Recently, in the circle of friends of many teachers, there is a "list of the most famous teacher education quotes", in which "there are no students who can't teach well, only teachers who can't teach well" ranks first, which has aroused the resonance of many teachers.
The reporter found that behind these "famous educational sayings", it not only reflects some expectations of the society for teachers and education, but also reflects the misunderstanding of the society for teachers and education.
Why do teachers hate "there are no students who can't teach well, only teachers who can't teach well"
1. The helplessness of the two teachers
The bell rang for the evening self-study class, and the students walked out of the classroom one by one. Zheng (pseudonym) sat alone in front of the podium, thinking about the phone call from the Political and Educational Affairs Office just now. "Another student violated the discipline." He was at a loss.
Zheng is a teacher in a vocational school. At the beginning of his work, he often heard Mr. Chen Heqin's famous saying in various meetings and lectures: "There are no students who can't teach well, only teachers who can't teach well." This became the initial driving force for Zheng's career growth.
But the ideal can't compare with the reality. As a class teacher, Zheng mostly faces students with bad behavior habits, including left-behind teenagers, single-parent children and children with psychological deviation. Usually, when students don't perform well, Mr. Zheng will think of this "famous education saying" and review himself over and over again in an attempt to find the root cause of his "inability to teach" and then make great efforts to implement education.
But what makes him helpless is that there are gains and a sense of accomplishment in his work, but everything never seems to be satisfactory. "I can't teach all the students well. There are still many people with poor grades and many improper behaviors. "
What puzzles Zheng even more is that parents often think that teachers should teach their children well.
On 20 16, a student's performance dropped in a monthly exam, and parents learned that the school knew the situation late. Zheng He and his parents patiently analyzed the reasons. It turns out that this student is addicted to mobile games. After Zheng found out, he confiscated his mobile phone, but his parents didn't stick to the principle and bought a new mobile phone for their children. When Zheng mentioned this matter, the parents argued with him instead: "Can't your teacher do ideological work and guide students to use mobile phones correctly? Didn't you major in education in college? There are no disobedient students in front of good teachers, right? "
Parents' questioning depressed Zheng for a long time. "I think my professional level really needs to be improved, but can a good enough teacher really solve all the problems and teach students from all kinds of families?" Zheng said to him.
Yu Minqiang is a teacher in Shisan Middle School in Pingjiang County, Hunan Province. 20 14 next semester, a boy named Zhou transferred to his class. Zhou is a typical "underachiever". His father idles and gambles for a living. His mother ran away from home and was usually taken care of by her grandmother. Because he just transferred here, Zhou was unfamiliar with his classmates, so he used cigarettes to seduce him. After class, I take my classmates to the toilet to smoke, which is a bit violent, and my study habits are poor. I often don't finish my homework.
After Min Qiang's three home visits, Zhou's father finally agreed to meet him. After the meeting, Yu Minqiang introduced Zhou's school situation and earnestly requested to cooperate with the education work. During the communication, Zhou's father received a phone call asking him to draw a game of cards, so he said impatiently to him, "teacher, I don't have time to listen to you." You have my baby. Teaching well is your business, not mine. " Say that finish, you're welcome to the marching orders.
Yu Minqiang said that when he met such parents, all he heard was the phrase "there are no students who can't teach well, only teachers who can't teach well". "It feels like' blue skinny mushrooms' (I feel like crying)."
2. A misinterpreted "famous saying"
"There are no students who can't teach well, only teachers who can't teach well." This famous saying comes from the famous educator Mr. Chen Heqin. This is one of his important educational thoughts.
Jin Bo, a teacher at Yu Tai Primary School in Shazitang, Yuhua District, Changsha City, believes that this sentence has been seriously misinterpreted. As the object of education, any student must first admit that it can be educated and can make himself grow and progress through education, not "a dead wood cannot be carved". But "teaching well" is relative, not absolute. Different students are very different, so it is impossible for them to study in all aspects.
In Jin Bo's view, "only teachers who can't teach" is the incentive for teachers-teachers should constantly improve their education level. Teachers who "can teach" and "can teach well" are also gradually growing. If students encounter difficulties in education and teaching and fail to make expected progress, teachers should reflect on what they have not done well enough, sum up and improve in time, and choose more suitable and effective educational methods and strategies, so as to achieve educational goals. Then, not only the students but also the teachers made progress.
But now, this sentence is misinterpreted as making every student equally excellent. Poor academic performance or misconduct of students is not a problem of students, but that teachers "can't teach". "This obviously violates the basic method of looking at things in an all-round way, which is ridiculous and extremely unfair."
The director of the vocational education office of Zhuzhou Academy of Educational Sciences thinks that "there are no students who can't teach, only teachers who can't teach" is an educational concept, or an educational belief. It tells us to believe that any student has the potential for education. If a student can't teach well, it means that he hasn't found a suitable education method for this student. It can often be seen that the same student will achieve different educational effects if he changes his education method, and sometimes the educational effects will be obviously different if he changes a teacher in the same class.
He Wenming believes that "there are no students who can't teach, only teachers who can't teach" does not require all students to be taught like Edison and Einstein, but to strengthen their educational beliefs and make every student's potential as much as possible. In fact, not all people can become Edison and Einstein because of the differences in human body and intelligence.
Li Zhenxi, the headmaster of Wuhou Experimental Middle School in Chengdu, Sichuan, once said that the original intention of this sentence should be to emphasize the responsibility and belief of educators to children and the strict requirements for children based on this responsibility and belief. This responsibility, belief and strict requirements have made many educators create "educational miracles", and there are many vivid cases in educational practice at home and abroad. Therefore, this sentence cannot be simply denied, but it must be admitted that it has some truth: don't lose confidence in any students easily. However, this sentence is just that educators are strict with themselves, not an educational evaluation standard.
So, are there "students who can't teach well"? Li Zhenxi's answer is: "It can be said that there is no, and it can be said that there is." To say "no", two conditions must be met: first, family education and social education are very ideal, except school education; Second, the standard of "good" is not a standard, but for every specific student, so that he can make continuous progress on the original basis. The progress here may be comprehensive, or it may be a certain aspect. Say "yes" because under the current evaluation background, even if teachers "can teach", "students who can't teach well" still exist in large numbers. The reason is simple: both the college entrance examination and the senior high school entrance examination are selective examinations, and the purpose is to make some students eliminated, that is, "not teaching well"-how can they be "selected"?
3. The omnipotence of education should be out of date.
"Seeking truth from facts,' there are no students who can't teach well, only teachers who can't teach well' is a one-sided statement that hurts the self-esteem of most teachers." Liu Xin, principal and special teacher of Meixihu Middle School in Changsha County, said that education is a process of interaction between teachers and students, not a unilateral matter. This famous saying only sees the teacher's influence and function, and unilaterally emphasizes the teacher's education and teaching level, while ignoring the natural uneven differences between students. Secondly, it exaggerates the effectiveness of education. Education is not everything. The success of a student is influenced by the students themselves, parents, society and other factors. In the context of exam-oriented education, "teaching well" is understood as that every student has been admitted to a university, even a key brand, which is only a one-sided understanding formed in the environment of exam-oriented education and has made an absolute mistake in thought.
Zhou Satisfaction, the headmaster of Qingshuitang No.3 Primary School in Kaifu District, Changsha City, believes that the poor education of students does not rule out the reason of teachers' teaching level, but education is only one of the external factors that affect children. Endowment, the difference between intelligence and non-intelligence, family education, peers and society are all factors that affect whether children become "people".
"We should see that our parents can't teach one or two children well, and in turn ask a teacher to teach dozens of children. Who is irresponsible? " Zhou Fangyuan, a teacher at Liu Yanghe Middle School in Liuyang City, Hunan Province, believes that exaggerating the role of teachers for no reason and demanding teachers with unrealistic words cannot completely change the educational effect of children. On the contrary, everyone should start from himself, think more about what I have done for education, create a good external environment for children's growth, and unite "centripetal force" so that children can have a brighter tomorrow.
Li Zhenxi believes that school education is not everything. In the process of a person's growth, the role of school education accounts for at most one third, and the other two thirds are non-school education (including family education and social education) and students' self-education. "We can't do things beyond our abilities and responsibilities. We can only do our work as well as we can-in this way, even if individual students don't' teach well' in the end, we have a clear conscience! "
"'There are no students who can't teach well, only teachers who can't teach well'. If this is the teacher's ambition, I admire such a teacher; If someone uses this to ask a teacher, I show great contempt for such a demanding person! " Li Zhenxi said.
Teachers' Favorite "Educational Quotations"
The essence of education is that a tree shakes another tree, a cloud pushes another cloud, and a soul awakens another soul.
Karl jaspers
It is not the beating of iron, but the singing and dancing of water that turns rough stones into beautiful pebbles.
Tagore
Education is rooted in love.
-Lu Xun
The root of education is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
-Aristotle
Education is not to fill a bucket of water, but to light a fire.
Yeats
Without love, there is no education.
-Suhomlinski
Educators are not for the past, not for the present, but for the future
—— Cai Yuanpei
Teachers don't buy "educational sayings"
"Good boy loves to brag."
Zou Shuo, Principal of Fengshushanqiao Primary School, Yuhua District, Changsha City, Hunan Province:
At first glance, this sentence seems reasonable. After all, children's growth needs a lot of positive reinforcement. But many people only know how to praise children, but they don't know how to praise them to really benefit their growth. So I gave my child a rave without knowing how to use it. Generally speaking, it will have a certain effect at first, but later it will upset adults and confuse children. What's more, children are deaf to criticism and can't even accept that they have any mistakes. Such children are most likely to be frustrated in the group, and it is not easy to make friends, which is extremely unfavorable to the child's character development.
Yu Yuan, teacher of Fengshushanqiao Primary School, Yuhua District, Changsha City, Hunan Province:
First of all, this concept is wrong. Most of today's children don't lack praise. On the contrary, they lack criticism, "suffering education" and "frustration education".
Secondly, how to praise children? When to boast? What kind of children need praise? All this needs concrete analysis, and exaggerating everything at once will definitely not solve the problem.
Finally, praise children should pay attention to ways and means. Children are different, and the best way of education should be to adapt to local conditions. Praise should only be one of the ways of education, and it must be combined with other ways to cultivate better children!
"Can't lose at the starting line"
Liu Xin, Principal and Special Teacher of Meixihu Middle School, Changjun County, Changsha City, Hunan Province:
Famous sayings such as "Don't lose at the starting line" have a market because they just cater to the needs of some educational utilitarians. Simply put, businesses that regard education and training as a cash cow throw out such slogans, which can often effectively stimulate parents' sensitive nerves.
This kind of "false famous saying" is very harmful. What is the starting line? If birth is one of the indicators, many people have already lost at the starting line, and this concept will make many people feel self-destructive. In real life, this concept has also led to vicious competition in education and waste of educational resources. For example, many well-qualified children are forced to attend many unnecessary training courses. What's more, some parents think that the earlier the starting line is set, the better. Sending children to early education institutions as soon as possible violates the law of children's growth and education, and is not conducive to their lifelong development in the long run.
Xiang Min, a teacher at Caibo Xianjia Primary School in Yuelu District, Changsha City, Hunan Province:
One of the most frequently mentioned words is education and training institutions. Parents are often confused by this loud slogan. In fact, people who really understand education will not say such things that violate the laws of education. How can pulling out seedlings help? This is also a real false proposition. In recent years, it is not uncommon for children to go to extremes because of excessive learning pressure and extracurricular interest classes being forced to learn too much. Children's childhood is a journey, not a race. Life is not a hundred-meter race, but a long marathon. We should take a long-term view and focus on the child's life. Only by cultivating children into healthy people, rather than learning machines, can we give them a happy life.
"Choosing education means choosing poverty and loneliness."
Ding Haiyan, teacher of Pingjiang County No.3 Middle School, Yueyang City, Hunan Province:
On the surface, this sentence is a compliment to teachers' morality. However, teachers are also a profession, and teachers also have to eat, wear and live. Most teachers are professionals with professional technical functions and they have their own skills. Teaching is their own means of livelihood. If they don't have enough to eat, don't wear warm clothes or even get sick, how can they be in a good state to teach students? Why must teachers be framed as "poor"? Isn't this a moral kidnapping of teachers?