There are still many difficulties and problems in the development of education in Guangdong. The biggest problem is that the education foundation is not solid enough, the development of education is unbalanced, the level of teachers is relatively low, the quality of education needs to be improved, and educational characteristics have not been formed. According to authoritative statistics, the outstanding problem now is "insufficient currency and Shao Shi".
There are many problems in educational value orientation. Different guiding ideology leads to different educational decisions and different development results. Therefore, to emancipate the mind, the primary core issue is to choose and pursue correct or reasonable educational value. This is the fundamental problem to be solved in emancipating the mind in the field of education.
To realize the scientific development of education in Guangdong, we must recruit more teachers from Qian Qiang.
First of all, find the essential value of socialist modern education and adjust the value orientation of education policy.
Modern education is the education needed by modern society, and the modernization of education is to create an education that can meet the needs of the development of modern society. Its most fundamental feature is the interactive development of education and society, realizing benign interaction. Socialist education should take "working for the people's interests" as the most fundamental value pursuit, satisfy the people's interests to the maximum extent, let the people enjoy fair and high-quality education with dignity, and let the people read well in system, economy, ability and results. Education has the function of social stratification, and sharing the fruits of educational development and progress is of far-reaching significance to harmonious development. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a correct concept of fairness and efficiency, achieve educational fairness and high efficiency, actively promote the balanced development of education from compulsory education, and expand educational fairness from systems, conditions and opportunities; Learn from the experience of private education management to improve the efficiency of education management.
Second, create an education system to promote the development of education.
The overall characteristics of China's education system are centralization, unequal powers and responsibilities, excessive unification, scattered responsibilities and lack of vitality, while the county-based management system has solidified and even widened regional differences. The system reform should have the consciousness of openness and service, and the people's government should fulfill the responsibility of developing education and truly educate people and managers. Only when the center of gravity of the management system moves down and the center of gravity of the input system moves up can the development of education be guaranteed and dynamic.
The first essence of the development of educational science is development. The development of education cannot be simply understood as the development of quantity, but its essence lies in the development of quality, so it is necessary to be an excellent and special school. It is necessary to cultivate the development ability of schools. The development ability of the school is the vitality of the school itself, a positive driving force from the inside. This development ability is mainly manifested in quality, team, system and culture, not in school buildings, venues, facilities and equipment. At present, the main idea of evaluation is to ask stingy local governments to invest more, which will not help to cultivate education and the development of schools, but will aggravate the imbalance of basic education development.
The development of educational scale should have new ideas. It is necessary to advocate big education instead of big schools and implement small class teaching; Popularizing high school education should mainly be popularizing ordinary high school education. The focus of developing vocational education should be shifted upward, and vocational education should be vigorously developed instead of secondary vocational education. Junior technicians mainly rely on training, and technical talents above intermediate level are trained through academic education in higher vocational colleges. Key universities should take the road of elite education and not blindly expand enrollment. The task of popularizing higher education is mainly undertaken by non-key universities.
Third, strengthen the professional position of education and promote the development of educational science.
1. Educational administration should change "transaction management mode" and establish "professional leadership mode". Establish professional standards for all kinds of personnel at all levels, vigorously simplify administration and decentralize power, and transform the "power standard" of education into "professional standard" by moving the professional focus up and the business focus down.
2. Education should be carried out in accordance with educational laws rather than "educational regulations". In modern education, on the one hand, there are too few thoughtful educators, on the other hand, there are too many educators with opinions. There is a problem of "returning to basic education" in all levels and types of education.
3. Strengthen education planning in cities and counties. The key to education construction is to be standardized and lasting. The so-called schools that are not backward for 50 years lack theoretical and policy basis. What we need to build is a school that will not collapse or be abolished for 50 years or even longer.
4. To lay a solid foundation for education as a strategic task to promote educational modernization. Without adequate investment and rational utilization of education, there can be no modernization of education. It is necessary to establish a county-level government education investment announcement system as soon as possible. To put the development of basic education in the first place, we must first attach importance to rural education.
Fourth, establish the public welfare consciousness of education and strengthen the construction of cadres and teachers.
1. Make education a teacher's profession. The key to running education well is to have good teachers, and the key to educational modernization is the modernization of teachers' quality. If we want to make education a career that outstanding talents are willing to engage in, we should not only rely on dedication, but also greatly improve the treatment of teachers, so that outstanding talents can feel that being a teacher is secure and promising.
2. Education and training should have a sense of public welfare. To improve and perfect the education and training system, teachers' paid training should be stopped or put an end to. We should take training rural teachers as the primary task.
3. Reflection on Guangdong's teacher education system. In the future, the teacher education system in Guangdong should form a multi-faceted pattern, in which the main body is put into practice, that is, South China Normal University is the leader, and Hanshan Normal University in eastern Guangdong, Guangdong Education College and Technical Normal University in central Guangdong, Zhanjiang Normal University in western Guangdong and other local universities with teacher education experience participate in many ways. China Normal University carries out high-end teacher education, while others mainly carry out undergraduate and master's teacher education.
4. The training of cadres should also be institutionalized. Guangdong Institute of Education should become the "Party School" of Guangdong education.
(The author is vice president and professor of Guangdong Institute of Education)