There is a boy in Shanxi who is very "extraordinary": he can add, subtract, multiply and divide at the age of 2, go to school at the age of 5, go to junior high school at the age of 7, and get admitted to Tsinghua University at the age of 13. Thousands of parents who want their children to succeed feel that he is a "child prodigy" and lament that their children are inferior to others.

 

However, the mother of the "child prodigy" said in an interview: "It's really not modest. My son is definitely not a child prodigy. There is nothing special. There are thousands of children with his IQ and family background in China. Children are highly malleable, and it all depends on the guidance of adults. If they are used to bad habits when they are young, it will be difficult to correct them when they grow up. ”

 

1. His sophistication surprised the principal of Tsinghua University

 

Thirteen years old is the age when many children have graduated from elementary school and just entered junior high school, but Fan Shukai from Hequ County, Shanxi Province is now a freshman at Tsinghua University. He was not a student with special talents, but was admitted by taking the general college entrance examination.

 

If he had been born a week later, Fan Shukai, who was born on December 24, 1999, would have set another record: he would have become the first "post-00s" college student at Tsinghua University, and the peak of "post-00s" entering Tsinghua will only occur in 5 years!

 

On August 21 this year, Fan Shukai came to Tsinghua University to register. Fan Shukai, who wears low-grade myopia glasses and looks like a junior high school student, answers all questions asked by reporters in interviews, is clear-cut and opinionated; when listening to someone speak, he will look straight at the other person and hold back a yawn if he wants to. If he is chewing something in his mouth, he will not speak. Seeing this scene, Chen Jining, the president of Tsinghua University who was present, was "surprised" and felt that Fan Shukai was "young and mature" and his conversation and behavior were inconsistent with his age group.

 

So far, even in telephone interviews, Fan Shukai answers questions very politely. If he is not available, he will politely explain the reason; if the other party asks repeatedly, he will explain it again and again. Only when there is really no other way, will he say "I really want to hang up the phone."