In other words, in the overall shortage of quality education resources, the simpler the topic, the heavier the burden on students.
Where does the burden of students come from now? From excessive competition. Effective competition can improve the ability of competitors, while excessive competition will be counterproductive. If we think that effective competition is the training of thinking, intelligence, ability and knowledge in the field of education, then excessive competition is to improve the experience of doing problems by brushing questions and form conditioned reflex. What is the result of reducing the difficulty and content all the year round? But before 10~20% students have no substantial gap in knowledge, and the exam has completely become a game of experience and careful competition-what is the result? A large number of brushing questions has become an important means to achieve good results in the college entrance examination.
I graduated from high school eleven years ago. Going back to high school during the holidays in recent years, I sometimes meet some younger brothers and sisters. The biggest feeling in these years is that educational institutions have gradually taken over the functions of some schools, and the status of brushing questions has also become very high.
When I was in high school, it was not very systematic to spend money to find a teacher's tutor after class, but sometimes I stayed at the teacher's house for a week or two in winter and summer vacations-tutoring, in fact, mainly paid for the teacher to take care of you at school, and the core training and review were all carried out at school. Moreover, there are not many people who ask teachers for counseling after class, mainly because they are stuck on the threshold of Qingbei, 985, a line, or two lines. Other students are often not interested in this.
But in the past ten years, a large number of educational institutions have begun to appear in this small rural city. Now schools are secondary and educational institutions have become the main ones. It turns out that we make up lessons after class, and in the teacher's home, we often train some difficult topics to broaden our thinking. These topics are unnecessary to master, and some are beyond the scope; Nowadays, many extracurricular tutoring classes solve problems completely by brushing questions-it is impossible to form a healthy competitive environment for educational institutions.
Why is this meaningless brushing mode so popular? Because it is effective, because the increasingly simple exam content makes the students' thinking and intelligence play a little role in the exam, and finally they spell experience and meticulousness. Now some so-called "burden reduction" is to reduce the difficulty of the exam and the outline of the exam, so that this large-scale brushing problem becomes more effective and feasible, because the experience required to traverse all knowledge points is reduced. For example, there are 100 knowledge points in a course exam, and there may be 200 questions, and then they may brush each question twice; Now, if you change it to 50 knowledge points, there may be 100 questions, and they will spend the same time brushing each question four times-doubling the repetitive and meaningless work.
In order to really reduce the burden brought by this large-scale problem-brushing model, it is necessary to increase the difficulty of the exam, expand the exam outline, and even allow transcendental knowledge that can be reasonably inferred from the outline content in the exam-forcing the marginal effect of each problem to become extremely low. Only by reducing the benefit of this brainless model to a very low level can we curb this behavior, let the "college entrance examination" return to the road of "selecting talents", and let the competition of the college entrance examination become a competition of intelligence and thinking, not experience.