Education is inseparable from communication, and communication is inseparable from listening. In the communication with children, I am used to speaking freely and asking children to listen devoutly. There are only orders and obedience, only granting and accepting, only arrangement and execution, only the speaker's pressure on the listener, and there is no understanding, tolerance, equality and freedom. Children who grow up in this educational environment will never get the initiative of the speaker.

As a result, innovation and spirit are far away from the children in the teacher's surprise. It is not only their words that are boring, but also their thoughts and souls are slowly being eroded.

Linklater, a famous American host, once visited a child and asked him, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

The child naively replied, "I want to be an airplane pilot."

Linklater then asked, "What would you do if one day your plane flew across the Pacific Ocean and all the engines stopped?"

The child thought for a moment and said, "I'll tell the people sitting on the plane to fasten their seat belts first, and then I'll hang up my parachute and jump first."

Linklater watched the child to see if he was a clever guy, so he waited patiently to hear the child finish. Unexpectedly, the child burst into tears.

Linklater asked, "Why did you do this?" The child's answer revealed a child's sincere thought: "I'm going to get fuel, I want to come back!" " I wanna come back! "A pure and kind childlike innocence has been released in words and cared for in listening.

When you think about it, education is sometimes as simple as a quiet listening with goodwill, understanding and trust.

(Excerpted from Science Herald on February 24, 2005)