The United States, like Taiwan Province Province, is looking for something in the education reform, so that children can learn the ability and accomplishment of "take-away". However, just after everyone devoted enough energy to "ordinary classes", they were surprised to find that children were like ants in these classes, but they immediately became living dragons after leaving these classrooms, and real learning was overdeveloped in extracurricular activities. ...

The United States, like Taiwan Province Province, constantly reviews the educational reforms that have been implemented for many years. Has the child learned what to learn? How should the curriculum be changed? However, two senior educators visited the United States, only to find that the children left the main classroom to take "minor courses" and extracurricular activities before they began to study in depth.

Jal Mehta, an associate professor at Harvard University School of Education who won the Morning Star Teaching Award, is an educator and sociologist. Sarah Finn has taught in several high schools in Harvard University. Besides teaching, she also likes field trips, research and writing. What sparks will two people who love education and like to be close to the first scene meet? The two launched a six-year activity in the United States and visited 30 publicly praised public middle schools to explore the effectiveness of American education reform.

After hundreds of hours of personal observation and interviews, they wrote a book together, looking for deeper learning, and uncovered disappointing but unexpected first-hand observations.

First of all, they are disappointed to find that those middle school classrooms that are called innovative, far-sighted and even crowned as future schools do not have the answer to let children learn well and have the qualities they need in the future. In the core classes of English, mathematics, science and society in those schools, students often lose their minds or don't need brains, and feel bored and passive. Because in class, students often just sit and listen, or fill in worksheets, study lists, answer questions about existing knowledge, write stereotyped paragraphs, repeat calculations, or do experiments with known results.

Many courses in American middle schools are divided into classes to some extent. Students are often absent-minded in basic courses. In more advanced classes, students sacrifice their curiosity and exploration of knowledge in order to get correct answers and scores. No matter what class, when students are asked why they are doing what they are doing, the most common answer is "I don't know", or it may help the university!

But they also have amazing gains. When students go out of these "regular" classrooms and join clubs, elective courses or extracurricular activities, they find that all students are refreshed, become very capable, curious and confident, and learn more.