The little Doudou by the window told a true story of the author in elementary school. After being expelled from the original school for being naughty, the author came to Ba Xue Garden. Under the care and guidance of President Kobayashi, Xiao Doudou, who is "weird" in the eyes of ordinary people, has gradually become an acceptable child, laying the foundation for her life.
This book is suitable not only for children but also for parents and educators. With the most valuable and perhaps the only ideal education for this book, I think about the magic of Ba Xueyuan: to understand children, every father and mother must be familiar with them; To understand children, every teacher and principal should be familiar with children; To cherish yourself, every child should be familiar with it.
After reading it, I still want to read it carefully. The story is short, but everything is worth pondering. Small peas are different. Principal Kobayashi is different, even his lunch is different. The most important thing is that his education method is different. After reading it, you feel that such education no longer exists. This is a fictional work, but it is a true story. This noisy, unruly, individual and always imaginative girl-Xiao Doudou is Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. Since the publication of 198 1, it has aroused great repercussions all over the world, becoming the best-selling book in Japanese history, translated into more than 30 languages and introduced to all parts of the world. A charitable mother, a principal who cares about healthy growth, and two real educators. This book also reflects the education we want, an ideal education for children. At this time, we need to think about the real education we are pursuing!
1. What kind of education is human education?
Liu Changming, president of North No.4 Middle School, said: "If the school is only for imparting knowledge, then there is no need to exist. Good school education should give children a value system, but this value is not taught by the curriculum. "
2 1 Yang Dongping, Dean of the Century Institute of Education, said, "The most distressing thing about school education is the fear of being too hard on children." .
Jaspers, a German philosopher, once said: "The essence of education is that a tree shakes another tree, a cloud pushes another cloud, and one soul awakens another soul." It's beautiful and poetic. What he told us is an important concept: the real value of education is an enlightenment, an awakening, an opening, a lighting, an enlightenment and an enlightenment. ...
The exposition and demonstration of education has never stopped, and we have always held a personalized view on what real education is. We have been talking about teaching and educating people, but it is often far from teaching and educating people, and the education method based on students' characteristics is the real "human" education. The educational model of Ba Xueyuan can be said to be a successful education, but where is the mother in the real Ba Xueyuan? With regard to education, many people say that the education system is like this, and we should do what we can, which may be more suitable for the latter at present. Doing one's best includes not only the teaching of skills, but also the guidance of moral and personalized growth.
Teaching is to teach, not to teach. Reflecting on our education, adults are always used to arranging and managing everything for their children. They can't wait to put their thoughts around their children's necks, but they never think about whether their life experiences are really useful to children. Even if they are, how useful are they? Should children have their own way of thinking and expression? Should we go our own way? Have you considered the uniqueness of each child? The Ba Xue Garden described in The Little Peas by the Window has a different way of attending classes. There is no fixed curriculum, and each class is decided according to children's preferences. In President Kobayashi's view, this seemingly "chaotic" teaching method is very useful: with the growth of students' grades, knowledge and ability, teachers and principals can gradually master each student's interests and unique ways of thinking and learning, so that teachers can implement more effective teaching methods. Principal Kobayashi said: "Don't force children to enter the model designed by teachers, and let them grow freely in the natural environment. Because the child's dream is far greater than the teacher's plan. " Although Ba Xueyuan appeared in Japan decades ago, isn't President Kobayashi's educational thought of respecting and caring for students, democracy, equality and humanization the connotation of real education?
Due to the system and various assessment indicators, parents attach great importance to their achievements. If we use President Kobayashi's open teaching and pay attention to the growth of freedom in this free environment, we may face the decline of education and teaching, and all kinds of habits are not standardized, and no one can grasp the advantages and disadvantages. If we don't try, the children will keep spinning around and lose the most important childhood!
The way of education should be based on experience, not preaching. Why do many children like art classes? Because he has the space to show himself and his own stage, in our traditional education, children must listen to the teacher. But the problems pointed out by the teacher, sometimes the child can't understand, he will feel wronged, and he will feel that he can't understand. And all we have to do is tell him that he is wrong and tell him where to do it and how to do it. What's more, you can tell him that the matter itself has not been done, but there is a premise for doing it. This time and place is right, and it may be wrong to change the time and place or change the object, so we can't kill them all. Try the chalk in the small peas by the window: primary school students in Ba Xueyuan never scribble on other people's walls or roads, because they have already scribbled at school. In music class, children can sit on the floor of the auditorium in various positions they like, listen to the rhythm and draw notes first, and draw planes at will in their spare time. However, after drawing notes on the floor, it is not easy to clean up. First, they will erase the chalk with a blackboard eraser, and then Qi Xin will work together to clean the floor with a mop or rag in Qixin. Cleaning all the floors in the auditorium is a huge project. Because of this, all the students in Ba Xueyuan know that it is not easy to clean up by scribbling or writing some pranks. So children won't scribble anywhere except the floor of the auditorium. The infiltration of moral education comes from life, and sentiment comes from life, growth and life. This is the origin of education, and the cultivation of behavior habits needs practice as the basis.
The mode of education should be diversified, not unified and fixed. We often say that we should teach one student in fifty ways, but the reality is that we teach fifty students in one way. Mr Gao Qiao is a dwarf. When Mr. Kobayashi held the sports meeting, he specially designed a project suitable for Mr. Gao Qiao, and he won the first prize. In short, in order to get rid of the inferiority complex of children with physical defects and the idea that I am worse than other children, Mr. Kobayashi tried his best, and even a teacher jokingly said to Mr. Gao Qiao in class, "Does anyone have a tail? High, is there? " Principal Kobayashi was furious with the teacher. When he grew up, Gao not only got married and had a happy family, but also worked in a large electrical appliance company, which played a very important role, which was not easy for a dwarf with congenital physical disability. Let students feel fair personality from an early age, and emphasize the improvement of personal vision and quality!
Respecting students' individuality means respecting human nature. In the eyes of ordinary people, Xiao Doudou is a problem student: he is inattentive in class, always changing tables happily, standing by the window and greeting the propagandist on the road ... Such a child is the most troublesome student for our principal and teacher. It can even be said that most of the children in Ba Xueyuan have problems of one kind or another, or physical defects, such as dwarfism, polio, ADHD and so on. , or some "non-mainstream" personality. Principal Kobayashi, who is good at discovering every place worthy of recognition with appreciation, makes children feel the joy of being recognized with inspiring language. Naughty, noisy and even "disruptive" are children's nature. "Without naughty children and naughty children, real pedagogy cannot be established." If we can't correctly understand the meaning of naughty, then there will be more disobedient children in our eyes, and we will give them more advice and constraints to make them obedient, as docile as sheep, without edges and corners and personality. Looking back carefully on our class, there are several such small peas in the school. As a teacher, how does the principal handle it? At last night's sharing meeting, most teachers thought that there would be no more such schools, but Xiao Doudou did, but there may not be many such mothers, but we can start by changing ourselves, giving students more love education, being a listener and seriously thinking about their voices.
Second, what kind of parents are educators?
When reading "Little Peas by the Window", we were impressed by the characteristic education mode of Ba Xueyuan. We are impressed by President Kobayashi's great personality charm and educational art, and often ignore the unknown parents behind Xiao Doudou, and I think this mother is even more remarkable. Talking about mother's influence on childhood is still great. Up to now, I have never seen such a childhood memory of letting go and inclusive growth. We began to question that parents in rural areas are not at home all the year round for their livelihood, that is, they have few telephones. It is impossible to say that they don't care about the growth of their children. If they pay attention, they also account for a large proportion of comparisons and achievements. Due to cultural and ideological restrictions, some parents can't give their children the best guidance, but they set an example and have the power of example. Some parents leave their hands directly to their grandparents and may never ask about their studies. Relatively speaking, how can parents be as wise as bean mom? Everyone has different ideas when it comes to parents' problems. Teacher Deng, the person in charge, told the latter about his practical experience. He said: It is normal for some rural parents not to realize it, but it is abnormal if he realizes it. Take my mother for example. She didn't finish the second grade of primary school, and she can still write in primary school. I can't help it when I'm old. Her heart's expectation is to rely on the school teacher to teach me well and let me go to college. So I really can't blame my parents. My mother still doesn't understand. But I believe that every parent wants her child to be good, and she is willing to do anything good for her child. Many times, they don't know what to do and need to be taught.
Do you care if you cheat in good faith? Xiao Doudou was dismissed from school for various reasons, such as being naughty in school, not paying attention in class and affecting the normal teaching of the school. Mom didn't tell Xiao Doudou about dropping out of school, but ran around looking for a new school. Because, mom knows that even if she talks to Doudou, I'm afraid she won't understand what she did wrong. Moreover, if Xiao Doudou leaves inferiority in his heart because he dropped out of school, it will be bad and even affect the child's growth trajectory. So my mother said to Xiao Doudou, "Let's go to the new school and have a look. I heard that it is very good there! " It was not until Xiao Doudou grew up that her mother told Xiao Doudou that she had been persuaded to quit. In this process, I believe that Xiao Doudou's parents are painful and uneasy, especially in Ba Xueyuan, when I saw President Kobayashi's "unusual" education method-different from the mainstream education method at that time, it was more of a struggle. Now in education, children's problems in the family will be magnified, and there is no chance to explain and correct them. For children, they dare not make mistakes, but they make mistakes invisibly. Parents can't slow down for their children like Doudou's mother. Education is actually a kind of waiting. Listening to the sound of flowers requires persistence and patience.
A little tolerance is understanding. Xiao Doudou is a little girl with many strange ideas. Her favorite game is to get under someone else's fence. After thinking about various methods, she finally found the most suitable way to make a hole, that is, to drill like a dog. As a result, the clothes on her back were pulled by barbed wire seven times. When Xiao Doudou knew that it was his mother's favorite dress, he was anxious and tried his best to find a way. Even if he lies, he will express the meaning of "I can't break it, there is really no way". So, she thought about it, and when she got home, she said to her mother, "Just now, I was walking on the road, and other children threw knives at my back, so I became like this." Mom just asked, "Oh, yeah, that's scary." Lying may be a child's nature, but when a child lies, do we immediately expose and reprimand him in class, or do we kindly remind him and guide him slowly? If Xiao Doudou's mother debunks Xiao Doudou's lie on the spot, it will either embarrass Xiao Doudou and hurt his self-esteem, or Xiao Doudou will continue to weave another lie to cover up the loophole of the first lie. If this goes on, it will only cultivate Xiao Doudou's ability to lie, not his inner introspection. In teaching, you will find that the child who lied to you for the first time is also a child who often lies. Maybe it was the first time he admitted his mistake to you, and your sharp eyes caught him without leaving a trace of warmth. Later, he will gradually become a child you can't understand, because the child's mind is not complete, and we owe the child a smile!
Personality charm is an example. Thinking of the world during World War II, more people suffered from more war nightmares, and Xiao Doudou's family also faced the dilemma of food shortage. We have been talking about mom, the role of a complete family father can not be ignored, and it is also the pillar of family spirit and the image of a mountain. As a violinist, Doudou's father didn't want to play military songs for militarists in exchange for food. And his insistence on honesty and principles has won the understanding and recognition of Xiao Doudou. This persistence is quite similar to China's "Don't eat from scratch" and "Don't bend over", which planted some positive forces in the growth of small peas. The mother's tolerance and the father's own example have a far-reaching impact on the healthy growth of children.
In fact, we have always said that parents are children's first teachers, and family education is really rooted in our hearts. For education, it is often said that home-school integration is more important. Family education is the soil and source of strength for children's growth. Parents are teachers for their children all their lives. Xiao Doudou's lively nature, optimistic and cheerful personality, love for life, love for life and love for animals are all related to the kindness and virtue of his parents. Qualified parents raise children, and great parents train children into useful people.
Third, think about the tolerance and support of society for education.
Judging from the current education situation, Ba Xueyuan is small in scale, with less than 50 students, poor teaching equipment, classrooms transformed by buses, few teachers, principal Kobayashi working as a part-time music teacher, and poor students' quality. Many students are expelled from other schools, such as Xiao Doudou, and many children have physical defects, such as the height of dwarfs and Taming of polio. The society no longer recognizes Ba Xueyuan. Some parents questioned President Kobayashi's educational mode, chose to transfer to another school, lost students and so on, all of which doomed that Ba Xueyuan could not become a famous school at that time, let alone a famous school in China today.
However, the Ba Xue Garden, founded by Mr. Kobayashi for eight years, was burnt down in the air raid in Tokyo in 1945, and it only existed for a short time. At that time, Ba Xueyuan had less than 50 students. Later, there were more than 10 national talents and two world-class talents. These achievements are beyond the reach of many schools now known as famous schools and famous schools for a century, which has to be thought-provoking.
Our education has begun a great change in information technology, and it is time to truly reflect the child's subject step by step. On the network platform, children can become network teachers. More rural primary schools, such as Lumacha Primary School with three students, have received more attention and resource support. We can't replicate the success of Ba Xueyuan now, but we can replicate it by doing personalized education. For more small peas, we can help them grow better through the Internet and education.
It takes three generations to make a gentleman. Can the enrollment rate measure the quality of running a school? Is it scientific to measure the education and teaching level of schools and teachers through short-term indicators that are easy to quantify, such as fractional line and enrollment rate? Students' sustainable development ability, future promotion space and creativity should be the fundamental indicators to evaluate education. However, do the current education and social forces have the patience to wait and observe?
There are no complicated exams and heavy homework in Ba Xueyuan. Everyone's homework is based on hobbies, entertaining and focusing on experiential teaching. Principal Kobayashi and his teachers designed various activities in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, walked into the hearts of every student, awakened and inspired them. I wonder, do they need to constantly deal with various evaluations? Participate in various trainings? Is it necessary to face the clear, weekly, monthly and annual evaluation? Do you want to keep dealing with this model and that kind of curriculum reform? If the teachers in Ba Xueyuan are like the front-line teachers, do they have enough time and energy to complete their "Peach Blossom Garden" teaching? The most fundamental way to reduce the burden on students is to reduce the burden on teachers!
Whether the education mode of Ba Xueyuan here is still too perfect, perfect as a wonderful story, the education that has been thinking, demonstrating, expecting and pursuing, and the education of beauty can all be answered. Looking back on the educational thought of the German philosopher Jaspers: "The essence of education is that a tree shakes another tree, a cloud pushes another cloud, and one soul awakens another soul." The real value of education is an enlightenment, an awakening, an opening, an ignition, an enlightenment, an enlightenment ... Teacher Niu Yu, who is keen on reading when punching in today, expressed his views on this passage, and we have been reflecting and thinking. For education, for children, for ourselves, we stopped. ...
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