Therefore, education is a slow art, and education should return to nature, follow the law, and begin to be quietly praised and implemented by reason.
However, in all the reforms, it seems that no one has specifically answered such a proposition: what kind of people should our education cultivate students?
Recently, I watched Soul Matters: Meditation on Life, Love and Belief (by Shi Tiesheng). Tianjin: Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, 2005), and some paragraphs seem to answer this proposition-
On page 7, there is not only the opportunity to integrate into the university for further study, but also the experience of wandering around the world alone in society; At the critical moment, you can not only get the guidance of a good teacher, but also always work hard on your own. I not only tasted the goodness of human nature, but also learned that the world is cold and normal, so I can "see the world clearly and then love it" as romain rolland said.
On page 9, you can also make a little trouble in a measured way. A lucky child should have caused a little trouble and encountered some difficulties, including one or two liars, one or two bad guys, one or two idiots, and one or two people who are good at telling jokes without worrying. Lucky children should be a little wild. Of course, your father is an out-and-out intellectual, because a lucky person has been influenced by culture since childhood. Don't worry about anything, but have the opportunity to make you admire knowledge. This is all the reason why you designed your father as an intellectual.
Your mother should also be knowledgeable, but don't care more about books than your father. Don't be like some stupid intellectual women who put all their hopes on their children when they expect their children to succeed. After giving birth to a girl, they hope that she will be Madame Curie in the future. After raising a boy, they think they have raised a little Beethoven. Such a mother must not fall on us. If you don't listen to her, you will feel sorry for her. If you listen to her, you will find that she is sorry for you. She hung you on the wall like a famous painting, took three steps back, squinted at you and threw you in her mouth like a plum blossom.
What kind of person should students be trained to be? In Shi Tiesheng's idealized description, he should be weather-beaten and have a good tutor, but he should have his own connotation and strength. Is this possible in reality?
Of course not, but why not work hard in this direction? Isn't playing truant and wandering society of little value to students' personal outlook on life? Can't being cheated become your precious wealth? If you can't go to high school or college, can't you teach yourself or get rich in business?
Everyone knows that the flowers in the greenhouse are wrong in theory, but in reality, how many families don't treat their children as flowers in the greenhouse and ask schools to do so? How many children really dare to go out and roam the society when they are teenagers?
The contradiction between ideal and reality, the contradiction between social talent demand and children's training methods seems irreconcilable in China, so what reform is there to talk about in education?