As a saint in education, Confucius' educational methods are different from those popular now. Nowadays, teachers work hard in class, trying to instill all the knowledge points into students and explain the unexpected problems in advance for fear of missing the test center. Students take the trouble to answer questions, which fully reflects their professionalism as teachers. This kind of indoctrination teaching replaces "question" with "teaching" and "solution" instead of "thinking". The students who are taught gradually lose their interest in learning, lack initiative, and lose the significance of teaching to enlighten wisdom.
When the egg is about to hatch, the chicken has already formed. If it is uncomfortable in the eggshell, it will peck at the eggshell from the inside. The hen outside saw it and knew it was time to help the chick "peck" outside the eggshell, so that the chick would hatch at the same time.
If the hen pecks open the eggshell before the chick reacts in the eggshell, the chick will probably die in order to get out of the eggshell early. If the hens outside can't see the power of breaking the chicken's shell and don't help peck it open, the energy is too small, and the chicken may suffocate in the shell and die.
The natural process of chicken hatching is similar to Confucius' educational thought of "if you don't get angry, you will be powerful, if you don't get angry, you will be sad, and if you don't get fat, you will be yourself"
Confucius also said that a table has four corners, and the teacher explained one of them clearly. If students can't deduce the other three angles by themselves, it means they don't understand the first angle at all. The real understanding is that they will extrapolate themselves. In this case, the teacher doesn't need to explain, let alone talk about other knowledge points, because continuing can only bring confusion and pain to students, and then lose interest in learning.
It is said in Cognitive Nature that the establishment of brain-brain circuit will produce friction. The brain has been thinking hard for a long time, and whether it comes up with the result or not, it will exercise the brain and gain something. If the teacher is "kind" in order to avoid detours, save the hard work of thinking and cram the answers directly to the students, it seems that the students know the answers, but his brain ability has not been improved through thinking. This kind of teaching has little effect. Therefore, Confucius suggested that if a child doesn't understand, don't talk about it and let him think for himself. As long as the child wants to know the answer from the heart, he can find a suitable learning style and explore the answer.
We must firmly believe that children have the nature of eager to learn and thirst for knowledge, which is the password of genes in human survival and reproduction for thousands of years. But why many children are tired of learning now and give up learning as adults is because their endogenous thinking ability and willingness are suppressed and destroyed by long-term wrong education methods.
Education is not to fill a basin of water, but to ignite the fire in children's hearts. Therefore, what parents, teachers and society should do is to make children interested in the world, love their own lives, let them follow their own growth path and release their nature of seeking truth from facts. The next time you ask your child to study hard, parents should study first. You don't even think learning is a happy and valuable thing. How can children feel the joy of learning?
Learning is fun. If you are unhappy, you are using the wrong method.