After reading Youyang, 1 write in front: The definition of "Excellence" refers to the elites of Hayep.
This book is very shocking at first reading, and what can shock people is often the "truth" that we are not familiar with. Just as in Ordinary World, Sun Shaoping people pursued the truth of their dreams in the last century, and the truth about the origin and operation of elite education system in Youyang also made us feel sad about the whole macro elite education background.
It's different from some articles I read about college education. Most of the articles I saw before were about university education by educators in the Republic of China. When I open my book, I can't help feeling a reader's unique feeling of knowledge. Originally, I thought life was just a person, a book and a world, but when I closed the book, I found that the environment was not so ideal, and it was difficult for people to calm down. Many problems I faced could not be solved, such as why I wanted to go to college and how to study in college. In fact, now that I think about it, it is understandable. At that time, higher education resources were scarce, and it was very valuable to go to college. Reading is all. Secondly, there are many masters of the Republic of China. Is the realm of masters something we ordinary people can guess or even refer to? And this book can be said to really consider macro issues and analyze some micro issues. The book generally talks about the rules of the elite education system inherited from the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy when they ruled the United States, and the influence of the whole elite education system on modern elites and others. Among them, the author also provides a reference for how to study in university. I also appreciate the first-class education that I can't experience in the author's speech. I have to say that even if I was criticized by the author, I still envy him. However, many people have made many sacrifices for this, and some even miss Hayep because they are not in the elite family.
What attracts me most about this book is not its criticism of the elite system and its analysis of the warnings of later educators, but his analysis of what university education should teach students. Mainly because I am experiencing many truths revealed by him, for example, the school does not attach importance to undergraduate education; The evaluation of a teacher lies in how many articles he has published, not whether he can break the spell of knowledge and be a good teacher; There is too little communication between teachers and students; Students' education funds are seriously insufficient ... in my opinion, the games of elite system are all capitalist games, and we can't compete with them at all. But the pursuit of a good university education is everyone's wish. And the level of university education in China makes people dare not have too many reverie. Moreover, even if the shortcomings of the elite education system are so small compared with the inclusiveness and diversity of its education that we don't expect to consider them, its door will always be closed, just like a child in Beijing, who will always have one more ticket than you. However, there are three magic weapons for success: one is resources, the other is the most efficient way to use resources, and the third is strong action. If you want to challenge the winner at the starting line, you must spend money, time and energy, and you can't be stingy.
First, the author wrote it according to the background of America. The elite system is a capitalist's game. In China, this is a regional game.
Second, the author is a professor at Yale University. From this system, we have the qualification of reflection. Nowadays, many people complain about the college entrance examination and university education, but the unreasonable system does not mean that education is unreasonable, and no educational opportunity can be missed.
A good sheep can't afford to lose, but a poor lion has the courage to fight to the end.
Reflections on "excellent sheep" II. Answer the above questions with the old me first. What exactly is education? Education means going to school and learning some knowledge points. Why do you want to go to college? As a young man with a degree, he can find a better job in society. How can the university help me find myself, teach me to think independently and find my place in the world? These questions never occurred to me before I graduated from college. I just keep accepting what I have seen and heard, but I have no ability to think. I just want to have a job so that I can live in this land with dignity. My university is in love, watching Hong Kong dramas, skipping classes, cramming for exams, not reading deeply, and not thinking about grand and philosophical but important issues.
When I was in the third year of high school, I heard from my classmates one day that college is a crucial period for shaping a person's character and personality. Why didn't I know, but now it's too late? "It's late", which makes it one of the many truths heard.
My university is full of superficial happiness and superficial anxiety.
In fact, it is never too late. Now, I will try to answer the above questions. The essence of education is to cultivate the whole person, first as a qualified citizen and then as a skilled and educated citizen of the world. On the one hand, university study is the demand of social people, but more importantly, many books and truths are still incomprehensible before adulthood. The years of college are just the transition from children to adults, so you can have concentrated and undisturbed pure time to read, understand, try and discover what you like, and build your own system of three views.
Education is to cultivate our ability to exchange ideas, first of all, we must have ideas that can be exchanged. Where did this idea come from? We should read the viewpoints of various subjects and build our own cognition from extensive reading and life experience. We not only have the ability to exchange ideas, but also have the ability to distinguish values and make judgments.
I often think that those who seem to have their own light are confident, not necessarily beautiful, but have a relatively complete self-awareness system, know what they want, and try to know how to do it, and then resolutely implement it. If there is something in my head, how can my eyes see clearly?
If I want to meet my sister, Sissy and Sister Cherry, will I care more about my clothes? No, there is no idea of communicating with them on an equal footing, which makes me feel embarrassed. Our university enrollment standards support the whole education system, or education revolves around enrollment. We often talk about the baton of the college entrance examination. In fact, it is just a thorn in the design of our education system. The key is what kind of people the university needs to recruit.
China's higher education, because it comprehensively studied the pragmatism of the former Soviet Union in the mid-20th century, is still the status quo of skill training or professional priority today, and it is necessary to screen people with good academic performance. Although there are many universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua and Fudan University. The exploration of general education is not mature at present, and the scope is still very small, so it is not realistic to popularize it in colleges and universities for the time being. Some experts even think that as long as the first-class universities train all the people, I am still skeptical.
Parents and students still have to choose between "domestic education" and "going abroad", and then "train" their children to meet the recruitment standards within their respective frameworks. Domestic education is exam-oriented education under academic pressure; Going abroad means exam-oriented education under the pressure of various projects and activities.
Everything we do to our children today will come back to us later.