You know, the population of Germany is not as large as that of China and Guangdong. However, it is such a "tiny place" that has become a world power with a tiny population.
Many people will ask, shouldn't the Nobel Prize winner be a superpower like the United States?
In fact, many American Nobel Prize winners are Germans. Germany has set many precedents, and has been a world superpower during World War I and World War II. Their research on children's education is so deep that the German educator Froebel founded the world's first kindergarten in Brandenburg, Germany.
It can be said that the achievements of Germans are inseparable from their education of young children.
What is outstanding about German education?
The biggest feature of China's parents is that they want their children to succeed. In order to keep their children from losing at the starting line, parents give prenatal education to their babies from the moment they are pregnant. When you start preschool education when you are older, children may be enrolled in many extra-long classes by their parents without even speaking. This kind of cramming teaching has a great influence on children, which is also opposed by German education circles.
German kindergartens want children to "lose at the starting line". They teach children not only all the knowledge, but also all kinds of "games". German children rarely say that they don't want to go to kindergarten. On the contrary, they like going to kindergarten very much. Having their friends and games brings them happiness.
Here they don't distinguish children's classes by age. Accurately speaking, they never put their children in different classes, but if so, how can they "teach students in accordance with their aptitude"?
German kindergartens only teach children to do five things every day, which is very different from China kindergartens.
First, life skills
While children in China are trying to solve this Olympic math problem, children in German kindergartens are "experiencing life". They will visit fire stations and police stations and learn how to protect themselves when disasters come. It is true that some kindergartens in China organize children to visit, but most of the museums and libraries they go to are nerds who can't live alone.
In addition to the basic knowledge of life, teachers will also take their children to experience different occupations. For example, teachers will take their children to the garden to experience how to become a gardener, and they will take their children to the farm to experience farm life.
They are still young, they have to go to school by themselves, and they are more independent. In short, the German educational model is more inclined to teach children how to survive and live than to teach them how to become sophisticated talents.
Second, social common sense.
Any freedom is often relative, not absolute. Although the children in German kindergartens are very free, teachers will naturally teach them some social common sense, such as: no fighting, using honorifics when speaking, and being frugal and not wasting.
Good habits can often accompany children all their lives. Just like at a grand gathering of scientists, someone once interviewed the scientists present: "Where do you think you have learned the most in your life?" German scientists often answer this question when they are in kindergarten. A scientist said, "They learned humility, giving and sharing in kindergarten".
I believe most people have heard such a story. 1948 During the European Revolution, the German rebels attacked the municipal government, and everyone rushed into the municipal government from a narrow road, so they paid a great price. They could have rushed across the lawn. Why not? This is because there is a sign on the lawn that forbids trampling on the lawn, so no one will pass by the lawn.
This is the quality that Germans have cultivated since childhood!
Third, pay attention to children's self-care ability from an early age
Children are usually very dependent on their parents. If parents coax their children blindly and leave them in an absolutely safe environment, their children will not get enough growth and their self-care ability will get worse and worse, and eventually they will become "neets" who are spurned by society.
In fact, it is not difficult to cultivate children's self-care ability. We can start with small things. Most parents in China will breast-feed their children when they are still young, and this habit will continue until their children go to primary school. Actually, it's not necessary After going to kindergarten, German children will start eating, dressing and doing what they can. Their parents can only provide guidance, not to their children.
Fourth, cultivate children's concentration.
I believe that not only children but also adults are often distracted in their daily lives. However, this kind of distraction rarely happens to Germans, because they have been trained by teachers since childhood, how to concentrate themselves. This is also a very important factor in their success. Only when they have no distractions can they establish a high position in a field.
Germans attach great importance to cultivating children's concentration. Only people with strong concentration can really listen to what the teacher says in class. Cultivating children's concentration is exactly what parents in China ignore.