Source: Shanxi News Network

Reading at the weekend, I inadvertently turned to the latest issue of Reader, and an article attracted me: American freshmen go to Harvard.

Raymond, the hero of the article, graduated from high school and was admitted to Harvard University as he wished. This is a happy event worth celebrating. According to our custom, children admitted to famous universities will hold a banquet in the hotel to celebrate. Raymond, an American high school student, has no "blessing" as a child in China-he has to cook for himself after being admitted to a famous brand. In the small kitchen behind his father's office, he spent the whole morning preparing a sumptuous lunch: mixed vegetable salad, beef chowder, Italian bread and marinated steak. ...

More surprisingly, after leaving school for more than a month, Raymond decided to leave for school early and borrowed $500 from his parents before leaving. He wants to leave early, because he wants to walking to school, so that he can save the fare and work along the way. He wants to take the opportunity to do a social survey.

He walked on the road for 32 days and completed an investigation report, which was highly praised by teachers and classmates. The $500 I borrowed from my parents didn't cost me a penny, but the money I earned by working all the way, excluding the expenses on the way, left more than 100.

Later, due to his outstanding social service record, Raymond won a full scholarship from Harvard University. A high school student, relying on his own feet, "walked into" Harvard! Behind it, American families and schools can learn from when evaluating students: in addition to cultivating students' learning ability, they pay more attention to students' social service consciousness and independent thinking ability.

Of course, American education is by no means perfect. For example, school management and teaching are too lax, school shootings are frequent, and many primary school students fail in spelling and reading, which makes them quite afraid to compliment. However, it should be admitted that Raymond, a high school student, "walked into" Harvard in this way, highlighting the success of American school education and family education.

We often say that the competition in 2 1 century is the competition of talents. Isn't it a big reason why the United States has become the most primitive and developed country in science and technology in the world, and many Raymond-style students have "entered" first-class universities? Since the United States won the Nobel Prize for the first time in 190 1, in which year did an American figure disappear from the winners, and last year, it swept all the Nobel prizes in science-physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine. One of the reasons is that many students like Raymond, who have a strong sense of social service and strong independent thinking ability, "walk into" first-class universities!

Raymond's entry into Harvard has inspired many students, families and schools in China: children's independent thinking habits and independent living ability need to be cultivated from an early age, which not only affects their study and moral character during their study, but also affects their healthy growth throughout their lives; Too much protection for children is not necessarily true love. It is far better to give children more freedom to face life independently and decide their own path than to spend a lot of money to meet their endless demands.

This also enlightens us that if education really undertakes the task of cultivating innovative talents for society and the country, it must change the practice of taking scores as the only evaluation standard of education quality. In education, there should be less book education, more creative education, less obedience education, more independent consciousness education, less indoctrination education and more social activity ability education.

Editor: Tang Hao