Children ranked 10-20 are more likely to become talents.
Interviewee: Liu Zhiyi, president of Beijing No.25 Middle School (formerly Yu Ying Middle School).
Reporter: No.25 Middle School emphasizes personality education. Do you think there will be contradictions among personality education, basic education and quality education?
Principal Liu: There will be no contradiction. Basic education emphasizes laying a good foundation. This kind of education is not to prepare for employment, but to adapt to children's physical and mental development and cultivate children's learning ability and outlook on life. Quality education emphasizes the development of students' all-round quality in the process of basic education, which can be said to be aimed at exam-oriented education. Quality education is the goal of basic education.
Personality education is also an important aspect of basic education. Students have both generality and individuality, so does education. From the perspective of world education, after the industrial revolution, the west began to emphasize general education. Each course has a syllabus and a unified examination. Just like products, there must be uniform standards. But this is only a general requirement, and people's personalities vary greatly. This is especially true for teenagers.
Personality education is more important now. This era needs innovative talents. Experience tells us that "individuality is more important than knowledge", which is the new requirement of the times for education. At present, our middle school education does not pay enough attention to students' personality. Teachers should consciously realize that every student will have different personalities, different thoughts and different behaviors. We should look at children from these aspects and carry out personality education. The rule of success is to cultivate the development of personality, which has been proved by countless examples.
Reporter: In your opinion, what are the most prominent advantages and disadvantages of children today? Compared with before, what adjustments should be made to education, especially secondary education?
Principal Liu: The biggest advantage of children nowadays is their quick acceptance of new things, wide knowledge, keen perception of new things, courage to innovate and less ideological constraints. The disadvantage is that the sense of responsibility and mission is not strong enough. At present, our political education for students is relatively weak, which also causes children to emphasize themselves from an early age and have poor responsibilities to society and others. Coupled with better living conditions, this generation of children generally pursue hedonism and are lazy.
With good living conditions, people will become lazy and stupid. I think middle school education should give full play to children's potential and help them realize their weaknesses. Like our school, students should rank second after taking the exam, but at the same time, teachers should tell them that the exam alone is not enough, and the former 10 students may be worthless. Now there is a saying called "the tenth phenomenon". From our summary, people with 10-20 are the easiest to become talents. In addition, children should be given opportunities to suffer hardships. Some time ago, we had a training trip, which allowed students to walk from 1 1 to 4 am. We just want children to know what suffering is and what fatigue is.
Someone asked us how we learned to enter the university. We have long since stopped studying how to get into college. We study what happens after graduation from college. Now the key to children's competition is not diploma, but quality, which should be cultivated in middle schools. Teaching children to get high marks is not our real purpose. We should teach them the ability to study and live.
Reporter: When you see a child graduate from middle school, what basic qualities do you want to see in him?
President Liu: I am an idealist. I pin my idealism on my students. Graduation from middle school is usually seventeen or eighteen. I hope they have ambition, ambition and a sense of social responsibility, that is, they can be more mature ideologically. Secondly, we should have good psychological quality, be brave, honest and dare to face challenges. Third, I hope they are healthy young people with strong adaptability and strong viability. Fourth, of course, we must have a good academic foundation. But what I emphasize more is the ability to think, understand and analyze.
Reporter: Are your hopes too high for a teenager?
Principal Liu: I don't think so Teenagers are the most plastic time. If teachers and parents can make demands on him, he can develop in this respect. The middle school stage is the most critical stage of a person's growth.
Education is becoming more and more difficult.
Interviewee: Yi Daohan, a middle school Chinese teacher, started teaching on 1955 and has been teaching for 46 years.
Reporter: After being a teacher for so many years, what do you think is the biggest difference between today's children and the students you have taught before?
Teacher Yi: Nowadays, children are more and more precocious and accept more and more things. I often think of the students I taught in the 1950s, 1970s and early 1980s. At that time, students were so simple. But then again, this trend is still good. Children's thinking has become more open, active and bold, which is conducive to their absorption of knowledge and adaptation to society. Some people think that children nowadays are too social and know too much. What's wrong with that? Wrap them in an ivory tower, will you? Nowadays, the society is more and more open, and I think it is inevitable that teenagers will be more open than before.
Reporter: Are students getting harder and harder to teach nowadays?
Teacher Yi: Yes. A big challenge for teachers now is students. Many of our teachers are closed-minded and have few sources of information, especially fewer opportunities for further study, which leads to teachers falling behind students in many aspects. The most obvious is the computer. Middle schools require teachers to learn computers, but in fact most teachers don't really know computers. On the contrary, many middle school students know computers. They get new knowledge from computers, and computers have even changed their lives and ways of making friends. In this way, how can teachers educate students? As I said just now, society is becoming more and more open. The more open the society is, the weaker the school education is, and education is becoming more and more an omnipotent thing. To teach students well, we must first teach teachers and parents well. After being a teacher for more than 40 years, I really feel that education is getting harder and harder.
Reporter: The boldness and maturity of teenagers now sometimes really shock us adults. You teach Chinese. I think you must be familiar with new concept composition and Han Han phenomenon. what do you think? In the past two days, many media have been introducing an essay "The Death of a Red Rabbit" with full marks in this year's college entrance examination. Do you think this is an article representing the high writing level of middle school students?
Teacher Yi: New concept composition and Han Han phenomenon are often discussed by students and me. Han Han is a genius, but this is only an example. I don't encourage my students to develop in this direction. I still hope that they can acquire knowledge in a balanced way in middle school. I also cut out the article "The Death of Red Rabbit", and I am going to talk to my classmates about this article after school starts. Personally, I think this is a good article with novel ideas and unique writing techniques. Today's children are really bold and open-minded. But I still don't think it's appropriate to recommend this article with so much multimedia. After all, classical Chinese writing is not advocated, and students have to learn it. Isn't that a mess?
I hope students don't blindly follow.
Interviewee: Zhang Lei, 23, a music teacher in an ordinary middle school.
Reporter: Zhang Lei, you are a big boy yourself. I think you must understand your students very well. What do you think adolescent children need most?
Zhang Lei: Today's children know what they want to do and what they are doing. They don't need teachers to ask them what they can and can't do. They are very independent and rational, but I think they still sincerely want to establish good relations with teachers and parents, and hope to communicate and understand. They still depend on adults. No matter how independent they are, they are still children. I try to understand them.
Reporter: What songs do you teach students to sing now? Is the campus culture occupied by popular culture?
Zhang Lei: I teach them to sing traditional songs on the syllabus, listen to serious music and sometimes sing pop songs. I don't think this is a contradiction. If the streets are full of "Korean Wave", even if you don't teach them all about it, don't turn it off. I'm just saying to understand them, and one of them is to respect their hobbies. What I have to do is to teach them not to follow blindly, let them enjoy music at all levels and let them choose for themselves. I believe a good concert will make them love life more and inspire their lofty feelings.