One of the great failures of education is not acknowledging that most children are just ordinary people
A major failure of Chinese education is not acknowledging that most children are just ordinary people
Not acknowledging that our children are just ordinary people is a major problem in contemporary education
In recent years, education has become a social hotspot that everyone pays attention to, and various reform programs have also been proposed.
When it comes to education, the school is tired, the parents are not relieved, and the children are even more tired. However, even so, no one dared to stop. Everyone is still rushing forward, lest they fall behind, and the educational theater effect is intensifying.
What is the reason?
The author thinks that it may be a long-standing ideological problem: that none of us is willing to admit that our children are actually just ordinary people.
- Unrealistic dreams of genius
It is not wrong to hope that their children will become dragons, and it is even more right for parents to have some good expectations for their children's future. But the problem is that too many parents always fantasize about their children being geniuses or want to raise their children to be geniuses.
From the moment the child is born, parents hold the idea that they cannot lose at the starting line. As soon as he can speak, he will let the children learn to read and memorize ancient poems. When they are older, they will start to cultivate various hobbies of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and attend various remedial classes.
Moreover, Chinese parents are especially keen to let their children go to school in the morning, and it seems that the earlier they go to school, the more they can prove that their children are better.
Every year when the primary school starts, there are always many parents pulling their children under age, trying every means to put their children into the first grade. The author has examples of people who started to enter the first grade of elementary school at the age of 5.
Chinese parents have been dreaming unrealistic dreams of genius until one day, they found that the dream was broken.
You say, this can not be tired?
- Are there really no bad students?
And not only parents are reluctant to admit that their children are actually ordinary people, but the whole society seems to be aggravating people's thoughts.
There is a saying that goes like this: There are no bad students, only bad teachers.
This sentence is extremely misleading to the whole society, and it obliterates the differences between different children.
In fact, there are really bad students. The same question, some children will be able to say it once, but some children's teachers may not be able to say it ten times. This is not the teacher's problem, but the child's IQ is inherently problematic.
But has anyone come out and poked this out? No, it's all in the emperor's new clothes.
The whole society tacitly continues such a "beautiful lie", which puts all children and families on the road to the college entrance examination.
Enrollment in high schools and colleges has been expanded, but most people study early in the morning and in the dark, and in the end they only go to some schools with two or three. There will always be only a small number of people who can go to Qingbei.
- Not all kids are good candidates for college
In fact, as I wrote in a previous article: Not all children are suitable for college.
You are like German secondary education, which implements a diversion system. Students of ordinary liberal arts high schools enter comprehensive universities after graduation, which are similar to domestic undergraduates. Some students go to vocational high schools and then to universities of applied technology. Some children go directly to employment after passing through vocational and technical schools.
This is more in line with the reality of talent education, which is to teach students in accordance with their aptitude.
On the other hand, it seems that we only have the college entrance examination. Even if it is a student with the lowest grades, parents feel that as long as their children work hard, they may go to a key university. If you want to persuade him to let his child go to a vocational school, he will be anxious with you!
However, most of the children are actually just ordinary people. After more than ten years of hard work, they may only go to an ordinary university after taking the college entrance examination. After they come out, they can find a job that is not enough. This is cost-effective. do you feel tall?
To change the unrealistic illusion of "everyone is a genius", to admit that most children are actually ordinary people, and to implement diversionary education for students may be the key to solving many problems in China's education field at present.
After all, once not everyone points to the college entrance examination, the pressure of the college entrance examination will be less, and many problems may not be problems anymore.