This chapter's epigraph comes from a poem by a young man named Zhejiang, who is a member of the Society for the Promotion of Education in the People's Republic of China. In the poem, he tells the story of how he came to be a teacher in the country's capital, Shanghai, and how he was sent to work in the city's biology department. When he arrived at the department, he was made a teacher's apprentice, and he was given a position in the school's zoology department. He was hired to work with the students in order to improve their reading and writing skills. He also learned to read, write, and speak Chinese. The young man, who