Recently, I have been surprisingly energetic, tossing about education every day, and I am almost possessed. When the energy accumulated in the past year was exhausted by me in three weeks, a word came to my mind: education may never be a dilemma.

Growing up, my education never gave me the right to choose my educational progress (at least in primary and secondary schools). When you get to school, you have to listen to the teacher's arrangement. Teachers hardly care about how much students have learned and whether they are suitable for further study. If teachers care about students' learning progress, it can only be said that it is reflected in quizzes or unit tests. Teachers know students' mastery of certain knowledge by counting their passing rates in quizzes and unit tests. This kind of understanding only provides reference for final review, and has no substantial influence on students' actual learning progress. What time period does the plan require students to finish their studies, or should they follow the timetable. Although some plans have considered the time to complete the plan as a time period, trying to give students a buffer time, whether this time is enough remains to be discussed. As long as I can remember, I graduated from junior high school, and I haven't prepared myself mentally. I graduated from high school before I was ready; I graduated from college before I was ready ... every student's situation is different. It remains to be seen whether delaying those students whose foundation is not solid will ultimately promote their development more effectively or dampen their self-confidence in learning. If learning is mainly students' own business and teachers only play the role of scaffolding, should we consider reducing the right to decide the learning progress to students, let students decide their own learning progress and give them the opportunity to practice autonomous learning monitoring?

The above ideas are beautiful, but we must face the reality. Giving students freedom is the premise. First, the younger students are, the worse their self-discipline ability is. Students may set their study progress too slowly because of lack of interest or self-confidence, and miss the excellent study time. Secondly, the slower the students' learning progress, the longer they will study in school, and the education expenses paid by the state will increase accordingly, which is powerless for China, which is short of education funds. Another way to solve the funding problem is to let students bear it personally. On the one hand, it reduces the burden on the country, but on the other hand, it also concentrates educational resources in the hands of a few rich children to a certain extent, which invisibly creates a new problem of fair educational opportunities.

In this way, education is caught in a dilemma in the collision between reality and ideal. In my impression, education has been silent for a long time. Is he waiting for someone with shocking talent to break the silence for many years and lead us out of this predicament?