With the growing controversy, People's Education Publishing House responded in the official Weibo, saying that the word "Wei Wei" was really inappropriate in this situation. The textbook writing team is studying carefully and will make appropriate revisions to the textbook, which will be solved in the next edition of the textbook.
This seems small, and parents seem to make a mountain out of a molehill. But in many ways, there is nothing wrong with a serious child. His question is not extensive, but it touches on some important issues. It really corresponds to that sentence: the world of children is only right and wrong, and the world of adults only talks about interests.
Is this little problem not found before, or is it related to finding it? Because the change involves many interests, such as publishing houses, printing houses, distribution units, education bureaus and schools. Therefore, simply turning a blind eye may well be that this attitude has led to this mistake for a long time, and only now has a child who tells the truth.
More ironically, after the child tells the truth, there are many voices of defense on the Internet. Create various excuses for this narrative loophole in the article. To put it bluntly, it is to rationalize the mistakes in the textbooks of the publishing house and prove that the children are wrong with serious nonsense. This is influenced by vulgar thinking and unwilling to face simple facts.
Let's go back to the matter itself. Houyi's shooting at the sun is a myth and legend, not real, but closer to literary works. However, this kind of myth and legend has its particularity. Because of attaching importance to the educational significance of myths and legends, and using myths and legends to shape China's national character, it is not a trivial matter to be selected into textbooks.
Since the story of Houyi shooting the sun is very important, let's be reasonable, make it clear and complete, and don't leave such a big loophole. This is the most basic duty of textbook editors, but after so many years, Hou Yi was allowed to "cross ninety-nine dry rivers". This is not a myth, but a joke.
How to make up a good story is only the first question raised by primary school students. A deeper question is whether our educators take textbooks seriously. This is a serious problem. Textbooks are tools that thousands of children come into contact with day and night when they grow up. There can't be any mistakes, otherwise it will cause endless harm.
How Hou Yi fought bravely in the sky should not be a story with huge loopholes. Let it spread, it has not been modified after a lot of doubts appear. This is not the attitude that educational institutions and educators should have. We should not only emphasize the guidance of teaching materials, but also seek truth from facts, errata and text defects-otherwise, educators will lose the qualification to write and teach teaching materials first.
In a word, our Chinese education was exposed by a pupil. That is to say, education in China attaches great importance to pan-politics and pan-morality, rather than knowledge and culture, let alone logic education. This concept of education is problematic. Adults pretend that everything is perfect and the years are calm, but they let the children accept the wrong cognition. Even if someone points it out, they are used to dealing with it in a greasy way.
Hou Yi thinks that the world with nine suns is harmful to human beings, but now some adults think that the wrong textbooks have nothing to do with children. This kind of distortion is afraid that a tough guy like Hou Yi will cry when he hears it.
Therefore, how to deal with the doubts of primary school students has become a major problem for adults to treat children and educators to treat themselves. Judging from the actual situation, many adults are unqualified adults, and the editor's statement is also unqualified. The core question is whether he is left or right when facing a question that can be known at a glance. It can only be said that it is unfortunate for children to live in such an adult world.