The podium has been standing for more than 30 years, and without modesty, it is not a big problem to deal with retirement after decades of experience. But even if more than a hundred years later, future generations will still exist, this nation will continue. So before bidding farewell to the pulpit, I hope that students and their parents can learn something from it and learn something to help their children grow up.
Recently, I wrote an article entitled "arithmetic exercises to predict the future of children", which is based on the huge negative social effects of the current elite education model. At present, the whole society pursues the illusory elite model of basic education from top to bottom, and fantasizes about training their children into social elites. But after all, elites are in the minority, and if there are more, they will not be called elites. This kind of mode is destined to sacrifice the majority and become the minority. It completely violates the attribute of basic education.
Many parents, including those engaged in education, do not understand education and only know how to follow the trend. When they ask their children to learn musical instruments, they have to learn them themselves. When other children take extra classes, their own children also have to go to school. Never thought about the pros and cons. Based on the lifelong realization of an educational family from four generations of educational families with more than 30 years of teaching experience, the author warns parents whose children are still in school that the purpose of letting their children receive primary and secondary education should not be too strong. To put it popularly, primary and secondary education is the foundation of one's life growth and must not be neglected in an all-round way. Because the direction of children's development is quite uncertain, only when they have a certain cultural foundation can they reflect the appropriate direction of development.
The reasonable development direction of the child, first of all, depends on the child's interest, followed by the child's cultural foundation, and finally depends on the child's life opportunity. It is difficult for children to achieve success if they are forced to develop in areas they are not interested in. Cultural foundation and life opportunities complement each other, with a higher cultural foundation, people will seize life opportunities more efficiently. Modern society is a highly civilized society, illiteracy is doomed to no development. But it is not only with a high level of education that you can achieve success. The author makes a detailed exposition on the development of children in "arithmetic exercises to predict the future of children". The children's future development and achievement depends on their comprehensive strength. And achievement = wisdom, health, will, luck. Although this wisdom is not completely equal to the level of education, under the same conditions, the level of education is directly proportional to wisdom. Moreover, the level of education and wisdom are also proportional to the chances of seizing luck.
"arithmetic exercises to predict the future of children" is aimed at those children whose academic performance is mediocre, and the aim is to guide them to find the right direction in life. It also warns children with excellent academic performance that ignoring the exercise of health and will runs the risk of making it difficult for their excellent academic performance to play their role.
Elite education is almost waiting for the rabbit, pinning the hope of children's growth on this kind of education, which is not only a high social cost (sacrificing most children to achieve a very small number of children), but also a gamble with a very low chance of success for the future of children. Parents whose children are receiving primary and secondary education, are you aware of the results of your gambling? What's more, even if it is not eliminated by this kind of elite education with high elimination rate, it may not become the elite of this society.
At the beginning of reform and opening up, the residual sense of planned economy also provided a little opportunity for this kind of elite education. To be admitted to a good university means to have a good job and then a good home. However, with the deepening of social change, such opportunities are less and less, to find a good job, a good home more and more rely on ability, that is, a person's comprehensive strength. Even the most popular civil service enrollment has cooled sharply in the past two years. If you want to enter a large state-owned enterprise, it depends almost entirely on relationships, and the costs and risks have greatly increased.
For the sake of interests, foreign capital, joint ventures and private enterprises mainly attach importance to ability, and their inability to join them, even with brighter diplomas, will soon be eliminated by brutal competition (even if they are not fired, they will also be marginalized). Personal income and living standards will also decline significantly. So now along the direction of elite education, the future of the child will become the rabbit waiting for the rabbit, whether the rabbit can wait, even if it is cost-effective. The purpose of this article is to make it clear to parents whether to gamble with the future of your precious son or daughter.
Seeing this, parents with children may want to ask, how can children have an ideal future if they don't gamble? If you have this doubt after reading this article, the author will not be wasting his pen and ink. First of all, parents should be forward-looking about their children's education, that is, they should use their children's future living environment to determine the direction of their children's education. As the saying goes, 30 years east of the river, 30 years west of the river. In the more than 30 years before the reform and opening up, the concept has been turned upside down. For the children in school now, will they still be like this in the next 30 years? No matter how stubborn the old forces are, the economic base determines the superstructure, and if this country is to survive, it must accept the concept of developing productive forces, both passively and actively. The era in which diplomas and relationships determine an individual's future will come to an end. If children are still raised according to the current concept, the children will not be more gloomy in the future!
Therefore, for the forward-looking development of children, we must pay attention to the cultivation of children's comprehensive strength. One-sided pursuit of cultural knowledge, only pay attention to learning, ignore the cultivation of health quality and will quality, even if we encounter opportunities in the future, it is also difficult to seize.
The second thing to warn parents is that children's heads are not pockets, they can hold whatever they want. You can load as much as you want. In order to cultivate intelligence, we must respect the laws of nature. Relying solely on subjective wishes and not looking at the results will not only fail to achieve the expected results, but will also be counterproductive, ruining the child's bright future. It is foolish wishful thinking to disrespect the child's choice (only the foot knows whether the shoes fit or not) and force the child to attend this class or that class. As a result, it may not only be unable to learn what to learn, but also cause insurmountable obstacles to children's formal learning in school.
Those who run classes in society are driven by interests and parents are eager for quick success and quick benefits, and only pay attention to form. Take the composition class as an example, solid writing ability, should first pass the text, write out what you want to say, do not pay attention to the style too early. After you have passed the spoken and written language, practice the logic and style of your opinion. And the composition ability must have the quantity accumulation, only by speaking is unable to speak the composition ability. In terms of language, for the vast majority of children who need to learn composition outside class, it is impossible to take the initiative to digest and absorb the language mistakes corrected by the teacher. This needs to be corrected in the child's original text, one-on-one comment. But the purpose of running a composition class is to make money. If you teach composition in this way, how can you make money?
When the author is a Chinese teacher, the composition class is 45 minutes in the classroom with an iron pen, steel plate and students immediately write the same propositional composition, printed out after class, after the approval of the students' composition, comparative comments. And the composition questions are never reserved in advance, they are all arranged immediately after class. This method is OK for children who take the initiative to learn, but it is difficult to achieve results for those children who are poor in composition ability and lack good study habits and need extra-class composition classes. What's more, there are very few teachers who take composition classes in this way. Therefore, in the extracurricular composition class, in order for parents to see the effect immediately and agree to spend money on their composition class, most of them ask their children to memorize some gorgeous paragraphs, give formulas, and then spell the composition. The spelled composition is easy to deceive amateur parents into thinking that if they spend money, their children will be able to write colorful articles, which is worth the money.
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