Zhang Bingji: The education a child receives is related to the course of his life and even to what kind of education he will become in the future. Responsibility and power always correspond. Only when you have the ability and do the leadership, you will naturally be regarded as a leader. This paper deeply analyzes what is elite education and what is leader-level talents, which may give you some beautiful enlightenment in your educational philosophy. Recommended link: 1. Does real education really cost a lot of money? Can you really do education with money? 2. How is the elite tempered-the study of emperors! The road is beside you and me. What is a leader? What qualities do leaders need? Do you want your children to be leaders in the future? Author: Today's school principal Zhang's public education models in the world today are all imitating the model of popularizing national mass education in Germany during the Kaiser period hundreds of years ago. At that time, in order to get rid of poverty and backwardness in Europe, Germany entrusted Humboldt, an educator and thinker with outstanding vision, with the contempt that Europeans called German "the language spoken by pigs", and designed Germany's national education strategy: "Because Germany is poor, it is more necessary to run education", thus creating this national education model at the expense of the country, which runs counter to the traditional European practice that education is limited to the nobility and the rich. The Germans first established the University of Berlin, because Humboldt, the president at that time, thought that the university was the highest means, and only through it could Prussia win the respect of the German world and even the whole world, thus achieving real leadership in enlightenment and spiritual education. This far-sighted educational strategy attracts outstanding talents from all countries in continental Europe to become professors with favorable conditions. First, a large number of Germany's own intellectual elites and teachers' reserves have been cultivated, and then a perfect national basic education system from kindergarten to primary and secondary schools and an adult education system with technical schools as the main body and research universities as the peak have been established. A large number of educated knowledge workers have been trained efficiently, which has provided the best human resources guarantee for Germany's development from backward agricultural economy to industrialization and provided the most crucial for Germany's rise. Germany has been the leader of western industrial technology and manufacturing for more than 100 years, and Germany is also a world-class manufacturing power and industrial power. It is precisely because of Germany's success that Germany's education system has become the object of imitation and learning in other countries, and Humboldt has also become the father of modern universities. However, the original authentic German education system itself aims to train workers and technicians, not leaders, and the German education system does not care about how to train leaders. Even the leaders of enterprises are best at cultivating workers who can't move their brains, and they are more willing to accept the leadership of others. It is precisely because of this that Hitler, a dictator who "thinks on behalf of the Germans", was brought to power by Germans with "high cultural and educational attainments", which brought great disasters to his nation and the world. Therefore, the educational model of cultivating management talents like Harvard Business School will not be produced in Germany. Because of this, Germany, which is far ahead of Europe in relying on education, gradually withdrew from the ranks of first-class countries after the "industrial age" was replaced by the "information age", but the success of basic education still firmly made Germany have world-class competitiveness. A country that is really good at cultivating leaders at all levels, but also a manager of individuals, families and society, is a long tradition of aristocratic education in Britain and the matrix and paradigm of extremely successful elite education in the United States. For example, Eton College, a British private middle school with a long history, sends even the children of the President of the United States to school there. Leaders and elites of other countries, including princes and nobles of the third world, are proud of their efforts to send their children to Eton College. Historically, it should have trained more world leaders at all levels than Yale. So Yale can only be compared with other universities, not with Eton Middle School. The British elite education model in history has trained a large number of world leaders and managers for "not falling into the empire" and a large number of elegant "gentlemen" for society and family; Even the British "housekeeper" is the envy of the world's rich family life managers; The nanny and tutor that Li Ka-shing hired for his son was also invited from England at a high price. Later, when he grew up and studied abroad, he went to Britain instead of the United States, which obviously created the extraordinary leadership temperament of today's "Little Superman". The "gentleman spirit" with a strong sense of responsibility produced in Britain has won the respect of the whole world. But at present, this educational model of cultivating leaders and elites at all levels has been successfully studied by the United States and has become the most dazzling educational core spirit of American private schools. Combined with the German research university model, it has become the most influential school-building principle of American private universities, which fascinates the world but cannot be imitated. China's efforts to "strive to be a world-class university" are to spend a lot of money on teaching equipment, build buildings, and force teachers to write more papers, rank, and expand enrollment, just like a big factory instead of a university; This proves the true spirit of world-class universities, and we have never even touched them. As for the national free compulsory education system, it is only the obligation of the US government to taxpayers. The true American elite and families who want their children to learn "leadership personality" will not attend these free "public schools". It is just the cradle for ordinary American citizens to grow up. Its teaching quality and content can't compete with elite private primary and secondary schools at all, just as American public universities can't compete with private universities in education quality and influence. Therefore, in the public school system, only a few civilians who are willing to make superhuman efforts can stand out and join the "upper class" of the United States after being admitted to elite universities. Moreover, in the public school system, Americans still set up a "gifted education program" in an all-round way to provide the best tutors for the most potential students and help them stand out and become the future leaders of Americans. The teaching quality of public primary and secondary schools in the United States is generally average, which even makes China people laugh that its teaching depth is not as deep as that of China schools, and more than 20% of graduates lack basic reading ability. But in fact, American schools are much better than those in China, at least they don't suppress human nature, and they will give the best of them a chance to get ahead. Even the poor in the United States look down on public schools, but many people can't afford private primary and secondary schools, because the cost of such schools is equivalent to the income level of a full-time American worker. So these ordinary Americans start their own schools at home to educate their children. At present, the "home education" movement in the United States has spawned millions of home schools, and their teaching results are significantly higher than those of public schools. This constant pursuit of excellent education has made American education and schools the cradle of leaders at all levels in the world. It has also become the embodiment of American competitiveness, enabling American management and strategy to influence the whole world. Traditionally, China people are used to being servants, but they can't learn the American educational spirit. At present, the mode of domestic public schools, of course, was originally German, but it is not very authentic. The most direct source is the imitation of the Soviet planned economy education model! This is a compartmentalized educational model, which treats people as machines and has no creativity and flexibility. We accepted it almost completely. For example, people in China like to ask, "What's your major?" It is a Soviet-style thinking orientation. In the west, they don't pay much attention to any major except skilled workers and vocational schools. What they care about is: What do students like and what are they good at? Think that thinking is the most important learning content, not major. China's education imitated the Soviet Union badly, and he lost the essence! China Education put the most energetic children in another book a few years before primary school and turned them into "problem students", because there is no need for such thoughtful and energetic students, and teachers only like "good children". The top students who are most in line with the goal of this educational system are actually basically cultivated into waste materials (refer to the book "None of the top college entrance examination candidates in China has become a success"). As a result, the education in China, in the words of Professor Lang Xianping, is an education system that cultivates the lowest wage earners in the world, and even the most advanced technical researchers cannot be cultivated. At present, the key technologies in various industries mainly rely on introduction and imitation. In fact, to make matters worse, China's education system has become a huge interest group. The pursuit of money and interests makes it impossible for the education system to train skilled workers, which is the opposite of real education. Professor Lang made an in-depth analysis and comparison on why college students in China can't find jobs from the national background of economics and education. You'd better have a look. The question is: Does China need a leader? Does China need elite education? I really need it! First of all: people need it. At that time, Lien Chan's "ice-breaking trip" to the mainland allowed the mainland people to see only the "leaders" who read the manuscript on the stage and rushed to the stage, with rigid faces and single-minded brains. Only then did I know that the original "leader" could still have such personality charm. Some of my friends with good status also praised them one after another, seeing that they are really cultured, graceful and wise. How are they cultivated? In fact, Lien Chan is not the "leader" of Taiwan Province Province, but many. In Taiwan Province province, there is no personality charm, where is the candidate for him? Unlike in the mainland, as long as a few main leaders try to persuade each other, they can be promoted. Others want to coax a lot of people, and it's really impossible without some real kung fu. Second: leadership needs. A few years ago, our Prime Minister gave a speech at a well-known foreign university and invited outstanding management talents trained by others to work in China. He openly admitted that we are very short of management talents, and our education system can't be cultivated. Therefore, he is willing to spend a lot of money to invite "leaders" at all levels trained by capitalist countries to China to improve the management level of enterprises and departments in China. This proves that the leadership of our country also needs it and it is urgent. Third, the needs of enterprises in China. I have been working for more than ten years, and I know the thinking of many domestic enterprises very well: it is easy for bosses in China to find people who know something about technology, no matter what high-tech or low-tech, as long as they are willing to spend money, they will certainly find them. But the biggest headache for them is that it is too difficult to recruit a business manager who is "sensible", "understanding" and "being a man", and it is basically impossible to recruit from college graduates. It is absolutely impossible to find a leader with great personality, who is good at leading the team, training, understanding strategic development and creative management talents. So enterprises also need it. What business owners need more is to train their children to be leaders. Bosses all know that if children are sent to China's exam-oriented education system, which can't even train migrant workers, let alone expect them to train future corporate successors. Going to a "compulsory education school" in China is tantamount to spending money to suffer! So the current practice of these powerful classes is to send their children abroad. At present, the number of students studying abroad is as high as 6.5438+0.8 million every year, and the situation of studying abroad at a young age is becoming more and more severe. This is really a shame of "compulsory education for all" in China. However, this practice has many disadvantages: other people's education system is not designed for you in China. Therefore, these descendants who have studied abroad may not be able to adapt to the domestic business environment when they return to China in the future, which makes bosses very confused. Moreover, studying abroad at a young age will bring many family problems, so I won't say much here. Although China needs a large number of schools to train future family, business and social leaders and citizens, it needs not just one school, but a large number of schools. However, there is not even one such school in the whole examination-oriented education system in China. Under the educational pattern that "the outline of the Education Commission" dominates the whole country, all schools are actually a model, and there is no substantive difference. Even in the non-exam-oriented education (so-called "non-academic education" in China), the party school system in China can be said to be a school for training China people's "leaders", but it seems that those who have become "leaders" are qualified to attend the party school, rather than training future leaders. It is not a school open to the people, let alone primary and secondary school students. Moreover, over the years, it seems that Lien Chan's charismatic leaders have not been cultivated, but people seem to see more and more corrupt officials. So it is not a real "leadership school". Therefore, today's schools have to take the lead in China, the barren land of elite education (which is also the endless suffering of exam-oriented education), and say with a little helplessness: Let today's schools begin to train future leaders and citizens of China people. Today, we should be pioneers and leaders of elite education, until one day, other schools do better than us, and we are willing to follow! At present, we haven't found our peers in this educational goal, let alone surpassed it. In fact, all private public schools, quality schools, demonstration schools and experimental schools in China are busy with "examination" and "grading", and are all training future wage earners. Besides, they won't train other talents. Therefore, we must move forward and train future leaders and citizens for the people of China. Let's add some common sense first, for fear that some people who lack basic education in China don't know the concept of "leadership", they will say casually that "leadership" is not an official. "Officials" are positions appointed by superiors, and "leaders" are outstanding figures in the hearts of the masses! "Leadership" is the excellent standard of people's quality, and "official" is the administrative level of an organization! "Leader" is the natural embodiment of internal quality, and "official" is the symbolic position of external power. Leaders can win people's inner obedience and yearning, while officials rely on external forces to make people obey and fear. Training "officials" is a matter for the Central Party School. Nowadays, the school has no intention, and it has no ability and qualification to train "officials" in China. The significance of "cultivating leaders and citizens" in today's schools is to implement the Confucian ideal of "cultivating self-cultivation, governing the country and leveling the world" through educational means, and it is also an educational model that is in line with the highest educational model in the world. Specifically, cultivating leaders has the following ten targeted meanings. Please don't explain the word "training leaders" beyond the following concepts: First, only if you have a broader and broader knowledge than ordinary people can you grow into a future leader. In the current exam-oriented education system, the teaching content from 12 is very small, the knowledge is extremely narrow, and there is not even a lot of common sense. Moreover, the content and depth of March are the same all over the country, and many teaching contents and methods are completely divorced from real life. This can only cultivate workers and staff who don't need to think, and never cultivate personalized leaders. Therefore, it takes only one year for primary school students to complete the textbook teaching content in six years. Use their spare time to greatly expand their knowledge, so that they have content far beyond their peers' knowledge, as well as a wider depth and breadth, and emphasize the practicality and scientificity of what they have learned, so that they can have the knowledge reserves needed by future leaders. Two: In the knowledge society, only students who love learning and are spontaneous can keep up with the ever-changing and developing world. Only such students can become future leaders. However, under the current exam-oriented education system, teachers and parents are using various methods to force students to study, and most students are tired of learning and learn passively. Such a student can't be a real leader. The current school teaching mode pays attention to respecting children's wishes and is good at mobilizing children's interest and learning ability, so that almost all children can love learning and reading, explore new knowledge spontaneously and consciously expand the depth and breadth of learning. Third, as a leading talent, we need to pay attention to the society, actively participate in and be good at interpersonal communication. However, under the current exam-oriented education system, students have almost no chance to participate in and understand the operation of society, and no one cares about children's interpersonal communication, which has caused the isolated island phenomenon between school students and society and cultivated a large number of "simple" ignorant children with simple thinking and passive behavior. Nowadays, students at school, 10 years old or above, organize a lot of time every year, participate in various voluntary activities to serve the society, learn to deal with all kinds of strangers, and cultivate their social adaptability. Four: Leaders are lively and cheerful, and have many hobbies and specialties. However, under the principle of exam-oriented education of "listening to things outside the window and concentrating on reading sage books", the result of long-term cramming teaching has led to general introversion and depression. Children lack a wide range of hobbies and have no time to cultivate hobbies, so people in China generally don't relax and play. The so-called "entertainment" of adults is basically "consumption". Go to "eat", "play cards", sing "OK" and watch TV. Life is so boring! Nowadays, school teaching pays special attention to protecting students' nature, developing students' specialties and making students' personalities healthy and natural. At the same time, special "game" courses are set up to teach children to play various traditional and challenging games and develop themselves in competition with their peers. And often organize outdoor camping activities, so that children can become a senior "player" who is good at independently controlling their spare time. Instead of followers and nerds! Five: Positive thinking and skepticism are essential thinking qualities for all leaders. After long-term domestic exam-oriented education and the spoon-feeding habit of advocating "authority" and standard answers, China students have generally lost this valuable thinking quality. Even high flyers of Tsinghua University was criticized by foreign professors as "an exam-oriented machine that doesn't know how to think and think at all, and can't even complete simple common sense and deduction, but only rote learning". Encourage current school students to actively explore ideas, find different solutions to the same problem, boldly doubt books, doubt the authoritative answers of teachers and principals, and actively put forward their own views. All courses and teachers require the interactive teaching mode of "research-oriented and exploratory education" to be implemented seriously, so the children in school and those in the exam-oriented education mode have completely different thinking levels and depth: many parents react, and children aged eight or nine often find and correct their parents' thinking loopholes, and they will think deeply by asking questions, which will surprise their parents. (For specific teaching cases, please refer to the profile of the first lecture [The Analects of Confucius] (Youth Edition)-the live demonstration of critical thinking and heuristic education. (Zhu Yunlong) Sixth, leaders are a dynamic group. His body and will need to be able to withstand the pressure that others can't bear, and also need to have the motivation and endurance that others don't have. The teaching mode of "exam-oriented education system" run by the government and the teaching principle of taking written results as the only goal have led to the "physical education" failure of primary and secondary school students in China in the past 20 years. At present, the physical quality of young students is generally poor, far from that of the previous generation, so it is difficult to expect such students to undertake important tasks in the future. Nowadays, physical exercise is the most important course for school students. Practicing Wudang Neijia Boxing every day, with an average of two hours of physical activity every day and irregular long-distance travel activities, so the students are physically strong and can walk 40 to 50 kilometers every day. Many school children's long-distance travel competitions with Wuhan college students have made college students sigh, laying a good foundation for their future work and career. Seven: As a leading group, we need to have the ability to understand and insight into human nature, and be good at controlling and improving our own psychology and behavior. China's exam-oriented education system has created a large number of psychological patients. A survey by the National Psychological Research Department shows that 54% of primary and secondary school teachers at all levels have psychological barriers to exam-oriented education. This irresponsible behavior directly leads to more than 40% students' psychological barriers (the statistical survey data of psychological barriers in primary and secondary schools by a national authority). The current school believes that education is to teach his heart and raise his body; Therefore, psychological and behavioral education is the core of school teaching. All teachers' psychology is a compulsory course, and they study various theories and practices of psychological science repeatedly for a long time. After long-term psychological counseling education and training, they have a good relationship and interaction with students, and the school children have an excellent mentality; The school also has a special psychological studio, and there are psychotherapists who represent a very high level in China. They can help students and parents solve serious psychological problems in time and actively, and also coach many college students and other psychological patients who want to commit suicide in the face of social assistance. Eight: the characteristics of leaders are not good at accumulating knowledge, but good at using knowledge. We should not only know how to accumulate and occupy resources, but also be good at using and allocating resources. The teaching principle of exam-oriented education system is to treat students as warehouses and try to stuff things into them. The teaching principles of today's schools embody the spirit of "integration of knowledge and practice" in traditional culture, which holds that the application of knowledge is more important than knowledge itself, learning methods are more important than learning itself, and learning goals are more important than learning methods. Thinking is more important than knowledge, and positive action is more important than thinking itself; Under this teaching principle, the school trains users of knowledge and practitioners of society, not examination machines; It is an effective application distributor of resources, not a warehouse administrator. Nowadays, schools do not train scholars, and even oppose the training of professional scholars. Our goal is to cultivate knowledgeable practitioners. If you really want to learn, you must become a scholar with profound knowledge and analytical ability, not a bookworm with poor knowledge. Nine: leaders are not dignitaries waiting for others to serve them; But a contributor who serves the society with outstanding ability, and a person who achieves his Excellence by benefiting others. Examination-oriented education system makes students feel a sense of accomplishment through "sealing officials", private aristocratic schools make students enjoy "prominent position" through "privilege", and children gain "psychological advantage" by showing off their family's wealth and status, so that through external identification methods and material means, they are not real future leaders, but a group of playboys with inferiority and incompetence in heart and hypocrisy in appearance. This is an educational way to cultivate black sheep. Nowadays, schools focus on letting students explore their own abilities and potentials, and students are not allowed to show off any external material to achieve satisfaction. Only children can gain a sense of accomplishment and serve others through their own efforts and constant challenges. They surpass their peers' sense of superiority and will be based on their confidence in the cultivation and promotion of their own abilities. Ten: Leaders are experts in details, actors who start from small things around them, not arrogant and arrogant "big shots". Examination-oriented education has trained a large number of talents in contemporary Zhao Kuo, which is nothing but an armchair strategist. These people can't repair their own bodies, their families and their friends. Relying on these talents, how can we shoulder the responsibility of "leaders" of China people in the future? China's traditional culture requires "nourishing qi and calming down the world", and leaders should start from self-improvement, family harmony and helping people around them. Today's schools require teachers and children to start with personal details and help people around them to realize their influence in details, instead of "little emperors" who are incompetent and have a big temper and only like to call commanders.