"Real education is not preparing for life, but life itself. John Dewey

The biggest drawback of education is not to make a young man ignorant, but to keep telling him that there is only one painting in the world and your life can only be spent in one way. Sadly, young people believe it. The young people who have grown up in this way of education are physically complete and psychologically incomplete. They either think that the world is mechanical and unchangeable; Either think that the world is unknowable and uncontrollable. The same is true of their attitude towards their own lives. They can only live in a "certain" way, which, like an operating system, is pre-installed in their brains at birth. If I were a mouse, I would dig holes all my life. This is a portrayal of many people's lives. It never occurred to them that although I look like a mouse, I may be a bat. Maybe I can fly in the blue sky just by spreading my wings.

The material civilization of China society has reached an unprecedented height, and it is still breaking new records at an unstoppable speed. However, the development speed of China's social spiritual civilization does not match its fast-developing material civilization. The material resources we can enjoy are growing exponentially, but our ability to get happiness is still a straight line. The material world flies like a high-speed rail, while the spiritual world seems to stay in the era of steam locomotives. The streets are full of "disabled people" driving luxury cars and holding smart phones. The disability of such people is mental disability. Real education calls for the concept of "whole person". The fundamental purpose of education is not to obtain academic qualifications and the capital to find a job. The whole essence of education is to make an animal-like baby grow into a "complete" person. A person who has obtained a doctorate does not mean that he has received a "complete" education.

A person who has received a "complete" education should be generally familiar with the most common-sense knowledge in the history of human society. The acquisition and inheritance of these common sense knowledge means that we are truly qualified to be the official descendants of this advanced human life, rather than animals who only know how to eat, drink and be merry in human skin. Only when we get enough common sense, know these seemingly ordinary common sense, experience the bloodshed and countless sacrifices in its birth years, and understand the relationship and inheritance between these common sense, can we develop rational logic and biased cognition. Today, this is just a history that repeats itself. Ignorance and loss of control of today are just manifestations of lack of historical common sense. If everyone has basic common sense, the existing pain, cruelty, disease and tragedy in human society will be reduced by at least half. A person with normal logical development and good cognition can glue common sense into an organism. He doesn't have to go to extremes to show his only so-called "talent". He can adapt to anyone and any environment, but he will never be assimilated and always keep his own value and bottom line. This bottom line is called conscience.

Just like Maslow's demand theory, many people have no so-called "self-realization" demand from birth to death, even if they are rich and powerful. In their hierarchy of needs theory, there are only physiological needs. For many people, without the support of common sense and logic, conscience may be divorced from them for life. This is why human society can't be exactly called "human" society. Only the whole-person education with the cultivation of common sense, logic and conscience as the core is the real education. Olympiad and foreign languages are just skills training. Although they are important, they are of little value to a person's life. Just like going to the toilet every day is very important to us, but we don't live to go to the toilet. The fire of holistic education can only be lit in sequence. We must start from the first step and solve the problem of common sense first. It is hard for us to imagine how to talk about environmental protection with a person who has no common sense of sustainable development, and it is hard to imagine talking about the legal system and the rule of law without the separation of powers.