“我还是感谢南开中学给我那些启蒙的基本知识,使我有可能寻求新的知识,接触新的知识。”这是我们敬爱的周恩来总理于一九五七年在天津一次欢迎外宾时讲的话。他还说:“我是四十年前,在天津受过中等教育的一个学生。”周总理的话表达了他对自己中学时代峥嵘岁月的深刻记忆。一九一三年八月至一九一七年六月,是周恩来同志十五岁至十九岁的中学时代。当时,他在天津南开学校(中学)念书,念了四年,直到中学毕业。其后,他赴日本留学一年半,于一九一九年四月又回到天津母校。自此,他参加了五四运动,直到一九二○年十一月初,到法国勤工俭学。 “I am still grateful to Nankai High School for giving me the basic knowledge of enlightenment so that I may seek new knowledge and gain new knowledge.” This is what our beloved Premier Zhou Enlai said when he welcomed foreign guests in Tianjin in 1957 . He added: “I was a student who had been educated in secondary education in Tianjin 40 years ago.” Premier Chou’s words expressed his deep memory of the remarkable years of his high school days. From August 1913 to June 1917, Comrade Zhou Enlai was a middle school age between the ages of 15 and 19. At that time, he studied at Tianjin Nankai School (middle school) and spent four years until he graduated from high school. Later, he went to Japan for a year and a half and went back to his alma mater in Tianjin in April 1919. Since then, he took part in the May Fourth Movement and went to work-study in France until early November 1920.