"Therefore, the good are moved by it, followed by profit, followed by teaching, followed by neatness, and the bottom is contending with it." Historical Records ~ Biography of Huo Zhi

When it comes to education, almost everyone can say a few words, from dignitaries to prostitutes. Therefore, when you are in an unfamiliar place and can't find a suitable topic to talk about, talking about education can definitely break the deadlock immediately. Of course, it is also easy to cause differences.

China once had the best education. Confucius has three thousand disciples, and everyone is different. He still "teaches students in accordance with their aptitude, and there is no class in teaching." However, with the development of history, education in China has not become more diversified, but more and more unified. From "teaching without distinction" to "stereotyped writing", from "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" to "shaping materials by teaching"

A friend once joked that the present school is like a mold factory. When you send it in, a hundred flowers bloom, and when you come out, it's the same.

Although it is a joke, it will reflect the actual situation of many schools. In second-and third-tier cities, the most popular education mode for parents now is "Hengshui mode", that is, indoctrination, cramming and high-pressure education.

Uniform clothes, uniform hairstyles, uniform movements, even running. For students, time is compressed to the utmost, and students are not given any possibility of doing unnecessary things.

Students who come out of such an environment may have good academic performance, but their physical and mental health level is worrying. In 2020, the "Hengshui Boys' Speech", which was popular on the Internet, was considered by many as "unhealthy psychology" and "distorted values".

I think the reason why education in China has gone from the best to the worst is that parents and teachers generally distrust and disapprove of children. Distrust is students' self-management ability; Disapproval is the choice of students' life path. Under this premise, students (children) can do nothing, and everything they do is wrong.

So we will "teach it, organize it and compete with it", so education becomes a "model" factory and teaching becomes an assembly line operation. Students have become products that can be mass-produced on the assembly line, pursuing the unity from thought to behavior, and completely forgetting that they are people with feelings, thoughts and likes and dislikes.

I hope that in the future, "the extremes of things will be reversed, and the extremes of things will be reversed", so that education will become "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" and "uneven polymorphism" will become the mainstream of society.