Regarding reading, I have said several basic points: a person's spiritual development history is his reading history; The spiritual realm of a nation depends on its reading level; A school without reading can never have a real education; A city full of books can have a beautiful spiritual home; Only by reading, writing and living together can we have common values, common languages and common passwords. Because of this, the new education experiment has always regarded reading as the most fundamental and basic project, and put "building a scholarly campus" at the top of the "top ten actions" of new education.
I have always advocated that all our subjects should have in-depth reading. Only through in-depth reading can children be truly brought to the breadth and depth of the subject and gathered into an ocean from the stream of knowledge. Reading is definitely not just a matter for Chinese teachers, it should be a matter for all schools and all disciplines, and it is the most basic thing for education. I have always told my colleagues in New Education that even if we don't do anything else, as long as we really do a good job in reading, our contribution to education in China will be great.
Regarding family, I often think, why is family education important? Yes, there are 400 million families in China, which are in great need and lack of good education.
First of all, family is the most important place in life. Life begins with family. Parents play a very important role in children's growth. What he brings to the child often determines what kind of person the child will become. Secondly, childhood is the most magical stage of life. For us, children are still a black box. We don't realize that there are many amazing and great things in children. How do children know the world and how do children's personalities form? We must humbly admit that our understanding of these problems is not sufficient and we need more exploration. Third, parents are the longest teachers of children. Parents themselves are the children's initial world. They are not only the children's first teacher, but also their lifelong teachers and longest teachers. Fourth, the family is the cradle of people's real birth. People's behavior habits, personality characteristics, cognitive styles, etc. Are originally formed in the family. Almost all human problems can be traced back to childhood and family life.
Because of this, home-school cooperation is so important. I visit hundreds of schools every year and listen to many teachers tell their stories. Not long ago, the seminar on perfect classroom narrative of new education was held in Beijing Normal University. I heard the stories of nine front-line teachers working and creating in the classroom. Almost all the teachers talked about home-school cooperation without exception. The growth of life must go through four important fields, namely: mother's womb, family, classroom and workplace. Family and classroom are the areas of life that have the greatest relationship with students' lives. After leaving the mother's womb, the child lives in the family and grows up under the influence and upbringing of his parents. At school age, children come to a place called school and grow up in a place called classroom. The classroom is a small society and their home. From then on, I was in the classroom during the day, at home at night, in the classroom at school and at home after school. The classroom can not be separated from the family, and the family can not be separated from the classroom. The classroom is closely connected with the family. A good class will certainly attract parents' full participation. Parents' educational literacy also directly leads to the quality of family education and the effect of school education.
I often tell many teachers that children are already semi-finished products when they arrive in your classroom. His personality characteristics, his cognitive style, his behavior habits, and many basic things have been formed. Some children have a good foundation. You just need to continue to care for them, help them, nourish them better and make them develop faster. Some things are not ideal, and you need to correct them with your heart. With the support and help of your parents, you will get twice the result with half the effort. Sometimes even your parents need you to correct them. Therefore, no matter what kind of children you are facing, education without parents' participation must be incomplete education.
It is precisely because of the importance of reading and family that our new education research institute has set up two research institutes. One is the new reading research institute, which focuses on the development of bibliography and solves the problem of what to read; Grasp the plan of "leading readers" and solve the problem of how to read. It has successively developed and published Basic Reading Bibliography for Children in China, Basic Reading Bibliography for Primary School Students in China, Basic Reading Bibliography for Junior High School Students in China, Basic Reading Bibliography for Senior High School Students in China and Basic Reading Bibliography for Entrepreneurs in China. This year, we will publish a bibliography for college students, parents, teachers and civil servants in China. We also publish the "China Children's Book List" developed by us every year. One is the New Parents College, which focuses on the popularization and promotion of parents' educational literacy, the cultivation and cultivation of seed teachers, and carries out various educational activities through firefly workstations to help parents and teachers jointly build a home-school education community. New Parents College has set up firefly sub-stations in more than 40 cities across the country, with tens of thousands of parents and thousands of teachers participating. Tong Xixi, a writer of children's literature and director of the Institute for New Parents, is carrying out a "rural reading tour for new children" in 100 rural schools, giving free public lectures and exchanges for parents and teachers of each rural school, just to promote the construction of the educational community of this school from the city to the countryside.
Reading and family are the most important cornerstones of the whole education, and these two cornerstones can be merged into a larger family cornerstone. Because the seeds of reading are sown at home. In the introduction part of the book "Reading Manual", there is a poem "Reading Mom", which contains such a passage: "You may have unlimited wealth, boxes of jewels and cabinets of gold. But you will never be richer than me-I have a mother who reads to me. " If children already love reading before entering school, and have a preliminary reading habit, reading interest and reading ability, our education will be smoother and more effective.