The most surprising lie is the emperor's new clothes in Andersen's fairy tales. In order not to appear stupid, everyone from the emperor to the beggar was immersed in an absurd scam and lied until a child found him naked.
However, fairy tales are fairy tales after all. Most of the time, we all laughed our heads off. However, in reality, a more absurd story is being staged. An illiterate named John Cochrane taught in a university for 17 years, but no one found out.
And this lie was actually exposed by his 3-year-old daughter. What a ridiculous and terrible thing it is!
0 1 dyslexia opens the legend of cheating
1939, in a small town in Mexico, USA, John Cochrane was born in the expectation of his family. He is the sixth and youngest child in the family.
As the youngest son in the family, he was loved since childhood. Under the care of his family, he grew up happily and enjoyed a carefree childhood. At the age of 6, he began to receive enlightenment education and entered school.
However, when he entered the school, he failed to open a new world. Instead, it gradually exposed its own shortcomings. Although some children are naturally smart, savvy and have strong learning ability, some children are less gifted in reading. Although the learning cycle may be longer, they are not ignorant and unable to get started.
However, John Cochrane is such an unlucky child, while John Cochrane is extremely distressed in primary school life, which is quite easy for everyone.
Because he gradually realized that he was different from other children, he was miserable in this process that everyone could easily read, which was a sacred book for him. Although he works hard, he can never spark with these words.
He can be strong, but he can't always admit it to anyone. The distress in his heart, the pain he can't read, is deeply buried in his heart.
Unlike the China family, which pays special attention to grades, John Cochrane's parents never criticize their children for grades, which is why John Cochrane's shocking secret of illiteracy has been kept secret.
John Cochrane, who can't read normally, has a bad grade, which is a complete mess. No matter how hard he tried, he didn't get anything, which made him extremely miserable, so he decided to find another way.
Hard work and poor grades will make people suspicious, but be a "bad student"! He fights, does nothing, makes trouble, and his bad students deserve it. It's perfect!
However, the school could not tolerate his poor performance and eventually expelled him from school. However, his parents who are partial to him don't think it is his nature, but only think it is adolescent rebellion. They put up with him and transferred him to a new school without a word of blame.
Frequent transfer can't solve the fundamental problem. In order to cover up the secret he didn't understand, he tried his best to think of cheating.
From classmates helping with daily homework to cheating in exams, John Cochrane became more and more proficient in cheating and began to brew a shocking plan in his mind.
Deceive everyone and become a university teacher
He has a clear understanding, he can't read, he doesn't have any hopes and extravagant hopes, but he soon realizes that God closed a door for him, but opened a window for him.
He has outstanding talent in sports, so he not only won the love of teachers and classmates with his outstanding talent in sports and good interpersonal skills, but also was admitted to a good university.
On the university campus, he did the same thing again. With the help of his classmates, he not only passed all kinds of exams smoothly, but also graduated with excellent results.
I have to say, he is really lucky. During his long study career, he got along so smoothly that cheating was never discovered. At the same time, the secret of his illiteracy was deeply buried.
Adventure island, holding a diploma but not knowing a word, how to gain a foothold in society? John Cochrane was at his wit's end, but good luck came again.
He was surprised to learn that a university was recruiting PE teachers. Although he can't read, he is good at sports, so he decided to try a dead horse as a living horse doctor.
John Cochrane passed the interview by mistake and became a teacher on the university campus.
This is a decent job. He has worked for 17 years, and the secret is still a secret, which has never been exposed.
Or the university teacher is his best umbrella. After all, no one will believe that an illiterate person can become a university teacher and teach and educate people for many years.
University teachers can't read, and everyone in the world is illiterate. If he tells them, who will believe it? Even when he confided the secret to his wife, the other party only thought it was a joke and never took it to heart.
John Cochrane can only continue to hide this secret, playing the fat man in the face, putting on the coat of intellectuals and pretending to be a literate person.
The secret of illiteracy was discovered by my 3-year-old daughter.
"Paper can't wrap the fire", and the lie will be exposed one day, but he is so lucky that this time is too long. In a blink of an eye, he worked as a teacher in the university for 17 years.
Life went smoothly, year after year, but he didn't count it. He is with many knowledgeable professors and scholars, and those lies that have never been debunked are easily seen through by his three-year-old daughter.
By chance, his wife was busy in the kitchen, so he had to shoulder the heavy responsibility of coaxing his daughter.
The child is still listening to the story, and the daughter pulls him to tell herself. In order to coax her, he can only open the story book, but the simple children's story book is still a heavenly book in his eyes, and he can only make it up if he can't read it correctly.
We always thought that children were the easiest to cheat. Unexpectedly, he stumbled in front of his 3-year-old daughter, who didn't buy his story and cried endlessly.
The wife who was attracted by her daughter's crying really realized that what her husband confessed to her was not a joke, but a shocking fact.
Ironically, people are often willing to believe lies, not the truth. John Cochrane finally had a chance to confess the secret buried in his heart for many years.
There is always a big secret hidden in my heart, and I am often afraid of being discovered. This kind of life is really disturbing.
Encouraged by his wife, he finally decided to confess to everyone, but as expected, his confession was waiting for the fate of being expelled from school.
Although he lost his job, he lived more easily and peacefully. He no longer has to be bound by his own lies, and he is always worried that he will be caught in the next moment and be at a loss.
He is no worse than others except that he can't read. On the contrary, his intelligence is superior. After he untied the knot, he also made small achievements in business.
04 conclusion
Gold is not barefoot, no one is perfect, and it is not terrible to have defects. The terrible thing is that you don't have the courage and determination to face it. You use one lie after another to escape from reality and let yourself go further and further on the wrong road!
Lu Xun said, "A true warrior dares to face a bleak life". On the road of life, why not be a warrior? The ending may not be as bad as we thought, and there may be another harvest!