In the article, the author exaggerates the importance of exam-oriented education and simply understands quality education as "special learning". What is terrible is the following comments. Many parents support this statement. Everyone thinks that only "exam-oriented education" can change the fate of children, and everyone thinks that "quality education" is useless.
Not long after this article was pushed, the reading volume was 30000+. This figure may indicate that this wrong concept has been recognized by many parents, and even more and more parents will recognize this concept because of the spread of articles. The most direct embodiment may be that this concept will mislead more parents, and more and more parents only pay attention to their children's achievements, ignoring their physical and mental health and social adaptation.
Fortunately, among the many voices supporting the author's point of view, there is a rational voice that points out the shortcomings of the article.
Why do parents think that only "exam-oriented education" is useful and "quality education" is useless? In the final analysis, parents' understanding of "quality education" is one-sided, and many parents may regard "quality education" as a specialty education, just like the author in the article.
What is quality education? The official interpretation of "quality education" is that quality education refers to an educational model that aims at improving the quality of the educated and attaches importance to people's ideological and moral quality, ability training, personality development, physical health and mental health education.
To put it bluntly, "quality education" is not "professional education" but all aspects of education.
To put it bluntly, only paying attention to "exam-oriented education" means teaching a person who can take exams. You can search for "high scores and low abilities" on the Internet, and you may have a new understanding of focusing only on "exam-oriented education" and ignoring "quality education".
Of course, we can't rudely label people we don't know. This is by no means a wise move, and we don't want young people to be really trained as reading machines with "high scores and low abilities".
Einstein once said: "It is not enough to teach people professional knowledge. Through professional education, he can be a useful tool but not a harmonious person. "
Education must be a comprehensive process, which involves all aspects. It can't be said that only one aspect of education is concerned, and other aspects are not concerned.
For another example, Professor Wang pointed out in his literature that if we overemphasize moral education and ignore knowledge education, or only emphasize knowledge education and ignore moral education, it will lead to abnormal development of education.
Generally speaking, moral education is to teach students "how to be a man" and knowledge education is to teach students "skills to make a living".
However, if we only pay attention to moral education and ignore knowledge education in education, it will be difficult for students to adapt after entering the society. Without livelihood skills, they have no source of income. It can be said that he doesn't know what to live with. This is a very realistic problem, but it is also a problem that people often ignore. This may also be why some people have particularly serious work anxiety!
Once I was chatting with a friend, a friend said that the purpose of study is to work, but accurately speaking, the purpose of study is to work better, so as to choose a job and live a better life in the future.
And if we only pay attention to the study of knowledge and ignore the study of morality, it is definitely not enough. I think some common campus cheating, trafficking and bullying in society are all manifestations of the lack of corresponding moral education.
The goal of education should be to become a harmonious person when children leave school or family. He can adapt to this society. He is an independent individual, he can live by himself, not an expert who only knows a lot of knowledge.
Parents can reflect on their own educational methods. Are they really biased towards one side and ignoring the other? While paying attention to children's grades, am I also paying attention to children's mental health and moral quality? When I am adhering to the principle that children grow up healthily and learning is not important, have I considered what children should do after entering the society?
Now is an era of knowledge explosion. We receive a lot of different information and ideas every day, but as parents, we must look at these things in a speculative way, especially on topics related to parenting. Parents should take the initiative to think about whether the concept it conveys is correct or too one-sided.
The key point of the painting is to repeatedly knock on the blackboard to express that education is all-round and not limited to one aspect! We need to pay attention to all aspects of education and cultivate them at the same time, so as to help children become a complete "person".
Don't think of any shortcuts to cultivate excellent children, let alone go to extremes because you want to cultivate excellent children.
The Indian philosopher "Krishnamurti" once said: "If education only molds people with various standard styles, which leads people to seek a sense of security, become important people, or live a comfortable life as soon as possible, then education will undoubtedly contribute to the misfortune and destruction of this world. If education is just a profession and a way to make money, how can teachers help every child with love and make them curious about themselves and the world? "
We must remember that the children we train are not only experts in a certain field, but also outstanding in professional knowledge and have noble moral qualities.
This is an article in The Reader. What is education? This is indeed a question that should be deeply considered.