Chapter 310 - The First lesson is over! (1/2)

Peking University.

In the auditorium.

Many of the reporters were trying their best to take photographs!

Many of the Peking University students were hungry for more! Compared to those experts or teachers, the students were much more receptive to fresh perspectives or opinions that subverted their understanding. They could accept and understand much more easily, and thus a group of such students were already hooked by interest towards the research and logical reasonings of Zhang Ye’s argument. They all were thinking how Teacher Zhang Ye would continue on from here.

“Teacher!”

“Do you still have more evidence?”

“Teacher Zhang, I have a question!”

“Are you really able to explain all of the logical errors in ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’?”

The Peking University students said one after the other, all scrambling to get their questions answered!

It was already 11:30AM.

The school had initially planned for Zhang Ye to have one hour to give his lecture for “Appreciation of the Cla.s.sics”, but it had already exceeded the time slot by quite a bit.

Zhang Ye looked at his watch and spoke into the microphone, “Sorry everyone, I cannot answer everyone’s questions during today’s lesson due to time constraints. Those students who are interested can look for me after cla.s.s to discuss. I also welcome any students, who are not in my elective cla.s.s, to come and listen in on my second lesson. I welcome anyone who seeks to learn more about literature and those who love cla.s.sical novels to join me as well. So then, we will be ending today’s lesson here. Cla.s.s dismissed!” With that, Zhang Ye started packing his teaching materials from the projector and left the stage.

There was no applause.

There was not a single applause.

Instead, it was replaced by a surge of students rus.h.i.+ng forward. The moment Zhang Ye got off the stage and was preparing to leave via the aisle, he was surrounded by a large group of Peking University students!

“Teacher Zhang!”

“What will we be tested on for our elective cla.s.s?”

“Will we be tested on ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’? Can you give us a clue about what’s examinable!”

“Teacher, I still don’t really understand your perspective, could we discuss it?”

At this moment, the students of “Appreciation of the Cla.s.sics” cla.s.s had already recognized Zhang Ye’s position as their lecturer. Zhang Ye had used his knowledge to shake up these students! If the students had only respected Zhang Ye because of his Talk Show, his poems, or just because he was such a straight talker, then now the students were convinced by his solid and impressive lecturing skills!

Even if someone did not agree with Zhang Ye’s views or did not like his behavior, no one would be able to cast any more doubt that Zhang Ye did not know how to give lectures!

Who said that as a host, Zhang Ye would not know how to teach students?

Who said that an outsider of the education world would not know how to give a lecture?

The netizens, industry insiders, and experts of the education world that had cast doubt on Zhang Ye before now seemed quite laughable!

From the beginning, he threw out his argument and enticed the audience through his speech. The details were slowly revealed as he spent the entire lecture pus.h.i.+ng out his logical reasoning in order of succession. What’s more, Zhang Ye was doing all of it off-script in front of them and without even a backup script highlighting his lecture pointers. The lesson was even done in a Q&A format, taking questions and debating about them. No one would know when and what these students would ask, yet Zhang Ye had countered them with extremely well thought out answers. He even managed to pull them back to his original main argument and drive his point home! He had used the questions from the students to reinforce his views and created a more visual and impactful understanding of them. What was key, was that this lesson was very interesting and no one had fallen asleep from the beginning till end. Not a single person in the more than thousand strong audience lost focus. The entire lesson was all within Zhang Ye’s control. They were all led by the nose by Zhang Ye’s bombsh.e.l.l. As such, the students had a very memorable lesson and gained more knowledge as well!

The education world experts still looked down on this host, Zhang Ye?! They were still biased against a person who was not from their industry? Bullsh*t! With the standard set by his performance today, even a professor with more than 10 years of experience….would not do better than this, right? They couldn’t possibly deliver the lecture better than Teacher Zhang Ye right? Alright, even though there were professors in Peking University and Tsinghua University who had the same standard as Zhang Ye’s lecture delivery and could do it with such interest, logic, and impact, would they be able to do so for a whole hour? Surely they would not be able to do so without a script, but Zhang Ye could! From this alone, no one in the education world would dare say they could do better than Zhang Ye!

This teacher was too interesting!

This was why the students had all surrounded Zhang Ye!

Of course, the group of reporters were even crazier than them!

More than twenty reporters rushed forward and squeezed in trying their best to take some pictures while others held out their voice recorders!