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Take a bath in a cotton-padded jacket
If this era can produce all talents, it will be the luck of exam-oriented education and the misfortune of this era. If there is, he is the king of people, but unfortunately there is no, so we have to take off the "king" under the word "all". What the times need is only talents.
I thought the more educational reform in China, the weirder it became. It seems that China is really short of generalists. People to be trained can build a missile today, write a long article about this missile tomorrow, win the Mao Dun Literature Prize, and personally translate it into eight languages the day after tomorrow for distribution around the world. If there is such a person, I'd rather try his missile.
As far as I am concerned, science is completely meaningless to me, although it is of great significance to the development of the times. For those who don't study science in the future, mathematics is absolutely enough as long as they reach the second grade level, and physical chemistry only needs to be studied for one year. If today's study is only for tomorrow's waste, what's the point of learning? If we have to devote our time to subjects that we can't achieve or get in touch with in the future for the college entrance examination, please don't preach what the future time is like.
As for the statement that I often hear that learning mathematics is to practice logical thinking ability, I think it is unreasonable, because reading many detective stories or mystery novel can better practice logical thinking ability. Why not take a course in reading detective stories? It doesn't matter if you don't open it Why not let others see it? The problem of reading is coming. I remember a saying that the so-called textbooks refer to books that you will sell as waste paper after September, and the so-called idle books may be books that you will use for a lifetime. Textbooks are poorly written now. Take Chinese and English, which I am familiar with. At first glance, China thought that our nation was still being invaded and always wanted to unite to destroy foreign troops. This should be written in the history books. No one has ever seen the articles of Liang Shiqiu, Qian Zhongshu, Yu Guangzhong and others who really have artistic appreciation. You can't reject Lu Xun's article just because he scolded Liang Shiqiu, can you? You can't deny the value of Qian Zhongshu just because his name doesn't appear in the literary history of some celebrities, can you? Can't you draw a line just because Yu Guangzhong is from Taiwan Province Province? If there are still students who call Liang Shiqiu a running dog as soon as they see his name, then Xu Zhongyu can hit the wall. As for English, a group of my friends who came back from studying in Australia said that after studying English for six years, they didn't even know what to say about chopsticks, forks, salt, toilets and toilet paper, which are necessary for eating and going to the toilet. They only ask Australia. I really don't know what I have learned in these six years. However, it is gratifying that the author stayed for one grade because of his poor science, and was lucky enough to learn the new version of Oxford English, which is much better than the old textbook.
The talent we ultimately need is to specialize in one kind. Of course, there must also be a foundation of various subjects. We can't specialize in anything from the first grade of primary school and throw everything away for direct contact. It's like going to a public bathroom and going out naked. But you can't wear a cotton-padded jacket to take a bath. I once saw a person in the same and opposite situation as me from bosom friend magazine. He got full marks in mathematics and physics twice in the college entrance examination and failed in English. Finally, he didn't go to college and went to work. So the problem of education now is that no one will bathe naked, but too many people are wearing cotton-padded jackets to bathe.