The school has gathered the children of leaders from various provinces and cities, changed from public schools to private schools, and "reasonably charged" school selection fees, so with the cooperation of the media, there are few negative reports from the school. Therefore, this is what is circulating among the people: press 1 to complain about Tieyi No.1 Middle School, press 2 to complain about Gaoxin No.1 Middle School, and hang up the complaint against Xigong University High School.
This "prestigious examination school" located in Xi 'an is the best examination place. Due to the severe smog, it was reported by students in June 20 17. The subsequent actions angered many netizens and had to walk on the cusp. It stands to reason that in the era of information explosion, this accidental event has been covered up by countless new topics and forgotten in people's field of vision. However, this incident exposed many long-standing problems in Xi 'an education, which really deserves our deep thinking.
After studying for so many years and doing countless questions, can you explain clearly what education is? From the primary school of compulsory education, you want to get into a good junior high school and high school, so as to get into a good university? Find a good job and earn more money? So education has become 16 years of pre-job training?
Since the social development in China, education has become the most backward industry in all fields. In folk parlance, education in China is more hopeless than football in China.
Our current education is still relatively hot, which is a set of special and easy-to-copy education needed by the industrial development of the Soviet Union in the 1960s. What we have cultivated is a talent training mode that can quickly adapt to the needs of enterprises and contribute to social development. To put it bluntly, the current education is more about finding a suitable position in the company in the future.
However, what is real education? I agree with what Zhou said: Education is growth. Because everyone's talent and nature are different, we can't let talented guitarists learn how to build turbocharged engines. Education should be tailored to its own situation, rather than obsessing over the standard answers in complex mathematical and physical formulas all day.
However, due to our outdated education concept and enterprising education department, our students have to waste precious time on a large number of test papers, and miss many beautiful things in life in the golden age of cultivating interest in learning and discovering themselves, such as not having time to read independently and meeting great souls in books.
So what they don't know when they grow up is:
Being alive is a beautiful thing, but most people just exist, that's all.
Xi people have been pursuing and advocating the education of Xigong University, which is a typical prestigious examination school and a big factory for training examination machines. The children who graduated from here have a strong sense of obedience, competition, self-discipline, ability to analyze and summarize, and ability to withstand pressure, which is simply the favorite of modern business owners. These costly and ineffective enterprise trainings have become a habit in the daily study of Xigong University students.
The benefits of parents spending money to find relationships to send their children to Xigong University are obvious:
1. Parents don't have to tell their children about their studies, thus saving their children time. As long as the psychological quality is strong enough, we can adapt to constant competition and comparison. In the study career of taking exams instead of practicing, exams have only become the most common thing.
2. There are also so-called personal resources. Because of the well-known existence of "political adjustment", many children of powerful families and corporate executives will study at Xigong University, and your children will also make friends with the second generation of rich second generation officials, thus accumulating contacts from an early age.
3. Many teachers of Xigong University are members of the proposition group of senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination in Shaanxi Province, and they have mastered the latest direction of examination questions, which is conducive to higher scores.
Parents spend money to find relationships to send their children to Xigong University, which is inhuman to ordinary people:
1. Sleep less than 7 hours a day. It is well known that Xigong University has a large amount of work. If you want to go to bed before 12, you have to get up at 5: 30 the next day. You can imagine your long-term physical condition every day.
2. Classes and homework occupy all children's time. Primary and secondary schools are the time to cultivate reading habits. From the reading volume of China people now, it can be clearly seen that they have never felt pleasure from reading since childhood, and have not developed reading habits, but only studied for exams. The consequence of not having time to pay attention to spiritual development is to form a utilitarian habit from an early age, reading only useful books and doing only useful things. It is easy to divide one's life into making money and spending money. I don't care about anything else, just being a delicate egoist.
3. Constant examination rankings stimulate children's sense of competition, but also raise the heart of comparison. The entrance threshold of Xigong University is already very high, and all the students who go in are high-quality students, so it often happens that the children who got 97 (full score 100) are behind 100, and it takes time to sum up and improve before they can surpass these three points. Excessive competition often leads to psychological collapse of children, unable to generate real interest in learning and even cast a shadow.
4. In the exam-oriented environment, high scores need to be obeyed and recognized. After a long time, it is bound to lack the ability of independent thinking and critical thinking, and it is easy to lack creativity in later life. Why doesn't Google like China engineers? Because although they can complete the task well, it is difficult for them to produce unexpected ideas and lack innovative ability.
At Xigong University, you can gain achievements and contacts, but you lose time and freedom. In the short term, grades seem to be more important. After all, a good college degree is still necessary in China. But behind the lost time and freedom, what is lost is the interest in learning and the ability to find yourself.
People just want to be happy all their lives, not the happiness of religious people. In most cases, you need to know what you like and want. Zhou said: Happiness is to be able to do what you like, to support yourself by it, to be with people you like and to make them happy. In other words, being yourself is very important for happiness.
Under the pressure of western education, children have little time to read "useless books" and think "useless problems", let alone spend time thinking and practicing what they like and what is suitable for them. Parents of teachers and students have a unified goal: good grades.
As an amateur, I can say so many questions about education, not to mention the education authorities and relevant leaders. Education is a huge industrial chain, which involves many interest groups. It is difficult to make major changes in the system for the time being. However, there are still some folk pirates who have started education reform all over the country.
Beijing:
Students who studied in Beijing No.15 Middle School before 20 13 are happy, because they have a headmaster like Tai Yachen. Under the leadership of President Tai, the students' extracurricular life and campus cultural activities in Beijing No.15 Middle School are colorful, and the teachers have the greatest freedom in teaching, dare to tell the truth and dare to innovate. As a pillow book for every educator, President Tai's Education Makes Life Better is worth reading constantly. Do not forget your initiative mind.
Beijing no.11 high school is a demonstration site of national education reform. Advanced teaching concept, bold innovation, cooperation between teachers and students, and parents' understanding have created an educational model different from Xigong University. Students' all-round development and high-quality edification may not necessarily affect their examination results. But in the rich and happy study to find the direction suitable for their future development, not confused. Middle school students and parents should buy and read "Free Breathing Education" and "Personal Education" written by President Li Xi.
Wei Yong's "lighting the classroom with thoughts" also amazed me, and the interpretation of history updated my thinking mode of history. Innovative and bold critical thinking shines brightly in such a history class. It's hard to imagine that students who are used to western education, under the stimulation of teacher Wei Yong, will doubt life.
Hangzhou:
Guo Chuyang's Speech Resists Silence and Du Yue Pavilion have subverted my understanding of Chinese teaching. It turns out that Chinese can be so good and interesting. A good Chinese teacher will not only take up a lot of students' time, but also choose extracurricular reading materials suitable for this age group to help students understand and interpret classic literature in their spare time.
Chengdu:
Fan Meizhong, the teacher who took the lead in escaping from the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, became a great talent because he ignored the students' life safety in class. Although you can say that he has no ethics, after reading his articles and books, I only hate that I didn't meet such a thinker earlier. Now working in Chengdu Guangya International School, he is finally liberated and free.
Speaking of Chengdu, we have to mention Li Yulong, a legendary figure in Chengdu education. The retired soldier used his enthusiasm to ignite countless dying flames of education in China. He is responsible for the new education of reading and writing monthly reports, which represents the most advanced teaching concepts and methods in China and campus cultural design. Not only that, but also Chengdu Tonghui School and Chengdu Waldorf School, which are at the forefront of education. The following are the core goals and concepts of Chengdu Tonghui School:
Compare Xi 'an middle school deformity education;
The "five famous schools" headed by Xigong University only have constant comparison and competition. Schools value rankings and enrollment rates, and teachers care about performance pay. Under such an educational concept and environment, Xi's middle school education has entered a dead end of competition. After the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Chinese University of Hong Kong entered China to participate in university enrollment, Xigong University even encouraged students to give up applying for these universities in Hong Kong for the enrollment of Tsinghua Peking University. Is such a school really worth chasing by students and parents? You will know when you really read the above-mentioned books.
By chance, in a book by Professor Peking University, I saw that Yang had written a book of several thousand words in the middle school attached to Shaanxi Normal University. I immediately searched this article on the Internet. After reading it, I was overjoyed. It turns out that there are such obscure but conscientious teachers in Xi 'an. He said in the article:
Education is the influence of one life on another.
This sentence alone should move us! Looking at the whole Xi, how many teachers can say such things with a clear conscience? He said:
Life education and ideal education should be placed in an important position. Teachers should have life and people, not just education. If we let the poor words "struggle", "struggle" and "success" be the only words in students' dictionaries, then I want to ask: Where are the students' lives? Where do you live? The education that has always lagged behind life and happiness is doomed to be unsuccessful.
There is a great fate for teachers and students to meet. If you are lucky enough to meet a teacher like Yang, even if you have to study inefficiently in the frenzy of exam-oriented education, you will get a heartfelt professor after studying. I believe that Yang's students are very happy. Our education should not only make students write correct nonsense, but also emphasize obedience and discipline. Universal values such as freedom, democracy and equality should be liberated in our education.
Xi 'an wants to build an international metropolis, and education can't be delayed in hot weather. We should not blindly pursue interests and achievements with a short-sighted vision, but treat education with a reform and innovation attitude. Find a large number of truly outstanding teachers like Yang, give them corresponding teaching freedom, and train a group of educators like Tai Yachen and others as principals, instead of appointing officials as principals by decree. In the long run, in Xi 'an, good teachers and students don't have to meet because of fate.
If you are in Xi 'an, and you are the parents of the students, what do you want your children to be? First of all, you have to be such a person yourself. You can't always ask your child to study hard when his father plays cards and his mother plays mahjong. More important than school education is family education. If you insist on studying no matter how old you are, there are more than 300 books at home, and even if you don't study at Xigong University, your children will never be bad.
Choosing a school is better than choosing yourself and giving children a high-quality family education environment. Don't think about being lazy and throwing your education to a prestigious school like Xigong. If we only treat children with Chinese-style "obedient education", it may not be worth the loss.