuo Ruiting felt both sudden and extremely surprised, because it was his dream to participate in education reform. Soon, Guyang Town Government issued documents, signed agreements, and completed relevant procedures. The "Private Government-aided Experimental School" in Guyang Town, Lankao County has begun intensive preparations. Zuo Ruiting serves as the principal. The town government requires the hiring of on-the-job teachers in the town, and the government pays 50% of the salary.

In order to raise funds, Zuo Ruiting tightened his belt, asked relatives and friends to borrow some money, asked construction companies to advance some money, and paid annual land payments to save some money. This is how he invested more than 3 million yuan. Private schools were built. On July 20, 2000, the first batch of 1,200 students entered Guyang Experimental School, and the first rural private middle school in Lankao County was born. Zuo Ruiting changed from a public school principal to a private school principal.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. In accordance with the government's idea of ????reducing the government's burden while running education well, the experimental school hired 42 public teachers from the whole town and hired 21 college and technical secondary school graduates from the community. When the school opened, it was rumored that the teachers hired by the experimental school were old men, old ladies, and children who had not graduated from junior high school. In order to refute the rumors, Zuo Ruiting decided to invest 20,000 yuan to organize newly hired teachers to travel to Mount Tai and Qufu. The purpose was to let the teachers feel the spirit of "being able to be at the top of the mountain and see all the small mountains at a glance", and at the same time get a little bit of Confucius. We must use our spiritual energy to run the experimental school well.

On May 18, 2001, with the approval of Kaifeng Municipal Education Commission (2001) No. 21 document, Guyang Experimental School was renamed Guyang Independent Junior High School. Leaders set an example, and the principal leads the teachers to do practical work. With the experience accumulated as a principal for 15 years, the scale of the independent junior high school continues to expand, and the number of students continues to increase. After the storm, the rainbow appears. Zuo Ruiting succeeded. However, the joy of success did not stop him from pioneering private education.

In 2005, after many efforts, Zuo Ruiting founded Decheng Primary School in Lankao County; at the end of 2006, he founded Lankao County Innovation Middle School, the first private middle school in Lankao County that is compatible with junior high school and high school, in the Lankao County Education Park. An education group with three private schools ranging from primary school to high school has officially formed the first fleet of private education in Lankao County.

Thinking

——Developing private education is the only way to realize

"learning and teaching"

Time flies. Eight years later, the three schools he opened have achieved outstanding results and are favored by parents. At the same time, he also gained a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of private education.

Zuo Ruiting is like a scholar. He believes that the most important goal of educational modernization is to make national education "universal", "convenient", "economical or cheap", "adequate" and "optional", and to ensure that disadvantaged groups can receive care from rigid policies. Promoting educational equity not only relies on optimizing the social fair environment, but also needs to deepen the institutional reform of education itself, narrow the gap in compulsory education teachers and school running conditions between urban and rural areas, between regions, and between schools, and reform the allocation of public education resources. methods, improve the efficiency of use, and strengthen supervision.

Developing private education is the only way to achieve the goal of "learning and teaching". "Learning and teaching" means ensuring that all people have fair and equal access to good education through career development. It means continuously enhancing educational service capabilities and increasing diverse types of educational services to meet the diverse educational needs of society. From the perspective of scale, quality, efficiency and service variety, there is still a big gap between the current situation of educational development and the above requirements; starting from the actual national conditions and educational realities, it is difficult to achieve "learning something and gain something" by relying solely on the government's financial capacity and public education. "teach" goal. Although the current development level of private education is not ideal enough, the existence of private education has largely made up for the shortcomings of public education. The growth and vitality of private education itself promotes changes within education. Private education is extremely powerful. The service consciousness meets and cultivates the diverse social education needs.

Zuo Ruiting said with a smile that private schools must have the characteristics of thrift, prudence, innovation, and uniqueness to survive.

Philosophy

——Let students become talented, let teachers succeed

make the school famous, and make society harmonious

Zuo Ruiting The principal's philosophy of running a school is very simple, which is to "let" students become talents and teachers succeed; let the school become famous and make society harmonious. "Under the guidance of such a school running idea, his management of the school also pursued harmonious and humane management. When the high school department of Innovation Middle School enrolled the first batch of students in July 2007, Chen Dongfang's test scores were 30 points lower than the admission score. According to regulations, he could not be admitted to the school, but Chen Dongfang called Zuo Ruiting over and over again, and even came directly to Zuo Ruiting's door. He also issued a military order to Zuo Ruiting: "Let me go to school for a month first. If I perform well, I will not be admitted to the school." No, I'll leave voluntarily. "Seeing Chen Dongfang's resolute attitude, Zuo Ruiting agreed. In the monthly exam one month after enrolling, Chen Dongfang's score rose from last place in the class to 42nd (60 students per class), and the class teacher's He also spoke highly of him and Zuo Ruiting asked him to stay in school. In the next monthly exam, he was ranked 28th in the class. By the midterm exam, he was ranked 12th in the class. By the time he was a sophomore in high school, His test scores are already second in his grade.

Zuo Ruiting also cares about his teachers in every possible way. The most typical example is the marriage problem of young teachers. He often said to school employees and relatives. If anyone introduces a young teacher to someone, I will treat him/her as a guest. "Many people regard this as a joke, but Zuo Ruiting is very serious. He told reporters that only when they live in peace can they work happily. When young teachers have a warm and happy home, they can concentrate on teaching and the educational level of the school will be improved. This is a virtuous cycle mechanism.

As the sun set, school was over. Zuo Ruiting stood in front of the teaching building, looking at the students who were returning to the dormitory in groups, with a smile on his face. A smile bloomed on his face. He was determined to persevere on the road to private education.