"Why can't our school train outstanding talents" is a famous question of Qian Xuesen. When considering this issue, I think it is necessary to think and analyze the contemporary education system in China.
In my opinion, although China's education system has made great progress compared with the ancient imperial examinations before China, and we are now learning advanced western education systems and systems, our education system has great defects and deficiencies.
First of all, our educational philosophy seems to aim at cultivating all-round students, always thinking about having children in the future. This puts a great burden on children during their education. They have no happy childhood and free youth, only counseling and exams arranged by their parents, teachers and schools. Unable to tell right from wrong, they stumbled through primary and secondary schools on a similar road paved by millions of parents, and then most of them left their parents and went to boarding high schools. Far from their parents, they are entrusted with the important task of the college entrance examination, master skills and examination methods in a classroom full of books, and then take the college entrance examination. Under the unfair conditions of regional protection, some people went to Tsinghua, while others went to junior college. Under unfair educational conditions and unfair selection system, some people went to heaven and some went to hell.
In addition, with the expansion of university enrollment, the disadvantages of university education methods and concepts are also exposed. Let's take a look at the study and life of modern college students. At present, the starting point of college students' study is wrong-they study for exams and don't study anything related to exams; Some students simply don't study, indulge in games every day, wasting time and life; It is common for college students to cheat in the examination room. Every time they finish the exam, there are always miniature cheat sheets on the ground-modern technology "benefits" students! Instead of learning knowledge and skills well, a large number of students fish in troubled waters and pass exams opportunistically, and there are not many activities in universities to exercise students' innovative ability and pragmatic spirit.
Education in China is very rigid, because in China, education first means obeying authority. Under the education system in China, people like Einstein can't survive, because students in China only dare to think about what the teacher has taught and what the teacher hasn't taught, which they never dare to think about. If you have any new ideas, you must show them on the test paper, and you will be marked with a big red cross immediately. There are many big jokes in primary and secondary education in China. For example, in middle school modern Chinese reading, a writer (Yu Hua) chose one of his articles as the material for modern Chinese reading. His son was stumped by the problem, so he asked his father for help. As a result, his father did everything wrong! Really, if you don't believe me, go and get the college entrance examination paper and read modern Chinese. Being with the professor and doctor of the Chinese Department of your university will make you completely unhappy! If you are Lu Xun and Guo Yun, it is useless for you to come. The teacher's answer is beyond dispute. And our political class, where there is nothing serious, is simply synonymous with vulgarity and mental retardation in the world. It's hard to know how these teachers have taught over the years. Even in natural science, its rigidity and dogma are unbearable. As long as it is the questions that have appeared in the college entrance examination, as long as it is the answer standard set by the college entrance examination, you can't make any changes, even if you are right!
In such an atmosphere, how can you win any Nobel Prize? What can such an education do except teach a large number of idiots who follow suit? The root of all this lies in Confucian superstition of authority and blind worship of teachers' dignity. This is one of the evil consequences of the Confucian concept of "Ren Ming Lun". Therefore, under our current education system, there is still the shadow and bondage of feudal education.
I think the recent South University of Science and Technology incident, which has caused a lot of uproar in the city, is a very good educational exploration. Although it is the efforts made by an old man rather than the China government, it also tells us that China's exploration of education is endless, and China's education is not a backwater.
I hope I can give a good evaluation.
To sum up, I think that under the current educational system, educational institutions in China should reflect on themselves, and then learn advanced educational systems and concepts that are in line with the cultivation of talents, so as to push China's plan of rejuvenating the country through science and education to a new field.