He wants to give his children the best education.

Jack Ma announced that he will no longer serve as chairman of Alibaba Group on September 10, 2019. As soon as the news came out, the whole network exploded! Many netizens have left messages: Ali or Ali without Jack Ma? Is Alipay without Jack Ma still the one that benefits the people?

However, the truth is not the case! Jack Ma not only did not say goodbye, but began a new journey! Jack Ma said: retirement is not to enjoy life, but to do more things.

Jack Ma wants to leave the final power to our next generation! Yes, Jack Ma is going back to be a teacher, handing Ali over to Zhang Yong to devote himself to the cause of education and promote the reform of China's education system.

As early as 1994, Jack Ma said that English teaching takes CET-4 and CET-6 as the pre-examination, but does not talk about heroes, while neglecting students' listening, speaking, reading and writing. Now 24 years later, this mode of education has not changed. All are judged by fractions, ranking theory is good or bad, the first thing children do when they go to school is to recite and do test questions. Scores, rankings and recitation have become a sword hanging over children's heads. When they grow up, the ones who are successful are often the children who do not recite well and rank low.

In Ma Yun's eyes, 85 points is enough for children to take the math Chinese exam. It is better for children to raise scores every day than to be better at sports, art and singing.

Ma Yun said on many occasions that the future is the era of big data and artificial intelligence, and many jobs in the industrial era in the past will be replaced by artificial intelligence. Can be innovative, creative and aesthetic ability, artificial intelligence can not be replaced.

The reserve of educational knowledge needed by talents in the future era, the beauty of sound and body is precisely more important than the number of words! Therefore, not only children, but all Chinese are facing such a change in knowledge structure and make-up lessons. In the school founded by Jack Ma, sound and body beauty is the main and compulsory course, and other courses can be taken slowly as electives.

Today, we teach children to draw, not necessarily to cultivate painters, but to correctly guide and aesthetic education on children's psychology, sentiment, and personality through painting. through open and easy teaching to enhance children's observation, thinking, creativity, flexibility, progress, so as to produce correct guidance for children in learning other disciplines and later career and life.

If we continue the previous teaching methods, memorize, memorize and calculate the children, and do not let the children experience and try playing chess, calligraphy and painting, the children will not be able to find a job after 30 years. Music, sports, art, these things make children really become a person, not a learning machine.

Roman Roland once said: art is the king of life. Artistic accomplishment is an important part of a person's humanistic accomplishment, which not only refers to a person's ability of artistic creation and artistic expression, but also emphasizes one's artistic perception, perception and appreciation, which is a comprehensive embodiment of aesthetic taste and ideological taste. it plays an important role in edifying people's mind, vision and realm. In modern life, good artistic accomplishment is a manifestation of noble moral sentiment and profound cultural self-cultivation. Similarly, constantly improving their artistic accomplishment can also be a pure ideological realm and improve their personality.

Qian Xuesen, a famous physicist in China, once said: a person with the ability of scientific innovation should not only have scientific knowledge, but also have cultural and artistic accomplishment. French writer Flaubert also said: science and art break up at the foot of the mountain and rendezvous at the top of the mountain. In history, great scientists have both profound artistic accomplishment and outstanding achievements in the fields of natural science and humanities.

Einstein was not only a physicist but also a music lover. He said that physics gives me knowledge, art gives me imagination, knowledge is limited, and the imagination of art is infinite, it can summarize everything in the world, without imagination, there can be no creativity. As a scientific and technological worker, it is necessary to cultivate a wide range of interests.

In the process of human development and social progress, art education plays an irreplaceable role. It can be said that not attaching importance to moral education harms the moral standards of a generation; not attaching importance to intellectual education damages the cognitive level of a generation; ignoring sports damages the physical health of a generation; and not attaching importance to art education damages the spiritual world of a generation and affects the spirit, imagination and creativity of a nation. The lack of imagination and creativity is very difficult to make up for.

In the comparative study of art education between 1999-2000 and 2009-2010, the National Academy of Education conducted a questionnaire survey involving more than 50,000 undergraduate graduates. One of the questions is: what knowledge is the most useful? The result of the answer is quite intriguing. The answer is basic skills for those who have graduated for 5 years, basic principles for those who have graduated for 6 or 10 years, interpersonal relationships for those who have graduated for 11 or 15 years, and those who have graduated for more than 16 years that art is the most useful.

However, many experts and scholars sigh that art education is a mass education for everyone. However, how many schools and educators we have regard art education as the specialty education of a small number of people and the stepping stone to enter the university. Is this kind of education still utilitarian? Is it for further study? We cannot help but reflect on what has been given to children in today's art education in primary and secondary schools, which has taken so many music and art classes from primary school to senior high school.

Recently, at the National Education Conference, President Xi Jinping stressed the need to comprehensively strengthen and improve school aesthetic education, adhere to aesthetic education and cultural people, and improve students' aesthetic and humanistic literacy. The fundamental significance of art education lies not in art, but in the cultivation of excellent personality and accomplishment.

Jack Ma changed China's business environment through Taobao; he also wanted to change the status quo of Chinese education by doing it. He has always been at the forefront of China's reform and opening up, sharing the historical mission of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation! We expect: perhaps soon, our future generations will usher in the best era of education.

Shanghai, September 23, 2018