honorable judges, dear friends:
do you know a'ba? do you know jiu zhai? a'ba is very famous for jiu zhai and huang long. i'm suo yangjin, a tibet girl from markang a'ba tibet and qiang autonomous prefectur. welcome to markang my hometown!
it's a great honour to make a talk here; my topic is "why education is essential?"
there is a nation in the world. after the second world war, the government paid its great attention to the education. so, the national economy has developed a lot. in a short time, its science and technology, culture and education have been ahead of the other countries in the world. which country is it? do you know? right, it's japan. as we know, while japan was invading the other countries, it greatly suffered from the war itself in the second world war. but, japan did not sink as people thought; it quickly went out of the difficulties caused by the war. why did japan develop so quickly? what's the secret? right, that's education. so, we say, education is really important to a nation.
now, i'll tell you a real story. once, there was a married couple, they were pleased to have a son. but unfortunately, the child was retarded. while he was growing up gradually, the defect was more and more clear. but the couple did not lose heart, they decided to teach the child to play the piano. they believed" where there is a will, there is a way." day after day, year after year, after more than ten years, the child could play some well-known melodies fluently. per－haps, some one will say, " can he really play the piano? i can't believe that." then, let me tell you another story about fang zhongyong. in ancient china, there was a boy named
fang zhongyong, who never read any books. one day, he suddenly asked his father for books. his father was very surprised and borrowed some from the neighbours.after reading, zhongyong writed a poem about respecting parents and getting on well with the neighbours and so on. from then on, as soon as he saw something, he could write a poem about it. the people in his village were all surprised. gradually, he was well-known and often invited to write some poems for money. his father thought that's very profitable, so he took zhongyong here and there to earn money and zhong yong didn't go on with his study. as we all know, at last, zhongyong became as simple as the others. he couldn't write poems any more.we have to admire the couple for their will, confi－dence and courage, while we also feel sorry for zhongyong. at this time, there is a problem: for a person, which is more important, gift or training? training, i think, is more important. and as one of the most important courses in training, ed－ucation cannot be neglected.