We are now in an era of rapidly depreciating academic qualifications, and the theory of the futility of reading comes one after another. On the one hand, news about graduates from famous schools and returnees who have been staying at home for a long time or will be doing low-paying jobs because they can't find ideal jobs is often reported in newspapers. On the other hand, people often mention those local tyrants who have only a primary school diploma but are getting along well after dinner. Bill Gates, a bookworm on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, and Steve Jobs, a late orator, also dropped out of college.

Some children are thinking: Can I drop out of school to pursue my dreams for once?

First of all, Grandpa Gates' body is far across the Pacific Ocean, and Jobs has passed away. The era of local tyrants' prosperity in China after 1961s is also an old imperial calendar. They all seem to be the existence of another world. I'd better tell the story of my friend Johnny.

I met Jenny through an English salon, which should be around 2111. I remember the first time we met in a New Zealand-style coffee shop called Coffee Break in Changzhou, when five people attended the party. He is a handsome boy with a slender figure, wearing a pair of glasses and paying special attention to clothing taste. He is fluent in English, his pronunciation is clear, and he is clever from time to time. The other three friends present had a relatively weak foundation in English, and sometimes they didn't understand him immediately, but I was able to keep up with him all the time, so we had a good talk later and it was like hitting it off. After all, the atmosphere of adult English learning in Changzhou is not strong, and it is rare for people who are willing to practice oral English in English salons.

When he confessed to us that he didn't graduate from high school, I was really surprised, because his temperament made people feel no different from college graduates, even more elegant than many college graduates. If it is a costume drama, he can play the young master, and I am suitable to play the housekeeper. Let's make up our brains. Later, with the improvement of communication, I gradually learned about his unusual life experience.

Johnny, born in 1991, dropped out of high school. At that time, young and frivolous, he took a few hundred yuan from his parents and took a bus from Yangzhong, Jiangsu Province to Changzhou alone. In order to survive, he just arrived in Changzhou to look for a job everywhere, and finally went to a restaurant to work, which is hard to imagine. Later, he opened a food stall with his friends, but his business failed miserably. All this seems to be a familiar old-fashioned plot.

But something unusual happened: he was lucky enough to be recruited by an English training institution and became an apprentice, which was largely due to his never giving up learning English. Although she dropped out of school, Jenny never stopped teaching herself English. It is common to study English and American dramas and spoken English. He learned a lot of teaching skills from the boss of this institution, especially the professional knowledge of English pronunciation.

At the same time, he slowly began to hang out in bars frequented by foreigners and seized every opportunity to talk with them and practice his spoken English. This is inevitably reminiscent of President Ma of Lakeside University. Jenny once introduced me to a Canadian friend, who is a member of an international high IQ association. At that time, I was shocked to hear the head of that organization, thinking that there was such an organization. It's been a long time. On that day, the three of us chatted for more than an hour while eating noodles in a special noodle shop in Changzhou. We still remember a common oral expression we learned from Yan Ni at that time: TMI (acronym for Too Much Information).

Compared with Jonny, I find that I particularly lack his humor and openness, which are the two key factors for him to get along with westerners. When he stepped into the society early, he often showed so-called street wisdom, which was deeply appreciated by his foreign friends. At the same time, I also found that what I said was too written, because I have been practicing oral English with China people (laughing and crying). A friend is like a mirror. When you associate with many different friends, you will learn some of their advantages, and at the same time help you know yourself, because some things can't be copied.

In 2115, Jenny took the IELTS test and got an average score of 7, surpassing many English undergraduate graduates. His achievements vividly show the phrase "Heaven rewards diligence". Later, with this good result, Jenny successfully jumped to a large local English training institution in Changzhou. At the same time, Jenny also served as a volunteer lecturer in some free English courses on the online platform, and in the process, she sucked a lot of powder, which made people envy. He also got on the line with Long Feihu, the founder of Kung Fu English, showing his diplomatic ability.

In 2116, Jonny moved to Kunshan, an economic center in China, and joined a local IELTS training institution. In 2117, he joined another fast-growing English training company and became a partner. I believe his fan base will continue to grow. Fans mean influence, and the greater the influence, the higher his "valuation" will be.

In short, the dropout Jonny has undoubtedly turned his life around, and his road should be wider and wider. Although he has long since left school, his life style of self-study and continuous improvement is exactly the same as what Jobs called "Stay hungry". Joe helped Wang create the Apple Empire, and President Ma won the title of the richest man in Asia, and Jonny's future is also full of possibilities.