"Wolf Dad" decided to restrict children's freedom from kindergarten and set a dead rule-you can't rest until you finish your homework. If you don't finish your homework well, you will be severely beaten.
Wei Yu believes that this kind of education that treats children with violence and overemphasizes IQ is putting the cart before the horse. "A person's success depends not on his IQ, but on his social and emotional ability."
IQ can only determine a person's success in what field; And "social emotional ability" is the basis of whether a person can have morality, which determines whether a person can survive healthily, integrate into society, cooperate with others and so on. Without the latter, no one will succeed in any position.
She believes that the "rich second generation" shows off their wealth, the "official second generation" shows off their fathers, dangerous racing, online games and other addiction and violent tendencies are all related to the lack of social emotional ability training.
She also summed up five core social emotional abilities: self-perception (accurately evaluating one's feelings, interests, values and strengths); Self-control (regulating one's emotions, coping with pressure and controlling impulses); Social perception (understanding the feelings and opinions of others); Interpersonal relationship handling ability (solving interpersonal conflicts in an appropriate way and asking for help when necessary); Be able to make responsible decisions (respect others' decisions and be responsible for your own decisions).
In the new round of educational planning in the United States, it has been put on the agenda to cultivate children's social emotional ability in an effective way.
Compulsive learning destroys a child's character.
The cultivation of good social emotional ability should start from an early age. She said: The age of 0 to 3 is a very important period of early development. The responsibility of education mainly lies in the family, and parents must provide a warm, stable and interactive environment for their children. On the contrary, neglect, lack of care, abuse of children, or forcing them to learn a lot of things are all serious injuries to children. Many personality defects will be formed, which will affect the child's life and even his descendants.
Scientific research shows that being abused in childhood will change a person's cortical adrenaline in the hippocampus, leave traces in the brain, weaken children's adaptability to stress, and lead to many diseases, such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases, memory loss, mental illness, suicide and so on. These effects will last into adulthood.
When children enter adolescence, there will be many special psychological changes, and rebellion is normal. Teachers and parents should pay attention to children's psychology at this stage. At present, many parents give their children too much chronic pressure, too heavy academic burden, and lack of sleep will bring many problems.
"Do you have 8 hours of sleep now?" He asked the first-year students of Shu Ren International School to raise their hands, and about half of them raised their hands. She said happily, "that's to praise your headmaster for letting you sleep for eight hours."
Education reform can no longer do things by intuition.
Academician Wei Yu has been engaged in brain science research for a long time. She said that education in the 2 1 century is facing major changes. The factor driving this change is the development of brain science and technology, and the philosophical understanding of the spiritual production process has changed.
How is the development of brain science? For example, Wei Yu said: China scientists study the "brain-computer interface", with which blind people can use brain waves to direct the operation of cars; People engaged in border inspection in Britain can already use infrared scanning imaging technology to identify people's subtle expressions for lie detection; Using brain CT scanner, we can know which part of the brain is changing when people think in different types. ...
Based on the development of brain science, people think that all psychological processes are always related to the brain, and the spirit is based on and restricted by the brain. Therefore, all education for children should follow the laws of brain development. But we often do many things that violate the rules.
Wei Yu said that in the past, China's education reform could not be sustained due to the lack of scientific empirical research support, relying on intuition and experience. But in the past 10 years, the development of science and technology enabled us to support the education reform with the latest achievements of brain science research.
After Battle Hymn of Tiger Mother, Wolf Dad, who also advocates fierce education, has recently become the focus of hot discussion. Wolf dad's slogan is "scolding children to enter Peking University every day". In this regard, Academician Wei Yu, former vice minister of the Ministry of Education, said mercilessly yesterday that this kind of education is "absolutely wrong". She asked, "Is going to Peking University the goal of life? What is the purpose of life? "
Academician Wei Yu returned to the middle school attached to her alma mater, Shinan, yesterday and attended the "Lecture Hall for Scientists on Popular Science" with 10 academicians. In the lecture, she introduced the achievements of brain science research in 10 years. She presented some evidence to prove that strict education is harmful to children. "If the injury is more serious, the child will be pushed into prison or hospital."