14. 1 one of the four major educational methods in the world-the gifted education method.
Everyone must have heard the story that Newton discovered gravity and Columbus discovered the new continent. These two discoveries, one opened a new era of physics and the other opened a new world for mankind.
Similarly, in the history of family education, there is a great discovery, which is absolutely as important as Newton's gravity and Columbus' New World. Even if it can attract the attention of all parents in the world, its greatness will even exceed the first two. Before revealing this great discovery, please think about two common and even seemingly retarded questions: as long as a child is born normally, are there any children who have not learned to speak? Are there any children who haven't learned to walk?
Never. In fact, as long as they are normal children, they not only learn to speak, but also speak fluently; Not only learned to walk, but also walked smoothly. However, these children who speak their mother tongue fluently and walk smoothly, with the growth of age, the gap between them is getting bigger and bigger, even in the end, there is a world of difference; Many children are lively, lovely and well-behaved when they are young, but as they get older, their eyes become more and more dull and lifeless, and even they get into many bad habits. What caused such great changes and differences in children? For this phenomenon, the vast majority of people are not surprised, and have never seriously thought about it.
However, there is one exception, and this person is Suzuki Ichi, a great Japanese violin educator. ?
Suzuki was born in a musical family in Japan on 1898. Their family owned the largest violin factory in the world at that time. Under the arrangement of his father, he studied in Nagoya Business School in his early years. /kloc-When he was 0/7 years old, he listened to Schubert's violin Ode to Our Lady played by Mischa Elman, and became fascinated with violin music. At the age of 22, I studied in Germany and studied violin with Professor Karl klinger. Eight years later, he returned to Japan and began to perform music. Later, he founded the Talent Education Research Association, which specializes in violin education and teaching. Among his students, there are both blind children and children with polio. Although these children have congenital physical defects, after his teaching, these children have achieved good results in music. Normally normal children perform better. According to the statistics at that time, Suzuki can cultivate more than 700 Mozart-style violin prodigies every year, which caused a great sensation all over the world and was called "Mozart education storm".
How did Ichiro Suzuki make great discoveries from common problems that we are used to? Coincidentally, it was purely accidental.
Shortly after Suzuki returned to Japan from Germany, he happened to go to an old classmate's house once. As soon as he arrived at the door, he heard his classmates reprimanding the children: "I have always told you these questions, but what happened? You still did poorly in the exam." It's always like this. My face embarrassed you. Don't you feel blushing? "Then, there came the voice of the child refuting the parents and the crying of the child.
Suzuki wanted to go home, but because he had something important to do, he went in anyway. After going in, Suzuki didn't immediately say what he wanted to say, but asked his old classmate first: "This child speaks clearly and speaks clearly. Who did he learn from? "
Why did Suzuki suddenly have such a question? It turned out that he found it difficult for adults all over the world to learn spoken foreign languages. For example, many Japanese, who have studied English for more than ten years, can do exam questions and understand articles, but never dare to speak English with others. However, children all over the world can speak their mother tongue fluently, even those with poor academic performance.
Suzuki thinks that all children can speak such difficult things as spoken English, which fully shows that such children should not be stupid. Theoretically, if you learn other knowledge at school, you should be able to learn it well. But this is not the case. It's incredible that many children who speak fluent oral English have a terrible academic record.
The old classmate replied: "Who knows! He is naturally bickering, I say ten words about him! "
After returning home, Suzuki did not stop thinking. He also investigated many similar children with poor grades but good eloquence, and asked who they learned eloquence from, and the answers were "I don't know". When asked their parents, the answers were "I don't know".
However, it is these three words that make Suzuki shine. He thinks that the way to teach children to learn to speak is so good and simple that no one has thought about why. Jane avenue. Isn't the best way to learn in the world to teach children how to speak?
After further observation and thinking, Suzuki found that teaching children how to speak is the best way to give full play to their full abilities. "In the process of constantly letting children learn their mother tongue, people will not scold them because their children don't learn well, nor will they give up halfway because their children hate talking, nor will they feel superior or inferior because their children learn well. Moreover, people do not need to work hard to educate, which is an extremely vigorous way of education. 1
This great discovery opened a new chapter in the history of education. This is all the secrets of Suzuki's "Talent Education Law". That's it. For decades, Suzuki has trained more than 700 Mozart-style violin prodigies every year, and his "genius education method" has also been listed as one of the six major education methods in the world.
What is the core idea of Suzuki's "Talent Education Law"?
Its core idea lies in: educators should trust and love children unconditionally, 100% approve children and firmly believe that children can do it; Even if the child is only a small progress, he will cheer for the child from the heart and cheer for the child! With enough patience and respect, you can accompany your children to grow and progress, and you will never criticize or attack them because they are not doing well or doing slowly.
In fact, Suzuki's educational method has been adopted by parents. Parents must have had the experience that all parents thought their children were the best before they could walk or talk. Even if children shit and pee on their parents every day, parents will think it's no big deal and take care of their children happily, firmly believing that this is a "sweet burden".
When the child begins to learn to walk, even if the child just takes a small step unsteadily and suddenly falls into his parents' arms, his parents will laugh heartily and feel extremely proud of his insignificant progress!
When children learn to speak, even if they just babble, even if their parents don't understand a word, they will feel extremely happy inside. When a child vaguely shouts out the first "mom" and the first "dad", no parent will not smile, and no parent's face will not be filled with happiness.
Moreover, in the process of learning to talk and walk, even if the child is not clear, no matter how many times the child is wrong; No matter how many times a child falls, no matter how slow or small the child's progress is, no parent will ever criticize or scold the child: "Tell me clearly! I can't say clearly, see how I tidy up you! " , "give the old lady go steady. Slap once you fall! "
No parents have done this, have they? If so, then such parents are either crazy or stupid. So, you see, it is in this atmosphere of 100% trust, 100% love, 100% encouragement, 100% understanding and 100% respect for children that you learn to speak. As long as such a weak child is born normally, no child in the world will eventually learn to talk, and no child will eventually learn to walk!
Therefore, Suzuki firmly believes that teaching children to learn to speak and walk is the most ideal educational method in the world. It cannot be said that Suzuki's discovery is really an epoch-making great discovery. When he used this method in his own violin teaching, the effect was surprisingly good. We already know the previous results, so I won't repeat them here.
Every time I read Suzuki's Mozart's educational storm, I secretly think: If all parents in the world (including me) can always use this educational method that was originally used by their parents, and then gradually lost it, I wonder how many talented people will appear in our little ball! It is a pity that parents who used to be "great educational practitioners" unconsciously lost Aladdin's magic weapon of education and educated their children in the wrong way. I hope parents can find this magic weapon as soon as possible.
At the same time, I think that with Suzuki's great discovery, it is not difficult for us to explain why many children with average initial qualifications, even children with severe physical disabilities, have achieved far more in the end than most able-bodied people! Studying their growth history, we can easily find that during their growth, at least one educator fully trusts, loves, encourages, understands and respects children, such as:
Einstein, once considered mentally retarded, eventually became the greatest physicist in history, mainly due to his 100% trust and love for his father.
Edison, once considered an imbecile, stayed in school for only three months and was kicked out of school by his teacher. In the end, he became the greatest inventor in history, thanks to his patient and meticulous mother.
Karl witte Jr was also called mentally retarded at the beginning of his birth, but he was eventually trained as a genius by calvert Sr.
Helen Keller was completely deaf and blind when she was one and a half years old. At the age of six and a half, her basic education was still blank until she met her tutor, Miss Sullivan. For Helen Keller, Miss Sullivan is actually more than a governess. While imparting knowledge to Helen Keller, Miss Sullivan gave all her love and patience, which even surpassed her mother. Interested readers can read Helen Keller's autobiography essay "If you give me three days of light" by themselves.
China's famous contemporary music conductor Zhou Zhou, without his father's careful education and guidance, I think, like most congenital fools, he would not be much different-it would be a lifelong pain and burden for his parents, let alone performing in the Great Hall of the People;
Without the love and persistence of his mother, Xie Kunshan, a famous disabled painter in Taiwan Province, might have passed away forever when he was electrocuted at the age of 16.
Cai Zhenguo, the son of Tian Xiuying, an excellent mother who "touched China", was burned by fire when he was 3 years old. His face was deformed, his hands were disabled and he lost his ability to take care of himself. Tian Xiuying never gave up his son, always encouraged his son with his perseverance and wisdom, and finally cultivated his son into a master student of Beijing Normal University and a CEO listed company;
The aforementioned Nick Vucic and the upcoming Zhou Tingting are called "Helen Keller of China". Both of them were civilized and disabled under the correct education of their parents.
Although these people are considered mentally retarded or severely disabled at first, their parents or educators have devoted all their love and enthusiasm to them. They firmly believe that their children can live a wonderful life like normal people regardless of their health! It is parents' unconditional trust and infinite love that have greatly stimulated and released the potential of these children who were originally considered mentally retarded or physically disabled, and finally achieved achievements far beyond those of healthy people.
Sometimes I think, perhaps, it is because of its own misfortune that it has made its life brilliant. An old frontiersman loses his horse—a blessing in disguise.
Therefore, we have reason to believe that if those mentally retarded and physically disabled children can do anything, then normal children can do it, even better than them, as long as they can be properly educated! I think this inference should be correct.