First, Pan Yunhe, president of Zhejiang University, said at the 2003 national forum of famous teachers and presidents that children's study time can be advanced and the time for receiving basic education can be shortened. "Cultivating talents is the same as cultivating athletes. The golden age is only a few years. If you catch up, you may become a champion. If you miss it, you will only be unknown. " (Zhejiang Metropolitan Express1reported in October 1 1)
Second, Zhejiang University is brewing a "semester revolution". Starting from the new school year next fall, the "four-semester system" will be officially implemented, and students will attend classes in four semesters: spring, summer, autumn and winter. (Reported by qianjiang evening news 165438+ 10/0/4)
China education this pot of soup, is really old and miscellaneous, let a person confused. What kind of education system, what kind of quality education, what kind of children of migrant population enter school, what kind of college entrance examination scores are high and low in various provinces, and recently there is a college entrance examination paper that has been slow to admit its mistakes. Under such environmental conditions, these two pieces of news from Zhejiang University are somewhat breezy.
As a trader in a famous university, President Pan Yunhe said, "Many successful people study early. Can our basic education also let children go to school earlier, shorten the time of basic education and win more prime time? " Pan Yunhe himself went to school before he was five years old. At the beginning, his family sent him to primary school in advance, which made him suffer a little, but this early primary education benefited him a lot from his later study. To tell you the truth, I quite agree with Pan Yunhe. As a 6-year-old student, I have always been delighted that I went to school early, only five years old in primary school, and caught up with the last two-year-old class in high school. I am the youngest person in my class and graduated from college before I was 20 years old. In the 1960s, Chairman Mao and other old people proposed that "the educational system should be shortened and education should be revolutionized". Although this "supreme directive" once evolved into "learning should be abolished and education should be revolutionized", in the new era, we still need to think calmly: should the academic system be shortened? Does education need revolution?
In order to verify that the educational system in the basic education stage can be compressed, three years ago, Zhejiang University and the Provincial Department of Education jointly conducted an experiment of "sophomores going straight to college", that is, 10 students were selected from Gaohang, Hanger No.2 Middle School, Xuejun Middle School and the affiliated middle school of Zhejiang University respectively, and directly entered Zhejiang University through interviews. By the second year, these students were on an equal footing with ordinary students in all aspects, and some even performed better than others. These are excellent students, and the average student can save at least half a year in senior three. What about junior high school? What about elementary school? The longer the basic education, the more I think it is inversely proportional to the precocious puberty and early puberty of children. I don't see any other benefits. The most direct result is probably that "elderly" middle school students and college students have more colorful sexual activities on campus.
The most basic theory of education managers who lengthen the time of basic education and stipulate that children can only enter school when they reach the age limit is that "the foundation is very important, so we should lay a good foundation". But don't forget that stupid, indoctrinated, exam-oriented and inefficient basic education is by no means the longer the better. The longer it takes, the more miserable the poor child will be. I don't know when, these views have been generally recognized: China students' math and physics scores are better than those of their American peers, while China students' basic knowledge is much more solid, but their innovation ability is poor. 165438+1On October 5th, Qiu Chengtong, a Chinese-American scientist, an international master of mathematics and director of the Research Center for Mathematical Sciences of Zhejiang University, poured cold water on this view: "This is a terrible self-anesthesia for many years! I don't think the basic knowledge of China students is very good! " (According to China Youth Daily+065438+10.7)
"Educators" and "education officials" who have been complacent about their basic education don't know if they feel enlightened. How much potential and youth did the children waste on the founding of China? ! "Education should face modernization, the world and the future." This is the inscription of Deng Xiaoping's old man when he visited Jingshan School in the autumn of 1983. Twenty years have passed, and now such a basic education is really a disgrace to the prophet!
Just like basic education, the academic system and system of university education are also bothering people. "Semester system" is one of the concrete problems. The traditional semester system has long term and long holidays, and there are some problems such as slow learning pace, inflexible curriculum, and prominent contradiction between teaching and scientific research. From abroad, universities in the United States, Japan and other countries began to have a holiday in May and June, and the implementation of "three-semester system" or "four-semester system" in colleges and universities is more conducive to the international exchange of scholars. Of course, these "semester system" changes have nothing to do with the innovation of educational soul, and constantly thinking about how to change should be the first consideration for the "trader" of the university.
Someone once said: a child's education should begin one hundred years before his birth; It is also said that education is a debt that contemporary people naturally pay for future generations. Our education has cultivated too much wisdom and neglected most of the great wisdom. Who is the first person responsible for a country's education, or who is the "trader" of national education?