-An educated fable

Wang Biao

In the last few years of the 20th century, an archaeological team was surprised to find an ancient city inhabited by human beings hundreds of millions of years ago in the hinterland of a big desert. There is no doubt that this is a civilization that prehistoric people once owned and miraculously preserved.

Archaeologists unearthed a huge stone tablet with strange words engraved on it in the ruins of the ancient city. After hard work, they unexpectedly deciphered the inscription. The original inscription records the story of one country being annexed by another.

At that time, this land was still a thousand miles away, and a Yangtze River named Wuyuan was rushing on the earth. An ancient country called Zhi 'an has always ruled this land, and the people rely on God-given prosperity and live a self-sufficient life. King Hilm has two twin sons. They received a good education in the court school from an early age. All the people in the country have to take the exam, and even these two sons are not immune. They will also decide who will succeed to the throne according to their academic achievements. But Dom, the eldest son, is studious and considerate, and often has endless questions, which makes the old king and the school teacher very unhappy. He often scolds: "Whether you can inherit the throne is determined by book knowledge. How can there be so many strange questions? " No matter how clearly you explore these strange questions, can you guarantee that you will inherit the throne? Have you memorized everything in the book? "The youngest son Ding Ermu has a lot of problems in his heart, just like Duomu. However, when he saw that his brother was often harassed and trained, he became honest and smart. As long as it is arranged by the teacher, he will recite it day and night. It's really "concentrating on reading sage books and not listening to what's going on in the world." He knows everything by heart, and he gets full marks in every exam. You know how to make teachers and kings happy! But Duomu can't let go of his heart full of curiosity forever. He often visited the people's capable people and was deeply intoxicated by their creations. He often thinks: if education only makes people remember those dead things, and these things restrict people's freedom of thought and personality development like invisible shackles, can this be regarded as real education? If education can't help people turn what they have learned into inner wisdom and use this creative wisdom to transform the world, then education will become a stagnant pool that will never flow, and one day it will become a stinking pool, even a poisonous water that corrodes the soul of a nation. ...

Later, King Hilmu was old, and after passing the exam, Ding Ermu ascended the throne of the king. But the old king was afraid that Duomu would cause trouble to his brother at home and that his brother would harm his brother in the future, so he gave Duomu the remote and desolate land east of Wuyuan River and made him king there for generations. Dourgen went into exile in Jiangdong and established his own country in the name of An Zhi.

In order to make his country rich and strong, his first thought is to develop education in his own country. He wants his subjects to improve their moral cultivation, but also to develop their own personality and creativity, so that everyone can participate in the construction of the country with passion and let everyone's wisdom bear sweet fruits. Therefore, his first major project in China is to reform the original education, improve the quality of teachers, recruit people with both ability and political integrity into the teaching staff on a large scale throughout the country, and pay teachers eight to ten times more than ordinary staff in other countries, thus making teachers the most noble and enviable profession in the country. For those stubborn old people who cling to the past and are unwilling to update their ideas, they will all be expelled from the teaching staff. At a conference on national education reform, he personally delivered a speech: "My subjects: Birds have wings to fly farther and higher, and to expand their effective living space in a wider range. And countries have education, just like birds have wings. National education is to train thousands of creative talents for Qian Qian to help the country take off. School is the hotbed of incubating knowledge into wisdom, the starting point of transforming knowledge into the power to transform the world and self, the cradle of cultivating dreamers and strugglers, and the place where everyone can realize how to develop themselves for life and constantly surpass themselves! However, for thousands of years, our education has increasingly developed into a cage that imprisons our spirit, and examinations have become a whip to torture our souls and ask why! Teachers teach for exams and students study for exams. Exam is like a huge baking room, which will eventually bake our children full of spirituality, understanding, passion, dreams and curiosity into mummies with souls. These mummies are full of questions and ready-made answers, but have no sense of innovation. Today, I want to say loudly to such education here: No! For the prosperity of the country and the people of the whole country to live a happy life, I want to make education the gospel of every child in Zhi 'an, so that their personality can be fully developed in education and their wisdom can blossom the most beautiful flowers and bear the sweetest fruits. The development of education is inseparable from teachers. In the past, our teacher only had to be a teacher. If you teach a few smart students who are good at reciting and get some first places in various exams, you will undoubtedly become a good teacher and a famous teacher. The more such teachers there are, the more sad the result will be for children. In the future, we will judge teachers not by their students' grades, but by their love and affection for you. Students love and admire you because you have some qualities and charm that strongly attract them. You will be a good teacher! Examination will no longer be an evaluation mechanism, on the contrary, it will become an incentive mechanism for our education, which will make students happy and eager to take the examination, instead of being afraid and disgusted with it. This is the art of education. Teachers in our knowledge country will no longer be living textbooks, but educational artists full of vitality, passion and enterprising spirit. The teaching profession will become the sunshine profession in China, because with sunshine, everything can grow freely, and because of education, our children's abilities and minds can be fully developed. Children who grow up under such education will no longer be bookworms who only recite answers without asking why. In this kind of education, our teachers are no longer just people who instill book knowledge and supervise students, and there will be no more cases where teachers die teaching and students die studying. Instead, I will ask questions and explore countless scholars with students, but I can cultivate a guide who is full of love for learning all my life. It is precisely because of such strict requirements for teachers' high quality that our country has given teachers an extremely lofty position and as much salary as the Prime Minister. I don't want to improve the status of teachers at will, because the fate of our country is in the hands of teachers rather than kings. So we need first-class teachers and excellent teachers to educate and edify our children. They should be the eternal light in students' hearts. No matter where students will go, missing their teachers will arouse their desire for knowledge and creation from the bottom of their hearts. In the past, the purpose of developing education was only to train a group of knowledgeable talents for the country to maintain the operation of the country. Therefore, we just need some nerds who can recite the rules and do what they say. Therefore, our education is tightly controlled by the shackles of examinations. In the future, the purpose of our education is to cultivate people who dare to pursue Excellence, innovation and wisdom. Only such talents can cast a brilliant future for our country and make our country become the world.

"My subjects, after I came to this land, the reason why I want to name our country Zhianguo is to use the wisdom of the people to develop the country, so as to achieve the goal of governing the country and keeping it safe! "

King Dom's speech won the support of the broad masses of the people and enabled the country's educational reform to be implemented smoothly. The state has also allocated special funds for teacher quality training and educational research. In this way, generation after generation of students, under the guidance of countless excellent teachers, have devoted themselves to all kinds of national construction and scientific research with a brand-new look, and talents in all fields have come to the fore. In less than 30 years, under the leadership of Duomu, the national economy has developed rapidly, various national resources have been rationally developed and utilized, and a strong and well-equipped army has been established. ...

What about Guo Zhian? Education is still immersed in people's yearning for the "top scholar dream". With the increasingly harsh and perfect examination system, talents are selected for some limited official positions in the country. People still think that exams are the only way out. No one wants to do scientific research or be a family member, because exams have made people lose themselves. Although this country has created many splendid civilizations, the civilization that once existed has obviously become a lasso.

One hundred years later, Dom's descendants conquered Guo Zhian easily with strong economic and military strength!

This story stunned archaeologists one by one! However, because all the people who participated in the excavation were from western countries, some people tried to block the news out of the ambition of conquest, because many countries in the world were still immersed in the exam-oriented mode and dreamed of letting their descendants conquer these countries easily in a hundred years. However, among these archaeologists, after all, they are people with conscience and sense of justice. They quietly posted the news on the Internet. ...