The fundamental purpose of education is not to tell people how to learn material survival, nor to tell people how to deal with the world. The earth is our home and human beings are the masters of the earth. All human activities should aim at meeting the most basic human needs. From birth to death, only one hundred years is a minority. Spending 30 to 40 years receiving education, learning survival skills, and spending another 30 years working is fundamentally against the original intention of survival. Our education time is too long, and the purpose of education is so practical and absurd that education is neither fish nor fowl, and even distorts the truth, which leads to the neglect of individual life and the tendency to follow the overall wrong cognition. If the purpose of education is not well grasped, the congenital deficiency of the system will be inevitable.
In my opinion, the fundamental purpose of education is to cultivate a happy and beautiful mind. This kind of education aims at pointing out the direction of happiness for young minds and being happy with them. The process of learning is not a process of rote memorization, nor is it a process of improving practical ability. Because we don't need to invent complicated technology to make our children and grandchildren study hard and improve. In the final analysis, the highly developed science and technology created by human beings is mostly a suicidal act and a stupid thing that God did not expect. Perhaps highly developed technology can make us feel the infinite happiness brought by high technology, but the primitive natural production and lifestyle will not make people suffer. The one-sided view of our ancestors has been passed down from generation to generation, which makes us unable to see the original needs of life.
In a word, the development of technology should be limited and subject to the most fundamental needs of mankind. Why spend time and energy to continue its development? This may anger scientists, but after thousands of years, the world will tell mankind a simple truth.
The current education situation in China is that children receive all kinds of education from birth to prepare for entering middle schools and universities in the future, which is euphemistically called "winning at the starting line". So we can see that children who are not physically and mentally sound are persecuted by human boring knowledge and skills, lose their happy childhood, and walk into an evil road from the beginning, which is a rude interference and harm to people's most basic survival needs. Everything that children know and parents do comes from the pressure of social survival, and they have to do it. This is a great contempt for human rights. As a mature and strong adult, this is how to do whatever you want with your children. Pity these children. A twig, an ant, could have made them spend 100% of a happy day, but they were pitifully deprived by seemingly smart adults.
Therefore, due to the collective mistakes of society, primary education has been stifled more than given from the beginning. In a daze, children began to play all kinds of boring word games and digital games, plus so-called moral education, computer education, English education and music art education, which overwhelmed their young minds. What's more, due to the assessment of teachers' performance by higher education departments, teachers frantically bombarded immature children with various self-made test papers, and some asked children to copy words dozens of times and recite texts. Society should be developing. If we compare today's children with ancient children, apart from enjoying the happiness of modern life, the spiritual territory is getting less and less, and the purity of happiness is getting lower and lower, which is retrogression.
Middle school education focuses on further studies, and everything revolves around hateful achievements. In some areas, students go to class endlessly and do their own problems. Three years of high school is basically a compulsory prison reform for further study. This simple purpose not only hurts children's hearts and deprives them of their right to choose their way of life, but also blasphemes and provokes modern civilization. No one has the right to decide the lifestyle of other lives in one sentence, let alone rule the students in the world in this way. Think about it, how many years can a person live? Why waste your whole life on these boring games? Even with the development of science and technology, there is no need to make it so complicated and sacrifice life and happiness. Nowadays, education in most universities is basically a continuation of this vicious circle, which is a great waste of life.
The problem lies in the understanding of the fundamental purpose of education. Our education system itself does not take attaching importance to the happiness of life at any time as the ultimate goal. Once this system is combined with the personal achievements of the leading collective, it becomes a habit and necessity to ignore or even trample on life. This is a human tragedy.
So a lot of funny things happened. For example, students can't wear fancy clothes, have long hair and fall in love. Don't talk in class, finish your homework strictly, criticize if you don't do well in the exam, and so on. Of course, this is not the teacher's fault. Students will survive in the future. Without grades, there will be no better learning opportunities, which means losing the superior right to exist. We only pay attention to these survival problems, regardless of whether this practice harms the rights and happiness of individual life. If happiness is not important, what is the purpose of our university? Is it to exchange the pain of youth for happiness in old age? This is a retarded answer. Besides, why can't students fall in love? He should have the right to decide his own lifestyle, even if it is wrong. However, China's reality does not allow it, China's moral concept does not allow it, and the performance requirements of the leading departments do not allow it, so it tramples on life. There are many people in China, and life is not a rare thing.
If the decision-makers can really consider from the perspective of individual life, they can completely shorten the learning cycle and let children learn naturally in life. We must respect their demands and don't pretend to be mature. Who can say that a politician must be smarter than a child? Human development is a cycle, from simple to complex, it will inevitably return to simple. The world of adults has been filled with messy ideas and thoughts, and they are not qualified to decide the life direction of the latecomers. You can ask a five-year-old what he wants most, and that is the most important truth in this society.
Of course, I won't wait until such a moment comes: I will be happy from birth; I do what I want; I not only satisfy my own happiness needs, but also make others happy. What does it matter whether there is high technology or not? We have been tempted by high technology, the so-called drug addiction, and we can't get rid of it. But for an ignorant child, there is no high technology, no status, no fame and fortune. It was the influence of later education and society that made their happiness depend only on high technology. This is another retrogression.