Therefore, holistic education does not focus on a specific field, but emphasizes comprehensive and balanced physical and mental health development, which is different from the so-called "new" educational concept.
We believe that only holistic education can truly enable students to give full play to their potential and have enough ability to cope with all kinds of tests in life. Correct education must be considered and taught from the overall situation of being a man and doing things, which is incomparable only by paying attention to imparting technology and knowledge. We believe that although this is the most traditional, it is also the most scientific and advanced educational concept.
In order to achieve the effect of holistic education, we refer to the best educational methods in the world, combine the teaching methods and textbooks handed down for thousands of years, and integrate them into the basic education designated by the state to complete the unique educational concept of Mingde Primary School.
The concept of holistic education is easy to understand, because holistic education conforms to the most fundamental common sense and the process of children's natural development, so it is easy for parents, teachers and principals to cooperate, but it is not easy to completely implement it, because in addition to meeting the learning standards required by the state, even exceeding the standards, life value orientations other than knowledge (such as pursuing truth, goodness and beauty) should be integrated into learning, which requires students, parents and teachers to reach a consensus. However, in order to help children lay a good foundation for education, this is a crucial subject, so any difficulty is worth trying to break through. The so-called no pains, no gains, as long as we can persevere and advance seriously, there will be good results.
Most notably, although Mingde Primary School is located in the poorest rural areas, this teaching system will not lose to any metropolis, private schools or the best schools in the world. We believe that people are equal and should not be trapped by poverty. As long as we provide the same opportunities, every student should be able to exert his greatest potential, which is also the purpose of our donation to build Mingde Primary School and engage in education.
Next, we use the simplest method to express the spirit and focus of holistic education.
First of all, holistic education emphasizes "hard work and simplicity". Because only hard work can achieve good results. Only under the diligent service spirit can we realize the importance of simplicity, and then develop a cordial, practical and service attitude. We hope that every child can understand this truth before entering the society. Therefore, Mingde Primary School places special emphasis on "diligence" and implements this concept through various activities. In order to make the activities orderly, we assign responsibility areas to each child by "zoning", which may include toilets, classrooms, corridors, stairs, public areas and so on. Enhance children's sense of participation and accomplishment through simple evaluation and observation. Each child's environmental responsibility area can also be rotated and intermodulated regularly to maintain its fairness. In addition to the above cleaning, any labor project, such as campus greening, community service, etc. , you can also consider including the activity.
To thoroughly implement holistic education, positive and encouraging ways will far exceed serious and negative ways.
Another focus of holistic education is to inspire and promote the balanced development of the brain. Teaching logical analysis knowledge can only bring one-sided educational achievements, and we can also call it left brain (logic) education. If you want to stimulate children's creativity, you must let the brain get full inspiration and enlightenment. Because of this, we especially emphasize inspiring activities such as art and literature to cultivate children's interest in relaxed and comprehensive competitions. In art, we use painting, calligraphy and handmade works. In literature, we emphasize reciting classics and precious classics left by sages, and at the same time take topics related to morality as the theme of children's compositions.
The theory of division of labor between left and right brain is the original idea of Professor sperry of California Institute of Technology, and won the 198 1 year Nobel Prize in Medicine for the theory of division of labor between left and right brain. Professor sperry called the left brain the conscious brain, which is used to master intellectuality, knowledge, thinking, judgment, reasoning, language, inhibition, hearing, smell and taste. The right brain is an instinctive brain or a subconscious brain, which controls the visual function (planning power, creativity, imagination) and the cosmic resonance function (sixth sense, thinking power, insight, intuition, inspiration, etc.). ), ultra-high-speed automatic calculation function (mental calculation, number calculation), ultra-high-speed mass memory (speed reading, memory) and so on. Most of the information stored in the human brain is in the right brain, and the process of thinking is to extract the data from the left brain, symbolize and linguistize it.
In view of the importance of reciting precious classics, we have specially arranged the course of "reading classics". First of all, the course level is divided according to the different levels of children. Then encourage students to recite in the most relaxed way and spend dozens of minutes reading the classics handed down by the ancients every day. Don't be afraid that students can't understand it, and don't emphasize rote learning. The average child will recite it easily after repeating it several times, and will naturally apply what he has learned and gradually increase the depth of understanding. According to our past promotion experience, using this easy method can not only enhance children's ability in literature, but also enhance their ability in mathematics and physics, and strengthen their attention and determination; Overcome attention disorder and solve the most serious learning disability problem facing modern times.
By reciting, children's attention and consciousness (listening, speaking and thinking) can be integrated, which can be detected by the most advanced medical research tools. In the process of reciting, children have obvious brain wave deceleration, from ultra-fast B wave (14Hz or above) to A wave (8- 13Hz), and even some children can reach Q wave (Q wave). The main reason is that many children who are proficient in reciting can achieve the phenomenon of coherent left and right brain waves even after reciting for a few minutes. This kind of brain wave synchronization phenomenon is quite rare, and usually occurs in a state of deep meditation or high creativity. The so-called "genius" is usually in a state where the left and right brain waves are synchronized, otherwise the potential of the whole brain cannot be fully exerted.
In fact, these ideas have long been recognized abroad. 1999 We made a special trip to visit Dr. William Bennett, the former American Secretary of Education, to share our experience in reading the Bible. He not only agrees with this educational model, but also provides a lot of evidence that Europe and America used it for literature education forty or fifty years ago, but this traditional model has been ignored in recent decades. At the same time, Dr. Bennett believes that if the recitation method can be popularized, it will stimulate students' creativity and moral concepts that are most needed in the future.
Then, in the same year (1999), we established the World Childhood Alliance together with 34 education experts from all over the world. Through research and discussion, we find that there are many good educational methods such as "classic reading" all over the world, especially in countries with developed western culture (Germany, Switzerland, France and the United States), but compared with other countries, "classic reading" is not only widely accepted in the world, but also being enthusiastically promoted. Only in China, including China, more than 8 million children have participated in reading, which is evident.
Reading classics is the best way to learn literature, so reading English classics is also included in Mingde's holistic education system. This method reflects our many years of Chinese teaching experience abroad, and finds that reciting beautiful poems directly is the best method, far exceeding the general Chinese teaching method. We hope that the students of Mingde Primary School will become outstanding talents with international vision in the future, so it is necessary to read English as soon as possible. In order to consider the actual needs of remote rural areas, we also brought the most standard pronunciation CD to cooperate with the Bible reading activities.
Another viewpoint of holistic education is to strengthen children's ability to solve problems, in other words, how to strengthen children's ability to adapt to various situations. The key is to stimulate students with topic teaching and question guidance based on multiple training instead of a single fixed learning model. Therefore, students should be encouraged to participate in special activities such as science and mathematics, so as to stimulate their creative potential and problem-solving ability as soon as possible.
In addition to the basic concept of holistic education, we need to take some relevant measures to encourage and guide students constantly, and use these methods to implement the educational concept, such as giving students multiple exams and constantly stimulating students to develop the habit of reading with frequent quizzes, instead of just deciding their grades through one or two big exams. Through this regular quiz, teachers can deeply understand students' learning situation and make some necessary remedial measures in time. In addition, we believe that children's learning ability is the highest when they are happiest and most interested, so we encourage teachers to use interactive teaching methods to provide equal opportunities for each child, so that students can feel the teacher's concern and fair treatment, and at the same time let them know that the teacher's hope is that every student can learn well, rather than emphasizing competition. Outside the classroom, we also try to encourage teachers to drive students to participate in various competitions, even inter-school competitions. By using this method, students, teachers and even principals in different schools can be encouraged to observe each other.
This is what we call holistic education. We believe that as long as everyone agrees with such a good idea and is willing to devote themselves wholeheartedly, it will bring a new life and full of hope to millions of mingde primary school students in the future. We believe that any students, teachers and principals who are willing to participate in this educational model will be proud of the outstanding students trained by Mingde family in the future.